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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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IB, 2. 



hap. 43. OfBtites. 





if TheDefcriftion. 



1 



foot 



ftalkes : the leaues are plaine and fmooth, almoft like to thofe of the white Orach, but 

 not (o foft nor mealy : the floures grow thruft together like thofe of Orach : afterthat 

 commeth the feed inclofed in little round flat husky skinnes. 



2 There is likewife another fort of Blites very fmooth and flexible like the former, fa u j n[ > 

 that the leaues are reddifh, mixed with a darke greene colour, as is the ftalke and alfo the reft of 

 the plant. 



3 There is likewife found a third fort very like vnto the other, fauing that the ftalkes, bran- 

 ches, leaues, and the plant is altogether of a greene colour. But this growes vprighr, and creepes 

 not at all. t 



4 There is likewife another in our gardens very like the former, fauing that the whole Plant 



leth 



thofe of RmJUus his Cor on of 





t I Blitnmmajus album. 



The great white Blite. 



. 



2 Blitummajus rubrurn. 



The great red B lite. 





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^ Tie Place. 

 The Blues grow in Gardens for the moft part, although there be found of them wildcflwv 



times. 



IF 



Wint 



IT 



It iscalled in Greeke,B^„ ; in Latine, *//>//*> .- in Engiirti, Blite, and Blites: in French,^" ■ 



or ^litres. 





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