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Of the Biftorie of Plants. 
L I B. 2. 
inwhofe garden I faw it growing fome two yeares agoe. The other grow plentifully between 
London andPanctidge Church, about the ditches and highway fide. 
The Time. 
They come vp in the Spring, and fometimes fooner,and ripen their feed in Inly and Auguft. 
The Names. 
i I take the firft of rhefe tobe the Lafiuca Syhcfii. of Dicfeondcs and theCArcicnts, ar.dthat 
which the Authours of the Ad<verfana gaue vstneer tie tit c of Tachca ttgrtjlis JearioUhortenfs 
folio. LaBuCApre, opij odorc vehement, Joportfci c 6 viufi. 
i This is the Endiuia of Tragus, fig . 2d8. and the Tmficn of Dalefehawpitn^pag. 5 ^ 4 ' hauhint 
confounds this with the former. _ ... „ lr 
5 This is the LaBuca Sylvejlns prior, of Trasui : the Lacil-ca S'jlvejlrts of Mdtthitlus, Fucbjius, 
Deidotixus , and others: it is the Seris Domejiica oiLohcll. 
The Temper. 
Thefe certainly, c-fpecialfy the two firft, .retold, and that in the later end of the third or be- 
ginning of the fourth degree ( if Opium be cold in the fourth. ) 
The Vert ms. 
\ Some (faith Diefeorides ) mix the rnilkie iuice hereof with Opium h ( for his Meconium is oui 
Opium.') in the making thereof. , . 
3 He aifo faith, that the iuice hereof drunkein Oxycrate in the quantity of 5 ehuli, ( wmcti make 
fomeone fcruple ) purseth watrifli humors by ftoole ; italfo elenfeth the little vlccrin the eye 
called ^Argcmon in Greeke, as alfo the myftines or datkencTTe of fight. 
C Alfo beaten and applied with womans milke it is good againftburr.es and fealdes, 
D Laftly , it procures iieepe, affwages painc, moues thecourfes in women, and is drunkeagamfl 
the ftingings of fcorpions, and bitings of fpiders. 
p The feed taken in dtinke, like asthc Garden Lettuce, hindreth generation pf feed and venereous 
imaginations, t 
Ch/ip. 39. Of Lambs Lettuce, cr fornefallad. 
I LaBuca eyignina. 
Lambes Lettuce. 
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1 LaBuca Agnina l at i folia. 
Cornefallade. 
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