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fixe Milkwort is like vnto the reft in each refoea fan.n^.i,.. i. ; 

 ored coIourM-rcfe maketh it to differ from SlSeSfi % l^ * 



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5 Poly gal a purpurea* 



Purple Milkwort. 



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ants or Milke 



euemSiT? " ™»f -"wig"* commonly in 

 cuerv wood or fertil paflure whercfocuer I hauc tra- 



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uguft. 



becaufe ,t doth efpccially flourc in the CrofTcS 

 Gang weeke Or Rogation weeke : of » hiclflour* 

 the maidens which vTe in the countries to vvaJkc £ 

 Proceflion do make therafelues garlands and Noi c ! 

 gaiesnnEnglilhweemay call it CrolTe-flourc,of 



Procemonfloure > Gang.floure,Rogation-flour^ fl d 

 MrHcworr,of their vertucs in procuring miikc m the 



brefts ofnurfes. Hitrimymut Tragus as alio DMori. 

 *e$ -call « P%4/#». J Gefiter calls this Crucjs M-tsA 

 m bis Epiftles he nameth it AmareHa • it is vulgarly 

 knowne in Cheapefide to the herbe women by the 

 name of hedge Hyfibp } for they take it for CrMsalt 



...» »» 1U *«* « to lucn as are ignouat 

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% The Virtues, 



Galen, D iofcorides ', and Tbeophr^fius doe accouaC 



thefe for Milke-woorts, and that they may without 

 crrour be vfed for thofe purpofes whereunto Gtax 

 ferae th. 



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feorides : for Gefner affirraes, Tbatanbandiullbereof 



fafting,will purge choler efte&ually by ftoole without any dang 



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common male Knot-graiTe creepes along vpon the ground, with long {lender swak 

 *s fullof joints or knots, whereof it tooke his name. The Ieaues grow vpoo W 

 >ranches like thofe of fmall S.Iohns wort,but longer and narrovver.Tbe floor* 

 !e,and grow out of the knots ,of an hearby colour • in their places corac vp tuw 

 t is Iong,flender,and full of firings. r 



fecond d iffereth not from the former,but only that it is altogether Icfle^whcicinc^ 

 fteth rhp A iffmnre + Rpraufe the difference is no otherwife I haue thought g<*" 



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ciallyconllfteth 

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3 The Authors of the 



places of the coaft of the Mediterranian 





diocrs 



of a white fliining colou 



grow at the; 



grow 



They are in flourc 



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feed all the Summer 



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tony places 



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