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genkraut, in Low Dutch Speerwortele, in Spanifh Taragontia, 
in French Serpentaire, andin Engle Dragon, or Dragon-wort. 
Apuleius calleth Dragon Dracontia, and to that adds many 
ftrange Names, but whether they agree with the greater or the 
leffer; or both, he has riot demonftrated:, As Pythonion, \An- 
chomanes,- Sauchromaton, Therion, Schenos, “Dorcadion,, Ty- 
phonion, Theriophonon, and Eminion. Atheneus theweth that 
‘Dragon is alfo called Aronia, becaufe’tis like unto Aron. 
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. The great Dragon rifeth up with a fteaight Stalk about. two 
Feet and half, and fometimes three Feet: high, being generally 
very thick, f{mooth, and fpotted with Spots of divers Colours, 
very like unto the Belly of a Toad, or back of a Snake, the 
Leaves are very large, confifting of feven or eight Parts, or 
rather fo many leffer Leaves, which in Form are very like thofe 
of the Dock, being very {mooth and flippery. And out of the 
top of the Stalk grows a long large Husk very like that of 
the Cuckow Pintle, but much larger, of a greenifh Colour 
without, and Crimfon within. 
The Pe/fal which grows inthemid& of the Husk is of.a blackifh 
Colour, very. long, thick and blunt, pointed, .and when the 
Seed is grown pretty large, the Skin or Film that covers them 
being ftretch’d and broken thereby, they appear like unto a 
Bunch of Grapes, which at firft appears of a green, and after- 
wards of ared Colour and full of Juice, wherein are contain'd 
the Seed, which are fomewhat hard. 
The Root is bulbous, cover'd with a white thin peel, with 
many {mall fibrous Roots appendent thereto. oe 
The leffer Dragon is like unto Aron or Wake- Robin, in 
Leaf, Husk, Peftal and Berry, but infiead of their Leaves being 
{prinkled with black Spots, they are {prinkled with white Spots, 
and the Berries are not of a deep red as the other, but of a ;O- 
lour inclining to Saffron. The Buds is very like that of Cuckow 
Pintle, full of {mall ftringy Roots and young Off-{cts whereby 
“tis propagated. oe - 
3. The Temperatures 0. 
Dragon is hot, and of thin Parts. 
as 4. The 
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