

die Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Chap. 7. Of the Senfi 





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«fi The Defer if t 





Scnfitnieherbe. 3 



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l TpHis which I here call the Senfitiue herbe 5 is 



J- that which Chriftopher Acofta fits forth by the 



% ft of her Ac oft a 



ofa^ or the Mo< 



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1 tha 



name of fferbamimoja^i cue mwc&ujg iieruejDe- 



caufe when one puts his hand thereto^it forthwith 

 fecmes to wither and hang downe the Ieaues j but 

 when you take it away againe y it recouers the pri- 

 ftinc grccnefle and vigor, I will here gitie you that 



rie which Clufh 

 alio another figure better expreffing the Ieaues and 

 manne* of growing. There is found, faith Aco/tajn 

 fbmc gardens another plant fome fiue handfulls 

 Jong, refting vpon the neighboring flutibs or wals, 

 hauing a (lender ftalke of frefh grcene colour , not 

 very round, fet at certaine fpaces with fmal & pric- 

 king thornes : the Ieaues are not vnlike the former, 

 [That is.the Hcr6awv<t,\yhich in condition is lit- 

 tle different from this] being fomwhat lefler than 



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much 



Eius exactior Icon. 



thereof. 



and ftony places,and is called Herbamimofa 

 reafon formerly giuen. The nature hereof is 



different from that of Arbor trifiis . for eucry mguc 



at Sunne- fet it as it were withers and dries, fo that 

 one would thinke it wcredead,but at Siinne-rife it 

 recouers the former vigor, and by how much the 

 Sun grows hotter,by fo much it becomes the <r ree . 

 ner,and all the day ft turns the Ieaues to the Sun 



This plant hath the fmel and tafte of liquorice A 

 and the Ieaues are commonly. eaten by the Indians 

 aaa.nft th c C ough,to clenfe the chenymd clear the 



Ins alfo thought good again ft the paines 



a 



voice. 



of the 



K^dcoft, 





tfi 



efpecially Pulfes,vfe to contractor rtmnk V p their 

 Ieaues in the night time. Now I receiued a drie 

 piancwnich was fent to mee by the name of Herbs 

 mimofa by lames Garret in the end of October 



ijPP.whicb he writ he had from the right honol 

 from tlTr 1 ! °5 CumberIand > »ho ^turning 

 Wh? S 3" t P T- ft? in th& Weft In dies°, 



™t preferue it aliue. But I caufed the figure of thatdnWl' T r * 1°' wkh i° me ea "h, but could 

 fo to fit it to the defcription following Sealfoh^ I P^f '? beCX P refrcd as "dl as it might 



from whence arofe «fiSSS2l£ SS" ^ ^ ^ &*£ 



& 



Wood 



forth foot 



» order with otfeto Jr^e to them o„1 IS Si &",* tfcir ,ict ^ *£>££ 



were tender & g r ee„, no t vnlike the |Ttt^ 1, r' fidc > but bauih S ■» finsle CL «! 



hofe 



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ch were many,fet 



gnofingleleafeattheend.-they 



former)and 



ingoutcoue- 



vvhich growing 



»-«»«» comniing forth thefof.Healfo 

 e lame plant, he writ he receiued of the 





forementioned 



