History of Rare Plants

wt. ic. 2. 199

a. pseudo-platanus, L
Linn. 2. 1290
Gron. hist. 1. 115
Sm. fl. 2. 230

Broad-leaved Maple.

Woodcut illustration of a tree branch (Acer pseudoplatanus) showing large, deeply lobed leaves and long, pendulous clusters of small flowers or winged seeds (samaras).

True Service Tree.

S. domestica
L. 684
Lam. 2. 235

Woodcut illustration of a branch from the Sorbus legitima tree, featuring pinnate compound leaves and clusters of small, round, berry-like fruit at the tips of the branches.

Pliny’s Wild Service Tree.

Woodcut illustration of a branch of Sorbus torminalis, displaying lobed leaves and clusters of small, round berries.

Crataegus torminalis. L
ord. 803
Linn. hist. 2. 4

The Austrians call it Ascheritz: the rest of the Germans call the tree Speirbaum and Speierwerbaum, the fruit Spetrling: the French call the tree Cormier, the fruit Corme: the Italians the tree Sorbolero, the fruit Sorbo: the Spanish the tree Serual, the fruit Seruas.

Another kind of Walnut.

ord. 803
Linn. 2. 106

At this point, I cannot fail to mention that uncommon kind of Walnut, observed by me indeed only in recent years, which was born from a nut served with other common ones for dessert at a certain banquet to which I had been invited. Furthermore, the tenderness of the nut itself, and its shape, longer than the common one, invited me to set aside two of them, thinking that the tree which bore nuts of this kind was different from the common one. I sent the nuts to my friend Hogeland, which for him not only germinated but also produced leaves, similar in form to the leaves of the common Walnut, that is, winged, like the leaves of the Ash, but far more delicate and serrated on the margin; their odor is also heavy, as in the common variety.

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Various kinds of Hazel.

BYZANTINE HAZELNUT.

CHAP. VII.

The Hazel is commonly of two kinds: the wild, growing spontaneously and encountered everywhere; and the domestic, which is cultivated in gardens. This latter is also of two kinds: for it either bears a somewhat oblong fruit, and that of two sorts—for the kernel of one is covered by a red skin (which is judged superior), while the other is covered by a white one—or it bears a shorter and thicker fruit, such as is found in Italy and Spain, and was seen by me in London, and is frequent enough at Frankfurt-am-Main.

But I here present another foreign and very rare kind, which in the year 1582 was first...