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arc many,ftraight and thorny like Gwjtc/U, wberin arc many fmall wh/reand three cornered feeds 

 as big as muftard feed. % this differs from the former, in that it is (ma!Icr,and iofctb the Icaucs 



the Jeaues vntill new one* come 



r -— ke, which by the falling of the k 



and nakedt hornc. 1 haue giuen you a more accurat figure hereof out of C 



long 



iioures,cod s,and feeds arcall cxprefTcd apart, t 



5 The Grecians baue called this plant 

 it tookc the name r$teri*n of Potnx. becaui 



good 



ches,and Icaucs of 7r^^;;/^,growing naturally in the trad ofpjcdmontin Iraly : it fprcadcth 

 abroad like a (hrub : the barkc or rinde isblackifh,and dry without great moifturf, \ery much wri- 

 thed or wrinkled in and out as that o[Neps or Cerrudg the (harp prick cs (land not jn order as Tra- 

 gicmhs, butconfufcdly, and arefincrand three times letter than thofcof TrAgte&mha, growing 

 " ,u,,,-fi " * u ofJftr*zdIus , but the particular leauesaregrechabouc, and white below, 



i the feed is fmall and ted '" ~ . . . — 



(haped fomwhat like Burnet 



like vnto Snmacb,but letter 



$ TragACAnthd mintru tc$n dccurttiir. 



A better figure of the Goats- thorne 



t 3 Potcn$n'Lob.[tvc*rimf>in(ldft>Jnc[4C4V$cr 



Burnet Goats- thorne. 



% ThefUcc. 

 Pctrm BeUoniusJlib. i . of Singularities reports, that there is great plenty hereof growing in Can- 

 dy vpon the tops of the mountains, Iheephrdjtvs faith that it was thought to grow no where but 

 in Candy • but now it is certain that it is found in AchaiajPeloponefqSjand in Afia : itgrowes al- 

 foin Arcadia,which is thought to be inferior to that of Candy. It is thought by Lobd to grow in 

 Languedoc in France, whextofTheofhrMb.g. hath written,that the liquor or gum ifTue*out of it 



fmootb 



byfomemifchancc 



e root broken or cut.Thebeft is that, faith Diofccr. \ 

 ( and fweet of fracll and tafte. 



if The Time. 



crmoneths. I hauefown the feed of Potent* In ' f 

 of Noremberg : it grew in my garden two yearcs tog^ '> 



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