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I 1 Saw)’ Cole is alfo numbred among the headed Coleworts or Cabbages. The leaues 3‘: great and lafgewery like to thofe of the great Cabbagc,which turne thernfelues vpwards as tho’-lg they would rmbrace one another to makea loued C_abbage,but when they come to the {hurting V they Rand at a Ray, and rather {hew themfelueswlder open,than (hut any neerer together;in40t”‘,_*: refpeas it is like vnto the Cabbage. _ _ ‘ . T :: ~;

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