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many times there spring out sucking buds, which 

 come to no perfection : this great floure is in 

 shape like to the Cammomil floure, beset round 

 about with a pale or border of goodly yellow 

 leaves in shape like the leaves of the floures of 

 white Lillies : the middle part whereof is made 

 as it were of unshorn velvet or some curious 

 cloth wrought with the needle ; which brave 

 worke if you do thorowly view and marke well, 

 it seemeth to be an innumerable sort of small 

 floures, resembling the nose or nozell of a can- 

 dlesticke, broken from the foot thereof: from 

 which small nozell sweateth forth excellent fine 

 and cleere Turpentine, in sight, substance, savour, 

 and taste. The whole plant in like manner be- 

 ing broken, smelleth of Turpentine : when the 

 plant groweth to maturitie, the floures fal away, 

 in place whereof appeareth the seed, blacke, and 

 large, much like the seed of Gourds, set as 

 though a cunning workeman had of purpose 

 placed them in very good order, much like the 

 honiecombes of Bees : the root is white, com- 

 pact of many strings, which perish at the first 

 approach of winter." What more could be said 

 of the plant he is depicting, unless by the bees 

 who draw nearer to the heart of the flower than 

 we ? And who could depict it half so well ! 

 Plant-knowledge is assuredly more accurate since 



