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Rue Garden. 
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Garden Kind, that if not heedfully minded , it may 
etifily deceive the beholder. It rijes up not fo high , 
nor hits it fo great a Stalk : The Leaves are very 
like to the Greater Garden Kind, but that they are 
f mailer , and of a blacker or darker green color. 
This more fe/dom gives any Homers with us ; nor is 
the Smell thereof Jo Jirong, nor theTafle altogether 
fo bitter , as the other , and in lhefc things confijl the 
chief differences. Some are of Opinion that this 
Plant is the firji or greater fort oj Wild Rue, de- 
ferred in the next Section , Tranf planted and 
Manured in Gardens. 
VIII. The fourth, or Greater Wild Rue. This is 
in all things like unto the Garden Rue, but that the 
Leaves are fomewhat longer and narrower, and 
Rue Wild. 
Leaves divided into other final/ ones , being fome- 
Kh.it live k and round pointed, of a dark blcwijh green 
color. The blowers which grow at the lops, con- 
fijl of 4 f null Leaves which are yellow ,■ with a 
«rccn Button in the mid If, compaffed about m/th fe- 
ver a! [mall yellow Threads , which growing ripe, 
contains within it Jmall black Seed. . 
V. Gerard gives us a more ample Delcription 
of it in rhefe Words. Its Root is woody, and 
•fa fined with many Strings : and is a Shrub full of 
'B/anches, ma 'and than a Yard high, or higher. 
The Stalks whereof are covered with a wbilijh 
Bark, but the Branches with a more green. The 
Leaves hereof conjifl of divers parts, and divided 
into If trigs, about which are certain little ones, oj 
an odd number, fometbing broad, more lengthen 
round, Jmooth, and fomewhat fat of a gray color , 
or greenifh blew. The blowers in the tops of the 
Branches, are of a pale yellow, confijl mg of four 
Utile Leaves , fometbing hollow : in the middle oj 
which fends up a little Head or Button four fquare, 
Jeldom five fquare, containing as many little Cells, 
as it has corners, being compaffed about with little 
yellow Threads, in which little Cells the Seed is con- 
tained. The Leaf is of a very firong and rank 
Smell, and has a biting Tafle. 
VI. The fecond, or Gilded Rue. This in its 
Roots, Stalks, Branches, form of the Leaves, flowers. 
Seed, Magnitude, and manner of growing, is ex- 
ally the fame with the former, faving only in the 
color oj the Leaves , which are tnofi of them gilded 
o/i the edges, or at the ends-, fome of them are 
wholly green, fome wholly gilded or of a yellow color, 
and Jome of them part green, part gilded, either on 
the edges or ends, or both, as before expreffed, 
VII. T he third, or Letter Garden Kue. Its Root 
is white , woody, and ftringy, Spreading it Jelf 
abroad under the Earth, like the firfl Jert. This 
whole Plant is fo like to the Ordinary or Great 
their color darker , more tending to green. The 
Stalk is firong and woody in its Native places of 
growth, much more than it is in lhefc colder Cli- 
mates, but rifes not fully fo high, as our Garden 
Kind does -, and with us, it fcarcely attains to any 
woodinefs. The blowers are alfo yellow, compofei 
of 4 yellow Leaves like unto it, having within 
them four fquare Heads (fometimes but three cor- 
nered) in whofe Cells is contained the Seed like that 
of the Garden. The Leaves and whole Plant are of 
a more Jirong and virulent Smell than our Common 
Garden Kind. 
IX. The fifth, or Smaller Wild Rue. Its Root 
is long and woody-, and the Plant is Jmall , yet like 
unto the former , faving that the Leaves hereof are 
much -more finely cut than it, both Jhorter and 
/mailer -, but the Smell is as Jirong , or rather 
Jlronger than the other ; as ajo its Tafle and Quali- 
ties. The Stalk hereof rifes not fo high as the lafl 
deferibed above, but Branches it Jelf cut at the top , 
bearing Jmall yellowijh Flowers , having four fquare 
Heads with Cells, therein, like the others, in which 
is contained Jtr.all Seed. 
X. The fixtb , or Wild Affyrian Rue. Its Root 
is tbickand Jomcthing yaliowifh, with J ever al Jmall 
fibres 
