† sporkenwoodn.
Obsolete. rare.
The black alder.
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aldereOE
alderna1325
prick tree1551
black alder1578
aln1589
sporkenwood1599
alder1648
alder buckthorn?1742
orl1747
alder1755
arn1791
Turkey alder1822
Oregon alder1842
berry alder1863
tag alder1891
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 258/1 The moone beinge in the signe Libra, cut then off the hayre, and burye the sayede hayre vnder a tree of Sporckenwoode.
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