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wifeare better of tafte, and of : as reda colour asthe former red Beete : the roote is; 
fometimes fhortlikea Turnep, whereof it took the name of Rapaor rapo/a ; and fome- 
times as I {aid before, like a Carrot and long: : > thefeede isall one: with the leffer red. 
The Italian Beete is of much refpea; whole faire greene leaues are very large and 
great, with great white ribbes and veinestherein:the ftalke in the Summer time,when 
itis growen vp to any height, is fix fquateini fhew,and — — the heades 
| with feedevponthem feemelikewife. - 
The great réd Beete that Matter Lete aMerchant of.London gauevnto Matter Ger- 
rard, as he fetteth ic downein his Herball,. feemethto beethe red kinde of the laft re- 
membred Beete, whofe great ribbes as he faith areas great as the middle ribbe of the 
Cabbage leafe,and.as good:te bee. catcny sehole oe awitkt him to the height of 
pi cee U ee feede;:. 13 yd @ndhoq = 
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__ Beetes, both white, greene s andred, are re put ir into — amon z other 
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-oonno» fallen forthe winters and being cold they:are fo vfed and eaten likewife.: . 
-Jonid o's | Dheleauesaremuch yledto mollifie andiopen the belly, being viedin the: 
doktd ~/s, deco@ion of Glifters. The roote of the white kinde {craped,and made vp. 
sas, bitsel wichelide honsjand fas, ribbed on and laydonthebelly; :prouokethto. 
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*Litandets halithecent' in dectcies thoughe tobethetrue Macedonian Pars 
Aley, and. in that errourmany doe yet continue’: 'bur this place giueth not 
 & leaucto difeufle that-doubt:: lo hereonly thew you, wharit is, andto 
what y{c it is put ordinarily for the Kitchen. ‘The leaues of Alifanders -are winged 
- or¢ut into many parts, fomewhat refembling Smallage, but greater, broader, and 
more cut inabout theedges : the ftalkesare round and great, two foote high orbet- 
ter, bearing diuers leaues on'them,: and at the toppe fpokic roundles of white flowers 
pn hg {mall branches,;' which turneinto blacke feede, fomewhat cornered ‘or 
crefted, of an aromaticall bitter tafte: the rootéis blacke without, and white with. 
ins. Padabideth voctl sic batt yearof the fowing;perifhing after ithach ino aanersor= 
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“The tops sof ibe rootes, withthe lower ceri the ftalkes of Alitanders 
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