Tribe i6. T he Theater 0/Plants. Chaj ,23. 14.21 
4. Sorbin fylve/faii Ana lbtcpbra£gdtUa. 
1 he vvild Service tree called Ana. 
ther as a hedge bufh, whole tlemme and bran¬ 
ches are covered with an hoary or grayifh barke, the 
leaves are broad, fomewhat like unto Viburnum the 
Lithyc tree, ( which GVr^calleth the Wayfaring 
tree) not cut in nor dented at all about the edges, the 
flowers are of an over worne moflie colour, after 
which followeth fruite, of the bigncflcot an hedge 
pearc, and reddtfh on the cutfide, ot an harfti talte 
like the unripe or hard Services, yet the Country peo¬ 
ple doe often eate of them, being ripe from the tree, 
inftcad of better fruite, but after they have beene ga- 
theredand laid by a while to mellow, become more 
pleafant. 
Sorbtu (ylvefirU Aria Tbeopbrafii dill a. 
The wild Service called Aria. 
This wild Service tree groweth to be a very great 
call and farrC fpreading tree, with many boughes and 
branches.whereon are fet large crumpled haid leaves 
of a deepe greene colour on the upper fide, and gray 
or hairy underneath, with divers veines sunning al- 
moft upright thcreimand dented about the edges, the 
flowers are of a white moflie colour, thicke ciuftring 
together, made of foure leaves a peece, u hkhturne 
into brownifh red berries,with a fmall tuft at the top, 
containing within them fmall blackifh feedes, and are 
of aharfli tafte like to the reft, ye \ cry pleaiant, 
more then any of the reft,afterthey are mellowed: the 
wood is very hard, and firme or cloi’e, and whitifh 
withall. 
The Place and Time, 
The firft isfeene with us but in a few places, and 
thofe oriely p anted for their rarity. 1 lecond is 
found in many places of England, The third in JVefl- 
merland , on a hill that relpecfeth the Sea eight miles 
from Lancafter called Rootherflacke, but more plenti- 
tifully in JYetberJlacke Parke, as I am enformed : Thclaft groweth like wife in fome places here and there, 
throughout England, as in the parts not farre from Croydon,and one tree alfo groweth on Hampeftcad Heath alone 
by it felfe,without any other nereit on the left hand of the high way,as you goe on forward to Hendon > they do all 
flower before the end of AIaj t and the fruite is ripe in Ottober. 
Tht Names, 
It is called in Greeks hiondmb,Oa an d Om, in Latin zSorbun the firfl is the Sorbue legitim a of Clufuu, Scr- 
biv cfculenta of Camerarim,Sorbin aomefticaol Matthiolm and Label , who alfo thought it might be Oflrya Theo- 
fhreifii but erroniou 0 y,as by the difeription thereof given before may be leene, all other authors call it Sorbu, fc 
ply : thefecond is the faavtb Serbia o(Fltiy which hee callcth Torminalh,is Cordus,Tragui,mA Mmhiolns dee: 
a chough Lugdunenfi, mifliketh of it faying that the leaves arc nothing like the 7 J Lit.im.it, whertunto I’lmj C0P • 
pared them , he therefore callcth that S »-bus torminaiii , which ij called Or.nns or f raxiiw, Jiheftri,, as I hitx 
fhewedyoubefore.becaufe he would call it Crattgm Tbeophrafli, as yf«j*i/aradid before him: which it is lo no - 
withlhiidi g , nothing hindiing but that it may as well be Craugm Tbeophrafli , as Sorbi quart:,m V mu ‘Plimt 
ttithimTorminaLs, b„th the diferiprions agreeing fitly heietmto, C bn fine and Lobe!, and divers othersf and Gt/ner 
** hor !" al '° cal < ic tormiMlis, who j et thinketh it might be a species of AIcJj>i/m. Aroma, and peradventnre 
may be Theophr,ftm his tr/nthexo&moids, which Gaea calletb Cjallhca. Bauhinur placeth it as one of the Medlar 
as he doth idio our Hawthorne, which in his eighth number he teferrab totbc OxjMobttu PjmftrtfimiUo of 
Jitojcorides, and ) et in his ninth number ma! eth that OxjM.vtha ‘DwfctrUU, to he Pjrncmtha of Lobel and Chi. 
1 whtch haih no luch divided leafe as the Han thorne hath, and yet both of them beare berries like Services 
and not Apples like Medlars, fomeallo tooke it tob'e the Hifpomcli, of WU*i. The third hath not beene di- 
vulged in writing by any before me, and therefore that Latmit name may ftand untill a fitter may be found, the 
Natives there call them red C'hdTeapples, andSeaOnlers. The lafl is taken by all our V.oderne Herbarifls to be 
the Ana of c heophrafl (((.although BeUpmm faith as is lie wed before, that that kind of Jlex or Okc that is called A- 
L doth ho,d t!le of dn* in Mount esithor, as is (hewed before- Lobelc allcth it AriaTheo. 
phrabhefligie Aim. Clnflut Sorbm Aria Cognomina u, Gefner inhar.tb, oAfn* Alpwdwl pilofa, Be ft mm, callcth it 
Sorbw tormmalu Gallomm, and AnguiUra and Lugdmenfls Aria alfo, md Tbeophrafli as Carporarim doth, who 
faith Cordm called it Lana,a arbor. The Service is called by the Dalian, Sorbe, by the Spaniard Servas, by the 
French Cormes ,and Sorbe,, and the tree Cormier,Sorbier, by the Germane, Sp rwerbar.m the tree, and Sperbic* 
ren the fruite, the Dmch Sorbe*, and Sorbcnboom, and we in Englbjh the Service tree or fruite: the lad is called bv 
the Italians ATata!lo t and by the Trench sllijier ,and drier by fome. ^ • 
TbeVertues, 
Services unmellowed are very harfh, able to draw ones mouth awry almoft to be eaten, orelfe tochokeone 
but made mellow chey are more pleafant, and fit to be taken ofmoll to day flixes, (cowrings, and call inns vet 
Idle then Medlars, although many doe eate them that ncede not,for any fuch purpofe: ifthey be dryed before 
they be mellow and kept all the yeare, they maybeufed in dccoaions for the faid purpofe, either todrinkeor 
