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bieb and yeelding many (boots from a wooddy root, full of many whitifh firings ; the 

 aSTs bcrtH'ndjfbmewhat thickc, and ofareddifh colour, which are hollow within, withcertauie 

 k >L orinrs or fmall furrowes along the ftalkes, with equallfpaces halfekneidor knotted, and 



* J deeply, indented.yet not fo deeply as our common Carduca, called Mother- wort, nor lo fha- pfc 

 *1 nted 1 : about the knees there come forth fmall little prickles, with tit or eight imall open wide 

 Jells, bailing many corners thinne like parchment, and of the fame colour, fomewhat ftiffr and 

 lone'and at the top of the edge of the bell it is cornered and pointed with fharpe prickles , and oat 

 ot t middleof this prickly bell rifeth a floure fomewhat purple rending to whitent(Tc,notvnlike 

 w lmium or Cardiacayvhich bringeth forth a cornered feed,tbe bottome flat, and fmalJer toward 

 tbe top like a fteeple .* the fauourofthe plant draweth toward the fentof Lam turn. 



6 Thcother kinde of Af<?//Vrf,otherwife called Molucca afterior (whereof Pena writeth) diffrreth 

 from the Uft before mentioned, in that the cups or bells wherein the floures grow are more prick ly 

 than the firft,and much ftiarper,longer,and more in number : ihe flalkeof this is foure fquare,ligh t- 

 |y hollowed or furrowed ; the feed three cornered, fharpe vpward like a wedge ; the tunnels of the 

 floures brown ifh,and not fo white as the fit ft. 





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 ?S»o it K N Where ^ e f are kept,becaufe they arc delighted with this herbc aboueothers, 

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