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38. Of Talma Qhrifti. 



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RIcitm, Palm a chrifll, or Kik, hath a great round hollow ftalke fiue cubits hieh of 

 browne colour,died with a blewifh purple vpon green. The Ieaues are great and W 

 parted into fundry fetfions or diuifions,fafhioned likethe Ieaues ofa figtree but en*' 



haunceth cattell 3 cal!ed a Tik. 



the hand ofa man, and hath toward the top a 

 apes ; whereof the lowed are ofa pale yellew 

 ^and the vppefmoft are reddifh, bringing for' 

 d as big as a kidney bean, of the colour and fliapc 





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Chrifii of America growes vp to the height and bigneiTe 



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The firft kitide of Rictnus at 

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Palma Chrifti growcth in my garden, and in many otfier g 



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Ricinus or Kik is fowne in A P riil,and the feed is ripe in the end of Auguft. 



The Name> and caufe thereof, 



Ricims (whereof mention is made in the fourth chapter and fixt v*rfe o 



ftheprophecicof/^ 



