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Of the Hiftorie of Plants; 



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Cocfcow pint. 



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Cockovv pint groweth in woods neere vnto ditches vnder hedges , euery where in ihadoiric 



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appeare prefently^fter Wintenthe peftell (hewetb it felfe 



and when thev are 2 one.thc 



becommethripe,which is in Iuly and Auguft. 



•'^f The Names. 



There groweth in ^Egypt a kinde of Aron or Cuckow pint which is found alfo in Africa, and 

 _ likewife in certaine places of Portingale neere vnto riuers and ftreames, that differeth from tbofe 

 of our countries growing, which the people of Caftile call CManta de naefira fenou s raoft would 

 hauc it to be called Colccafta-Jout Diofcorides faith that Colecafia is the root of Faba ^Sgjftia^ or the 

 Beane of ^Egypt. t f alius Columna (in the place formerly alledged) prooues this not to be the 

 true Cdlocafiajwd yet Proffer x^ilftnm fincc in his fecond booke de flantis exoticis,cap .17 '.and 18. la- 

 bours to prooue the contrary : let the curious haue recour fe to thefe, for it is to tedious for mc in 

 this place to infift vpon it, being fo large a point of controuerfie, which hath fo much troubled 

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The common Cuckow pint is called in Latine, Arum : in Greeke, «V 1 in fhops larus^nd Bat*- 

 ^>*rcn : of others, Pes vituli : of the Syrians, Laphd : of the men of Cyprus, CoUcafia, as wee nntf 

 among the baftard names. Pliny in his 24 booke, 1 £.chapter,doth witncflTe, that there is g re ? c ^' 

 rence bctweene ^dron and D raconti «w,akhough there hath been fome controuerfie about the fat* 

 among the old Writers, affirming them to be all one : in high Dutch it is called, #affeil |W £ 

 Italian, Gigora: in Spaniffi, Tdht.ih low Dutch, CalfeUOCt: in French, Pieddveau : in fcngiflj 

 Cuckow pint, and Cuckow pintle, wake-Robin,Priefts pintle, Aron,Calfes foor,and Ramf e \ 

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