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“£384 A Of the Hifiorie of Plants’.

1 t/‘lleizizztbium. Garden Nigella.

3 Melantlzium Damafcmum. Damaskc Nigclla. ‘

2 Lfllc/rm!/Mum /flu!/57¢’-. vxvvilde Nigella,

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b:“:0“b‘SS gatted into fiue fmell le-mes, Pmrre-falhion :the floures being vaded_, there come vp (‘mall eadt u§etd:s,l1au»rug at the end thereof fine 0-r.li_x little rharpe homes or po1ntals,and egery_knob QCJMIS turded LIEEC? lundi-y {im_ll cels o.r_partrtro:1 s, Wl1El‘€1ll the feed rs contained, whrch IS afar

6 1 1‘C0lO.m:,ver_y like vnto O :1 ton {'eed,rn mite {harpe,and ofatr excellent {weer fauour. * Vet; figillfi ‘wild-er Nigella hath a Ptreaked {tztlke a foot or more high, befet full of gr-ayifh leaves; gllmveglfgl );*—g,ge«i3ai'rnofl: like the leaues of Dlll : the floures are like the forme_r,l‘a.ue that they are 1vma;:41c!cor;ls or rmopsr are like the heads or huskes of Columbmes,where1n rs contexned the ~*‘- pzealant feed, like the former.

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1'; 6 Njge/1'4 Hij]zanica,2‘ioream1>lti9 Dam-,::ske N igella.

Great Spanilh Nigella.

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ry The third kincie of Nigella,which is both faire and pleafant,call_ed Damask: Nigella,is ya:

.. V vnto the wilde Niigella in his {mall cut and )agged’1ea_ucs,but hrs llalke is longer:the flours.

‘fez t; e former, but greater, and euery lloure hath flue fmall greene leaues vnderhim, asit were

__ _ ‘gm l’P0{t and beats him vp: which floures bemg gone, there fucceed and follow knops and feed 9 3‘0rmer,but withoutfmell or fauour. ’

4 This the fmalneffe, and {hape of the Ieaues and the manner ofgrewing is like to the’

D bed hauing fmall leaues growing vnder the fl0ure,which is not fing;le,as in the laft defcri- fuds] Cut double, coniifting offiuelot more makes of little blewilh leaues, which are fucceedecl W; fin

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6 u01;neredl1eads as thofe cf the fortnenhauing in them a blaeke feed without any manrfell , , S:

‘ A leeues The fifth kinds of Nigella hath mam’ fmall and {lender ltalkesfet full of flendgand ‘mane’ flallues E39613’ 9“? Or jaggedpfa faint yellowilh Greene colour : the flames grow at t e top ofghg’

knobs lfk Q Wlrrtrlh colour, and exceed1ngdouble:whrch being vadcdfihe“ mcceed b°“"‘l‘~‘5 05

H Offweet blacke feed like the former : the root is fmall and te,fld‘_”' 1 ‘ fled The root of this is flendegand yellowilh ; the flalke is fame Cub" h1gh:l'0und,green,cre-—

fo, 11 Cuhbur. fomcwhat larger vpon the flalkes. The Home is 0111611 larger than any ofrhc

er Y y Y y % large

w1,a;‘1‘,(‘11] toward the top diuided into fundry branches, the leaues toward the bottome are frame» a

2 compofed of fiue leaucs, of alight blew aboue, and fomewhat whitifh -v’nderneath,‘WiFh_5