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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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t AfiUpias fiert >ilbo . 



White SvvaJIovv^vvoorr 



A [dtp as flore nigro , 



Blacke Swallow.vvoort. 





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~ <Q the Place. 

 Both thefc kindes do grow in my garden, but not wilde in England jyet I haue heard it reported 

 that it growcth in the fields about Northampton^ but as yet I am not certaineof it. 



% The Time. 



They floure about Iunc,in Autumnc the downe hangeth out of the cods 3 and the feed fallctn to 



the ground , 



% The Names. . 



It is called of the later Herbarifts Vincetoxicum : of Rue/Hut, Hederalis : in High Dutch, &w 

 iUtoe toOJtCfc, that is to fay in Latine, Hirundinaria : in Englilh, Swallow-woort : of oui r Gcni : • 

 women it is called Silken Ci(lic^fculapi^(whois faid to be the firft inuentor ofphyfick, wn ^ 

 therefore the Greekes and Gentiles honored as a god) called it after his owne name \M { ^ f0 . 

 vEfcutyius herbe, for that he was the firft that wrote thereof, and now it is called in ftops 



dinar ia m 



^ The Temperature. t , 



The ioots of Swallow- woort arehot and dry ; they are thought to be good againft p°y 



«|T TheVertues. 



\ fc or ides yvriteth, That the roots otAfckf 



Swallow-woort boiled in wine, and i . 



ction drunke,are a remedy againft the gripings of t 

 deadly poyfon,beingone of the efpecialleft herbes againft the fame. 

 B The leaues boiled and applied in forme of a pultis, cure the cuill fores of the paps 

 matrix,that are hard to be cured. 



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dugs, 



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HAP. 





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0/ Indian Swallow 



^ Thc&efcriftion. 



Here groweth in that part of Virginia, orNorembega, where our Engli ?fb men ^ ^ ^ 

 tending there to ereft a certaine Colonie) a kinde of ^{clepia*, or Swallow t t,e 



