The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 THe first Turpentine Tree groweth to the height of a tall and faire tree, hauing many long boughes or branches, dispersed abroad, beset with long leaues, consisting of sun∣dry other small leaues, each whereof resembleth the Bay leafe, growing one against another vpon a little stem or middle rib, like vnto the leaues of the Ash tree: the floures be small & reddish, grow∣ing vpon clusters or bunches that turne into round berries, which at their beginning are greene, afterwards reddish, but being ripe wax blacke, or of a darke blew colour, clammie, full of fat

and oilous in substance, and of a pleasant sauour: this plant beareth an empty cod, or crooked horne somewhat reddish, wherein are found small flies, wormes or gnats, bred and ingendred of a certaine humorous matter, which cleaueth to the inner sides of the said cods or hornes, which wormes haue no physicall vse at all. The right 〈◊〉〈◊〉 issueth out of the branches of those trees, if you do cut or wound them, the which is faire and cleere, and better than that which is ga∣thered from the barke of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 tree.

2 The second kinde of Turpentine tree is very like vnto the former, but that it groweth not so great: yet the leaues are greater and broader, and of the same fashion, but very like to the leaues of the Pistacia tree. The berries are first 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a scarlet colour, and when they be ripe of a skie co∣lour. The great horned cods are sharpe pointed, and somewhat 〈◊〉〈◊〉, consisting as it were of the substance of gristles. And out of those bladders being broken do creepe and come small flies or gnats, bred of a fuliginous excrement, and ingendred in those bladders. The tree doth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yeeld his Turpentine by dropping like the former.