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FAMILIAR WILT) FLOWERS. 



John's wurte : in ye beginning 1 greene, but after that the 

 seede is ripe they ware redde, and than being brused 

 betwixt one's fingers, they yield a redde sappe or iuyce. 

 At the toppe of the stalkes groweth smal knopners or 

 round buttons, the which in their opening do bring for the 

 floures like to St. John's grasse but greater; whan they are 

 fallen or perished there appeareth little smal pellots or 

 round balles, very red at the beginning, but afterward of 

 a browne and very darke-redde colour when they be ripe, 

 like to the colour of clotted or congeled drie bloud, in 

 which knops or bearies is conteyned the side, which is 

 small and browne. The roote is hard and of a wooddie 

 substance, yearely sending forth new springs." 



