Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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certaine diftances, and haue in them great plenty of white pith, therefore they hauelefle wood 
which is white and brittle : the leaues be broad, cornered, like almoft to Vine leaues, but leffet and 
fofter: among which come forth fpoked rundles which bring forth little floures’the vttermoft 
whereof alongft the borders be greater, of a gallant white colour, euery little one confi ftino- of due 
leaues : the other in the midft and within the borders be fmaller, and it floures by degrees.and the 
whole tuft is of a rnoft fweet fmell : after which come the fruit or berries, that are round like thofe 
ofthe common Elder, but greater, andofa fhining red colour, and blacke when they be withered. 
2 Sambucus Rofea, or the Elder Rofegroweth likean hedge tree, hatting many knotty branches 
or fhoots comming from the root, full of pith like the common Elder : the leaues are like the vine 
leaues , among which come forth goodly floures of a white colour, G crinkled and dafhed here and 
therewith a light and thin Carnation colour, and do grow thicke and clofely compaft together, in 
quantitie and bulke ofa mans hand, or rather bigger, of; great beauty, and fauoring like the floures 
of the Haw-thorne : but in my garden there groweth not any fruit vpon this tree, nor in any other 
place, for ought that I can vndcrftand. 1 
3 This kindc is [Ikewife an hedge tree, very like vnto the former in (talks and branches, which 
areiointed-and knotted by diftances, and it is full of white pith : the leaues be likewife cornered : 
the floures hereof grow not out of fpoky rundles, but ftand in a round thicke and globed tuft , in 
bigneffe alfo and fafhion like to the former, failing that they tend to a deeper purple colour wher- 
in only the difference coniifts. 
«f The Place. 
Sambucus paluftris, the water Elder, growes by running ftreames and water courfes.and in hedges 
by moift ditch fides. e 
The Rofe Elder groweth in Gardens, and the floures are there doubled by Art, as it is Gup- 
pOfcd. . *■ 
■9J The Time. 
TbeGc kindes of Elders do floure in Aprilland May, and the fruit of the water Elder is ripe in 
September. v 
<[f The Names. 
The water Elder is called in Latine, Sambucus aquatica, and Sambucus palu/lris : it is called Opu- 
lus, and Plat anus, and alfo chamaplatanus , or the dwarfe Plane tree, but not properly : Valerius Cordus 
maketb it tobeCycoJlaphjles ■■ the Saxons, faith Gefner, doca.ll it Vua Lupina ; from whence Cordus 
inuented the name a.„„, , it is named in high- Dutch, l)0lDett, and iDttfcfj tjOlDcc : in low 
Dutch, and ^lnelchentjout jof certaine French men, obiere : in Englifh,Marifh El- 
der, and Whitten tree, Ople tree,and dwarfe Plane tree. 
The Rofe Elder is called in Latine, Sambucus Rofea, and Sambucus aquatica, being doubtleS a kind 
ofthe former water Elder, the floures being doubled by art, as we haue faid : it is called in Dutch 
ISlOfejin Englifh, Gelders Rofe, and Rofe Elder. 
The Temperature and Vertues . 
Concerning :he faculties of thefe E Iders, and the berries of the Water Elder, there is nothing 
found in any writer, neither can we fet downeany thing hereofofour owne knowledge. 
Chap. 79. 
Of DanC'W irt , IVallJVort, or Dwarfe Elder. 
The Defcription. 
D Ane-wort,is it is not a fhrub, neither is it altogether an herby plane, but as it werea Plant 
participating ol both, being doubtles one of the Elders, as may appeare both by the leaues, 
floures, aril fruit, as alfoby the fmell and tafte. 
■ Wall wort isvery like vnto Elder in leaues, fpoky tufts, and fruit, but it hath not a wooddie 
ftalke ; it bringeth forth only greeneftalks,which wither away in Winter: thefe are edged, and 
full of ioynts, lile to the yong branches and (hoots of Elder : the leaues grow by couples, with di- 
ftances, wide, anl conGftofmany (mall leaues which ftand vpon a thicke ribbed ftalke, of which 
euery one is longbroad, and cut in the edges likeafaw, wider and greater than the leaues of the 
common Elder ree :at the top of theftalkes there grow tufts of white floures tipt with red , with 
fine little chiuesin them pointed with blacke, which turne into blacke berries like theElder,inthe 
wh ich be little ling feed : the root is tough, and ofa good and reafonable length, better for Phy- 
ftcksvfe than thdeaues of Elder. 
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