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Chap, 2,4.5. 



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Of (j re at Figgewrt, or IZroyimmoort; 





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broad 



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ped round about the edges like the leaues of the greater Nettle,but bi 



aMHnging when they be touched : theflouresinthetopsofthcbran< 



lour, very like in forme to little helmets : then commcth vp little fraall feed in pretty rounTbur 



tons,but tliarpe at the end : the root is whitifh 3 befet with little knobs and bunches as it were knots 



and kernels. 



2 There is another Figge- wort called ScrofhuUrU Indies that hath many and great branches 

 trailing here and there ypon the ground, full of leaues, in faftuon like the wilde or commoo Thi- 



* appearethc flouresin fafliion like a hood 



intermixt 



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good and fertile ground, t 



1 at the point as a bodkin:* 

 periflieth at the hrft approach of W 



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I ScropbuUria major. 



Great Fig-wore 



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t t ScrophuUriAlndkd 



Indian Fig-wort. 



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t 3 The ftalkc of this is alfo fquare, and fome yard high, fet with leaues like thole of the 

 hedge Nettle, but fomewhat larger and thicker, and a little deeper cut in : out of the bofoin« 

 thefe leaues come htdc roueh foot-ftalkes feme inch or two font?, carrying Come foure ot hue a 



ftalkes feme inch or two long, carrying 



low round flourcs of a greemfh yellow colour, with feme threds in them, being open an 

 and cut in with fiue little gartics : the feeds are blacke. and contained in veflcls like tboft 



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