A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of Casia.

CAsia, is one of those sorts which haue their preheminence and are had in price for their odoriferous and pleasant smell. Which (sayth Plinie) hath thrée kindes, in no point one co∣loured like to another. For the first is white, the seconde red, the thirde almost blacke. The first is of least value, for that it soone rotteth, and is consumed and eaten of Wormes. The best is tried thus: by sauour or smell, tast and colour. It groweth in Arabia. His stalke or bodie sayth Theophrast, is somewhat grosse or superfluous, representing therein strikes, small and long, not much vnlike to Sinewes. It hath a barke and rinde but most difficult to be pared away. It is cut in the bignesse and length of two fingers, or a little more: and

that onely about the vppermost and most ten∣der twigges, and is after sowed vp being so cut whilest it is fresh and greene with some strong binding, the binding most commonly being of an Oxe his hide. The true Casia we haue not, neyther the true Cynamon.