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These trees grow, as Dioscorides saith, in Iurie, Syria, Cyprus, Africke, and in the Islands called Cyclades. Bellonius reporreth that there are found great store of them in Syria, and Cilicia, and are brought from thence to Damascus to be sold. Clusius saith, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 growes of it selfe in Langue∣docke, and in very many places of Portingale and Spaine, but for the most part like a shrub, and without bearing Turpentiue.
Theophrastus writeth, that it groweth about the hill Ida, and in Macedonia, short, in manner of a shrub, and writhed; and in Damascus and Syria great, in manner of a small tree: he also 〈◊〉〈◊〉 downe a certaine male Turpentine tree, and a female: the male, saith he, is barren, and the female fruitfull. And of these he maketh the one with a berry red at the first, of the bignesse of a Lentill, which cannot come to ripenes; and the other with the fruit greene at the first, afterwards some∣what of a yellowish red, and in the end blacke, waxing ripe in the spring, of the bignesse of the Grecians Beane, and rosenny.
He also writeth of a certaine Indian Turpentine tree, that is to say, a tree like in boughes and leaues to the right Turpentine tree, but differing in fruit, which is like vnto 〈◊〉〈◊〉.