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time : which danger and inconuenience to auoid, I haue (about the place whereit growcth in H1)’ garden) {aimed flicks in the gmunda élnd fome other flickes I haue faflned alfo crolle-wai€5 0”“

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:1: I iudge our Author fornthing to womanifh in this, that is, led more by vaine opinion than by any reafon or experience, to confirme this his aflertion, which frequent experience ihews I0 5 Vain‘: and f‘”‘°10U5a°rPC°13“)’ for the touching, {hiding ouer, or comming neere to this herb‘?-

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lrthwort, as Dioflsoriz/er writeth is of three forts lon , round d ' d‘ :Pl' hath addeda Bfourth kinde called P1;/z’oZocbz'4,(,)r little Birthwdort.gThe ladcitiwtiihlrri hlflge joiiriggd vnto them 3 fifth named Saracens Birthwoort.

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_ r 1]‘ ‘ The Defcription; _ an. Ong Brrthwoort hath many fmall long flender flalkes creeping vpon the gY0"”d’ t W. , EH08 0”‘? with mother Val)’ i.“"i°‘“°1Y.bel‘et with round leaues not much vnlike sloth. bread or Ivie,but larger-,of a light or ouerworne green colour-",and of a grieuous or lo

. , 5 fome fmell and fauour: among which come forth long hollow floures,not muchvnllke the fl(7fl(')‘l‘

of Aron, but without any pe (tell or clapper in the fame 5 of a darke purple colour : after win. at low fmall fruit like vnto little peares, Containing triangled feeds ofa blackilh coloui'- The m long, thicke, of the colour ofbox, ofa firong fauour ancfbitter tafle. ,,1>1e 2 The round Birthwoort in fialkes aud leaues is like the firl}, but his leaues are r0U“d‘i}l' CC, flourcs differ onelv in this,that they be fomwhat longer and narrower, and of a faint yellow‘ 1

lour,but the fmalllflap orpoint of the floure that turneth backe againe, is a darkc 01 black‘: P

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ie c<>lour.T he fruit is formed like a peare,{harp toward the top, more ribbed and fuller than the crmer: the root is round lilic VDEO SOW-bread,in talle and fauor like the former,

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re kingenwhofe leaues be fmooth broad {harp pointed as be thofe ofthe 05119“ 5 ch‘? fl0‘~‘iTS iiiifie 3 1 ’

wife h°”°“’>100€ Yellow or of a blackilh purple color : the fruit differs not from that of the other, ‘ ’ top of the earth, andfometimes

W?‘ the roots be {lender and very long, fometimes creeping on £116 —" Owing decpenbeing of like colour with the former ones.

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