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Of the Hiftorie of Plant s . 



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72. Of Mullein of Ethiopia. 









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/ Ethyopian Mullein 





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^f TbeDefcription. 



Vllcin of Ethiopia bath many very broad 



hoary leaues fpred vpon the ground, verie 

 foft and downy,or rather woo] ly like thole 

 of Hygtaper,bur farre whiter, fofter, thicker, and 



fuller of woolIinciTe$whichwc>oIl is fo!ong,that 

 one may with his fingers pull the fame from the 



leaucs,cuenas wool is pulled from a fheeps skin: 

 amongft which leaues rifeth vp a foure fquare 

 downy ftalk fet with the 1 ike leaues,but fmallcr ; 

 which ftalk is diuided at the top into other bran-' 

 chcs,fct about and orderly placed by certain di- 

 ftances,hauing many floureslike thole of Arch- 

 angell,of a white colour tending to blewneiTe: 

 which being paft, there fuccedeth a three fquare 

 brown feed : the root is black,h; * * " 

 dy fubftance. 



5 The Place. 



Itgroweth naturally in Ethyopia,andin-Ida a 

 hill by Troy,and in MeiTenia a prouince of Mo- 

 rea,as Pliny Oieweth^.ay. cap.4. italfogrowe* 

 in Meroe an Iflaad in the riuer Nilus jand allb in 

 my garden. 



woo 



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fteth his feed in Auguft. 



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rreeke **«** :*n 

 mtrev • and for 



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«w#^« M> w ^ WCf ^ 9<l 5 KW nj wiiictu.ui iumc,uccauie cne ureekeword si 

 adujltpx cimre afierfafli coucred with a(hes : in Englifh wee may call 



oolly Mullein, f 



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<ft The Vertues 



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good againft the Pleurifie,and for thofe that haue their brefts charged with corrtinf A' 



rrer an4 t-/-.r»Via/ir«—:»: i i n\ _r _l -■ . . P . _ . r . ** 



m*<irinif«^«j ' a- r ;--*- --*"* •"«&«"»• «w w» the throat, and againft 



» -'-arinke the derodionot the root thereof. 



roots 



ofaconfeaionraadewith g 1 

 :h manner as they condite 



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HAP. I 



73. OfQorpJlifs. 



ft* *e An 



■■: ■•■! -v;i--r •:, -.: :'j Vj «JT 7 he I> efiriftien . ■"•'.' ' ' • T.V. 1 



A , , ? ti,ek.ndes rfMuI!e, ?s . notwirhlUod.ngfordiftinaiom fake I haue narflul- 



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ttIt,e ^oJt the defcrinr^n Psl * S C ° mm0n aS the re M*refore I foal not need to fpend much 



T^efccond 



w Ukewife well knowne by the name of O'xlip.and dilfereth nor from tfiegther 



