The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 THe Ash also is an high and tall tree: it riseth vp with a straight body, now and then of no small bignesse, now and then of a middle size, and is couered with a smooth bark: the wood is white, smooth, hard, and somewhat rough grained: the tender branches hereof and such as be new growne vp are set with certaine ioints, and haue within a white and spon∣gie pith: but the old boughes are wooddy throughout, and be without either ioints or much pith: the leaues are long and winged, consisting of many standing by couples, one right against another vpon one rib or stalke, the vpermost of all excepted, which standeth alone; of which euery parti∣cular one is long, broad, like to a Bay leafe, but softer, and of a lighter greene, without any sweet

smell, and nicked round about the edges: out of the yonger sort of the boughes, hard to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 on of the leaues, grow sorth hanging together many long narrow and flat cods, as it were like al∣most to diuers birds tongues, where the seed is persected, which is of a bitter taste: the roots be many, and grow deepe in the ground.

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Fraxinus. The Ash tree.