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I O Co/meal [i‘orp2'0z'a’e.» /1112/zz"/ii. Dwarfe l3ai"rard Sene.

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5 Calrrtea mimTmzz,fiae C 070%‘ [171 =2 / The fmallefi Ballard Sene-

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. I-'hOl'c {lender foot-f’talkes, long and naked lilliettle 0‘ of the Peafe,and of a yellow coloulsohing plea‘ no fmell at all,and yet that little I10‘ dsw fant :after which come forth long C0 in is contained {mall feed likfi O Strangle Tare. bat fifilks’ 4 This rnountainebafiard S695 . d, ‘3 leaues, and roots like the laft déifc“ in flames grow on the tops of the bfaflc e

have net of a crowne , whereupon fomehe 6

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of a yellow colour:the cods 35 Yet. the D feen, and therefore not exprclffid 1“ 1il<€“

5 This fmall Baftard Sene grow hall‘? 3 f mall {hrub Creeping vpon the glow bf” cubit high, bringing forth man)’ ;oOm,"5 ches,in rnaner ofthofe Oftlle SP3“; 0 entlls wherupon do grow leanes like tho 6 leaues (‘it or the Strangle 'I‘are,W1fh H1397 V mall ofjuicer vpon a middle rib,fomwhat fat of f“ X p1erh€' of the colour of the leaues of R1!“ 0 p,g:tl~“ grace,of an aflringent and vnpleaianthes floures grow at the tops of the bran‘: yellow color,in Ehape like thofe of I C C broome:after which come little C’0O‘n is like the clawes or toes ofa bids when d of?” rained feed fomewhar. 1or_1g»b"“C ugh’ -vnfauorie tafle : the r00t15l°“g=

and of a wooddy fubfial-1C5!

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rant ainfid a fiat feed : the root is flraighgyellow withirnand browne without,’of a fweet an

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olrltriéliliiiaoric of Plants.

_There is alfo found another fort hereof not much differing from the formerfauing that this t 15 greater in each refpe 8t,wherein efpecially confifieth the difference. ' {I The Place. pe§.’’-[“t {-1 or bailard Sene grovveth in diuers gardens,and cotnmeth vp offeed 5 it quickly comes to at e&1on,infomuch that if a fticke thereofbe broken off and thrufi into the_ground,it quickly ta« of ’°0t,yea although it be done in the middle offummenor at any other t1me,euen as the il'lCl{S.

WHIOW or Elder,as I my felfe haue often proued : the which bring forth flours and fruit the next alk

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6 fccond with fcorpion cods groweth likewife in my garden : the lat’: growesin diuers barren Y grounds of Kent toward Sittinburne,Canturbury, and about Southfleet 51 haue not {gem ellewhere : the refit are (hangers in England. _

qt ‘.T/re’l"z'mc.‘ _ ‘g V feeghey floure from May til fummer be well 1" pent, in the meane feaion the cods bring forth tripe

_ A I q: T/2e Names.‘ . A El :rl_1is.fhrub is called of T/Jcoplmrflm in Greeke w.ma,.with the dipthong gun in the fecond fylla: "1 Latine,as Gaza expounds it,Calotm’a,0t‘ Coltrtezt : In hrgh-Dutch, 1193131; lmfeu : in French,‘ 43“Wzm’z‘er .- they are deceiued that thinke it to be 387% orany kinde thereof, although wee haue it“ \ °W€d others in giuing it toname bafiard Sene,which name is yeryivnproper to it:in low Dutch ‘Stalled Sene boom :and we may vfe the fame name Sene tree in Englifln ~ Cl. is Colurea or baftard Sene differs from that plant :uAu'mc with 1) in the fecond f yllabIe,of which elm?“ Tfieofhrztflw writeth,lié.3. i The fift is the Polygala Valentina OTC/ufim. it

In‘ The Temperature and Vertm;

, :. nfopbraflur not any other hath made mention of the temperature or faculties of thefe plants,

ore,than that they are good to fatten Cattell,e{pe¢ially (beep.

whit Th“: were formerly in the fifth and {ixth places here two figures no way difl"crent,but that which was in tht llflh P13“ W45 =1 little larger, and Lofielrtirlc

f Spurs ilahig 1,0", mm ;hi;,w2_r,- diuidcdbctwcen them for as you fce,(‘ol:¢rea mirrima, flu: (mm‘ll¢,was one: in the fift 55""-l [0’"t¢4.fiv: 70135;]: Valersrina ouer t c ii-xt. .

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He firfl kind of Liquorice hath many wooddy branches rifingvpl to: the height oftwof

r or three cubits,befet with leaues ofan ouerworn green color, confifling of many final.

leaues fer vpon a middle ribbe like the leaues ofC0/w‘e’a 0! the Mallick tree, fQI1]ewha[

fmglels and the branches,clul’re_r_ing togethenand making a round form or _{haple:out of which grow 5 blew Hours of the colour of an Englifh Hyacinth: after Which l‘UCC¢€f-l, l'0und rough prickly

Saconfifling ofdiuers rough and fcaly husks clofely and thicke compacft togethenin which is i d plea~

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his: The common andvfuall Liquorice hath {talkes and Ieaues very like the for,mer,.fauing: chat,

rhisleaues are greener and greater,and the floures of a light ihiningblew colour : but the floures of théy are fucceeded by longifh cods that grow not fo thicke cluftering together in round heads as are f°rmer,but fpikc fafhion,or rather like the Wll(lC Vetch called Onoéryckrlgor Galega :the coils, like E1311 and flat like.vnto the Tare: the roots are ofa brownilh colour without,and\ yellow within l OX,-and fweetet in tafte than the former.

qr Tire Place;

in ghefe plants grow wildein fundry places of Germany,France and Spainc, bl" thell ale Planted

gl ms in England, whereof my garden hath plenty :thepoore people of ‘h°,N°.‘-Th Parts Of

the :“d do manure it with great diligencqwhereby they obtaine great plef"-'Y ‘hCI¢°ffiT€planting;‘ _ mt? Once in three or foure yeares. . «

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Clllorice floureth in Iuly,a__nd the feed is ripe in September; .

glu . y , i , - . c ,1 -“nous in handling : among Wl'11Cl'l come {mall knops growing Vpon fhort fiemmes between the

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