The Storax-tree.
Kinds, Descript. Names.] THere are accounted three sorts of the Storax tree, whose names shall fol∣low with their Descriptions.
Descript.] 1. The usual Storax-tree called in Latine, Styrax Arbor vulgaris. This Storax-tree groweth very like unto the Quince-tree, both for form and bigness, the leavs also are long and round, and somewhat like but far less; whitish underneath and stiff, the flowers stand both at the joynts with the leaves, and at the ends of the branches consisting of five or six large whitish leavs, like unto those of the Orange-tree, with some threds in the middle, after which come cound berries, set in the cups that the flow∣ers were in before, of the bigness of Hazel-nuts, pointed at the ends, and hoary all over; each standing on a long footstalk, containing within them certain kernels in small shells; This yieldeth a most fragrant sweet Gum, and clear of the colour of brown honey.
Descript.] 2. Storax with Maple-leaves, Styrax folio Aceris. From a round ruggish root covered with a crested or as it were a joynted Bark; come forth out of knots three or five broad leavs, like unto those of the Ma∣ple or Plane-tree, standing on small blackish long stalks, and are divided in three or five parts, full of veins, dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends.
Descript.] 3. Red Storax, called in latine Styrax rubra. This hath formerly by some been thought to be the bark of some kind of tree that went under that name of Storax; But Serapio and Avicen divide Storax into liquida and sicca: by liquida meaning the pure gum flowing from the tree, and not that liquida which we have now adays by that name; and by the