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biofccrides faith that the roots do purge waterifh humors,& are sood fnr (i^i . l 

 fcui f thev be boiled in wine.adding vnto the wine a little fea waterfand 1 b^runke InX^ ** 

 of faire frefh water : he faith furthermore,that the fruit or berries doth take a™, » ♦£ c e ° Ucc « 

 and other blemifhes of the skin. QOtn take avva y th e Sunn e .b UrDc 



The berries do not only clenfe and remoue fuch kinde of fnnr« Km- j« „ir 

 and co„f Um c «.y b.acjand b.e W .a, ks th „ <^^%£te;£»»* 



the roots performe being laid vpon them. J "twgs.wnicn thing a Jfo 



Theyong and render fprou tings are kept in pickle,and rcferued to be eaten with meat 

 . Jcs teacheth. Matt no us writet^tbac they are ferued at mens tables in our age ahS T"' 

 others alio report the like to be done in Andolofia one of the kingdomes of Graiado "* 

 rtisfaidthatfwinefeekcaftertherootshereof, which they dig% and eat w th no kfle J I i 

 than they do the roots of Cyclamims or Pants Porcinus ■ whereunon it wra< m m7 ? , eI, & ht 



So W .brea If this reafon ftand for good , then J^^h^S^S^^^ff 

 xoots 5 andIikevvife cal them CjcUmhm alteram Sow-bread ; for ^mldonot^iTlt! 

 of this only.but alfo of diuers other pIants,of which none are of the kinds of SoTbSd S 

 therefore be a point of rafhnefle toaffirme ramus or our Ladies feale to be a kinde of t» Si 

 becaufe the roots hereof area pleafant meat to fwine. aa*»wd, 



L JS* r °°K f Pr , ed VP ?u , "^P* ! eather in manner ofa plaift«,«r hile A it is yet frefh and greene ta 

 keth away blacke and blew marks,all fears and deformitie of the skin,breaks hard apofleK Z 

 forth fplinters and broken bones.diiTolueth congealed bloud, and being laid on aTd v d vpo 

 hip or huckle bones^oulders^mes^r any other part where there is grlat paine and ache t ta „ 

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Hat plant which is now called Mechacan 01 Bryonie of Mexico cemmeth very nee:c 

 the kinds of Bindweeds in leaues and trailing branches, but in roots like the Bryonies: 

 for there fhooteth from the root thereof many long flender tendrels,whicb do infinite- 

 ly grafpe or clafpe about fuch things as grow or ftand next vnto them ; whereupon do grow great 

 broad leaues fliarp poinred,of a darke green colour, in fhape like thofe of our Ladies feale, fome- 

 what rough and hairy,and a little biting the tongue : among the leaues come forth the floures (a 

 Nicolaui Monardui writeth) not vnlike thofe of the Orenge tree, but rather of the golden Apple o\ 

 Loue 3 confifting of flue fmall Ieaues,out of the midft whereof comes forth a little clapper or peihl 



in manner ofa round lump as big as an hafell nut s which being diuided witha thin skin or mem- 

 brane that Cnmmpfh rlirrmoli it- r\r\*nprh intn (mn nirro In ai^U ...U^~„^r~. n s.<-.ni-/iinfH TWO feeflS 



brane that commeth th 

 as big as Peafe,in colour 



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root of white Bryonie hath a bitter tafte 



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niterlaced with diuers Viny tendrcls which take hold of fuch things are next or 



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white Bryonie,whereof we make this a kinde.al though in the tafte of the roots there is 

 ference* fortbprrkAtn^i»f^;^ UrTr^r,;^i,^#.Vi^^.v«.^^A^ ~~a+u:* u~.u !^^i^^r.^MfteataII. 



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euen m fuch manner of clafping or climing as doth the blacke Bryonie or wine Vinc,w 

 is very lue almoft in each refpea,fauiiig that his mollie floures do frnell very (wcetly. 





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, ^ — „« vlul . Uj uyreaioncnactuepianc which growes in my garden did not per ^ . 



fame,byoccafionofthe g reatraineandintem^peratweatherthathapned^^i5^- bo f^^^ 

 good hope to feet in his perf e aion,and then we fliall eafily iudge whether it be that right -^ 

 cboacan thathath bin brought from Mexico, and other places of the Weft Indies, or no. H* J» 

 by the figure fhouldfeeme to anrw < .rfT ia r^f.^.„:u^r;^ t..» ,c ^^th^of I cannonv rite ^ 



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