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Gap. XVI CER KS.- 
wil APS SVE. | 
Mirabilia Peruyiana. 
DU He Mervail of Perw hath a big ftalk, bunched at thé 
joynts, of a fair green colour, in thofe that will bear 
white and red flowers, red in thofe with red fowers, 
dark green in thofe with yellow flowers , and brown 
waters ee in thofe with red and yellow flowers; thefe ftalks 
{pread into many branches , fet at the joynts with fair green leaves, 
betwixt which and the ftalk the flowers come forth on fhort foot- 
ftalks, in fathion like thofe of the leffer blew Bind-weed, narrow at the 
bottom,and wide openat the brims, which in feveral Plants are of the 
a8 white, red, orsyellow; but the rareft are 
fore-mentioned colours, 3 
thofe with variegated flowers , either red and white, or red andyel- _ 
low: thefe flowers (like thofe of the Bizd-weeds) open in the night, and 
as foon as the Sun fhines upon them, the brims fhrink inward and wi- 
ther-away, fo that they are tobe feen latein evenings, or early in 
mornings, and therefore have been called the flowers of the night , af- 
ter the flowers are paft, each of them is {ucceeded by one feed, of 
.the bignefs of afmall Peafe, witha fhort neck likea little bottle, 
the roots arelong likea Raddifh, blackifh on the outfide, and -com- 
monly perifhing in Winter, aoa i £f3 
-They flower from the-end of Fuly, untill Winter check their 
luxury ; the feeds are fet in the beginning of Aprilina hot bed, and 
thence removed into fome: place where they may have the benefit of 
the Sun; fuchroots as flower not the firft year , being covered in 
Winter with Horfe-litter , will bear fooner the year following and 
yield good feeds, and the roots of fuchas have born , being taken 
up in the beginning of Winter, laid for a time to dry, and then wrap- 
ped feverally in Woollen rags, and fo kept all the’Winter, being 
fet in the ground in the beginning of arch, will profper and bear 
flowers in due feafon ; heretofore this Aower hath been much efteem= 
ed, and yet is by many much defired, ee 
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