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Of the Arbute or Strawherie tree. Chap. liij.
❀ The Description.
THE Arbute is a small tree not muche bygger then a Quince tree, the stemme or body whereof is couered with a reddish barke which is rough and scaly. The young branches are smooth and redde, set full of long broade and thicke leaues, hackt rounde about like a sawe. The flowers be white, smal, & holow, and doo growe in clusters, after whiche commeth the fruite which is rounde, and of the fashion of a Strawherie, greene at the first, but afterwarde yellowishe, and at lastred when it is ripe.
¶ The Place.
The Arbute tree groweth in many places of Italy and other Countries wild: but it is vnkno∣in this Countrie.
❀ The Tyme.
The Arbute tree flowreth in Iuly and August: the fruit is ripe in September at the comming in of winter, after that it hath remai∣ned hanging vpon the tree by the space of a whole yere.
❧ The Names.
This tree is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Arbutus, of some Vnedo, howbeit that name agreeth best with the fruite: in Frenche, Arbousier: in En∣glishe, the Arbute tree, and of some Strawberie tree.
The fruiteis called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or as some write, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine, Vnedo, and Memaecylon: in Frenche, Arboses, or Arbousies.
❀ The Nature.
The fruite of the Arbute tree is of a colde temperature.
❀ The Danger.
The fruite of the Arbute tree, hurteth the stomacke and causeth headache.