

.Lib. 5 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants 



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flaures moll part of Summer,andgrowes in many heathy grounds, t 



8 Chalice heath hath alfo many wooddy branches growing from the roots, (leader, of a red- 

 dirt) brown colour,a foot and half high,garai fried with very little Jeaues lefler than thofe of Timet 

 the flours grow on the tops and vpper parts of the branches,and be in number nue,fix,or rnore,han- 

 ging downward,in fafhion long.hollow within like a little tunnel or open cup or chalice 3 ofa light 



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(lender branches of a redd 



9 1 ne Heaen mat oringeth rorth berries hath many weake and (lender branches of a reddift 

 colour,which trailing vpon the ground do take hold thereof in fundry places, whereby it mightily 

 increafeth : the leaues are fomewhat broad^of a thicke and flefhy fubftance, in tafte fomthing dry- 

 jngat the firft,but afterwards fomewhat fharpe and biting the tongue : among which come forth 

 ihullflouresofanherbycolounwhich being vaded there fucceed fmallrcund berries that at the 

 firft are green^nd afterward blacke,being as big as thofe of I uniper, wherein is contained purple 



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root 



the topsof the hills of Gisbrougb,betwixt it and Rofemary-topin(a round hill fo called) & fome 



hecifera s and it is the fr/V* Coris folic \x. oiduftus. % 



the fame that Af4* 



$ 9 Ericabacciferaprocumbcns, 



Heath bearing berries. 



io Eric* baccjijir a tcnui folia. 



Small leafed Heath with berries. 









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oftfa 

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This which our Authour figured as you fee in the tenth place (putting the d 

 cr thereto) hath brittle branches growing fome cubit higb,couered with a ba 



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fialt h I * ieaues are nice cnoie or tne former, out Diacser ana imaiicr, growing about the 

 s Dy threes,of a hottifh tafte with fome aftridion : in September and Odober it caries a frnir 



rr. tne tO[>s of flv hratxrh^AXG**-**. G—m +U- *~a Cr,* U Xo »Ji* iw.^:£.i .-.L:. ^ !: ult 



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5°ntain 



fruit 



fanacide taft, commonly 



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C/«/f«f only obferued this in Portugal,and at the firft fight afar off took 

 aeen graines of Manna. He calls it trie a Coris ftlh i o. 



remcmber(kith Mm*s)th&t I obferued another Heath which g 





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