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englishe, an Alman radice, or rape radice. Radice is hote in the 

 thyrde degree and dry in the seconde. 



Ranunculus. 



Ranunculus is called in greeke Batxachion, in englishe Crowfote 

 or a Gallande.i The kyndes of crowfote are al wel inough knowen 

 sauyng the second, whiche if it be vnknowen, it maketh no matter, 

 for it hath ^more hurte then goodnesse in it. 



Rapum. 



Rapu or rapas^ is called in greeke stroggyle, in englishe a 

 rape, in duche ein ruben. Rapes are commune in al countreis. 



Rkamnus. 



Rhamnus grovveth in the mount Appenine aboue Bonony, it 

 hath very sharppe prickes, rounde leaues and fruite lyke a litle 

 buckeler. The inhabiters cal it there spina Christi. Wherefore 

 it maye be called in english Christes thorne, or buckeler thome. 



Rhus. 



Rhus after Dioscorides is but of one kynde, but Galene in the 

 boke of the compositio of medicines according to the places nameth 

 two kyndes, the one he calleth Culinaria, and the other Coriaria. 

 Plinie maketh three kyndes of Rhois, of the whiche kyndes I 

 knowe one certaynly, whiche is called of the Poticaries Sumache, 

 and it maye be so called also in Englishe. I haue sene it growyng 

 besyde Bonony in certeine gardines besyde the blacke frieres. I 

 thinke that I knowe also Rhoa Coriaria, for I suppose that the 

 shrubbe which the Italians about Bonony cal Scotonum and aboute 

 Cremona cal Rhous, is Rhus Coriaria, for the Italians vse the same 

 to tanne lether *wyth. Thys kynde dyd I firste see in Bonony after- 

 warde besyde Cremona, laste in the rockes besyde Lake de Come. 

 Rhus is drye in the thyrde, and colde in the seconde degree. 



» Golland. 2 F vj, back. ' Rapa. * F vij. 



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