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Goats-beard, or Go to bed at nobne hath hollow ftalks, finooth, and of a vvh 

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Iding a milkie juice when it is broken, in fliape like thofe of Gar- 

 b leaues thruft forth final tender ftalks, fet with the like leaues, but 

 grow at the top of the ftalks, confining of anumberof purple Icaues,da(ht'ouer 

 [tie yellow dull fet about with nine or ten fharp pointed green leauesrthe whole 

 floure referable* a Star when it is lpred abroad h for it (hutteth it felfe at twelue of the clocLand 

 (liewethnothis feccopenvnttll the next daies Sunne doth make it floure anew, whereupon it was 

 called Goto bed at noone : when thefe floures be come to their fall maturitie and ripenefle thev 

 grow into a downy Blow-ball like thofe of Dandelion, which is carried away with the winde The 

 feed is long haumg at the end one peece of that downy matter hanging at it. The root is Ions and 

 fingle,mth foraa few threds thereto annexed,which periftes when it hath perfected his feedfyeel- 

 dmgmuchquantttie of a milky Juice when it is cut or broken, as doth all the reft of the plane. 



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itb and alfo yeeldeth the like quan titieof milke, inforauch that if the piFliog *bik 3 

 pulled from the ftalks, the milky juice followed* : but when it hath there remained a 



long green leaues to garnifh it withall, wherein confiftcth the difference. 



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