L ib. z, 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
The Defer if tion. 
x 'T'X Ogs-banerifeth vp like vnto a fmall hedge bufb, vpright and (Iraight, vntill it haue 
11 attained to a certaine heighth ; then doth it claipe andclimewith his tender bran- 
ches as do the Bindeweeds, taking hold vpon props or poles, or vvhatfoeuer ftandeth 
next vnto it : whereupon do grow faire broad leaucs, fharpe pointed like thofe of the Bay tree, of a 
deepe gteene colour. The floures come forth at the top of the (lalkes, confiding of flue fmall 
white leaues : which being paft, there fucceed long cods/et vpon a (lender foot-ftalke by couples, 
ioyning them felues together at the extreme point, and likevvifeat the ftalke, making of two pie- 
ces knit together one entire cod - which cod is full of fuch downy matter and (eed as that of Afcle- 
fins, but more in quantity by reafon the cods are greater ; which beingdry and ripe, the filken cot- 
ton hangeth forth, and by little and little fheadeth, vntill the whole be fallen vpon the ground. 
Thewhole plant yeeldeth that yellow (linking milky iuyee that the other doth, and fometimes it 
is of a white colour, according to the climate where it groweth ; for the more cold the country is, 
the whiter is the iuyee ; and the more hot, the yellower. The root is long and (ingle , with fome 
threds anexed thereto. 
X Periplocerrpens angujlifolin. » f 2 Periplocalnti folia. 
a There is another Dogs-bane that hath long and (lender ftalkes like thofe of the Vine, but 
ofabrownereddifh colour, wherewith it windethit felfe about fuch things as (land neere vnto it, U 
in manner of a Bindweed : whereupon are fet leaues not vnlike to thofe of the Iuy,but not fo much i 
cornered, of a darke greene colour, and of a ranke fmell being bruifed betweene the fingers , yeel- i 
ding forth a (linking yellow milky iuyee when it is fo broken :among(l which come forth little ; 
white floures, (landing fcatteringly vpon little huskes : after the floures come long cods, very like 
vnto Afclcpias or Sivallow-vvort, but greater, (luffed with the like foft downy filke ; among which ll 
downe iswrappedvp flatblacke feed. The roots are many and threddy,creepingallaboutwithin i 
the ground, budding forth new (hoots in fundry places, whereby it greatly increafeth. 
They grow naturally in Syria, and alfo in Italy, as Msttkiolus reporteth : my louing friend Iohn 
Robin Herbarift in Paris did fend me plants of both the-kinds for my garden, where they floure and 
flourifii j but whether they grow in France, or that he procured them from fome other region , as 
yet I haue no certaine knowledge. 
Climing Dogs-bane. 
Broad leafed Dogs-bane. 
The PLcc. 
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