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fucceeded by crooked flat thin Cods, like Horns or Half-moons, 
' from whence called by the additions of Cormiculatus and Luna- 
tus; itisatender Plant, ufually fer in Cafes, and houfed with Greens 
in Winter, not to be increafed by Seeds or Layers, but by taking off 
fome new Slips in Fue, fecting them in thethade, and keeping the 
Earth moift by frequent but gentle waterings, 
Althea fruticofa. 
orate Mallow hath woody branches covered with a whitith bark, 
fet with foft woolly whitith green leaves, in fafhion like thofe of 
the Ribes or Curran-tree, the flowers are large and like thofe of a 
fingle Holly-hock, in fome of a deep reddifh or violet-purple, in others 
paler or lighter, withthe bottom ofadeeper purple, running into 
the leaves in {mall veins ; and there isanother that hath frefher green 
leaves and white flowers, with a large purple-fpot in the bottom, 
Of this fort there is another that hath the flowers ftriped with faint 
purple or blufh lines, 
Amomum Plinii. 
Ree Night-fhade rifeth about a yard high, with a woody ftemm, 
- and many green branches fet with {mall long green leaves, fome~ 
thing uneaven at the edges, which fall away in Winter , at the joynts 
of the branches it putteth forth two or thtee flowers together of a 
ftar-like form, turning back the leaves, which are white witha yel- 
low pointill in the middle, like unto thofe of the ordinary Nighe- 
fhade, which falling away are fucceeded by {mall green berries, that 
in December will be of a fine red colour, like unto little red Cherries, 
wherein is contained {mall flat white feeds, 
: Solanum fruticofa. 
He Shrub gal es hath a woody ftock and branches about a 
yardhigh, of adark brown colour, with fad green leaves ; the 
flowers are like thofe of the common Night-/hade, in one white, and 
in another ofablue colour, There is one of this kind that hath the 
green leaves variegated with white, 
> Spirea frutex. 
tT e Shrub Spirea rifeth up with divers woody ftalks about a yard 
high, fet with leaves like chofe of SaMy, but leffer and nicked 
on the edges, at the tops of the ftalks come forth divers {mall pale 
Peach -coloured flowers, thick fet together in a long fpike, leffening 
by degrees likea pyramis , the root is woody and lafting, flowers in 
Augy/f, endures the Winter, and is increafed by Layers, 
Hypericum 
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