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Show ETE: ENT ee ea sa a Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Of the Hiftory of Plants. yellow or brownith colour,and curled,andafter itis drie,very tough, hard to cleaue or rent,whereof aues of Carts are moft commonly made: the wood next the barke,whichis called the fap,is white, Before the leaues comeforth the floures appeare,about the end of March,which grow onthe twigs or branches, clofely compacted or thruft together, and are like to the chiues growingin themid. dle ofmoft floures,ofa reddith colour: afterwhich come flat feed,more long than broad,notmuch vnlike the garden Arachfeedin forme andbignefit,and doe for the moft part fall away before or fhortly after the leaues {pring forth,and fome hang ona great part of the Sommer:the leaues grow on the twigges, of a darke greene colour ; the middle fize whereof are two inches broad, and 14.81 about the middle of September 1624. from whence I brought fome {mall plants of it, not a foor in length, which now, 1633. are rifen vp ten or tweluefoot high, and grow with me by the firkt kinde, but are eafily tobe difcerned apart,by any that will looke on both, 4 Vimus folioglabro. ” 43 VlmusfaltolatiSimo fcabro. Witch Hafell,or the broadeft leaned Elme. Witch Elme;or fmooth leaued Elme. three inches long, fome are longer and broader, fome narrower and fhorter, rough orharh in handling on bothfides,nickt or indented about the edges.and many times crumpled, hauing a nerue inthe middle,and manyfmaller nerues growing fromhim: theleafe ononefide ofthenerys is alwaies longer thanon the other. Onthefe leaues oftentimes growblifters or {mall bladders, in whichat the {pring arelittle wormes,about thebignefle of Bed-fieas, This Elmeis commonin all parts of England,where I haue trauclled. Vlmus minorfolio angufto (cabro, The Natrowleaued Elme, 2 Thistreeis like the other, but muchleffer and Jower,the leaues arevfually about twoinches and a halfe long, and aninchor an inch and a quarter broad .nickt or indented about the edges,and hath onefide longer than the other,as the firft hath,and are alfo harfh or rough on both fides, the 1 Vimus wulzatilf. folio Latofcabro s The common Elmetree, $2 Vimus minor folio augusto feabro The narrow leaued Elme. UH Hpi / Ve1 a3 “, Ui WE:2 ios Egy is > _ Viosusfolio latiffienofrabro. 2 Witch Hafell, or the broadeft leaued Elme. 3 This groweth to beavery great tree, and alfo very high, efpecially when he growethin loods among ft other trees:thte barke on the out(ide is blacker thanthat ofthe firft, andisalfo ve- #tough, fo thatwhenthere is plenty of fapit will trip or peele ftom the woodof the boughes “Mthe one end tothe other, a dozen foot in length or more, without breaking, whereofare “ten made cords or ropes : the timber hereofis in colour neetelike the firft;it is nothing fo firme ong for naues of Carts asthe fruit is, but will more eafily cleaue ; this timberis alfo coue- = witha white fappe next the barke: the branches or young boughes are groffer and bigger,and ptead. themfelues broader, ‘and hang more downewards than thofe of the firft ; the floures “ehothing but chiues,verylike chofe ofthe firkt kind:the feedis alfo like, but fomething bigger : ied + : - toe she foures barkéorrindéwillalfo frio as the firft derh: hitherto] haue not obferned either the f0 feed, or blifters on the Jeaues, nor have I bad any fight of the timber, or heard O°" . eo s vw tf bLige thereof. This kinde I have {ccne growing but once, and that in the hedges by jway asl’ rode betweene Chrift Church and Limmington in the New Forreft in Hampi" “cautes are much broader and longer thanvany of the kindes of Elme, vfually three or foure nes broad, andfiue or fix inches long, alfo rough or harth inhandling on both fides, faipt or ilentedabout the edges, neererefembling the leaues ofthe Hafell/the one fideofthe leatés are #omolt commonlylonger than the othet,alfo onthe leaues of this Elme are fometimes blifters * bladders: like thofe on the fit® kinde. This: profpereth and naturally groweth in any foile %oiff or dry,on hizh hills,and in'lowvallies in good plenty in mot places in Hampthire,wherit “commonly called V Vitch Hafell. Old men alfirmethat' when long boughesswere in great vie, '€ were very many made of the wood.ofthis treejfor which purpofe it 1s mentioned in the teres of Englund by the name of VVitch Hafell, as’ 8.’E/, 10/0This hathtitele afinirte with piewhich Effexis called VVitch/Hafell. liiiii ee Vlmus |