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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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floures of Lilly Conual : on the other fide when the floures be vaded,there come forthroundb^ 

 ries,which-at the firft are green and of a blacke colour tending to blcwnefle, and being ripe ar "f 

 the bignefle of Iuy berries,of a very fweet and pleafant tafte. The root is white and thicke foil ° 

 knobs or joints,in fome places refembling the marke of a feale,whereof I thinke it tooke the na 

 Sigllliim Solemonis ; it is fweetat the firft,but afterward of a bitter tafte with fome fliarpneflc ^ 



the fecond kinde of Polygon at urn doth not much vary from the former,fauing in the leaues 

 ™ u ,vh be narrower.and grow round about the ftalke like a fpur,in fafhion like vnto Woodroofe 0/ 

 red Madder : amongft the leaues come forth floures like the former,but of a greener white colour 

 which being paft,therc fucceed berries like the forraer,but of a reddifli colour : the roots are thick 

 and knobby like the former,with fome fibres anexed thereto. 



3 Polyg on at am I at i folium 2 . Clufij . 



Sweet fmelling Solomons feale 



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Branched Solomons feale. 









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'he third kinde of Solomons SealejWhich Clufim found in the vtrooddy mountains ot Lei- 

 ,aboue Mandcrftorf,and in many other mountains beyond theriuer Danubius, efpecialiy 



beyond 



among the ftones,hc fent to London to M r G4«£,aworftupful gentleman,and one that greatly •&• 

 "ghteth inftrangc plants,who very louingly imparted the fame vnto me. This plant hath flaw* 

 yery hke to the common Solomons feale,a foot high,befet with leaues vpon one fide of the M 

 like the fir ft and common kinde,but larger,and more approching to the bignefle of the bf° ad ' J 

 led Plantain 5 the taftwhereofis not very pleafant : from the bofome of which leaues come »' 

 lmall well fmelling greeniOi white flours not much vnlike the firft : which being paft,dicreK>n 

 feeds or berries that are at the firft green,but afterwards blacke,containing within the fame berr 

 a fmall feed as big as a Yetch,and as hard as a ftone. The roots are like the other of his kinde, j 

 not fo th icke as the firft. 



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The fourth kinde according to my account,but the third of Clufm (which he ^ und . a '^f 

 mountains a fore fa id) grow eth a foot high,but fcldom a cubit, differing from all the on ^ 



the mountains 



his kinde 5 for his ftalkesdiuide themfclues intofundry other branches, which are g arn, * c aboU t 

 goodly Ieaues,larger and fliarpcr pointed than any of the reft,which do embrace the ftaiw . Q 

 after the manner of Perfoliate or Thorow-wax,yet very like vnto the kindes oi Solomons j ^ 



