. Early British botanists and their gardens. Botany; Botanists; Botany; Plants, Cultivated. 43 JOHN GOODYER boughes are grosser and bigger, and do spread themselves broader and hang more downewards than those of the first; the flowers are nothing but chives, very like those of the first kind: the seed is also like, but something bigger : the leaves are much broader and longer than any of the kindes of Elme, usually three or foure inches broad, and five or six inches long, also rough or harsh in handling on both sides, snipt or indented about the edges, neere. The Smooth-leaved Elm.^ resembling
. Early British botanists and their gardens. Botany; Botanists; Botany; Plants, Cultivated. 43 JOHN GOODYER boughes are grosser and bigger, and do spread themselves broader and hang more downewards than those of the first; the flowers are nothing but chives, very like those of the first kind: the seed is also like, but something bigger : the leaves are much broader and longer than any of the kindes of Elme, usually three or foure inches broad, and five or six inches long, also rough or harsh in handling on both sides, snipt or indented about the edges, neere. The Smooth-leaved Elm.^ resembling the leaves of the Hasell: the one side of the leaves are also most commonly longer than the other, also on the leaves of this Elme are sometimes blisters or bladders like those on the first kinde. This prospereth and naturally groweth in any soile moist or dry, on high hills, and in low vallies in good plenty in most places in Hampshire, wher it is commonly called Witch Hasell. ^ Gerard, 1297. 2 ; copied in Ger. euiac. 1481. 4 ; recopied in Parkinson, 1403- 3* Stokes considered this figure as ' rather a variety of U. campestris '.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940; Goodyer, John, 1592-1664. Oxford, Printed by F. Hall for the author at the University Press
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