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Pompion : the roots ars fmall, fpreading f arre abroad in the ground and r a • - 



tough twigs,which cannot endure the injury of our cold clymate, ' confiftin 8°f blacker 



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This admirable Thiftle groweth vpon the cliffcs and srauellv eround« „« 

 the lOands of the Weft- Indies,called S . Margarets and S Mm Ut neere vw *T e fea Cdc >i 

 y/r<7,and other places in thofe countries, by the relation of diuers trauelfers a!i Ww » or '*«» 

 thofe parts.who haue brought me the plant it felfe with hie r^A . *?1 "! L nai ™ Jootnied m, 

 garden byreafon of the coldnefle of the ( 



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doe many other plants of thofe (W 





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It is called, Gardms Echinatm, CMelocarduus Bdmattu^ad. Echino OitthcaStes • in P„„rn. . 



Hedge-hog Thiftle,or prickly Melon Thiftle. * Such as are curious may fee raorSlti 



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fiu*hisExoticks y lib,q.c<xp.2^ % £ 



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t let forth of the antient or of the later Write 

 therafe lues : therefore we leaue it to a fmth* r 



C h a p . 4^2. Of tbegummie Tbijlle ^called Eufhorbium. 



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I Euphsrbinm. 



The poyfonous gum Thiftle. 



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t K^inttHfhtrbim, 



The Antidote againft the poyfonous Thiftle; 



f 7 'he V efcriftit* 



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Eufhorhffl 



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E >?*«•*«» (.hereout that liquot or gum called in "'X ( „L 0) i in toe gn*" 1 ! „, 



which arife long and 



and a balfe long, ribbed, walled 



d round leaucs, almoll like the fruit ;^ a / bc 



, and forrowed like vnto the Melon .aide. 



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