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there come hard knobby husks like fmall cups or boxes,wherein are fmall brown feeds. 



2 The white Henbane is not much vnlike the blacke, fauing that his leaues are fmaller whi. 



ter 5 and more wool!y,and the flouresalfo whiter: the cods are like the other,but without pricks, Ic 

 dieth in wintered muft likewife be fowne again the next yeare. 



£ 3 Hyofcyawus dibits miner. 



The Jeflcr white Hembane. 



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$ 4 Hyofcyamus dbus Creticus. 



White Henbane of Candy, 





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% 3 This other white Henbane is much like the Iaft defcribed,but that it is Iefle,the leaues 

 fmaller and rounder,hanging vpon pretty long ftalks : the floures and feed-veffelsareliketholeof 

 the Iaft mentioned. 



4 This is fofter and tenderer than the Iaft defcribed 5 the leaues alio hang vpon loDg footftalks 

 and are couered ouer with a f oft downinefle t and they are fomewhat broader, yet thinner & more 

 finuated than thofe of the white,and fomewhat referable the forme of a Vine leafe beeing foipped 

 about the edges j the ftalks are alfo couered with a white colour : the floures are of a gold yel!<#j 

 with a veluet-coloured circle in their middles ; the root is fufficiently thicke and large. c/«/wfca 

 the figure and defcription of this from his friend laqttes Plateaujvho had the Plant growing or K 



teceiued from Candy. - f s 



, 5 The ftalke of this growes fome cubit high.being pretty ftiffe,about the thicknefle or 

 little finger,and couered ouer with a foft & white downe : the leaues grow difperft vpon the i » 

 not much vnlike thofe of the common kind,but leffer,and more diuided^andwhireCwhiletfcc:' 

 yong)couered with a {lender and long downinefle : the top of the ftalke is diuided into > cer t i 

 branches that bend or hang down their heads,which alternatly among narrower, leiTer,and vo 

 ded leaues carry cups like as the common one,ending in fiue pretty ftiffe points,in which are ■ 



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part purple as in the common kind, but whitifh, hailing a purplifli pointall, and & tte }™£ L ( 

 middle : the feeds and feed-veffels are like thofe of the common kinde. Clufw receiued tn 

 hereof from Paludanus. returning from his tranels into Svria and Eavot : wherefore he calls u 



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