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Oi'tlieHiftorieofPIantsI 



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6 Cardamine A I pint. 



Mountain Lady-fp:ock 





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8 Cardamwefumila Belli dis folio Alfinn. 



Thedwarfe Dai fie-leaued Ladyfinocfc 

 • of the Alps. 



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4: 7 Sium minus wfaticm. 



The impatient Lady- fmockc 



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fmock 



nothing el fe but as it were a bundle of threddy 

 firings, from the which doe come forth three or 

 fbure fmall weake and tender leaues , made of 

 fundry fmal leaues.in (hew like to tbofeoffaw' 

 water Valerian. The ftalks be fmaland brittle; 

 whereupon doe grow fmall fioures like the firft 

 kind. 



t 7 I (hould be blame-worthy if in this place 

 I omitted that prety conditioned Sium which a 

 kept in diuers of our London gardens , and was 

 firft brought hither by that great Trcafurcr of 

 Natures rarities 3 M r John Tradefcant. This Pl* Dt 



hath leaues fet many on a rib like as the other 

 Sium defcribed in the fecond place hatb,butarc 



cur in with two or three nrerrvdeer>2afhes:l c 



ftalke is fome cubit high, & diuided into many 

 branches,which haue fmall white flourcs grow- 

 ing vpon them:after thefe fioures are paft, *cr 

 follow fmall long cods containing a fmal ivfc| ^ 

 feed. Now the mature of this plant is fuch, tlu 

 if you touch but the cods when the feed if rip* 

 though you doe it neuer fo gently, yet iw *£ 

 feed fly al abroad with violcnce,as di^aining ^ 

 be touched : whence they vfually call it JW* 

 tangere&% they for the like quality name tfcc 

 ficariaftliquofa. Xfce nature of this planus \o 



whatadmirable,£rif thcfeeds,as I ^> bc ^ 





