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former, but at full of M ilk, and as /meet , and 
Jit to be eaten as it , effect ally when it is boiled , 
and after ft ewe d with Butter. The lower heaves 
of this Rampion are fomewhat broad and round , 
yet ending in a fharp point , a little dented or waved 
about the edges , of a dark green color , ;zr yiwp 
places /potted with black Spots , and J landing upon 
long fmall hoot Stalks -, but thofe which grow upon 
the Stalks are fome thing longer atid narrower , 
/paring ly fet here and there , leaving the top bare j 
where grows a fmall f piked Head or Bufh of blowers , 
almofl in fafhion of a Foxtail ( zohence came the 
Name) at the fir ft of a darkifh green color , for fo 
are the Husks of the Flowers which break out of 
t hem , being long and fmall ', /n£p #>7/0 Horns , bigger 
below , and fmaller above , ending in four , and 
fometimes in five points , 0/ 0 blewifh purple color , 
/.tf /0;W0 paler, in others deeper , jW 0/ 0 
white color : which being paft there appear in their 
places fmall round Heads , £ //>//p corner'd, with 
brownifh Seed therein. 
V. The third, or Our Wood Rampion. Its Root 
is white and long , but not fo tender as the former. 
Its loweft Leaves are fomething long and dented 
about the edges, yet not fo long as the next, which 
are very long alfo, J landing upon fhort Stalks, with 
fome fmaller ones at the Joints with them. The 
Flowers are like the other Rampions, of a pale 
watebet color. 
VI. The fourth, or Wood Rampions with greater 
Flowers. Its Root is fomewhat thick , and of a 
whit if color inclining to red, full of Milk and 
fweet, being as fit to be eaten, and more de fired 
than any other. Its Leaves are fmall, fomewhat 
long, and round at the ends-, the others which fol- 
low, and grow after them upon the Stalks are nar- 
rower and longer, and pointed alfo-, the Flowers are 
longer than others , and of a dusky purplifh color , 
with purple Veins in them, many /landing together, 
like unto, the ordinary Rampions, and of the fame 
fafhion with five points , but of a deeper color. 
Rampion Mountain Horned. 
V II. The fifth , or Our Mountain Horned Ram- 
pions. Its Root grows after an unufual manner -, 
for firft or lovtermoft is a Root like to that of a 
Rampion, but f, tenderer ■, and from the top of that , 
comet forth as it were another Root or two, (as it 
were Root upon Root) being much fmaller than the 
lower Root, efpecially where they are joined to the 
under Root • and all thefe have fmall Fibres or 
dt rings proceeding from them. The Leaves which 
p/ji grow up are fmooth , and almofl like thofe 
of a Rampion, yet rounder , and made fomewhat 
after the form of a Violet Leaf but nothing fo big. 
At the bottom of the Stalk come forth Jeven or 
ei &ht long narrow Leaves, dented about the edges 
and fharp pointed: and upon the reft of the Stalk 
grow alfo three or four narrow fharp pointed Leaves, 
not much unlike thofe at bottom of the Stalk, but 
narrower and lejfer. The Flowers are of a purple 
color, and grow at the top in an Umble or Tuft, 
and jh aped almoft like a Chymical Veffel , which we 
call a Retort , being big, large, or fwollen out of 
tt)eir bottoms , and fo becoming fmaller towards 
their tops. But afterwards they part themfelves 
into five parts or fender Strings , with Threads in 
the midtile : which decaying , they are fucceedled by 
little Cups, ending in five little point els , in which 
is contained a fmall little Seed. 
VIII. The ftxth, or Our Wild Heath Rampion. 
Its Root is fmall with fome Fibres adjoining to it. 
Its Ground Leaves are fmall and roundifh , almoft 
u f t0 a V iolet , but rounder and dented about 
the edges ■, from among which rife up weak J lender 
Stalks , about two Feet high , which have very few 
Leaves thereon, or none at all ■, each Stalk or 
Branch having at its top one Flower only , of a per- 
fect blew or white color as any of the former, and 
almoft as large. 
IX. The feventh, or Candy Rampion. Its Root 
is great and white, parted into tnany Branches , 
yielding Milk even as the Leaves and Stalks alfo do, 
and abides tnany Tears, alt ho the Leaves and Stalks 
perifh every Tear, frejh fpringing up before Winter 
again, but with us it requires to be a little defended 
in Winter time as aforefaid. The firft Leaves 
which fpring up from the Seed of this Cretick or 
Candy Rampion, are round, like unto Violet Leaves. 
liHle or nothing dented about the edges, which fo 
abide the firft Tear ■, but thofe which rife afterwards 
with the Stalks, are much different from them, 
being much cut in, and deeper into fever a l parts 
fet on both ftdes of the middle Rib, the end being 
long eft , all of them dented, of a dark green color 
on the upper fide, and oftentimes reddifh under- 
neath. From among which rife up fever a l Crefted 
Stalks two or three Feet high, bearing fuel) like 
Leaves on them as below, but fmaller from the 
middle to the tops, fur m fried abundantly with many 
fmall reddifh purple Flowers, and fometimes with 
white Flowers, growing one above another in a long 
Spike, very like unto the Spiked Rampion, but 
fomewhat longer, and more divided or dented in at 
the corners, and each part turning it felf a little 
back again. After which come very fmall brownifh 
Seed in Heads, both of them like unto the other 
Rampions. This Rena in his Mons Baldus , and 
Honorius Bellus in his firft Epiftle to Clufus, calls 
Pctromarula feu Lattuca petrta Cretica. 
X. The Places. The firft is always Nurft up in 
Gardens, and fometimes the fecond, both of which 
are alfo found growing Wild in England, the Roots 
being eaten in Sallees, and alfo eaten boiled. The 
leventh grows with us only in Gardens, bur requires 
to be a little defended in the Winter with us. 
The third grows in Woods in many places of Eng- 
land. The fourth grows alfo Wild in Fields fides 
and 
