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ﬁgures grow at the top or extreme point of the plant: after which follow fruit in (ha full of a red juyces which being touched Ptaineth the hands of the colour of red leade : t not vnpleafant. , naﬂrc , There hath been brought from the Indies a prickly reed of the bignelfe of a goodblg [ is of the length of ﬁx or eight foot, chamfered and furrowed, hauing vpon two ﬁdes growing V“ cm, an vneuen membrane or skinny fub France, as it were a jag or welt fet vpon the wing of a galmmke and vpon the very point of euery cut or jagge armed with moi’: fharpe prickles : the whole trim is ﬁlled full ofa fpongeons fub1’tarrce,fuch as is in the hollownes of the brier or bramble a_3m°t§at the which is to be feene as it were the pillings ofOnions,wherin are of ten found lining things’ was at the ﬁrlt feeme to be dead. The plant is ﬁrange, and brought dry from the Indies, the“ “econ. cannot write fo abfolutely hereof as we delire-, referring what more might be faid to a fur: 6f I ﬁderation or {econd edition.

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{T T./re Plate. _ Thefe plants grow vpon Mount Atlas,in Lybia, in molt of the Iflands of the Medlfwan in all the coali of Barbary, efpecially in S.Crux neere vnto the fea ﬁde, in a barren place thﬁffthek led by the Engiirh-meii Halfe Hannelten,-which place is appointed for Merchants to C0}? 91’ 0 mm, buﬁnelfe, euen as the Exchange in London is : from which place my friend M’.Wi/174"’ 6 {egg a right expert Surgeon,did procure me the plants of them for my garden,by his feruant that ‘ haue

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thither as a Surgeon of a (hip. Since which time I haue receiued plants of diuers others

trauelled into other ofthofe parts and coaiis : notwithftanding they haue not endured th ourextreme Winter. _

11 The Time.‘ ‘ - . »

They put forth their leaues in the Spring time,and wither away at the approch ofVV1“m'

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It is called both in Greeke and Latil'l€,E'IIp3p61a7, Big}:/zorézem .~ Pliny in one place putteth Eh‘? H in the feminine gender, naming it Eupborbia : the juyce is called am, gapegrem-, an o is wife in {hops :we are faine in Englifh to vfe the Latine word, and to call both the herbe 3“ gyiltpg name ofliuphorbium, for other name we haue none: it may be called in Engli I _ i e.

11 The Temperature. [Mt

Euphorbiurn (that is to fay, the congealed j uyce which we vf e) is of a very hot, and) 35 G4 h ﬁiﬁeth , cauiticlce or burning faculty,and of thinne parts :it is alfo hot and dry in the fog“ gree. ‘

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r ' . _ I . [ 6 A An emplarﬁer made with the gumme Euphorbium, and twelue times fo much oyle_,8f’d 3 ht

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wax,is very ﬁngular againﬁ all aches of the joynts,lameneﬂ‘e,palﬁes crampes « and {hrrnkin newes,as Gzzlm,lz'i5.4. de medieammtrér feczmdum genera, declareth at large whiclfco recite att fent would but trouble you ouermuch. L J O E_”Ph°’b.‘“m mingled with °}’le of Bay and Beares greafe cureth the fcurfe and fcaldé th head, and pllClﬂClTC,Cauﬁng the haire to grow againe, and other bare places, being ann0i“ with. The fame min led with l d l' d l _ ml “O witllifpg lethal1’gl§g,dOt!l]1Wal<(<)3¥1Eiiinqgﬁgtcifl tli(e)ii ifsirfriﬁlgciiirguch as are Very ﬂeepyaah thauc lo 1 eappie tot k ‘b‘q ' ' 3 ’ it by ‘Caron Ofthe APO?) or nape of the tree 6, it rinaeth their fpeech againet f ts in Euphorbium mingl d ‘ h ' w . i ' - red [70 ’ what pm Ofthe body Foevlrl/gt ‘Ill/€l3l)l7t.l§eI'.(. and applied taketh away all foule and ill-fauou .

B in mixed with o l f . - ‘. tmcnts’ quiC‘,;e1§ heamh fuch3}’)a°r:’s %V‘;:é1;)f1]<e>;~1:e)sI.§s Mfﬂm faith,arrd with any other oyle or OY“

It is likewife a remedy agarnlt old paines in the huckle b0nes,cal1ed the ‘Sciatica-A

ﬂeitzzis, Pzmlzir, tjﬂxearzrzs, and cjmﬁie doe report, That if it bee inward] taken it ﬁege water and ﬂegme 5 but withall it fetteth on ﬁre, fcorcheth and fretteth not om‘! Y ‘ and mouth,hut alfo the Ptornacke, liner, and the relt of the entrals and inﬂames the whole

For that caufe it muft not be beaten fmall,and it is to be tempéred with fuch things 35 3 a heate and {harpeneffe thereof, and that make glib and {lippery . of which things there mu ﬁlieh a quantitie, as thatit may bee fuﬂicient to couer all ouei the fuperﬁciall or Gum’ t ereof,

. . , c But it is a_hard thing fo to eouer and {old itvp, or to mix it, as that it will not bur_ne 0 (C3,: F0‘ ‘h°“gh It be tempered with neuet fo much oyle, if it be outwardly applied it rarr"et_ at efpecially in tlfrem that haue for": and tender ﬂeﬂnand therefore it is better not to take it rnw

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. . IS ‘ - . - . . _ . it gl'0Wes wilde in the mountainous niedowes and in fome wet p

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It is tronblefomeuihheahit, vnleff e the nolilhrilspbe carefully floptand dd-eferrded 5 for ituhap.

Pen that the hot rharpneife thereof do enter into the_nofe,it caufeth itching, and moueth neeﬁng,

Elrhafiﬁr that by rcafon of the extremitie of th heate, it dY.3W€5 0l1€ab0llﬂd3T1C€ Of ﬂegme ‘md

hp “5 ﬂgainﬂ the hgg rnarpnelfe of Euphorbi-um,it is reported that thepinhabitants are vrerrnedied. J; -ape‘?-line lrerbprilriclr of the elfeét and contrarie f3CFl1ti€5_15 “ﬁlmed A’”‘}"P"’0K5"“”’-. This P13“: ﬁlls full of juice, rrothing at all hot and fharpe,,but coole and flimyﬁllayrrig the heat and {harps ‘ “Q9i Ewpr’2o;»é,?:zm. \/\/‘e haue not yet learned That the old Wrigtérs haue (CE d0W!1€ anyﬂling 83

now‘ ‘Hg this herb : notwitlrltanding it feems to be a kinde of Orpine , which is the antidote or ‘ um€'il’0ifon 30'£—1lllll.' the venomous poifon of E up/Jorbimm D .

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‘at Hm: are Cami“ other prams by i“!f}Ol"l£‘VVl'iICl‘§y]‘cffCl'l'.Cd’ to the Thiftles: which beeingo. ' uiitted by our Authorgl haue thought ﬁt here to giue you.

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R A He frrlt and largeﬁ ofthefe hath leaues coniifting ofgreat longifh bulbs like thofe of the Afphodil 5‘ from whence arife many large iialks three or foure cub.1t5 11:51:‘: “relied fetw‘ ‘ and downy ttheleaues are very long and large, juicy,greeni(h,cut abo_uc§_F C C gﬁsganfl w ~ Rh {Offs pricklcs. At the tops ofthe {iallts and branches grow heads roljfld 3“ 13‘§e_> Om 05 ll-Ch Come flours Conﬁfting of aboundance of threds of a purple Colofaiwhlch ﬂy _3W3Y 1“ Cl0Wn., laces of Ihtiﬁrra. Ihauc {gm caulovtjing in the garden of Mr 10;,” Park,-Np)”, and with My T,ggye,. It ﬂotrtes in luly. Clziﬁzes hath ‘ewe 1‘ Cir/z'um maximum mozatjneam folio éuléafa r4dic'_6'- But 1199 gaue UP ﬁgllfe thereof, not 3”?“ ervulelfe the Acmbium feregriWm' in Tdéermrm. (which our Author formerlygas lbefote notedﬁ-, o ‘ Geese; awe

ﬁnd la it of all bloudinot without great quantitie ofteares. _ .