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The Descriptions. 
III. Tbefirfl , or Our Common Orpine. T he 
Roois are manifold, thick , round, and white 
with glanaklous or tuberous Clogs , not much an- 
like to thofe of the Spanifh Kind following, but 
lejfcr It rifts up with fever ol round brittle 
Stalks, thick fet with thick, fat , and JleJhy 
Orpine Common. 
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Orpine Small. 
Leaves , without any order, and little or no- 
thing dented about the edges, leffer than thofe 
of the Spanidl fort, and of a paler green 
color. The Flowers grow in leffer Tufts, and 
are white, or of a whitijh ctlor , which after 
wards bear chaffy Husks, containing within them 
fatal l duji like Seed. This when it is found 
growing Wild in Fields and Woods /ides, does 
generally grow f nailer than when it grows in 
Gardens. 
IV. The fecond, or Small Orpine. Its Root 
is long and Fibrous , fm /ling fomething fweet, 
like Rofe-wort Root as Camerarius jays, and 
perijhes every Tear-, fo that if it rifes not 
of the JhedSeed (which it uf tally does, if it is 
fuffered to Jhed it J it iituft be new Sown 
every Tear. It has a fmall weak Stalk, fcarce- 
ly a Foot long, tying almofl upon the Ground, 
fpread out into fcveral Branches, and they 
again into other f mailer ones, fet with fmall 
thick long Leaves , without any order -, and 
fometimes like unto Purflane. At the tops of 
the Branches grow many fmall white Flowers, 
in Tufts, but more thinly , or fparfed/y fet, 
than in fome of the other Kinds, eonjljling 
of five Leaves apiece- after which come fmall 
Heads , like to the ether Orpines in which 
contained fmall dufty Seed. P ’ 
Kct The ‘ hir pi f Great Spanifh Orpine. Its 
Roots are thick mime, an] tuberous. Leer and 
longer than thofe of the Urll or d.ffr nA 
fppetimes browner of color, and a little unevenly Jct 
Tufr^h 1 C A ‘ ' he te ? s of the Stalks grow 
Tufts of Flowers, larger and more fpread, tbanthofc 
wourhrft or Common Kind which ionfift of five fmall 
whuf Leaves apiece-, which btingpaffiwJ,. 
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much fmaller, and very much filler of Fibres or 
Strings.. A or does it much differ from our Com- 
mon Kind, but that the Stalks are more flexible 
and weak and the Leaves (which grow without 
iVrf fZ m ° n fi * ely ien,ei * edges- 
f T “brn l 0W ?' S at ‘ he t0 P s °f ,he Stalks are 
of a 7 eddifh purple color confifiing of five Pm ill 
Leaves apiece, like the former. IhishJb „ 
found alfo fmaller ,n all its parts, but not othe. r- 
wife differing than in that the Stalks with all the 
Leaves, utterly perifi, every Tear to the Root 
which every Spring fends forti new Stalks. ’ 
vil. The fifth or Small creeping Orpine, called 
b l{°Z Fren <*Orp,ne. Iu Roots are not tuberous 
butfiberous orjfrmgy -, yet do endure with the erern 
Leaves on them, the greeted extremity of 
ter, loafing only fiome few of the lower Leaves of 
the Branches This Root fends forth fever, l 
w. a.i round Stalks, lying on the Ground, andeaft- 
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