L i Bf 3. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 1411 
Sefeli J&tbiopcumjrutex. 
Shrub Sefely, or Hart-woort of Ethiopia, 
more gummie, apprdching very neere vnto 
the leaues of Oleander both in fhape and fub- 
ftance, being of a deepe or darke green colour, 
and of a very good fauour and fmell, and con- 
tinuech greene in my garden both winter and 
Sommer, like the Bay or Laurel I . The floures 
do grow at the tops of the branches in yel low 
rundles like the floures of Dill' which being 
paft, there fucceedeth a darke or duskie feed 
refembling the feed of Fennell, and of a bitter 
tafte. The root is thicke and of a wooddy 
fubftance. 
The place. 
It is found both in ftony places, and on the 
fea coafts not farre from Marfilles, and like- 
wifeinother places of Languedocke: italfo 
groweth in Ethiopia, in the darke anddefarC 
woods : it groweth in my garden. 
TheTime. 
It flourifheth,floureth and feedeth in Inly 
and Auguft. 
The Names. 
The Grecians call it Ais. the La- 
tines likewife vHtbiopicum Sefeli theAsgyp- 
tians,»-.r.( <},i k.: that is, Dogs horrour : in Eng- 
lifhj Sefely of Erhiopia,or Ethiopian Hart- 
vvoort. 
T be T emperature and Vtrtues. 
Sefely of Ethiopia is thought to haue the fame facilities that the Sefely of Marfilles hath, 
whereunto I refer it. 
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Chap. 77. Of the Elder tree. 
qj TbeKindes. 
T Here be diuers forts of Elders, fome of the land, and fome of the water or marifli grounds • 
fome with very jagged leaues, and others with double floures, as fhall be declared. 
The Description. 
1 npHecommon Elder groweth vp now and then tothe bignefleof a meane tree, calling 
I his boughes all about, and oftentimes remaineth a fhrub:the body is almoft all wood- 
die, hailing very little pith within; but the boughes and efpecially the young ones 
which be iointed, are lull of pith within, and haue but little wood without : the barke of the body 
and great armes is rugged and fullofchinks,andofan ill fauoured wan colour like afhes : that of 
the boughes is not very fmooth,but in colour almoft like ; and that is the outward barke, for there 
is another vnder it neerer to the wood, of colour greene •. the fubftance of the wood is found, fome- 
what yellow, and that may be eafily cleft : the leaues confift of flue or fix particular ones faftened 
to one rib, like thofe of the Walnut tree, but euery particular one is lefler, nicked in the edges,and 
ofa ranke and (linking fmell. The floures grow on fpokie rundles, which be thin and fcattered,of 
a white colour and fweet fmell : after them grow vp little berries, greene at the firft, afterwards 
blacke, whereout is preffed a purple juice, wh ich being boiled with Allom and fuch like things, 
doth feme very well for the Painters vfe, as alto to colour vineger: the feeds inthefe are a little 
flat, and fomewbat long. There groweth oftentimes vpon the bodies of thofe old trees or fhrubs 
a certaine excrefcence called t ^Auricula or Iewes eare, which is foft, blackifh, couered 
with a skin, fomewhat like now and then to a mans eare, which being plucked off and dryed.^ 
Dddddd ' Ihrinketh 
