544 • Of die Hiftoric of Plants. Lir,/i. 



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thngbut onply one day, like the true Fphemerum or Hemeiocallis, This maruelloiis variety do* 

 not without caufe bring admiration to»ll that obferue it. For if the floures be gathered and rei 

 tied in feuerall papers, and compared with thofe Houres that will fpring and fiourifli thencxtd" 

 you fhallcafily perceiue that one is not like another incolour,thpughyou (hall compare one h ^' 

 dred which .rlo«re one day. and another hundred which you gather the next day, and fofrom T' 

 today during the time of their flouring. The cups andhuskes which containe and embrace t? 

 floures are diuided into fiue pointed fe<aions,which are green,and as it werejConfiftingof skinn ° 

 wherein is contcincd one feed and no more, couered withablackifh skinne,hauing a blunt no"' 

 whereon the flotrre growetl; 5 but on the end next the cup or huske it is adorned with a little fi* 

 cornered croivnc. The feed is as.big as a pepper corne, which of it felfe fadeth with any lightm!^ 

 tion. Within this fecdjs contained a white kernell, which being bruifed, refolueth into a vet 



6 ftober 



root 

 srfew 



ant to 



perifh:notwithftandingitmay bcreferued in pots, and fee in chambers and cellars that arc vvarmc 

 and Co defended from the injur ie of our, cold climate ; prouided alwaies that there be not any ware I 

 cart vpon the pot, or fet forth to take any moifture in the aire vntill March following . at which 

 time it mull be taken forth of the pot and replanted ip the garden. By this meanes I haue preferued 



purpofi 



ood time as thofe referued plants . i^^ ^\ \ 



till herbe there be other forts, but not fo amiable or fo full oi 

 r floures are all of one color.Buc I haue fince by pra&ife found 



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following 



roots 



the fand of a riuer 



itneuerreceiueth moifture vntill Aprillor the midft of March, if the weather be warme s atwhich 

 time I take it (torn the fand and plant kin the garden, where it doth fiourifli exceeding irell and 

 increafeth by roots • which that doth not which was either fowne of feed the fame veercnor thofe 

 plants that were preferued After the other manner, 



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The feed of this ftrange plant was brought firft into Spaine, from I 

 name Mirabilia Peruana^ or Peruviana : and fincedif perfed into all the p 

 mv felfe haue planted manv veeres, and haue in fome temperate veeres i 



ereof 



ripe feed • ' . *f 



7 • f The Time. 



riftiethwith the firft f rod, except it bekeptasaforefaid. 



September, and pc 



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^ The Thames. 



► It is called in Peru of thofe Indians thexetfachat. Of others after 



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Sohm\n odor if i 



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tfmmum Mexicanum : and of Carelm Clufi 



AdmirabiliaPemviana : in Enc-Iifh rather the Maruell of the W 



od to 



We haue not 





the which 



concerning the nature or v 



e. beautie. and fweetneffe 



Cor tufa of Padu 



root thereof taken inwardly doth very notably purge waterifh humour 



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Chap. sp. Of^Madde ^fppli 







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5f The Deft 







R Aging Apples hath a round ftalke of two foot high, diuided into fundry 

 broad leaues fomewhat indented about the edges, not vnlike the Ieaues < 



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of a darke browne greenc colour 



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