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and the Stalk, the top of the ftalk runs out into a fpike, 
befet about with Flowers like Sow Thiltle, of a blew or 
azure colour: I brought home one of the Plants which 
was between twelve and thirteen Foot in length, I won- 
dered at it the more for that fo large and tall a Plant 
mould grow from fo fmall a Root, confuting of flender 
white firings little bigger than Bents, and not many of 
them, and none above a Finger long, fpreading under the 
upper cruft of the Earth; the whole Plant is full of Milk, 
and of a ftrong favour. 1 
This Plant I found in a gloomy dry Wood under an 
Oak, 1670. the iStk of Atigiift, afterwards I found it in 
[76] The Plant -when it fprings up fii jl. 
(5-) 
1 Mulgedium leucopkeeum, DC. (Gray, Manual, p. 241). This fine plant is 
peculiar to America. 
