I2i8 THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE 



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 I £" Purge Flaxebringeth foorth many flendcr branched fprigsaboucacubite high, couered 



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 fruitisround,grceneatthc! 

 thornc , in which is a white kernell couered with a blacke skin, very hot and burning the mouth like 



2 Branched Spurge Flaxe groweth vp like wife to the height of a fmall fhrub, fet with diners 



Jiandwoodic. 



It groweth in rough mountaines,and in vntoilcd places in hot regions.lt groweth in my garden. 



It is grccne at any time of the ycere,biit the fruit is perfected in Autuinne. 



The Grecians call it " tpolinon; diners alfocfow- 



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upon jcame Coculm mint from Cocem Cnidiia. 



* The temperature. 

 Spurge Flaxe is natur g ,and of a burning cplitie. 



- Thegrainesorberrie.- iege choletjliegnie and water, li :■:■■■ 



v-ir , 



c The leaues rouft be gathered about harueft, and being dried in the fhade, they are to belaide vp 

 and refcrued. 



They that would I brings: theqi 



but they purge more gently if they be boyled 

 g The fame leaues beaten to powder and ma 



c ^Thehcrbe is an enimie to the itomacke,which alfo deftroicth the birth ifit be applied. 





Of Spurge Laurell. Cbap. 61 . 



S Purge Laurell is a fhrub of a cubit high ^oftentimes alfo of two,and fpreadeth with many 1 ' J 

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 :er,commingneereto 



the roote as of thehttle boughes, do with i 



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roote woodie,t e ugh,long and diuerfly parted,growing deepe. The leaues,fruit,and barke »» 



