Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

III. The Form.

The Elder Tree in figure is like the Ash, sendeth forth long, small, reed∣like branches, covered with an out∣ward bark of an ash colour; the next rine to it is green, and that is yellow and succulent which next clotheth the wood; within which is contained a white and fungous pith; the leaves are like those of the Walnut tree, but less, growing by intervals by threes, fours, yea if you look to both the sides of the branch, by fives and sevens, in∣compassing it together; of an heavy smell, lightly cut in edges. In the tops of the branches and twigs there springeth sweet and crisped umbels, swelling with white, sweet smelling flowers (in June befor St. Johns Eve) which by their fall give place to a many branched Grape, first green, then ruddy, lastly of a black, dark,

purple colour, succulent and tumid, with its winish liquor. Of all the wild plants 'tis first covered with leaves, and last unclothed of them. We omit other descriptions, this being full.