

Lib. -J. 





Of the Hi&oric ©fPlants 



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Shrub Sefely,or Hart-worfof Ethiopia. 



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more gummy , approching very neere vntothe 

 lea Lies of Oleander both in A ape and fubftance 

 being of a deepc or darke greene colour, and of a 

 very good fauor and fmell, and continueth green 

 in my garden both winter and fumraer , like the 

 Bay or Laurell. The floures grow at the tops of 

 the branches,in yellow rundles like the flours of 

 Dill : which being paft,there fucceedeth a darke 

 or dusky feed refcmbling the feed of Fenncl,and 

 of a bitter tafte. The root is thicke,and of a woo- 



dy fubftance. 



^f The Place. 



It is found in ftony places and on the fea coaft 

 not far from Marfilles, and likewife in other pla- 

 ces of Langucdoc : it alfo growcth in Ethyopia 

 in the darke and defart woods. It groweth in my 



garden. 



€ff The Time. 



.It flourifheth , floureth , and feedeth in Iuly 



and Auguft. 



% The Names. 



The Grecians call it A^m* m* : the Latincs 



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likewife *£thiopicum Sefeli : the Egyptians , 

 tffa* that is, Dogs Horror : in Englifh, Sefely of 

 Etbiopia,or Ethiopian Hart- wort. 





^f The Temperature and Vertues . 

 Sefely of Ethiopia is thought to haue the 

 fame faculties that the Sefely of Marfilles hath, 

 whereunto I refer it. 



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Chap«77* Of the Elder Tree: 



^j- The Kindes. 



Herebediuers forts of Elders , fome of the land , and (bmeof the water or marirti grounds 5 

 fome with very jagged leaues,and others with double floures,as (hall be declared. 



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^f The Defcriftion* 



He common Elder groweth vp now and then to the bignefle of a mean trec,caftirig hi* 

 boughes all about,and oftentimes reraaineth a fhrub : the body is almoft all wooddy, 

 hauing very little pith within • but the boughs,and efpecially the yong oncs,which be 

 jointed, are full of pithwithin,and haucbut little wood without : thebarke of the body and great 

 arraes is rough and full of chinks,and of an ilfauored wan colour like afhes : that of the boughs is 

 not very fraooth,but in colour almoft like; and that is the outward barke* for there is another vn- 

 derit neerer to the wood>of colour green: the fubftance of the wood is found, fomwhat yellow,and 

 that may be eafily cleft : the leaues confift of fiue or fix particular ones faftned to one ribbe, like 

 thofc of the Walnut tree,but cuety particular one is Iefier,nicked in the edges, and of a ranke and 

 linking fmell. The floures grow on fpoky rundles,which be thin and fcattered, of a white colour 

 and fweet fracit : after them grow vp little berries,green at the firft,after wards blacke,whereout is 

 prefTed a purple juice,wbich being boiled with Allora and fuch like things , doth ferue very well 

 ^ the Painters vfe,as alfo to colour vineger : the feeds in thefe are a little flat and fomwhat long. 

 There groweth oftentimes vpon the bodies of thofe old trees or (hrubs a certaine excrefccnce ca/- 

 led Auricula ludaot Iewes eare,which is foft^lackifti^couercd with a skin,fomewhat like now and 



t^n to a mans eare, which being plucked off and dried, fhrinketh together and becommeth hard. 

 * his Elder groweth euery wherc,and is the common Elder. 



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