502, 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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IB. 2. 



veneration, as by his extraftion which he vfed for many wfiimities may and doth appeareat large, 



in his booke entituled Centnris curationum £w/>/r/V4r*w, dedicated vnto the duke of Bauaria. This* 

 plant of RuUndus hath very great and many roots couered ouer with a thickebarke, plaited as it 

 were with many furcnlous (prigs ; from which arife fundry ftrong and large ftemmes of a fingers 

 thickenefle, in height twocnbits,befctwith many pretty largeand long leaues like Lathyns^ 

 that they arc not to thicke : the feed and floure are not vnlike the other Tithymales. 



15 This is like the fifth, faue that it hath fmaller and more feeble branches ; and the whole 

 plant is altogether Iefler,growing but a fpan or fome foot high 5 and the floures are of a red or els a 



grecne colour. 



1 6 There is another rare and ftrange kinde of £/«£*, in alliance and likeneiTe neere vnto Ef,U 

 tninor^ that is the fmall EftU or Pityufa vfed among the Phyfitionsand Apothecaries of Ven cc as 

 a kind of EfuL,\n the confection of their Benedict a&xA Catharticke pilhyn fteadof the true£/«/. I; 

 It yccl^ech a fuiigous,rough,and browne ftalke two cubits high,diuiding it felfe into fundry bran- 

 ches,'"uinifhed with ftiffe and fat leaues like Liquorice,grow ing together by couples. The floures 

 arc pendulous, hanging downe their heads like fmall bells, of a purple colour, and within they are 



ofmiarkecoloiuhke driJlofocbiarctundA. 



t IJ Efulamwor^feu Pityufa % 



Small Efula. 



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i 16 EfuUVeneta maritime 



Venetian Sea Spurge. 



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Spurge which fcldome growes to two handful 



fmall 



There growes in many chalkie grounds and fuch dry hilly places, among corneal 

 '* ~" ' ndfulshish-therootisfmaf^ 



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and leaues.which grow pretty thicke thereon ; which oft times are not fharpe,but flat pointed : 



found in come fields in Iuly and Anguft. 





uuiiu u, corne news m luly and Anguft. X , jj 



18 The bigger Cataputia or the common garden Spurge is beftknowne of all thercfow® 



fed ; wherefore I will not fpend time about his defcription. . , iftifl . 



The fmall kmdc of Cataputia is like vnto the former, but lefler, whereby it may eafily be <"« 



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-j *, "»«'musv 1U uan,[iiac 1 man uuineeacoaeicrioe ir. 4 fon* 



. Thefe two(I meane the bigger and lefler Cataputia of our Author)differ not but by rea' 



their age,and the fertileneffe and barrenneffe of thefoile,whence the leaues are {onetimes t>r° 



and orherwhil 



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