L IB .z. Of the Hiflorie of Plants, 505 



hath many branches and Icaues creeping on the ground,of a pale greene colour, not vnlike toHer- 

 nuru, but giuing milkeas all the other Tithymales doe, bearing the like feed ,pouch, and floures, 

 hu:ftnaller'ineachrefpe<a. < 



22 The two and twentieth kinde of Tithymale bath a round root like a fmall Turnep,as euery 

 Autbordoth report: yet myfelfe haue the fame plantin my garden which doth greatly increafe, 

 of which I haue giuen diuers vnto my friends, whereby I haue often viewed the roots,which do apl 



-~ ~,aO\mr*jtrUir mhprnil* an(\ therein nnrhincr anrutrfrincr f!i«rJrt/V>f.i"^n*,~.n<- ..,!-, ;~t, t»;. /-.._ • 



vnto nae 



Pau 



defcribed the fame by hearefay, or elfe the plant doth degenerate being brought from hisnatiue 

 ibile. The leaiies are ftt all alongft a fmall rib like Fraxmella, fomewhat round, greene abouc, and 

 reddifh vtidcrncath. The feed groweth among the leaues like the feed ofPeplus. The whole plant is 



Writers of plants,and Diofcorides 



full ofmilke like the other Tithymales 



% Our Author here wrongfully taxes otner writers or piants,and Diofcorides and Pena by name 

 which fhewe* that hee either neuer read, or elfe vnderftood not what they writ, for neirher of them 

 (nor any other that I know of) refembles the root of this to a Turnep, but fay it hath a tuberous 

 pcare fa(h ioned root,&c.as you may fee in D iofc.Ub ,/^.cap, i jj, and in the Aduerfaria,pag. 2 04. The 

 Icaues alfo grow not by couples one againft another, as in Fraxi/tella, but rather alternately, or elfe 

 without any certaine order, as in other Tithymales. 



2 3 This,faith C/*/?«» s hath alfo a tuberous root 



, "> n » , J > . ". . , ' , . > , "~* f *■"'*■ *-«"*«"«-« ««*«.«> twe rormer,out 



almoli euery where ot an equal! thickenefle; being about an inch and fometimes twoinches long 

 and the lower part thereof is diuided into foure other roots, or thicke fibres, growing fmaller by 

 little and little, and fending forth fome few fibres : it is blacke without, and white wirhin,and full 

 of a milky juyce : the ftalkes arc fhort and weake,fet with little leaues like thofe of the former : the 

 floures are ofayellowifh red colour, and the feed is contained infuch veflels as the other Tithy- 



males. This is Tithymales tuber $JfSa/X Ifcha* altera of Cluji 



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Whitftable 



Lee 



- — o — r- &— -8r-~" »»'»^ii,»v , , miu«i/it iu ftcui, suu m many other 



The fecond groweth in grounds that lie wafte,and in barren earable foile,almoft euery where 

 EnTl a hi 3S 3lf ° thC foureteenth and ei g htc enth, grow in Gardens, but not wilde in 



warme. 



Woods of England that 



Thecighteenth and nineteenth grow in fait marmes neere the fea,as in the We of Thanet bv 

 im tide, betweene Reculvers and Margare in great plenty. 7 



Theft 

 SeaSp 



«p The Time, 

 id of July. 



«fj The Names. 



cE, mi i C .^ : ^ h 5. IS ro fa y *-»p.-mmU c% ar Wolfes milke. Wood 



efi 



to 



** third'and «L" 1 J \ c h ^ ' {h ' Sea S f >ur ^ or fea Wartwoort. The fecond,Sun Spur 



*»bouf thS p/n < PU%C L th , e fifth Cy f >refre S P ur S e I or among Women,Welcom( 

 «d ninth wl '5 c S P ur 3 c ; rb c frnenth,Shrub Spurge and tree Mirtle Spurge . the eighth 



thc O^J g?« e 5 L h l tw ',?' Broad lcafed W; the thirteenth, cieaftw Spufge 



Dwar> W.?. and fi^nth.Q.uackfaluers Spurge.the fixleenth, Venice Sourse.theWnLS* 



u^p. 



AH the kinds of T r. m Thefemper*t»re. ■ 



^ bi£l 'ng qualirv f ! th y maIes or Spurges are hot and dry almoft in the fourth desree.of a fliamp 



rft*?c 



o 



and of grcateft force 



S t0Wnc 'I tooke b^ on, , n r- nE(reX ' #ltb * Gentlema ° called M^^,dwelling in the 

 ^ dv my thro * 4« Ihardl v " 11a m ? mY rr h . "!*% neuerthclefl e d W fo inflate and 



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