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The Forme, 
‘The common kind Esepyr-trcaitia many green and sonndJeates, like un- 
to Afarabacca, faying t upper part 0 yes are mixed here and there, 
colour : amongft which nife up little flems, like the ftalks of Violets, bearing.at _ 
- the top {mali purple, or murrey coloured Flowers, which turn themfelves back- 
wards, of afmall {cent or favour, or none at all : which being paft, there fucceed 
little round knops or heads, that contain {lender brown feeds: thefe knops are _ 
wrapped after atew dayés in the {mall ftalks, as thred about a bottom, where it 
maineth fo defended trom the injury of the winter, clofe upon the ground, co-. 
yered alfo wath the green Leaves aforefaid, by which means it is kept from the 
froft, even from the time of his feeding, which is in September untill June, at 
what time the leaves do fade away, the ftalks and feed remaining bare and naked, 
whereby ic enjoyeth the Sun the fooner, co bring them to maturity : the Root 
is round, like a Turnep,. black without, and white within, with many {malt 
The Flacés and Time, — 
The firft groweth plentifully about eArtors, and Vermandois in France, and in : 
the Forreft of Arden, The fecond,which is the beft of all,in many places of Jtaly. 
The third on the Pyrenean Hills. Gerard faith, that he hath heard thae! ow-bréad 
croweth on the Mountains in Wales, on the Hills of Lincolnfhire, and omer [et~ 
ire, which I never heard of fr wt him who had it but from Se eal 
in the Catalogue of Britifh Plants : notwithftanding, it is frequent i 
andis nurfed up there, more for its Flowerthen any thing elfe, becanfe it is in ics 
‘prime, when moft others are decayed ; for it flowreth in September, and after-_ 
wards, when the Plant is without Leaf, which do afterwards {pring up, continu 
ing green all winter,covering and keeping warm theSeed unto Mid/ummer nexty. 
at what time the Seedis ripe. The third flowreth in the Spring, and therefore it 
is called Cyclamen vernum, or Sow-bread of the Spring, ae a 
of. JOM ol oxmoiselen At Ne Sele MEAT get Sel atts otal 2h paging 
&a 
a So aes 
difilled warer from the Roots of Sow-breads {nutfed 
emaigns “oseae Migr and that if fix Ounces 
At purgeth fomey 
faith 
r fleep in Aquavisa for three dayes, a drop or two of che expreffed ca 
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