Algum Trees.
2 CHron. 2. 8. and 9, 10, 11. Ligna Thyina; Thya. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Sacrifico, quia Sacraficiis apta. It is rarely mentioned by our late Botanists; The Antients differ about it, and so do Expositors, Theo∣••hrasus and Pliny will have it to be the Tree of Life, I do not mean that in Gen. 3. 22.) of which, see orward. Purchas saith Dr. Dee writ a Tract al∣most solely of these Trees, wherein he impanels a I••ry of 12 Sorts, viz. Fir, Box, Cedar, Cypress, E∣••ony, Ash, Juniper, Larch, Olive, Pine, Oak, and Sandal Trees; To see which would prove to be the Algum or Almugin. And gives it Pine, or Fir, as Josephus hath, who from some old Record, Building ••r Fragment, possible might assure himself; Some ••udge it Cedar, because Algum grows in Lebanon; but whether Pine, as some assert, or the choicest Cedar, I leave to the disquisition of the Learned Divines. Only it was most precious, odoriferous ••nd beautiful, fit to refract Sounds, and the most