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Of the Hiftorie of PI 



IB. I. 



%h, bearing at the topa flonrc like a Floure de- luce. The lower Ieaues that mrn«»^ ; 



o { a pcrfed blacke colour/oft and fmooth as is blacke Veluet " L blacken K tSM 2 

 with grecmfh yellow.or as we tcrme it,a Goofcturd green . of which colour thLL J t , aboi,c 

 do confift : which being pafithere followerh a great Lb ZcZto^mffi^J?*! 

 amansthumbe,wherein is contained round white feed as bigas the Vetch or rare Tlf D 'S ncsof 

 fiftsofmany knobby bunches like fingers. g vetcnortare. Theronr^ 



e root con- 



% The Place. 



Thefe baftard kindes of Floure de-luces are (hangers in England excent ir h«> ar™™ r„ ^ 

 iligent Hcrbarifts in London,who haue them in t&ir V^^^f^^S^Z *? 

 especially the laft defcribed } which is faid to grow without C^fbu^^^^f* 

 from whence rt was tranfported into kaly.whcrc it hath bin taken for Hermodakl^ and bv fnm^ 

 expreflcd and fet forth in writing vnder the title of Hermd*8jlm % whereas in truth it hath no frm 

 blance at all with Hermodafiylus. ao lcm " 



I 2 



^ 



May 



Thefe bulbed baftard Floure de-luces, which we haue Englifhed Spaniih Nuts are caf. 



fler fort, P^w* 2M(f/& 



* 3 



Sify 



CO 



/j/j/k Aldroandus ,would haue this to be Lome hit is prior oiDiofcorides 



makes itHermodaffjlus veraspx the true Hermoda&ill: Dodonms and Lobel moic fitly referre it to 

 the Floure de-luces, and call it iris tukrofa. $ 



^ T he Nature and Vertues. 



Of thefe kinds of Floure de-luces there hath been little or nothing at all left in writing concer- 

 ning their natures or vermes ^ only the Spanifh nut is eaten at the tables of rich and delicious,nay 

 vitious perfonsjin fallads or otherwife,to procure lull and lecherie. ' 





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French Corn-Flag or Sword-Flag, 



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