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5 Carole: Clafiur defcribes alib a certaigiwiiklgi Sperage with {harp prickles all alongit the 3 i

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orderly placed at euery joint one, hafda _fl‘%’ar:1_ Wllitifh, the points of the thornes pointing do“; 3 ward: from the which joints alfo doe grow 0;} a few long greene leaues faftened togetheif, as 3 0 little yellow floure and one berry three cornljfficé of a blacke COlOlll',Whe1'ein is contained one 3 feedfeldom more : the roots are like the othflath 6 Drypi: beeing likewifeakinde hereof; we longand fmall roots creeping in the g_Y0““ h S 3 Couch-graffe 5 from which fpring VP bmnc final cubit high,ful of knotty joints:the leaues are or like Iuniper, not much difi“ering from Corrtllkfle in { .7\L§pa : the flames grow at the top of the {*3 my \\l 1", . fpoky tufts or roundles, of a white colour, C10 \\‘ _ thruft together : the feed before it is takenkc I . th h l( ' l'k R’ . ‘ ken 0“ ’ V \//W .112.:5t:;;r;.:r:*2.t:::::,:;2t.“ ’ ‘vi The firfl bein on 7bfjPl4x.{‘ amgus gr°W’°'h <*"»e‘e“'-.‘ ; . “‘ ur at .’ wilde in EiI‘ex,inga,me§low enneereiio a mill,b9Y‘I’1‘£ lr '/ ' avillage calledrThorp ; land alfo at Singlclo” oul_ - l t ‘ far from Cathy, and in the medowes neertf M I ton in Lincolnfhire. Likewife it growes lfldgmar P1¢!_1ty neere Harwich, at a place called 33“ 3 Wing‘, and at North Moulton in Hollafld 3 OfLincolnfl-rite, The wilde Sperages grow in Portugal 3; maketh mention to grow in Candy,lz'5. i . cap. i8c?h,:lri‘igI§gihlg,?13;]i°£§sone ofwhicli,Pem45 The bare naked tender {hoots of S a V1‘ jibe Tim. t I1 l“ (3 / Cl’ “E " " . ~ 3 C ‘ _ lads; they floure in lime and Iuly,theFf"rui? .lSI:§£)r;gll:l§1Ci)::g’:ll)lgi‘?twhat mm they are C

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The garden Sperage is called in Greeke ’Aa.,.x,.:,,, idgciatine Ijkewife Af W M _. m fliop°»57.“r:O

git: and Spemgu:_.- in high-Dutchhgpapggm in 1OW_Dutch:xt-mm” agd qt€o;aI“u?t5tl18F1§{h 1ay’H”&" C”.'“[l”O' .C°ral'W0”’0ft.hc red belficsa which heart: the colohr of Corall 1 in spam inc, -\ A/]mrr.4go: ,~ in Italian, Aflaraga : in Englifh, S perage and likewife Al‘ am us after the La,‘ 5 name: in French, 4/jzergcs. It is named Afparaguspf the,eXcellency becaufi aflgaragi or! e {Pmgh

hereof are preferred before thofc of other plants whatfoeuer : for this Latine word .:!fl4”’§"f’odOt'

properly iignifie the Erik fpring or fprout ofeuer 1 nt 1' ‘ ll h ' ° 5; ‘and be ‘C 1‘ iliomgrow into an hard llalleas are the buds,tendrel:3§>raY<;§8pF1§:ii1g3;hvfvfrilliltéiiheenofhaps, and {Th

Wild Spera ‘ 1 11d‘ e R‘ , - ~ r _ rickei ”"1“7§ethsa€?:€:rIgIYE3’c:rae£: Sm: 2:" 152* W '° W as *§%:‘ifm«= re fl,d,ag,,,fyh,,fl,,-5,0! Cmfldm . .5 2 PCI'35C . it is alfo name 11 The Temperature. ' ”, erage do clenfe without manifefl heate and‘dTi9‘-ire" -{A The firft fprouts or naked tender {bag ‘I We Vmw"

ten 5 . . t , ts hereof b ' ' th 3“ 3 . or boiled in faire watenand feafoned wit E oftentimes fodder] m Hem bro as 3 W

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B Thcy fomwhat prouoke vrin are good for th k ‘d ' ' l nourifl" mm‘ ‘O the bod Yrand the fame ;n°m:Y°‘ not fziulivrrtclieay? Sr: ltal:]0‘il!(;l1t::l:)ti)rrec)i-zrlifcel‘fietdtafid {hr VP . lufl. ‘

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I _ Rear Horfe-taile rifeth vp with a round ftallae hollow within like a i'eed,a cnbit high, . comp-a6‘: as itwere oi-‘many {mall pieces one put into the end ofanother,{omtimes of

a rcddilh coloumery rough, and let at enery joint with many fiiffe Rui’n~.li'ke leanes,"

_ riflcles, which rnaketh the whole plant to refemble the taile ofa horfe, whereof}: make ame : on the top of‘ the fkalke do Prand in Ptead offloures clufiered and thicke catkingnog em.

like to ‘ — > ~ _ _ N 4‘ ‘ .. . . - _ r _ 1 ah the firfi shoots of Speraoe,which is ealled My..-tam/34. the root isjointed , and trreepeth in e §TOnnd U 2 . . ‘ F. ‘ 1__ . .. mi : H and naked .Sh21U(2~gI'£lfi(f , wherewith rletchers and Combomakersdoe rub and 1

mi heirwor ke,rifetl1 out 0! the ground like the firlt ihoots 0fAl‘par3gus,jyoi11i:ed or kneed by U diiianecs like tl1€pr(‘C‘€(lCnt, but altogether without fuch brifily leaiies, yet exceeding d cutting : the root groweth aflope in the earth like thofe of the Couch graifle.

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v ii‘? ha '9 ' ‘v ‘ "‘ ' * ' ‘£13,. flP‘M:~_lt-tai.le which for the molt part groweth among corn and where corn hath heen,hath El ”3i~r=. "“’**'eT root and finale -, from which rife vp diners jointed ftalks,whereon doe grow very leng‘

jezna; _ . A . . ., V n ‘Le vi; row l0ll1tCd leaucs, like vote the firfi delcribed, but thicker and rotrghex, as is the refi or

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4. w _ fhidd:/ate‘ Horfe-raile,that growes by the brinks ofriuers and running {trcamS,3“¥1°&F“1FiE§1e J02 , of th? Water, hath a very long root accordion,‘ to the depth of the vvatcrsgrofli-‘gill1Cl;e;;<nul .:;“’1‘l1 {Dine thi-eds anexed thereto : from which rifizth vp :1 great th5C1<'° Jbfméf ‘illd fit to (‘mg Yough rufhy leaues pyramide or iteeple-faihioii.Tbe whole plant 18 alto l'.(‘)l,}gh3I';3;d

f_l\z’1uc and rub woodden things as the other. _ .

his kinda of Horletaiie that growes in woods and {haclowie places,hath a {mall root and ’ "0111 which rifeth vp a rough ohaiiifered {lalke jointed by cermine {paces , lmu-Eng at each W0 bufhes of rough briflly leaues,fet one ag-ain{’c another like the other of his kinde. _ Aaaaag V 6 The