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nee fine Incea, The fuppofed Indian Iucca. ath Td & ; 
gem His rare Indian plant hath a great thicketuberous roote (fpreading in timein- 
_ tomany tuberous heads) from the head whereof fhoeteth forth many long, 
i ‘hard,and guetured leaues, very tharpe pointed , compaffing as it were one an. 
other at the borrome, of a grayithgreene colour, which doe notfall away, butabide. 
cuer greene on the plant; from the middle whereof fpringeth forth (now and then, 
but not euery yeare) a {trong round ftalke, divided into diuers branches, whereon 
ftand divers white, and fomewhat large flowers , hanging downe their heads, confi- 
fti ot fix leaues, with diners veines, of a weake reddifh or blufh colour, fpread onthe — 
back ofthe three outer leaues , {pecially from the middle of the leaues to the bot 
tomés and norrifing to theedge of the leafe of any flower, which fall away without 
beating any feedein’our Country, as farre as euer could beobferned either in the plane 
that Matter Gerard kepta long time by him, or by Robinus at Paris his plant, which 
-Mafter Gerard fent vato him, or yet by that plant, that Vefpafian Robin'the fonne of 
old Robin feat ynto Mafter Iohn de Franqueuille,and now abidethand flourifheth in 
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Tewas Gsfebrought ito’ ngland(as Mafter Gerard faith) from the Weft 
Indies, by a feruant of Mafter Thomas Edwards, an Apothecary of Excter, 
and impartedto him, who keptit vnto his death : but perifhedwithhin — 
.:codtci (that gorit from his widow, intendingto fend it tohis Country houfe. ‘i 
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-o ; Ieflowreth not vneill Tuly, and the flowers fall away fodaincly , after 
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atte eny bi Mafter Gerard firttas Ithinke callediezueca fuppoting ik tobee the true | 
ay stir er: Yaca of Thener , wherewith the Indians make bread;called C2/. : but the 
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: _ ingrase, and poffeffed 
“od a2 _ 310! Some haue affirmed; thatin fome part 
| plant groweth, they makeakinde of cloth from the threads are found run- 
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