The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

The Great Maple, com∣monly call'd the Sycamore-tree, tho' falsly, in Latin Acer majus.

I think it does not grow of its own accord amongst us; yet it is so frequent in Courts, and Church-yards, and about Gentlemen's Houses, that it may be well reckon'd amongst those that are ours by Adoption.

At the Beginning of spring, when the buds grow big, but before they un∣fold themselves into Leaves, this Tree, being cut in the Trunk, Branches, or Roots, yields plentifully, like the Birch-tree, a sweet Liquor, fit to be drunk. Also in the Autumn, presently af∣ter the Leaves fall off: And in the Winter too, when it is cold, and some∣what frosty; for we have observ'd in this Tree, and in the Lesser Maple, and also in the Walnut tree, cut or bored, that after a Frosty Night, when the Sun shines clear, (if the Frost has not been too vio∣lent) the Juice flows plen∣tifully when the Sun has been up two or three Hours, especially about Noon. And after a long and hard Frost, just when the Frost begins to break, it flows most of all.