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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 



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Yellow Dwrarfe /w* 



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S The French or rather Sea Floure de-luces (whereof there is alfo another of the fame kinde 

 altogether lefler) haue their root without any fauour. In fhew they differ little from the garden 

 Floure de-luce, but that the leaues of thefe are altogether (tenderer, and vnpleaiant in fmell, grew- 

 ing plentifully in the rough crags of the rockes vnder the Alpes,and neerevntothe feafide. The 

 learned D r .i^4tfrfff a long time fuppofed it to be Medium Diofc.Matthiolus deceiued himfelfe and 

 others, in that he faid, That the root of this plant hath the fent of the Peach: for my felfehaue 

 proued ittobewithoutfauouratall. It yeeldeth his flouresinIune,whichareofaIl the reft raoft 



parts } as hath been found by Phy ficall proofe. 



hot, bitter, and with 



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This Iru Bizantma hath long narrow leaues like thofe of the laft defcribed i very narrow 



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fbmetime more ; at the top they are diuided into 2 or 3 branches that haue 2 or 3 floures a piece 



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negated with white,purple or violet colour. The three other leaues that ftand vp are of a deepe 

 violet or purple colour. The root is blackifh, flender, hard, knotty, t 



5 Narrow leafed Floure de-luce hath an infinite number ofgraffie leaues much like vntoReed, 



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of 



greater than the reft, of a purple colour, Gripped with white and yellow ; but thofe three fmall 

 leaues that appeare next,are of a purple colour without mixture : thofe three that ftand vprightare 

 of an horfe-flefh colour, tipped with purple, and vnder each of thefe leaues appeare three fmall 

 browne aglets like the tongue of a fmall bird. 



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leaues, and in that the ftalkes are lower than the leaues,and the floures in fhape and colour are like 

 thofeof the ftinking Gladdon, but muchleffe. 



$ There are many other varieties of the broad leafed Floure de- luces befides thefe mentio- 



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butrefene fuchas aredefirous to trouble themfelues with thefe nicities, to cluft. 



Not 



