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. ﬁr '1‘/Je Time. _ The wilde Laurell is euer greene,and may oftentimes be feene molt part of the VVIDICT; beginning of the S pring,with the ﬂoures and ripe berries growing both at one feafon. 1 The 2‘Qzme.r. _ M; V It is called in Latine Tima,and Laufusﬁluejtrzls : in Greeke,‘_”-Mu» .:;,...= Cato nameth it Laufﬂft/If)’. . rim : in ltalian,Lauro fylrmtico.-in Spaniih, Vua dcperrrgotherwife Follada sand of diuers,DW ” '

Engliflhw ilde Bay.

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‘flat Temperature and Venues. _ hauc Pliny nor any other of the Antients haue touched the faculties of this wilde Bay, neither we any vnderiianding thereof by the later Writers,or by our owne experience.

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Baxm; A q] Tbeibtﬁrzftioﬂa The Box tree. _ tea: ' W :2 He great Box is a faire tree,b€f!T1ﬂz‘5 “.sgyc1_ ﬂﬂ 4;,/fir, ' body ortrunke: the wood or timber 10 Ms, 1 ﬁn“ lowarid very hard , and fit for fugdrgcwcsa c_ W 4; ___,- M. ‘W//mg? hauing many boughes and hard ra — A , fer with fundry {mall hard greene leaves; _th ‘ Winter and Summer like the Bay tie - ﬂoures are very little , growing aﬂ_1°”g leaucs, of a greene colour :which b€1”S."a of there {ucceed {mall blacke {hining b€“.’°I:’3,¢ bignefle of the feeds ofCorianders, Hfllgdﬂec inclofed in round greenifli huskes,h3“‘” , feet or legs l.ikc:a;,{braiTe or boyling Pg; 3:: root is likewife yellow, and harder I ﬁt for Ember, :1}; og geeaterdbgauhryaEndﬁogmeto agger a ts, oxes,an Lie 1 ev 6 i “ me. the trunke or body ferueth than to make dicines; though foolifh el'i)p(?riCkC5 an H‘ ' ' men leachcs, doe miniilerit againﬂt C -MW" . "5 - plexieaiid fuch difea{es:Turners and Q" o A W ,9‘ = . ifimiliake not the matter,doecall £1115‘: l Dudgeomwherewith they make Dudgco WW ted 'IC‘ll£11gge.rs. _ ’ _ d wgo V » ereis alfoacertaine other km 3 bi 5= growing low, and not aboue halfe ayaf but it fpreacleth all abroad : the branlc of are many and very ﬂenderzthc 5“- round,and of a light greene.

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. _ ET T be Time. nd the The Box tree groweth greene Winter and Summer: it ﬂoureth in February and Marcb,3 feed is ripe in September. ' ' ‘

‘ . . . - {'1' 7.5.6 N ' The Grecians call it mizmin _I.atine,Buxm .~ in high Dutch, zﬁutbtgbaum: in low Dumb’ boom : in Italiamgofﬁi : in Engli{h,Box tree. _ _ ' __ r dwmfe The leﬂer may be called x=mm“E°r= and in LatlPlC,HﬂmZ B:¢xw_,0r Hamili: Buxm : in Engmh’ Box,or ground Box,and it is commonly called Dutch Box. ' ‘ ' TI}: Temperature and Vemm. in

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C H A P. 71. Of the Jwjrtle tree. {I Tbe Defériptioa. .

H55,-Q and ggcgteﬁ Myrtm is 3 fmall tree, growing to the height ofa man,haui.ng ma.

ny faire and pliant Branches, couered with a browne barke, and {at full of leaues much

I like vnto the Laurell or Bay leafe,but thinner and fmaller, fomewhat refemblingthe ewes of Peruincle,which being bruifed do yeeld forth a moi’: fragrant fmell, not much inferiour ‘Into the {men ofclouesgag an the ref} of the kinds do :among thele leaues come forth fmall white °llres,in fhape like the Hours of the Cherry ti-ee,but much frnallenand of a pleafant fauout,which

0 mine into 1' mall berries,greeric at the ﬁr[t,an‘d afterwards blacke.

:3; 2 Myrtu: Bmca latzfalia. Great Spanifh Myrtle.

I Myrtus Laurea maxima. The Myrtle tree.

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,' 5 There is alfo another kihde oi;I}Iyrfar"ca'll‘eC1 Mi”’“i 34"” [“’5f5l’°“‘:3“‘3.é0Tidi.1lgT "5 ¢[‘i’/"’“3>Z‘/’V3',’.'i"w "‘ Lararagthat hath leaues all o like Bay leaues, growing, by couples vpon his pleafant green brar'i-.

hes, in a double IOW Oh both ﬁdes of the Pcalkes, of _a light gteene colour, and fomewhat thicker;

E3“: the former in fentand fmell fweet : the ﬂour-es and fruit are not much dilfering from the ﬁrﬂ In en , ‘ , V . .« V - "a - . 3 There is likewife another kindeof MW; called Exorica',t1iat'isfi'rangey and not QQi_‘Dm0"_= .§'0Weth ii ri ht vntothe hci ht of a man like vnto the laﬁ beforernen‘tioned,bUt that It 15 “5Pk‘«~ L ed Withpgrgater plenty of l§aues,whiich doifold in thernfelues hollow and altrliloﬂ d0dU:1¢_abI0-'=1-, 1' ‘ ~- ~ - ~ '~- " '0' "h' . er,an Sltwer toi%?§§§;ZZi§§§FéZ§&%°Ji“TE2Ziiéi§23§$?§£?§;$LiJ§$‘3i."r%Z’$§eé23§§f. V e Ha? There is another f°or"t' likzsinto the former in ﬂoures andrbranclliles,btﬁthetlfagxefl are fl7r:0<f>tha" ad - » ' ‘ ’1 cmacraaoteor- er. “ . Pl3“}°a_3l}€l not crumpled or folded at all, they are a_ 0 Izlilomv whens the fruitlgfthc other is blnﬂe fruit is in fhape like the other,but that it is ofa whltc‘-<3 » l A ac e. '

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