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T is a Grange thing vnto me 3 that the name of Smilax {hould be fo largely exr™^ a i 

 it (hould be atfigned to thofe plants that come nothing neere the nature wSt f at 

 any part of the forme of Smilax indeed. ButwetviU leauecontrouerfies i o rhlf'T 



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lied and knoirne by that name among vs,or rather more truly by the name of ConvohlllZ ' 

 or VoluMis major : it beareth the long branches of a Vine,but tcnderer.and for the length an/^' 

 fpreading thereof it is very fit to make fhadows in arbors : the leauesare fmooth like Ivie hmT* 

 what bigger, and being broken are full of milke : amongft which come forth great white Zhi' 

 Jovv floures like bells. The feed is three cornered, growing in fmall huskes cSiercd with atS 

 skin. The root is fmall.white.and long, like the great Dogs grafle. "«uHnne 



SmiLxUtm : minor is much like vnto the former in ftalkes, Ieaues, floures, feed, and root* ft 

 tung that in all rcfpe«5ts it is much fmaller.and creepeth vpon the ground. The branches are fm I* 

 and fmooth : the little Ieaues tender and foft : the floures like vnto little bells, of a ourole «Z 

 the feed three cornered like vnto the others. , ...... "" 0W; 



5 Convolvulus minima* fpicA-folius. 



1 Lauander leafed Binde-weed. 







f 4 Convolvulus dtgenteus Althu folio* 



Siluer leafed Binde-weed, 



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% 3 This Bindweed Pena faith he neuer favv but in the brinks of quicke-fets and OJiuets in PW- 



vince, Sauoy,andNarbone ; notwithftanding I found it growing in the cornc fields : about. j» 



Dunmow in E flex, in fuch abundance, that it doth much hurt vnto their corne.This kind oW* 



weed otVolubdis is like vnto the fmall Bindweed before mentioned, but it hath a finer floure, p $ 



ted or folded in the compafle of a bell very order ly,efpecially before the Sun rifc(far « ten ^ 



jtfelfe the welts are not fo much perceiued)and it is ofa darke purple colour : the feed is new 



the reft, cornered and flat, growing out of (lender branches which ftand vpright awl »«« ^ 



ther,proceedwg out ofa wooddy white root. The Ieaues are long and narrow, refemwing 



both in colour and hairineflc,in tafte drying,and fomewhat heating. 



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