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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



IB. 2. 



D The leaues o£Zacintha beat to pouder,and giucn in the dccreafing of the Moon to the quantise 

 of afpoonfulI 7 takcs away werts and fuch like excrefcence 5 in what part of the body foeuer they be. 

 the which medicine a certaine Surgeon of Padua did much vfe, whereby he gained great fums of 

 mony^as reporteth that antient phyfitiontoacbim Camerarius of Noremberg, a famous city in Ger- 

 many. And Matthiolus affirmes^that he hath know ti fome helped of werts,by once eating the leaues 



hereofinafallad. 



•f The figure of the th'fr<! w ts oFthc Tame plant as the 6rft*and was ChondryU* alba of Tabern. 

 which you /hall 6mie in the tenth place>Chap. 34* 



The fourth was of Weracium montanum mam fotifohmo(TA 











HAP. 



32. 



Of Dandelion, 









^ T he D efcripion . 





1 '-pHe hearbe which is commonly called Dandelion doth fend forth from the root Ion? 



I Jeaues deeply cut and gartied in the edges like thofe of wild Succorie, but fmootb 



vponeuery ftalke ftandcth a fiourc greater than that of Succorie,but double,& thicke 



fet together.of colour yellow,and fweetin fmell,which is turned intoa round downy blowbal that 



is carried away with the wind. The root is long,flender,and full of milky juice, when any partef it 



is broken,as is the Endme or Succorie,but bitterer in taft than Succorie. 



- *. Tbe rearediuersvarietiesofthisplant 5 confiftingin thelargencfle,fmal!neflc,deepenefle/>i 

 fhallownefle of the diuifions of the leafe,as alfo in the fmoothnen*e,and roughneffe thereof % 





I Dens Leonis, 



Dandelion. 



$ 3 Dens Leon is bnlbofa. 



Knotty rooted Dandelion. 



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2 There is alfo another kinde of Succorie which may be referred hereunto, whofe kiM 

 long,cut like thofe of broad leafed Succory:the Italics are not vnlike.being d itiided into br»» 

 as thofe of Dandelion, but leiTer. which alfo vaniiheth into down when the feed is ripe, ft* » 





Jong and white root. ^ 



There is another Dens Leonis or Dandelion,which hath many knotty and tuberous'^ 



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