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fhrinketh together and becommcth hard. This Elder grovveth euery where, and is the common 
Elder. 
2 There is another alfo which is rare and ftrange,for the berries of it are not blacke,but white : 
this is like in leaues to the former. 
I Sambucas. 
The common Elder tree. 
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Elder with white berries. 
3 The jagged Elder tree grovveth like the common Elder in body, branches, fhootes, pith, 
floures, fruit, and (linking fmell, and differeth onely in the falhionofthe leaues. which doth fo 
much difguife the tree, and put it out of knowledge, that no man would rake it forakinde of El- 
der, vntill he hath fmelt thereunto, which will quickely ihew from whence he is defeended : for 
thefe ftrange Elder leaues are very much jagged, rent or cut euen vnto the middle rib. From the 
trunke of this tree as from others of the fame kinde, proceedeth a certaine flefhie excrefcence like 
vnto the eare of a man, efpecially from thofe trees that are very old . 
4 This kinde ofEldcrhath floures which are white, but the berries redde, and both are not 
contained infpokie rundles.but in clufters , and grow after the manner ofa clufterof grapes:in 
leaues and other things it refembleth the common Elder, fauc that now and then it grovveth 
higher. 
The Place. 
The common Elder grovveth euery where: it is planted about conie-burrowes for the fhadow 
of the Conies-, but that with the white berries is rare .-the other kindes grow in like places"; but 
that with the cluttered fruit grovveth vpon mountaines; that with the jagged leaues grovveth in 
my garden. 
r , . , • . . ! The Time. 
Thefe kindes of Elders do floure in Aprill and May, and their fruit is ripe in September. 
< 0 " The Names. 
This tree is called in Greeke, *’■ m Latine and of the Apothecaries, Sambucus : of Guillielmtts 
Saltcetus,'Be\a : in high Dutch, lipol&Ct t in low Dutch, HUUft • in Italian, Sambuco • in 
French, Hus and Suin • in Spav.iih, S aucs ,S aucb , Sambugueyro in Englifh, Elder, and Elder tree: 
that with the white berries diners would haue to be called Sambum.<fylnrftri.<,oxwi\de Elder, but 
iMatthiolus calleth \ t Montana s ox mountaine Elder, 
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