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i the Hiftorie of Plants, 
veneration, as by his extra 61 io hicb he vfed for many infirmities may and doth appeare at large, 
inhisbookes entituledCw'*’ atuaum Emptncarum, dedicated vnto the duke of Banaria. This 
plant of Rulandus hath very g ,t d many roots couered oner with a thicke barke, plaited as it 
were with many furcuious !p\ to m which artfc- ftindry ftrong and large ftemmes of a fingers 
thickneffe, in height two cu! fee with many pretty large and long leaues like Lathyris, but 
that they are not To thicke ■ nd floure are not vnlike the other Tithymales. 
if This is like the fit.' n.- chant hath fmallcr and more feeble branches •, and the whole 
plant is altogether It fit j ig bu t fome fpan or foot high i and the floures are of a red or elfe a 
greene colour. 
1 6 There is anothi r ra ; and ftrange kinde of Efula, in alliance and likenefle neere vnto Efula 
minor, that is the fmall Efulaoi Pryufa vfed among thePhyfitions and Apothecaries of Venice as 
a kind of Efula, in the Confedtio 1 of their Bcncditla and Catharticke pills, in ftead ofthetruei'/e'- 
la : It yeeldeth a fungous, rough, and browne ftalke two cubits high, diuiding it felfc into fundry 
branches, furnifhed with ftilfe and fat leaues like Licorice, growing together by couples. The 
floures are pendulous, hanging downe their heads like fmall bells, of a purple colour, and within 
they are of a darke colour like Anfiolochia rotunda. 
f 15 Efula minor, feu Pityuft. £ 16 Efula Ventta maritima. 
f 17 Theregrowes in many chalkic grounds and fuch dry hilly places, among corne, a fmall 
Spurge which fcldome growes to two handfuls high ; the root is fmall, and fuch alfo are the ftalks 
and leaues, which grow pretty thicke thereon ; which oft times are not fharpe, but flat pointed : 
thefeed-veffelsand floures are very fmall, yet fafhioned like thofeof the other Tithymales, It is 
to be found in come fields in Iuly and Auguft. $ 
18 ThebiggerCaf4/>»«aorthecommongarden Spurge is beft knowne of all the reft, and mod 
vfed ; wherefore I will not fpend time about his defeription. 
The fmall kinde of Cataputia is like vnto the former, but lefler, whereby it may eafily be diftin- 
guifhed ; being likewifefo well knowne vnto all, that I fhall not need todeferibd it. 
t Thefe two (I meane the bigger and leffer Cataputia of our Author) differ not but by teafon 
oftheir age, and the fertilenelle and barrennelfe of the foile, whence the leaues are fomtime broa- 
der, and otherwhiles narrower.* J 
Small Efula. 
Venetian Sea-Spurge. 
1$ The 
