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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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in vvhofe garden I faw it growing fome two yeares ago.Tbe other grow plentifully betweeneLon, 

 don and Pancridge Church,about the ditches and highway fide. 



^J The Time. 



They come vp in the Spring,and fornetimes fooner,and ripen their feed in Iuly and Auguft. 



^ The Names. 



1 I rake the firft of thefe to be the Lattucafyluejiris of Ditfcoridesand the Antients, and that 

 which the Au thors of the Aduerfaria gaue vs vnder the title of L atiuca agrejlisfcart oU hortenfis f l t0 

 LaBuufiore^Opij odore vehement* \foporiftro & virtfi . 



2 This is the Endtuidof Tragus, fag.i6%. and thcTheJi$»o£ Dalefihampim % pag^6^. Bauhine 

 confounds this with the former. 



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This is the Laciucafylueftru prior y of Tragus : the Laffucafyluejlris of Matthiolus^Fuchfiusj)^ 

 denaus^nd orb ers : it is the scris D omeftica ofLtM. 



^[ The Temperature. 

 Thefe certainly 3 efpecially the two firft,are cold s and that in the later end of the third or begin- 

 ning of the fourth degree (if opium be cold in the fourrh.) 





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Some(faith Diofcorides) mix the milkie juice hereofwith Opium . (for his Meconium is our oft. 

 um)'m the making thereof. 



He alfo faith,that the juice hereof drunke in Oxycrate in the quantitie of 2 obuli^ (which make 

 fome one fcruple)purgeth waterifh humors by ftoole ; it alfo clenfeth the little vlcer in the eiecaJ. 

 led K^irgemon in Greeke, as alfo the myftineiTe ordarkenefle of fight. .- 



Alfo beaten and applied with womans milke it is good againft burncs and fbaldes. 

 D Laftly,it procures fleepe,afTtvages painejmoues the courfes in woroen,and is drunke againft the 

 ftingings of Scorpions,and bitings of Ipidcrs. 



The feed taken in drinke,like as the garden Lettuce,hindreth generation of feed and venereous 

 imaginations. % 



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hap. 32. Of Lambs Lettuce^r Qorm fallad. 



x Lafituca Agnim. 



Lambs Lettuce. 



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%.. Laftuca Agnina latifolia 



Corne fallade. 



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