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Show 14.72 Of the Hiftory of Plants. ea Sehee {mell,and nicked round about the edges : out of the yongerfort of the boughes hard i. 1473, Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis. 3. on of the leaues, growforth hanging together many long narrowand flat cods, as i moft to diuers birds tongues, where the feed is perfeG&ed,which is of a bitter tate? the ; Cuap. 110. many, and growdeepein the ground. Fraxinus. The Ath tree. Ofthe wilde eAfh, otberwife called Quicke-Beame or Quickentree: @ The Place, The Ath dothbetterprofper in moift pla. ces, as about the borders of Medowesand Ri. Sorbus fylucftris,fine Fraxinus Bubula. The Quickentree, wilde Ath,or wilde Seruicetree. q The Defiription. Hewilde Ath or Quicken Treé Pena ferteth forth iorthe wilde Seruice; this tree reth feldome or neuer to the ftature and height of he Ath tree, notwithftanding it growes to the bignes ofalargetree : the Jeaues be great and long, and {carcely be difcerned from the leaues of the. Seruice tree: the floures bee white,and fweet of fmell,and growin tufts,which do turne into roundberties,greene at the firft, but when they uer fides, thanin dry grounds, G The Time, The leaues and keyes comeforth in Aprill and May, yet is notthe feed ripe before the fall of the leafe. G The Names, This tree is called in Greeke, save, and of diuers, «z:in Latine, Fraxinus : in high. Dutch , Clehernbaum , Cehernhalts, and pothecaries, Lingua Auis,and Lingua Pafferins it may be named in Greeke, ‘omsjasan: yet fome would haue it called oraeogloffim : 0. thers make Oruus or the wilde Ath to becalled Orneogloffum : it is termedin Englitb,Ath be ripe of a deepered colour, and of PGi Thefruit like vnto cods is called of the A- an vnpleafanttafte : the branchesare as fullofiuiceas the Ofiar, which is the caufe that boyes doe make Pipes oF 4 Stepnefchern : in low-Dutch; €Cffchen, and Efchenboom: in Italian,Fra/tno:in French, Frefne : in Spanith, Fre{no, Fraxino, and Fri. xo: in Fnglith ; Ath tree. of the barke thereof as they doe of * Willowes. a; The Place. The wilde Ath or Quicken tree groweth on high mountaines, and in keyes,and 6ffome, Kite-keyes. q] The Temperature andVertues. thicke high woods in moft places of The leaues and bark ofthe Afh tree aredry and moderatly hor: the feed is hotand dry in England, efpecially about Namptwichin Chefhire,in the Weilds of the fecond degree, The iuice ofthe leaues or the leaves them- Kent, in Suffex and diuers other places. felues being applied,or takenwith wine, cure @ The Time. the bitings ofvipers,as Diofcorides faith The wild Ath floures in May, and The leauesof this tree are of fo great vertue againft ferpents, as that they dare not fomuch as the berries are ripe in September. touch the morning and eueninig fhadowes of the tree, but fhun them afar off, as Pliny reports,/4.16. cap.t3. Healfoatirmeth,that the ferpent being penned in with bougheslayd round about, will foonerrun into the fire,if any be there,than comeneere the boughes of the Ath:and that the Ath doth floure beforethe Serpents appeare,and doth notcaft his leanes before they be gon againe. Wewrite (faith he) vpon experience,that ifthe ferpent be fet withinthe circle ofafireand the boughes, the ferpentwill fooner runintothe fire thaninto the boughes. Itisa wonderfull couttefie in nature, that the Athfhould floure before thefe ferpents appeare,and notcaft his feaues before they be gon againe. : . Both of them, that is to fay the leauesand the barke, are reported to ftop the belly jand being boiled with vineger and water,do ftay vomiting,if they be laid vponthe ftomacke. F Theleaves and batke of the Athtree boiled inwine and drunk, do openthe ftoppings oftheli- uerand fpleene, and do greatly comfort them. Threeor foure leaues of the A th tree taken inwine each morning from timeto time, do e make thofe I¢ane that are far, and keepeth them from feeding which do begin to waxfat. Thefeed or Kate-keyes ofthe A th tree prouoke vrine,increafe naturall feed,and ftirreyp bodily The Names, ee The Latines call this tree Orvus,and oftentimes Sylvefiris Fraxiaus, ot wilde Ath: and it is alfo Fraxini fpecies, ora kinde of Ath ; for the Grecians(as not only P&ay writeth,b utalfo Theephraftus) hath made two kindes of Ath, the one highandtall, the other lower: the high and tall one is Frasmb Oulgaris, or the commonAfh; and the lower Ornus, wh ich alfo is named *opuipua, OF Montana Fraxinus, mountaine Ah ,as the other, mi, or field Ath; which is alfo named suns or as Gata tranflateth it, Bubula Fraxinus,but more truly Magna Fraximus,or great Afh; for the fyllable seis afigne of bisneffe : this ovnus orgreat Ath is named in high-Dutch, QBpaibauitt: in low-Duten, ilde Daueresichers, or Quereleher, of divers, Mualfter: in French; Frefne fasnage: in Englith,W makes this to be Sorbus fjlue~ Ath, Quickentree, Quick-beame tree,and Wickentree. Matthiolus fris, ox wilde Seruicetree. : @) The Temperature anaVertues. : Touching the faculties ofthe leaues,barke,orberries, as thereis nothing found among the old, A lois there nothing noted amongthe laterwriters : but Pliny feemeth to make this wilde Afh like luft, efpecially being poudred with nutmegs and drunke. piles The woodis profitable for many things, being exalted by Homer's commendations, and 4° ici- iN faculties tothecommon Ath ; for 1ib.16. cap.13. where he writes of both the Afhes, hee faith, ous and deadly,as Diofcorides affirmeth. Which the old writers haue noted of the Yewtree, and not ofthe Athtree. Pliny was deceiued by fpéate, as Plinywriteth, The thauings or {mall pieces thereof being drunke are faid to be pe The Leewhich ismade with the A thes of the barke cureth the white feurfeand {uch other like roughnefit of the skin, as Pliny teftifieth. CHAP. that the commonA this Crifpa,and the mountaine A thSpé([a : and forthwithhe addeththis : The tecians write, that the leaues of themdokill cattell, and yet hurt not thofe that chew their cud; the neereneffe of the words pies and pave: ete is the Yewtree, and uns the Athtree: fo that hee hath falfly attributed that deadly facultic to the Al tree, which doth belong tothe Yewtree, The leaues of thewilde A thtree boiled in wine are good againft the paine in the fides, and the B ‘opping ofthe liuer, and aflwage the belliesof tliofe that Hiaue thetympante and dropfie. Benedictus Curtins Symphoryanus is deceived in the hiftorie of ormns,when he'thinketh out ofVir- Cc gils Georgicks, that Ornus haththe fldure of thie Peate tree } for out of Virgils ver(esno'fuch ching at Hhhbhh 3 : all |