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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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It is an vnprofitable weed among come, raifing blifteis vpon the hands of weeders and reapers. 



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Chap* z6^ Of Pellitorie of Spaine. 



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rret/jrum.'m Engliih Pellitorie of Spain (by the name whereof fome do vnproperlycal 

 another planr,which is indeed the tmclmperatoriaov Mafterwort 3 & not Pellitory) hath 

 great and fat Icaues like vntoFennell,trailing vpon the ground : amongft which imme- 

 diacy, from the root rifeth vp a fat great ftem,bearing at the top a goodly floure fafhioned like the 

 great ./ingle white Daifie,whofe bunch or knob in the midft is yellow like that of the Daifie, and 

 bordered about with a pale of fmall leaues exceeding white on the vpper fide, and vnderof afaire 

 purple colour : the root is long,of the bignefle of a finger^very bot,and of a burning tafte. 



2 The wilde Pellitorie groweth vp like vnto wild Cheruile,refembling the leaues oiCaucal^ 

 of a quicke and nipping tafte like the leaues of Dittander or Pepperwort : the fioures grow at the 

 top of the (lender ftalks 3 in fmall tufts or fpoky vmbeIs 3 ofa white colour : the root is tough 5 of the 

 bignefle of a little finger^with fome threds thereto belonging,and of a quick biting tafte, 



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It groweth in my garden very plentifully. 



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It floureth and feedeth in Iuly and Auguft. 



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Pellitorie of Spaine is called in Greeke ™>.e*t , by reafon of his hot and fiery tafte : in j v^ j. 



{oPjrethrum: inLatine, SatiuAris ; in Italian, Pyrcthro : in Spanifh> Petit re 



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