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notice of two kinds diftinguifhable by 

 the difference of their colours, the red 

 and white. And our herbarifts, Gerard 

 and Tarkinfon, produce three kinds that 

 grow in the garden, and one on the fea- 

 fhores, which Mr. Evelyn, in his Ace- 

 taridy fays is the beft of all the kinds. 

 All which are to be found defcribed, 

 by Gerard, 318, 319. and by Tarkin- 

 fon, p. 489. and the fea-beet, f.sso. 

 under the titles of l?eta alba, of which 

 there is a large and fniall kind 5 and 

 beta rubra vulgare, or common red beet. 

 To which is added, and now continues, 

 the beta rubra Romana, or red Roman 

 beets and Bauhinus, m Tin. p.iiS. 

 and after him TarkinfoUy 550. the 

 beta marina, or beta fjL maritima, fo 

 much commended by Mr. Evelyn, as 

 before- mentioned. 



And there is of the whitifh kind, that 

 have a large rib to the leaf, which when 

 boird is yellow, and cats like marrow, 

 and for that reafon by fome moderns 

 caird beta caufta aurea 5 by the French y 

 who hold it in great efteem., caird the 

 chard. 



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