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IILTheDercriptions. Tjhefirjfor _ 



cllmtng Dogs-bane, hof a Rootwkchfpread, mthe 

 r,;„nl nkp the other and fometimes feitdi forth 



forth Several woody Branches, ^''^^°"^^ ^^J^^fy^^ 



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the tops, where they ft and thicker fet together) two 

 Uaves longer and narrower than the next dejcribed, 

 deep green color, almoft Jhtning. The Flowere ftand 

 of five thick Leaves, each of them pointed, and 

 Leaves apiece, one lying upon another, like unto 

 and larger than the' upper Leaves which lye'^upon 

 them, and are not fo large to cover them wholly, 

 but leave the green brims or edges of the lower 

 Leaves to be feen round about them ; which upper 

 Leaves are of a dark purple or reddifh color and 

 cleave fo faft to the lower, that it is very hard to 

 feparate them. In the middle of each Flower Hands 

 a green Fointel, encompafled with five dark yellow 

 Chives, each of them twining inwards. After the 

 ftUen, fmall long Cods appear, (in 

 :ies, but fcaifcely in f^^/jw^ tvvo- al- 

 ways joined together, but more ftriftly than in the 

 following Plant, bending fomething more outward 

 in the middle, and meeting together almott at the 

 points, in which lyes flat Seed, wrapped in a kind 

 of filken Down. This Plant loofes its Leaves, but 

 not its Stalks, in the Winter, frefli coming for'th a- 

 in in the Spring. 



IV. The Second or Broad-leav'd upright Dogs- 

 ae, hoi a Root which grows down into the Ground^ 

 vers Small Fibres adjoining : from this Root Springs 

 up a woody Stem, of the thicknefs of ones Finger^ 



ther, full of Veins, and fomething fofter than Ivy- 

 Uaves, but thick withal; whofe Stalks and Branch- 

 es being broken, yield a pale yellow-colored Milk or 

 of a much deeper yellovv ; vvhich thing may be ad- 

 this of ours. The FloweK fpring forth at the Joints 

 with the Leaves, growing upon Foot-ftalks not ve- 

 them itand, fometimes together, which confift of 

 five fmall pointed Leaves, of a whitifli color, yet 

 larger than thofe of Afclepiat or Swallow-wort. Af- 

 ter which (in the hitter Climates, but fcarcely in 

 ours) grow long, aooked and pointed Cods, fome- 

 thing more hard and woody than thofe oi Swallow- 

 wort, altho' nothing fo much as thofe of the Olean- 

 der or RoSe Bay-tree, two moft ufually ftanding to- 

 gether upon one Stalk, but fevered at the fetting to 

 The Stalk, and aie full of a filken white Down, 

 (like the former) in which lye difperfed many flat, 

 blackiOi brown Seeds. This Plant loofes not its 



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