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dr 'arms or branches , from the hSf T k 

 or bofome of euery joynt (out of J ^ !a « 

 grow thofe branches) ?he eaue^',? d * 

 ceed,very much cut or jjg3 1 L ? a ' f ° *> 

 the top of thofe branches com. r- C t n 



n t 4 The fourth kinde of Filipeni, 

 ftrangeaplant as the fomia^fS ? 



ivsfaere in Enab^ — . s _ , .vP ccla,, y»«fc 



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okie 



vs here in England, except in Z?-* lth 



.„ • J ^ * uut l "ore like jf*r 4 p™,./?, 



it hath many large branchcs.a naugbr^ 



locke. The ftalkes are more than two W 

 high 5 comming from a root which exceeding. 

 ly multiplies lt feJfe into bulks, like a$£ 

 Indbus. The fraell of this plant is ftroU 



neuous 



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of a juyce, at firft milky,but afterward turai* 

 ,ydIow. The fpoky tufts or rund les growiirj 

 the top are like C^/4,yea, it much referable* 

 Hemlocke in property and qualities,and lbdo 

 they affirroe that haue proued and /I cne the ex- 

 perience of it : for being eaten in fallads itdid 

 well nigh poyfon thofe which ateofit,making 

 them giddiein their head s, waxing very pale, 

 daggering and reeling like drunken men. Be. 

 ware and take good heed of this and fuch like 

 Simplesjfor there is noPhyfirian that ivilgiue 

 c . , , . , > ,v . , ; ,--, „ it,bccauie there be many other excelkntgocJ 



Simples which God hath bellowed vpon vs from the preuenting and curing ofdifeafes. * Pernici- 

 ous and not excufab jcis the ignorance of fomc of our ti me, that haue bough t and (as one may pro- 

 bably conjecture) vfed the roots of this plant in ftead of thofe of Peioniejand I know theyaredav- 

 ly by the ignorant women in Cheape- fide fold to people more ignorant than themfelues, by tbc 

 name of water Louage ; Caneat Emptor. The danger that may enfue by vfingtheramaybegatkicd 

 by that which our Author hath here let downe,bcing taken out of the Adnerfma^ .y 6 ' * 



5 The fifth and laft kinde of Filipenduh^which is the fourth according to oHmhulm hoc 

 count,hath leaues like water Smallage, which Pl/ny calleth Sjlam, the leaues very much refemn/ing 

 thofe of Latter Crateu £ : among which rifeth vp*a fmall ftalke deepely furrowed or ckH b« r,n 6 

 at the rop whereof fpokic or bufhie rund Jes of white floures thicke thruft together. The root s are 

 compaft of very many filaments or thrcd<5-amcnffw;T 1 ,>f.^ m #»frtri.v.-,G.«,tiihprou$ or knobbie 



roots 



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% The Place and Time. 



% The Place and Tme. . , , 



u ft groweth plentifully vpon ftonie rockes or mountaines, and rough places,and in fert 

 paftures.I found great plenty thereof growing in a field adjoyning to Sion houfe,fomumc» NUB " 

 nene ncere London^on the fide of a medow called Sion Medow. 



The fecond hath beene Efficiently fpokeo of in the defcription. The third growth neerc 

 orookes and riuers fides. The fourth groweth betweene the plowed lands in the moiftand «ro 

 rowes of a field belonging to Batterfey by London. * It alfo groweth in great abundan^n;. 

 ny places by the Thames fidejas amongft the oy fiers again A Yorke houfe,a little abouetnen _ 

 Z?Iif g * m Lambeth.&c. t The fi fth groweth neere the fides of riuers and w»-f*"n 

 £?« & n r ecrc 5 b " iuer of Thames or Tern?, as in S.Georges fields, and about the BifiW ' 

 dons houfe at Fulham,and fuch like places. * 



They floure from May to the end of lune. 





They are commonly called Film 

 fome,.S 'Axi ffgra rubra, and MiUefoL 



fi enantbe aquat tea find Silans tlwi 



«([ The Names. } pUjMdtU 



</*. The firft is called of T^colm (^Jfi ft l^ 



{ J t J r r XA/.r.r ^.M.Wn^uU is Called M^' ' 



bilipendula and Drop-wort. Water Filipcndula 



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