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Of the Hiftorie of Plants:

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Blacke Saltwort.‘ Q] 76: Place.

The true Giaux or Milkwort groweth V6“ ry plentifully in falt places 8: rnarlhes n€_C'-’ ~ the fea,from whence I haue brought 1t.m' y » * to my garden,where it profpereth as W?! 3‘ 1 " " ' ~.; Q in his natiue foile. I found it efpecially be-

¢— '\*~»;g;, tweene Whitflable and the Ifle of Than“ r ~ ° L in Kent,& by Grauefend in the fame coun-

i i "‘ ‘ tie,by Tilberry Blockhoufe in Effex,3“d ’" the Ifle of Shepey, going from Kings ferry to Shetland houfe. ‘ . qr The Time. ’ _ r , I Itfloureth in May, and the feed isrxpe 1“ “RC0 '

Q; The Names.

The names haue been fufiicientlyf of in the defcription. It {hall fuffice to C3 it in Englifhfea Milkwort.

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Paula: ufigima faith it is hot and £110’ of temperature.

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This Milkwort taken with milk, drink? ‘ or portage, ingendereth (tore of milkc, 3“ therefore it is good to be vied by Nulfcs *1??? want thc tame.

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’1 Here haue been many plants neerely refetnbling Polygala, and yet not the fame ifld“?d’ ‘ which doth verific the Latino faying, Nullmnfiamle cf! idea». This necre iefemblfil‘ n doth rather hinder thofe that haue fpent much time in the knowledge of Sim plcfai. “-6 inerea Fe their knowledge : and this alfo hath been an occafion that many haue imagined a fufld". P9113414 “"0 themfelufisfind fo of other plants. 0 f which number this whereof I fpeake is 00320 " taining this name of the belt writers ‘and herbarifts of our time, defcribing it thus 2‘ It hath" I“? ' Y thicke fpreading branches creeping on the ground, bearing leaues like thofe of H erni4rz'a,f’tafld‘” E in rowes like the feat Milltwort 5 among which grow fmal whorles or crownets of white floureifh root being exceeding {mall and threddy. ’ ‘ by 2 The fecond kinde of Polygala is a fmall herbe with pliant {lender flemlme‘s,ofa woodd)’ (4 r fiance,an handfull long,c!€-Cping by the ground :the leaues be {mall and narrow like to Lint€_1‘=‘; little H y fl'op.The floures grow at the to ,of a blew colour,fafhioned like a little bird,with W}”gc tai‘le,and body eafie to be difcerned by them that do obferue the fame:which being pa{l:,th€|"3 fa ceed 1' mall pouches like thofe of Burfa }mfiarzJ:,but lelfer. The root is (‘mall and wooddy. -0; This third kmde oFP011z414 or Milkwomhath leaues and Ptalkes like the tart before men“

ned, and differeth from it only herein, that this kinde hath fmaller branches, and the leaucs 3" no, _

fo thicke thruit togethenand the floures are like the other, but that they be of a red or pUTP_1e lour. ,: 4 The fourth kinde is like the lafl fpoken of in eucry refpe€t,but that it hath white flourefi ° therwife it is very like. 5 ' - rt}; 5 Purple Milkcwort diifcreth from the Others in the colour of the Homes , it bringeth Rh}; moe branches than the prececlent,and the flonres are of a purple colour, wherin efpecially 00“ 1 the difference. ' ’ " 6 .1-he

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Of the Hiflorie of Plants.

i Polygalarepeny. Creeping Milkwott.

ii Pblygala ru5rt3‘fl0fi5!M'§i ' Red Milkwort-.

2 Polygalaflare cieruleo. Blew Milltewort.

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