¶ The Description.
THis is a low tree, hauing diuers young springs growing forth of the root: the sub∣stance of the wood is white, very hard & sound; the barke is of a light greene: the leaues con∣sist of fiue little ones, which be nicked in the edges like those of the Elder, but lesser, not so greene nor ranke of smell. It hath the pleasant whitish floures of Bryonie or Labrusca, both in smell and shape, which turne into smal corne∣red bladders of winter Cherries, called Alka∣kengie, but of an ouerworne greenish colour: in these bladders are contained two little nuts, and sometimes no more but one, lesser than the Hasell nut, but greater than the Ram Cich, with a wooddie shel and somewhat red: the kernell within is something green; in taste at the first sweet, but afterwards lothsome, and ready to prouoke vomit.