¶ The Description.
WAter Ferne hath a great triangled stalke two cubits high, beset vpon each side with large leaues spred abroad like wings, and dented or cut like Polypodie: these leaues are like the large leaues of the Ash tree; for doubtlesse when I first saw them a far off it caused me to wonder thereat, thinking that I had seene yong Ashes growing vpon a bog; but beholding it a little nee∣rer, I might easily distinguish it from the Ash, by the browne rough and round graines that grew on the top of the branches, which yet are not the seed thereof, but are very like vnto the seed. The root is great and thicke, folded and couered ouer with many scales and interlacing roots, hauing in the middle of the great and hard wooddy part thereof some small whitenesse, which hath beene called the heart of Osmund the water-man.