Of the Hiflorie of p]an~ts_ V L I B_ 2, g ~ ' Of the Hifio-rie of Plants. 69 I 1 3 Mehjfd Fucbfijflore ffllffitls lug and yeelding many {boots from a _woodcly root,‘ full of many whitiili ‘firings ; the Bmard Bawmc with purple flames‘, Ob ‘r5 be T_Oilf1£l,{<3mewhat thicke, and ofa reddifli colour, Wl'1ICh.al’C hollow within, with certaine at Cllre prints or lmall furrowes along the Ptalkes,with equall fpaces halfe kneed or knotted, and § angifli luch knee or joynt fiand two leaues one againit another Jtufted like Mali’/fa,btit more rougli O. “ePlY1I1dented,yet not lo deeply as our common Cmliumz, called Mothenwort, nor fo fharpe gelllmegl :about the knees there come forth {mall little‘ prickles, with fix or eight {mall open wide “W: 10‘ s, auing many corners thinne like parchment,and of the fame colour, iomewhat ftiffe and " ‘-' ” ' V O ‘ %'>‘~‘~T1d‘at the top ofthe edge of the bell it is cornered and pointed with {harpe prickles ,. and out 03116 middle of this prickly bell rifeth a floure fomewhat purple tending to whitenefl?-:,not vnlike “mm or Cam’mc4,whicli bringeth forth a cornered feed,the bottome flat, and fmaller toward

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weakc and tender fquarc hairie branch?” fome leaning backward, and others tufm" inward, diuiding themfclucs into fflfldfl; other {mall armes or twigs, which are 5 Q with long rough leaues dented abouts“ fmaller than the leaues of Sage. And glow; ing in another foile or clymat, you {hall {es the leaues like the oken leaflin other pl=*€‘h like Marmbium Cretz'mm,vety hoary,Wl"c caufed Diofwride: to defcribc it with f0 0*“; ny fhapes, and alfo the floures,whiCl} 3' fometimes blew and purple,and ofteflfml white: the root is {mall and crooked: Wlgc fome hairie firings faiined thereto. A“ I whole plant draweth to the fauor of Balmc’ called Melzffh. 1 This might much Flo‘? {itly haue been put to the refl of th€5’f/mi rider, but that our Author had thfufl ‘‘ as by force into this Chapter. 1: _ 5 There be alfo two other plan“ ‘Olga Prehended vnder the kindes of Balmfa ‘at one very like vnto the other, although" n knowne to many Herbarifis, and ball‘? be; of fome called by the title of Cardiam ‘O:

firfi kinde Pam: callcth C4ra'z‘am t/‘Flt’/1”‘ R .

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brought out of Syria : it grower Cuba;

the top like a Pceeple : the fauour of the plant draweth toward the (‘em ofLamz'um.

5 The other kinde of Melz"c4,otherwif e called Malacca afficrior (whereof Perm writeth) dilfereth

fro ' ‘ . . . tn alrfllttlhe lall belore mentioned, in that the cups or bells wherein the fioures grow are more prickly C fifllsand much fharper,longer,and more in number: the {ialke of this is foure fquare,light—

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mouizmde 15 much {Owen and fetin Gar’dens,'and oftentimes it groweth of’ it felfe in Woods and cap‘: alges, and other wilde places : it is profitably planted in Gardens, as Pliny write-'th,li5. 2 I. whereti :1 Olit places Where Bees are kept, becaufe they are delighted ‘with this herbe ab_0_u€ Others: their WEOIH1: hath beene called Apia/hum .- for, faith he, when they‘ are flsraied away; they ‘.l9e- ,fi‘_1,d‘-3 . by me fgalne by i't,as Virgil writeth in his Georgicks :A _ f ‘ 1 V . ‘ff Hue tujuflbr aflzerge liquorer I in ' M ‘ fl _Trzt4 M elpzf/7}/~74: 6“ Cerint/2e zgnoézlcgrzzmcn.‘ *'--‘_Here liquors call: in fitting fort ‘ An » Ofbrulfed Bawme and more bafe I-lonywort.‘ ~ « A there. Ieh_.§”I‘E 1.9 ml’ 39-Eclfn from yeare to yeare. ‘i M rri m 2‘