.Lib. 3. 



Of tfie Hiftoric ofPIants. 



1471 



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1 S or bus. c - . 



The Scrvis tree. f^\yX^ >^ ^ 



2 Serfattorminrfis. 



Common Servis tree. 





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The common Servis tree is named of Plinj^Sorbtts torminalis : in high . Dutch, ^tCffiMfcffttt 

 (eland ^JiiUct ^pettoCtbaum: in Engli{h,Comthon Servis tree. 



The berries or fruit of the Servis tree is callled'OJr, and <Mr .- <n Latine, Sorbum : in high- Dutch, 

 ^pefctlfng^^JOpffclrinlovvr Dutch,^Ojbcn- ^ Italian,tor^,andtor^/* • in Frcnch^rw^: 

 in Spanifh > S*ri>/# > and Strbas: in EngIi(h,Servis : of fome,Sorbe Apple. 



If The Temperature and Vermes . 



Servis berries are cold and binding,and much more when they be hard, than when they are mild /± 

 and (oft : in fome places they arc quickely foft, either hanged in a place which is not altogether 

 colder laid in hay or chaffe : thefe Servifes are eaten when the belly is too foluble , for the v flay 

 the fame ^ and if they yeeld any nourifhment at all, the fame is very Iittle,groffc and cold . where. 

 fore it is not good to eat of thefe or other-like fruits^nor to vfe them otherwiie than in medicines. 



They ftay all maner of fluxes in the belly,the bloudy flix,and vomiting:they ftanch bleeding,if B 

 they be cut and dried in the fun before they be ripe, and foreferued for vfe. Thefe we may vfedi- 

 ucrs waies,according to the manner of the griefc and grieued part. 





C h a p. 1 09. Of the tAJk Tree 



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1 



[ghtbody 





thejnof 



- D , th a fmooth barke j 



the wood is white, fmooth, hard , and fomewbat rough grained ; the tender branches 

 hereof and fuch tfs be new grown vp are (et with ccrtaine ioy nts,and hauc w ithin a white and fpon- 

 8 ic pith ; but the old boughes are wooddy throughout,and be without either ioints or much pi* h ~ 



long and 



th: 



other 



d,which 



broad^ike to a Bay leafe, but fofter,and of a lighter greene, without any ^ ee ^ 



