Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
I B. 3. 
yellow orbrownifh colour, and curled, and after it is drie,very tough .bard to cleauc or rent, whereof 
aues of Carts are mod commonly made : the wood next the barite, which is called the fap,is white. 
Before the leaues come forth the floures appeare, about theend of March, which grow on the twi<4 
or branches, clofely compared or thru ft together, and are like to the chiues growing in the mid- 
die of mod floures, of a reddifh colour : after which come flat feed,more long than broad, not much 
vnlike the garden Arach feed in forme and bignefll,and doe for the mod part fall away before or 
fhortly after the leaues fpring forth, and fome hang on a great part of the Sommenthe leaues grow 
on thetwigges, of a darke greene colour ; the middle iize whereof are two inches broadband 
three inches long, fome are longer and broader, fome narrower and fhorrer, rough orharfh 
in handling on both ftdes.nicktor indented about the edges, and many times crumpled, hauing a 
rente in the middle, and many fmaller nerues growing from him : the leafeon one ftdeofthenerue 
isalwaies longerthanontheother. On thefe leaues oftentimes grow blifters or fmall bladders in 
which at the fpring are little wormes, about thebigneflc of Bed-fleas. This Elmeis common’ in 
all parts of England, where I haue trauelled. 
Vlmus minor folio imgufio fcol/ro. 
The Narrow leaned Elme. 
2 This tree is like the other, but much Iefler and lower, the leaues arevfually about two inches 
and a hal fe long, and an inch or an inch and a quarter broad, nick t or indented about the edges, and 
hath one fide longer than the other, as the firft hath,and are alfo harfh or rough on both fides, the 
I Flmusvitlgtitiff. folio latofcabro „ 
The common Elme tree. 
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t 2 Vlmus minor folio tugusle fcalro* 
Tne narrow leaued Elme. 
barkeorrindewillalfoftripas the firft doth thitherto I haue not obferued either the floures or 
feed,orblifters on the leaues, nor haue I had any fight of the timber, or heard of any vfe 
thereof This kinde I haue feene growing but once, and that in the hedges by the high 
way as I rode betweene Chrift Church and Limmington in the New Forreft in Hampfhire, 
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