Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lhap. no* 
Of the wilde <iA(h, othermfe called Qmcke-TSeame or Quicken tree . 
Sorbus (yhcfiris,fiue Fraxinus Buhula. The Defer ipliox. 
The Quicken tree, vvilde Afh, or vvilde Seruice tree. 
'pile vvilde Afh or Quicken Tree 
Pena fetteth forth tor the vvilde 
Seruice : this tree grovveth feldome 
or neuer to the ftature and height of 
the Aflr tree, notwithftanding it 
growes to the bignes of a large tree : 
the leaues be great and long , and 
fcarcely be difeerned from the leaues 
of che Seruice tree : the floures bee 
white, and fweetof fmell,and grow in 
tufts,vvhich do turne into round ber- 
ries, greene at the firft, but when they 
be ripe ofadeepe red colour, and of 
anvnpleafanttafte ; the branches are 
as fullofiuiceasthe Ofiar, which is 
the caufe that boyes doe make Pipes 
of the barke thereof as they doe of 
Willowes. 
T he Place. 
The wilde Afh or Quicken tree 
growethon high mountaines,and in 
thicke high woods inmoft places of 
England, efpecially about Nampr- 
wichin Chefhire,in the Weilds of 
Kent, in Sulfexanddiuersother pla- 
ces. 
«|r The Time. 
The wild Afh floures in May, and 
the berries are ripe in September. 
The Names. 
The Latines call this tree Ornus, and oftentimes Sylueflris Fraxinus, or vvilde Afh : and it is allb 
Fraxim fpecies, or a kinde of Afh ; for the Greciansfas not only Pliny vvriteth,but al CoTheophraJlus ) 
hath made two kindes of Afh, the one high and tall, the other lower: the high and tall one is Fra- 
xinis vulgaris, or the common Aflr j and the lower Ornus, which alfo is named ■o ri „', fu u>, or Montana 
Fraxinus, mountaine Afh ; as the other, mAh*, or field Aflr ; which is alfo named b.w.*/*, or as Gaft 
tranflateth it, Bubula Fraxinus, but more truly Magna Fraxinus, or great Afh ; for the fyllable Baris 
a figneofbignelfe: this omus or great Aflr is named in high-Dutch, <I0illbaUiVl : in lovv-Dutcb, 
i^autreflfcflen/jr ffluctcfcljetl, of diners, ^[JuaHtet : in French, Frefnc fauuage : in Engliih, Wilde 
Afh, Quicken tree, Quick-beame tree, and W icken tree. Maithiolas makes this to be Strl/us fy'.ae. 
ftris, or wilde Seruice tree. 
qy ThcTempcraturc andyertues. 
Touching the faculties of the leaues, barke, or berries, as thereis nothing found among the old. A’ 
fo is there nothing noted among the later writers : but Pliny feemeth to make this vvilde Afh like 
in faculties to the common Aflr ; (orlih.i6- cap. 13. where he writes of both the Aflres, hee faith, ^ 
that the common Alh is Crifia, and the mountaine Afh Spiffs and forthwith he addeth this : The? ■ 
Grecians write, that the leaues of them do kill cattell,and yet hurt notthofe that chew their cud; - 
which the old writers haue noted of the Yew tree, and not of the Afh tree. Pliny was deceiued by 
the neerenelfe of the words and >*/«■. is the Yew tree, and«v.* the Afh tree: fo that hee hath 
falfly attributed that deadly facultie to the Afh tree, which doth belong to the Yew tree. 
The leaues of the wilde Afh tree boiled in wine are goodagainft the paine in the fides, and the Jj 
flopping of the liner, and affwagethe bellies of thofe that haue the tympanic and dropfie. 
Benedict us Curtins Sympboryantts is deceiued in thehiftorie of Ornus, when he thinkethoutofrYr- Q 
gils Georgicks , that Ornus hath the floure of the Peare tree ; for out of yirgils verfes no filch thing at 
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