T r i b e 2. The Theater of Tlants. Chap.24. 
7.8. EbuLus •vulga.ru & lacin'atufoliu. 
Ordinary Walwort and with fine cue leaves. 
C Sambucus Rofea , $. Et Aqnatica five paluffrit. 
The Geldcr Role and the Marlh Elder. 
leaves, are Tome what narrower than the Elder, bcitelfefo like that it might foone deceive one not tfery well 
cxercifed or cunning : the flowers are white with a dafh of purple, (landing in umbels very like thofe of the 
Elder, but more fweete in fent; after which comefmall blackifti berries, full of juyee while they are frefh, 
wherein there lye fmall hard kernels or feede: the roote doth creepe under the upper cruft of the ground, 
Springing a frefh in diverfe places, being of the bigneffe of ones finger or thumbe fometimes. 
8. Ebulus foliis laciniatis . lagged Wallwort. 
This W allwort is in ail other things fave the leaves, fo like unto the ordinary kinde, that there can be knowne 
no difference : but the forme of the leaves, doth fo deforme the whole face of the plant, and bring it out of 
knowledge, like the lagged Elder, that none almoft would thinke it fhould belong unto the former : the flow¬ 
ers and fruite and fent,oncly leading us to judge of the fpecies,and whereunto to be referred, (or the leaves are 
almoft as much j'agged and divided as the lagged Elder, which is the onely difference in this from the for¬ 
mer. 
The Tlace . 
The firft or common Elder groweth not wilde but is planted in all places, to ferve for hedges, and partitions 
of grounds, vineyards, &c. to holdup the bankes by ditches and water courfes, and to bee planted in places 
where Conics breed for (hadow : every fticke or branch being thruft into the ground, ferving as a ftocke which 
willeafely take roote and grow. The fecond as it feemeth Tragus firft found in the woods of Germany. The 
third is found wild on hills in watery woods. The fourth is not knowne certainely from whence his originall 
came, but is found planted in the gardens of thofe that are curious, and lovers of rare plants. The fifth is found 
by water fides and moorifh grounds of Germany, France, England, Italy, and Tiemont in Savoye as Pena hath 
fet it downc. The fixth is nurfed up onely in gardens, but beft delighteth in moift grounds: The feventh grow¬ 
eth wilde in many places of England, where if it be once gotten into a ground, it will fo creepe and runne there¬ 
in, that it will hardly be gotten forth. The laft is a ftranger in England as yet, and nurfed onely in that curious 
garden of that Venetian Maqnifico Signior Contarini. 
The Time , 
All or mod of the Elders flower in lune, the W allwort fomewhat late, as his fruite is likewife later ripe, even 
not untill September, when the others are ripe for the moft.part in Auguft. 
The Names, 
The Elder is called in Greeke ami, ejuafilittoralis ditta videtur : in Latine generally Sambytcm, of Sambix as it 
is thought the firft finder thereof; but Quiryus Serenus calleth it Sabacus in his verles, and thought to be derived 
from Sabacus or Sambucus as Hermolaus faith, which is an hollow inftrumentof Muficke, called alfo Pettis & 
JMagadis : The cxcrefcence growing on the Elders is ufually called Fungus Sambucinus of Todomtus Cjnmmi 
Sambuci, and of fome Auricula Iuda y m Englifh Iewes eares. The firft is called Sambucus urbana domefiica , cam- 
fettrisy and 'vulgaris of all writers, and of Ranh inns Sambucus frnttu in umbella nigro. Tragus calleth the fecond 
T 3 Sambuci 
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