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Ofthcmlde trfjh, othentife called Qtac\e~ ( Beam,or Quicben4ree. 



Sorbus fylveftrtS) five Fraxinus BubuL. 



TheQuicken-trec,wiId Afh,or wild Servis tree. 



fl" 7"/* Defcr/ption. 



He wilde or A Hi Quicken tree ?«w fet- 

 teth forth for Che wilde Service. This 

 tree groweth feldomor neucrtorhe ftature 

 and height of the Afh trcc,notwithftanding 

 it growes to the bigncs of a large tree. The 

 Jcaues be great and long , and fcarcc be dif- 

 ccrncd from the Icaucf of the Service Tree- 

 The floured bcwhjte, fwectof fmcll, and 

 grow in tuft,which do turn into round ber- 

 ries,green at the fir ft,but when they bee ripe 

 of a decpe red colour , and of an vnpleafant 

 taftc.The branches are as full of juice as the 

 ofiar • which is thecaufe that Bate* do make 

 pipes of the barkc thereof, as they doe with 

 Willowes. 



^T Tit Place. 



Thewilde Afh or (Quicken rrce groweth 

 on high mountains and in thicke \ -vxls in 



moft places of England, cfpccially about 

 Namptwich in Chcfhire, in the VVcildsof 

 Kcnr,in Sufiex and diuers other places. 



*J The Time. 





The wild Afh flours in May,and the ber- 

 ries are ripe in September. 



If The Names. 



The Latincs call this tree Ornus y and of- 

 tentimes ty/wr/??/* Fraxinus ot wildc Afh; 

 and.it is alio Fraxinifpectespx a kind of Afh: 

 for the Grecians(as not oncly Plmj write rh, 

 but atfoT/jeop/jraftta) haue made two kinds of Aih,theonc high and tall.the other lower; the high 



find tall one is Fraxinu* vulgar is &x the common Afh ; and the loweT, Ornus, which alio is named 

 o> *,«u«v*,or Montana Fraxinus jnovuitem Afh ; as the other, **Ai* or field Afh, which is a^fo named 

 **M*r, or as Gaza tranilateth k y Bubi*ia fraxinus fctxt more truly Magna Fraxinus, or Great A *h ; for 



the fyllablc ^ is a fignc of bignes. This Ornus or great Afh is named in high- Dutch,^albaUHt 



inlow-Dutch,|^aueteffcI}Ct^ 11. En- 



lifh> Wilde Afh,Quicken- tree,Quick-beam trce,and Wicket) tree. Mattbiolus makes this to bee 



SirbHsfylveJlfiJpt wilde Service tree. * 



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Touching the faculties of the leaues,barke,ori>errie$,as there is notb 



nothiug 



non Afh ; (otlib.iS.cap. 1 3. where 

 Crijpa^ and the mountain Afh Spijfi 



the old Writers 



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urtnot thofe that chew their cud<Which 



the Afh tree, ^//^wasdeceiuedby the 



neerneffe of the words M^r, and m.x/* . mS* is the Yew tree, and mo*« the Afh tree : fo that hee hath 



falfly attributed that deadly facultic to the Afh tree, *vhich bclongeth to the Yew tree. g 



The leaues of the wilde Afh tree boiled in wine arc good again ft the pain in the fldes,and ftop- 



P*ngof the Irucr,andaffwagc the bellies of thofe that haue the tympany and dropfie. 



Xencdiclus Cnrtins Symphoriams is deceiued in the hiftory of Or^//j,when he thinks out o(V* r g** s C 



^ f#, gwfo,that Ornus hatfa thefloure of the Peare tree • for out of VimU Verfes nofach thing at 



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