Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1471 
Tile common Seruice tree is named of Pliny , S or bus tormirudh : inhigh-Dutch, 
(el, and mtlDet^»petta)etbaum; in Englifh, Common Seruice tree. 
The berries or fruit of the Sendee tree is called -o*. or w» = in Laune, S or bum : m high Dutch, 
^metetltna Sipotopffel : in low-Dutch, ^)0Jbett : in Italian, Sorbe, and S or bolt : in French, Cor- 
ns* in Spanifh, Scrmcs, and Serins .- in Engliih, Sendee 5 of fome, Sorbe Apple. 
1 Tie Temperature and Virtues. 
Sendee berries are cold and binding, and much more when they be hard, than when they are 
milde and fofc : in fome places they are quickly foft, either hanged in a place which is not altoge- 
ther cold or laid in hay or chaffe : thofe Sendees are eaten when the belly is too foluble, for they 
ftay the fame • and if they yeeld any nourifhment at all, the fame is very little, gtofle, and coldjand A 
therefore it is not expedient toeate of thefe or other-like fruits, nor to vfe 'them otherwife than in 
medicines. . 
Thefe do ftay all manner of fluxes ofthe belly, and likewife the bloudy flixe; as a! fo vomiting- 
they ftanch bleeding if they be cut and dried in the funne before they be ripe, and fo referued for 
vfe ; thefe we may vfe diners waies according to the manner of the greife and grieued part. 
Chap. 109. Of the <t£Jb tree. 
The Defcriptior). 
•’He Afh alfo is an high and tall tree : itrifeth vp with a ftraight body, now and then of 
no fmallbignefle, now and then of a middle fize, ,and is coueredwitha fmooth bark : 
the wood is white, fmooth, hard, and fomewhat rough grained ; the tender branches 
hereof and fuch as be new grovvnevp are fet with certaineiomts,and haue within a white and fpon- 
e i c pith : but the old boughes are wooddy throughout, and be without either ioints or much pith : 
the leauesare long and winged, confifting of many (landing by couples, one right againft another 
vpon one rib or ftalke, the vpermoft of all excepted, which ftandeth alone ; of which euery parti, 
c 1 jrone is long, broad, like to a Bay Ieafc, but fofter, and of a lighter greene, -without any fweet 
0 ■' Hhhhhha feel!,- 
Otn~u-sl i Serbia. 
The Seruice tree. 
-db. 
1 wr S rf 
2 Sorbustormlnulis. ILca. • 
Seruice tree. . . ■ 
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