times blackijh or gruyijh. The whole Plant and 
every part thereof \ has a ftfong refinous Sjfnt 
much like to that of Turpentine ; and the Heads 
and middle parts of the flowers do oftentimes , (and 
fmetimes the joints of the Stalks where the Leaves 
Hand) (weat out a mfitbin, fine , and dear Kcjtn 
or ^Turpentine, but in fmall quantity as it were 
in drops in the hot and dry time of the leer, Jo 
like both in Colour, Smell and Tafic, unto clear 
Venice Turpentine, or Strasbutgh Turpentine, that 
it cannot be known from it. 
IV The fecond, or Leffer Sun-Flower, or Ma- 
rigold of Peru. This in its Roots , Stalks , Leaves, 
flowers Seed, Turpentine, and manner of its 
trowing, is like the former, fave that it is altoge- 
ther lower, the Leaves more jagged, and very few 
in number. It is either without Branches, or with 
many Branches, with a black or with a whte Seed , 
the form of the Leaves and flowers differing but 
only in the greatnefs or fmallnefs, as has been 
jufi now f aid. Gerard feems to make this to be 
\l 0 f 0 li viz. r. The Male. 2. The Female. 
I The Male kind he fays perijhcs in ‘flloot, as 
foon as it has pcrfeSed its Seed , being thick hard, 
and of a woody Jubilance, with many thready firings 
annexed thereto, fr am wbt cbnjes up a gray or ruffet 
Stalk five or fix Cubits high, and fometmes as thick 
Country offstfi, for with us in England, it attains 
Leaves. The thrumtned middle part is blacker tlxin 
that of the firft or greater before Defcribed : And 
the whole Flower is cncompajjcd about likewife with 
divers fuch Rujfet Leaves , as they which grow low- 
er upon the Stalks , but leffer and narrower. The 
Plant and every part thereof fmells of Turpentine , 
and the Flower yields mo J} clear Turpentine. The 
Seed is long and blacky with certain Lines or Streaks 
of white running along the fame. II. The Female 
kind has alfo a thick and zooody Root , from which 
rifes up a freight Stem , dividing it je/f into one 
or more Branches , fet with f/nooth Leaves , /harp 
pointed , and /lightly indented about the edges. 
The Flowers grow at the tops of the Branches , of a 
faint yellow coloi\ the middle part being of a deeper 
yellow , tending to blacknefs , of the form and /hape 
of a fmgle Marigold, the Magnitude excepted. 
This Plant fays another Author , /hoots out into ma- 
ny Stems , and a great many Branches , requiring 
very much room , fo that it is apt to choak other 
Flowers which grow near it : For which reafon , when 
it is arrived to a rcafonable height , and before it is 
full green , it is to be dipt with a Garden pair of 
Sciffars , to retrench thofe Branches which fpread too 
much , and fuch as fhoot up too high. 
V. Of the firft or Greater Sun-Flower at Se£l. 
III. above, Gerard gives us another kind of De- 
feription, which becaufe it is fomething remarka- 
, ble, we will alfo give you here. Its Root (he fays) 
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