300 SEA FABLES EXPLAINED. 



brought with me to London, which after I had opened I found in them 

 liuing things without forme or shape ; in others which were neensr 



FIG. 37. THE GOOSE TREE. Copied from Gerard's 'Herball^ \st edition , 1 597-* 



come to ripenesse I found liuing things that were very naked, in shape 

 like a Bird : in others, the Birds couered with soft downe, the shell 



* The original of this picture is a small wood-cut in Matthias de 

 Lobel's 'Stirpium Historia,' published in 1570. The birds within the 

 shells were added by Gerard. Aldrovandus, in copying it, gave leaves 

 to the tree, as shown on page 302. 



