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Show 1418 Trrpe 6, Theatram Botanicum. See oN Crap.22, Reme called it Sambucus vallida, and Anguilara faith The Theater ofPlants. TRiBEG. 1, Fraxinua vulgaris. Thecogsmon great Ath, Nax veficaria five Staphilodcadron, The blades Nut, the Italians in otherplaces call it Adbero del’vma, and Cuarp.22, 141 2. Ornua five Fraxinua (ylueftris, The Quicken teesor wild Ath, Piftachio(alvatico, the French’ Nex coupes, the Ger- manes Pimpernsifzlin, as they doe the former, the Dutch Pimpernoeten, and we Bladder nut. The Vertues. The Nuts are as is before faid,loathfome and overturning their ftomackes thar eate them, alrhough Sca- figer commendeth themebeofthe like tafte and quality with Piftackes, bt wee will give him leave to pleafe his palate, and ftomacke with them, and will not envythe good he fhallgerby them, wenever yet could learne that they were accepted among out people, except with fome ftrong clownifh ftomacke, which can almoft digeft an horfe naile. Theyhave no ufeinPhyficke, with any judicious that know, but fome Emperickes, that dare venture to give any me- dicing, beit never fo daungeronshave boafted of the helpe they have given to thofe that were troubled withthe ftone,and others to procure Venery. Which Pliny calleth in Latine Oraus, of fome Orneogloffem, and Colamella Fraxinus fylueftris. Tragya calleth it Fraxinea arbor, Dodoneys Fraxinus bubula, and Gefner Fraxinus aucuparia, Ruellius,Ge(ner, Dodonaus, and or therscall it Ornus, bar eMatthiolue, Cordus,Lobel,and others tall it Sorbus [ylveftris, Belloniys Clufius and Thalius; Sorbus ancuparia, becaufe that boyes, and fowlersufe the berries as baites to catch Blacke birds,Thruthes,&c, and Lugdunengis Sorbus torminalis, without any fenfc or reafon, butthey that referre it to Sorbus the Service tree, aré in my opinion as fhortin many things, as they that referre it to Fraxinws, the Ath refembling both of Cua:. X XII: Fraxinw, The Ath tree. S815He Afh according to Theophraftus and other of the later Writers, is diftinguifhed into a taller anda Sey lower fort,or as withus into the tame and the wilde fort, which fhall be here declared. % 1, Fraxinus vulgaris, Thecommon great Ath. The commonAfh growcth high quickely, afid in time becommeth to have a reafonable big trunke or body, covered witha {mooth grayifh barke, under which there isa thinner which being fteeped in water a while, will give a b!ewith colour, {preading reafonable well,and bearing winged leaves of many, fet on both fides of a middle ftalke,and one attheend, each being longandfomewhat narrow, gentle,ofa pale green colour,and dented about the edges;at fundry joynts with the Jeaves commeth forth a buncheof flowers,and after them a thicke tuft of many thinne browne buskes hanging downewards,cach upon a very {mall {hore footeltalke, wishin whichlyeth a {mall blackifh browne long flat {ced very like unto. birds tongne,tafting fomewhat {trong hot inthe mouth: Icbearethalfo {omerimes, and in fome places certaine {mall round balles called apples, ing of a clammy moffe,gathered into a lumpe witha hard knot in the middle, the woodis white {trong and tonghfit for many ufes,for by the toughnefie, not being apt to cleave or-tend,it is much employed about Coaches Catts 8c, and for handles for tooles,and inftrumentsofhusbandry, Homer chaunts the praifes thereof in Achilles fpeare, made of Afh,which holdeth good in all the {peares, pikes, 8c.ufed in warre ever fince, 2. Oruus five Fraxinzs fylveftris. The wild Ath or Quicken tree, The Quickén tree growethfeldome toany great height, with {undry {pread branches, covered witha more sugeed and darker barke thenthe Ath, the leaves are wingedlike unto them, bucare leffer and fois every particular oneby it felfe, not fo clofely fet together, dented about the edges, and ofa deepe greene flitting colour = at the end of the branches come forth white flowers in areafonable great tuft or umbell, finelling pretty and fweete,after which follow fmall roundberries, greene at the firftand darke red,when they are through ripe,ofan unpleafanctalte,teady to provokecafting, ifonc eate many of them;the woodis fomewhat hard and firme;butof a browner colour then Afh. The Place and Time. The Ath delighteth bet to:grow inthe wetter rather then in the dryer grounds and by Medow fides: the other growethin fundry places ofthe Land, inawoodschiefly,and thofe by Heigh gate in fundry parts, ‘the balles or apples of the Ath comeforth in the end of Winter, and thenthey are robe feene, burthe feede'and fruire of them bothis not ripe untill September, i The Names. ' The Afhis called in Greeke ueric,andin Latine Fravinus: the feéde is calléd Jingua avis, but the inner kernel! isfo called ratherthen the whole -huske }-the other islikely robe the aecoucale, Fraxinne montana of Theophrajtur, = which them in the leafe, which caufeth the variation, The Italians call the Ath Freffino, the Spaniards Frefno, the French Frefne, the Germanes Efcherbanm, the Dutch Efchenjand we in Engiifh the Afh tree, and the teedes Afhenkeyes : the wilde Athis called by the Germanes, Groffer Mallbaum, becaufe they bave another heycall Kleiner Mallbawm, as fhallbe fhewed when we come to fpeake of it, wein Zxglif call it in fome places wilde Afh,in others and chat more generally the Quickentree. Boththe leaves } The Vertues, he Afhare fingular good againft the biti venem ous creature, for ifche young tC outwardly, it will tefittehe poyfontharit tl rore bibesdumeff ; wood andthe ba iy Cal effeRtuall hereunto alfo : to this pnrpoft Pliny writethihat thofe Jerpents will not abideshefaxdow + e Afh maktethin the morning and the evening which rhéma t,_ner will come neere itjatd tart! ofits owne experience, that if a fire and afempe nconipafied withi eof the boughes of phe Afhitre’, it willdoonci flye into the fire then into themsrhe deco@jénof the leaves in wine, are very good to open the obilructions of the jiver and {pl men cumB as alfo to helpe cobreake and-expell the {toneendtocure the jauhdiles: The waterdctiilled fromebe yo tender branthes and caves ofthe Ah, for thofe that ate fubjed& toa dropfie, orlbe ale: and canfe themtobe lancke unt; Pliny deadly to bealts that carryed burthens,andbarme ophraftes, who faith of piA@ Taxns, andhereferreth d medicine totakeevety indrning falting a {mall quantity, ffe and fats@rtending thereynto, roabate their greatne fle; miflaker ie Writing othe phar che leaves of the Ath were e cudawhic it to uctia Franinps, theafhés of the eth ont of Thebarkéof the Ath made intoalye, and thofe heads or other places inteGted with lepry, or other white { or fcall'‘dorh helpe them much:the{cede called Athtnkeyes, I meane the kernells within the tiskes'is ke againit ftitches and paines in the fides proceeding of winde helpeth the {tone,andavoydeth it by prov rine : itis likewife ufed with other thi g to that purpofe toencreafe feedeand Venery. Fro of the wood by deftillationper 4 ‘ tis called. nean oyle anda water ¢ the water itha fourth pare of the deftilled water of Violer flowers, and the face thatis troubled with redpeffe, pimples, and fich like thed therewith will quickely heale it the oyleas AZonardus faith, conduceth much to thofe tha or hepaticke: There nothingextant that is certaine, concerning the wild Afhin any ancient or moderne writer that I can finde,ncither can I give youanything by magiltrall experience, onely I mutt tel! you of Sywsprofianus etrour, that thought out of Virgil his Verfes concerning Ornus , thathe had faidthat it bore flowerslike the Peare tree, when as Virgil, Georg.2. entreatethonely of the inoculating orgrafting of one tree into another, that the Straw berrie tree bore Nuts,the Planetree Apples, the Chefnut tree Beech malt, the wilde Afh the Peare trees bloflomes,and Elmes Acornes, inthefe veries following, Iaferits |