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Creeping ~2)aggs &onz~ 
Dongs' bane lirtad Leaved 
III. The Defcriptions. T be firft, or Narrow-leav’d 
diming Dogs-bane, has a Root which fpreads in the 
Ground like the other , and fometimes fends forth 
Suckers , whereby it is encreafed. This Root fends 
forth feveral woody Branches , but tough and flexible , 
of a dark greyifh green color , and fometimes brown- 
jjh , efpecially near the Ground , where it bears no 
Leaves after it is grown to any bignefs or height , 
which wind them] elves from the Sun-ward, to a ve- 
ry great height, twenty foot high, or more fometimes. 
if any thing grows or ft ands by it, upon which it may 
climb higher, or elfe falling down again with its top, 
on which ft and at feveral good diftances (faving at 
the tops , where they ft and thicker fet together ) two 
Leaves longer and narrower than the next deferibed , 
and pointed at the ends , fomewhat thick, and of a 
deep green color, almoft jhining. The Flowers ftand 
in the lame manner as thole in the next, and confift 
of five thick Leaves, each of them pointed, and 
bending fomething backwards, leeming to have two 
Leaves apiece, one lying upon another, like unto 
thofe of Barren-wort, the undermoft being greener 
and larger than the upper Leaves which lye upon 
them, and are not fo large to cover them wholly, 
but leave the green brims or edges of the lower 
Leaves to be feen round about them -, which upper 
Leaves are of a dark purple or reddilh color J and 
cleave fo fall to the lower, that it is very hard to 
feparate them. In the middle of each Flower Hands 
a green Pointel, encompalfed with five dark yellow 
■ Chives, each of them twining inwards. After the 
Flowers are fallen, fmall long Cods appear, (in 
warm Countries, but fcarcely in England ') two al- 
ways joined together, but more ftri&ly than in the 
following Plant, bending fomething more outward 
in the middle, and meeting together almoft at the 
points, in which lyes fiat Seed, wrapped in a kind 
of filken Down. This Plant loofes its Leaves, but 
not its Stalks, in the Winter, frelh coming forth a- 
gain in the Spring. 
IV. The fecond, or Broad-leav’d upright Dogs- 
bane, has a Root which grows down into the Ground 
fpreading it felf out into feveral Branches, with di- 
vers fmall Fibres' adjoining : from this Root fprings 
up a woody Stem , of the thicknefs of ones Finger 
covered with a greyifh Bark -, from whence arife fe- 
veral woody, but flexible greenifh Branches , eajy to 
twift or winde about any thing, being very tough and 
hard to break , ftanding for the moft part upright, 
and feldom trailing, or laying hold of any thing which 
may grow near it having two broad dark green 
Leaves, but Jharp-pointed , and not round , fet at e- 
very Joint all along, but not very near one unto ano- 
ther, full of Veins, and fomething fofter than Ivy- 
Leaves, but thick withal 5 whofe Stalks and Branch- 
es being broken, yield a pale yellow-colored Milk or 
Juice. But as Diofcorides and other Authors fay, 
of a much deeper yellow which thing may be ad- 
mitted when it grows in warmer Clinates than is 
this of ours. The Flowers fpring forth at the Joints 
with the Leaves, growing upon Foot-ftalks not ve-^ 
ry long j and at the tops three or four or more of 
them ltand, fometimes together, which confift of 
five fmall pointed Leaves, of a whitifh color, yet 
larger than thofe of Afclepias ox Swallow-wort. Af- 
ter which (in the hotter Climates, but fcarcely in 
ours) grow long, crooked and pointed Cods, fome- 
thing more hard and woody than thofe of Swallow- 
wort, altho’ nothing fo much as thofe of the Olean ■ 
der or Rofe Bay-tree, two moft ufually ftanding to- 
gether upon one Stalk, but fevered at the fetting to 
the Stalk , and are full of a filken white Down, 
(like the former) in which lye difperfed many fiat, 
blackifh brown Seeds. This Plant loofes not its 
Branches in the Winter, but only its Leaves, they 
every Spring Ihooting forth new again. 
V. The third, or Willow-leav’d Dogs-ban^, has 
a Root much like the firft, from which Jpring woody 
Stems or Branches, having fet at every Joint of the 
climbing Twigs two narrow Leaves apiece , like to 
the. firft kind , but they are not fo thick , rather a lit- 
tle thinner, and much narrower than they , almoft 
refemb/ing the Form of a Willow Leaf The Flow- 
ers are like the firft, and blow as late, being very 
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