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This blacke Chamxlcon hath many leaues long and nar'ow.yety full ofprickle^ofalight 

 «- in a manner white : the ftalk is chamfered,a foot high.anddmided into bnncb^at the tops 

 ^ r i?i narole foures growing forth of prickly heads : the root is blacke,and fweet in taft. 

 ^dSbST/c^ his Sp°anifh Obferuation«by the narneof C W*. MmM 

 If tt place wherein he found it • for he faith that this gtowes plentifully in the temtorie of Sal- 

 roantieaacity of Spain : but it is very manifeft that this is not blacke Chameleon, neither doth 



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[tisicryco:nmon,fairh ^//*»/»,in Lemnos,whcre it beareth a floure of fo gallant ablew, asic 

 (tcm< to contend with the sky in beauty ; and that thefloureof Blew-bottle being of this colour, 

 feemesinc nparifonof ic to be hut pale. It growethalfointhe fields neere Abydum, and hard 

 by the riucrs of HcIIcfponr ; and jn Heraclea in Thracia. , 



chimtksn SAltn.wttccnfu growes plentifully in the territorie of Salmantica a city in Spain- 



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b!ackc Charcu Icon is called in Greeke, *««**•»> <**** * in L*tine,C ham*leanni?er : of th 



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Tbiftlc that changcth ic fclfe into many (Tiapes and colours* 



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Chameleon Thiftle,or the 









a ong the poiionotis netDs,in his booke of Treacles } by Di o fi0ridesjib.6. and by Pmlm ^Erinta. 

 Wherefore it is vfed only outwardly,as for fcabs, morphews,rettars, and tobebnefe, for all fuch 

 things at ftand in need of clenfing : moreouer,it is mixed with fuch things as do dimue and mol- 



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jure Much was formerly in the firft place Ad not lereewieh the hiflorie (which *ra*ra**« ™,r „t^. v l 

 ii tbe l>,cn moi C fmj*. of Lobcl. Vou (hall finde if hereafter with ^cli^myZ^ ' "^ * 



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■n the top, into prickly roand heXo, t™ 7; w ta fol »w<!« red be| . . ' P"7 



Hkew. fe vnder euer^ on^of th P f r ^ a L fo S r 

 and fmaller :the ro£ W& &5M and 

 ■fmell like that nf*i,.°2!? l,s . aIft ?i on g,bJacfc, 



* f P«y tafte^nd being new forl^ , e alf ° tbe Iea ^ which ^n' Wlthin » a fin 6 er thi <*' 



2 W fpfUn S V P aQ d «■ yet tender Z 3feS? f e ^fc of an aromacicall 



oe eaten. 



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