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5 Vohbilis nigra 



Blacke Bindweed. 



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$ 4 The ftalkes and branches ofchfTarc 

 fome cubite long, (lender, weake and hairy, (b 

 that they lie vpon the ground, if they haue no- 

 thing to fuftaine them:vpon thefe withoutany 

 order grow leaues, fhaped like thofeof Ivie,or 

 the Marfti Mallow, but lefle^nd couered ouer 

 with a (iluer-like downe or hairincfTe,and diui* 

 ded fomewhat deepe on the edges, fometimes 

 alfo curled,aod otherwhiles onely fnipt about. 

 The floure growes vpon a long ftalke like as in 

 other plants of this kinde, and confifts of one 

 folding Ieafe,Iikeas thatof the lalt mentioned, 

 and it is either of a whitifh purple, or els abfo- 

 Iute purple colour^he root is (mall and cree- 

 ping. It growes in many places of Spaine, and 







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as a thing moft effe&uall to heale wounds. Our 

 Author gaue the figure hereof (how fitly iec 

 the Reader iudge) by the name of Papauer cer- 

 nutum luteum w/>***,making it a homed Poppy, 

 as you may fee in the former Edition, pag* 



t 5 This kind of Bindweed bath a tough 

 root full of threddy firings, from which rife vp 

 immediatly diuers trailing branches, whereon 

 grow leaues like the common field Bindweed, 



or like thofeofOrach,ofa black green colour, 

 whereof it tooke his name:the floures are final, 

 and like thofe of Oracbrthc feed is black,thrce 

 fquare, like, but lefle than thatof Buck-wheat: 

 The whole plant is not onely a hurtfull weed, but of an euill fmell alfo, and too frequently found 



amongft comt.Dodonaus calls this Convelvnlum nigrum : and Helxinc Cijfampelts ; Tabernamontanu** 

 V clMis nigra : and Lobel \Helxine Cifampelos altera s^itripliciseffigic. 



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They do floure from May to theend of Auguft. 



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jucewife Smilax the tree,wbich the Latincs call Taxus : in Engli{h,the Yew tree. The later Herba- 



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* flele herbes are of a hot and dry temperature. 



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dr^nk/Tl^ 0fbIackeBindewced Called *<[*'*< &!!*»&'> ftamped and ftraincd,andthe/uyce A 



Th ei !' d0th Ioofeand °pen the belly exceedingly. 



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fwcll.^»r~l p ? u n d and Iaid to the S rieued place,diffblue,wafte i andconfumchardJi»oips«n d 

 trrc mngs,as Gdcn faith. 



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