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CERES, Book I, 
CHAP. Xxi. 
Medica. 
SSogal Nails, or Button, are of divers forts, raifed yearly from 
il Peafe-like feeds, only regarded for the veffels, which 
Nei infome are like a Snails houfe, {mooth ronled up, 
ewe others prickly, fome like {mall Buttons, and others 
=Zek AS rough and hairy, and of all thefe forts varieties ; pretty 
toyes for fuch as delight in fimple feedlings, like unto thefe there are 
others called i 
Scorpioides. | 
Aterpillers, like the laft, are only efteemed for the feed veffels, 
lich are like green Worms, or Caterpillars, fome bigger, and 
others leffer ; the Plants trail on the ground, and muft be fupporteds 
the feeds yearly fowed in April, the common time for moft {eedlings, 
: Hedyfarum clypiatum, 
He red Satten lower, vulgarly called, French Hony-[uckle,is com-, 
mon in moft Gardens, it hath many ftalks, fet with winged green 
leaves, and at the joynts come forth {maller ftalks, fet with many 
flowers, of a fhining red colour, and in fome white, but more rare or 
feldome found than the red, which is ordinary : after the flowers are 
paft, the feeds are contained in flat round husks, three or four ftan- 
~ ding one above another, they flower in Fane and Fuly, the fecond 
year after rhe fowing, feed, and die at Winter following, 
Planta Mimofa. 
TT Seafible Plastjand the Humble Plant,{from feeds yearly gained 
| out of America, and fowed upon a hot bed, covered with glaffes, 
and carefully preferved, will rife with woody ftalks fer with fimall 
winged leaves abouta foot high ; refpected only forthat by touch- 
ing the leaves of the Semfible you may perceive them to fhrink from 
you, and the Humble to, fall of their own accord, as fenfible of in- 
jury, and difdaining to be handled, the one out of Pride, the other 
Humility ; they are curiofities fcarce able to requite the care-of at- 
tendance, perifhing with the firft Frofts, and good feeds hardly ob- 
tained, 
he Ocimum 
ordinary and common kind, but there are two other forts more 
race, one called Bafh-Bafsil, the other Zadian Baffil , the firft of _ 
= hat 
Afsil is a fweet-fmelling Herb well known unto all, efpecially the 
‘ Saline Bea 
ut arama! 
‘iy AS ee em 
