¶ The Description.
THe great Box is a faire tree, bearing a great body or trunke: the wood or timber is yel∣low and very hard, and fit for sundry workes, hauing many boughes and hard branches, beset with sundry small hard green leaues, both win∣ter and Sommer like the Bay tree: the floures are very little, growing among the leaues, of a greene colour: which being vaded there suc∣ceed small blacke shining berries, of the bignes of the seeds of Corianders, which are inclosed in round greenish huskes, hauing three feet or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a brasse or boiling pot: the root is like∣wise yellow, and harder than the timber, but of greater beauty, and more fit for dagger hastes, boxes, and such like vses, whereto the trunke or body serueth, than to make medicines; though foolish empericks and women leaches, do mini∣ster it against the Apoplexie and such diseases: Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the mat∣ter, do call this wood Dudgeon, wherwith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers.
There is also a certaine other kinde hereof, growing low, and not aboue halfe a yard high, but it spreadeth all abroad: the branches here of are many and very slender: the leaues bee round, and of a light greene.