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great Valerian 3 wbich we call Setwall. 

 buttons .The root is white and (ingle. 



2 The fecond is like vnto the former, fauing that his Ieaues are much cut or jagged and the 

 whole plant is altogether IefTer, fcarcely growing to the heightofa foot. ' 



3 The third kinde of Scabious is in all things like vnto the fecond, fauing that the knap or 

 head doth not dilate himfelfe fo abroad,and is not fo thicke or clofely thruft together,and the low 

 eftleaucsare notfodecpclycut or jagged, but the vpper are much fmaller, and alfo'thc more d\. 

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4 The fourth groweth with large ftalkes, hauing two Ieaues one fet right againft another 

 ._.„ .Jitch jagged,almoft like vnto common Ferne,or rather Afh :and at the top of the ftalks there' 

 grow larger floures, like vnto the firft, but greater, and the root is alfo like it, and it diffet s no way 

 from the firft defcribed,but onely by reafon of the foile. ' 



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Middle Scabious. 







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S cubic fd umpefirisjive fig 



Cornc Scabious. 



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Purple floured Scabious hath a rough hairie (hike, whereon doe grow broad Ieaues deepety 



cut in the edges, in forme like thofeof Sowthiftle, rough Iikewifeand hairie j the floures grew? 

 the top of the ftalkes, compofed of an innumerable fort of purple thrums : afterwhich come f«ly 

 knaps likethofe of laceajor Knapweed,wherein is the feed. The root is fmalland threddy. 



* 6 The fixth fort of Scabious hath ftalkes fomc cubit high, round, and fet with Ieaues not 

 cut and jagged almoft to the middle rib, as in the former, yet fomewhat rough and hairy, fog a ' 

 bout the edges^nd of a light greene colour ; amongft which rife vp rough ftalkes, on the top where- 

 of doe gtow fatre red Hourcs confifting of a bundle of thrummes. The root is long, tough, and n- 

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The feuenth k inde of Scabious hath fundry great rough and round ftemmes 



as high as a 



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tali man, befet with Ieaues like the firft Scabious, but far grearer. The floures grow at the rop 

 the ftalkes like vnto the others, but of a faint yellow colour, which fall as foone as it is toucn 

 mth the hand,whereby it mightily increafeth, notwithftanding the root endureth for many w 

 and groweth to be wonderfuil great : and in ray Garden it did gtow to the bigncflc « a m 



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