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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. 
2. 
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gether,like thofcofthe Chart tree, green on thevpper fide, and on the nether fide white and dow- 
nyiand in the euening about the fetting of the Sun they hang flagging downwardsas though they 
were witherediamong thefe there commeth vp a tuft of floures of a pale or light blufh colou£whicht 
turne into great rough cods, wherein is the fruit, which is flat and round like a cake,ofa white co - 
lour, and bitter in tafte : and where they cleaue vnto the cod, in that part they haue a eertaine dent 
like a little nauell . This Lupine hath but one root, which is flender and wooddie, hailing banana- 
on it a few fmall threds like haires. ° s 
2 The yellow Lupine is like to the garden one in ftalke and Ieaues , yet both of thefe lefler and 
{hotter. It hath beautifull floures of an exceeding faire gold yellow colour, fweet of fmell made 
vp into an care, of the colour of the yellow violet, and fomewhat of the fmell .-thecoddes are’final] 
hard, fomcw hat hairy: the feeds be little, flat, round, in tafte extreme bitter, of fundry colours ill 
fauored,far lefler than the tame one. J 3 
3 The blew Lupines are longer than the yelIovv,and diuided into more wings and branches-the 
Ieaues be lefler and thinner : the floures fmall,and leflTer than the yellow, of a blew colour-the feeds 
be alfo ofdiucrs colours, bitter, and lefler than any of them all. 
* , 4 . T i ler r a n ? r r er u 1 J W Lupine, whofe Ieaues, ftalks, floures, and cods are like,but laN 
gerthanrhofcof the firftdefcnbed.-theflouresareof colour blew, with fomewhitenelTe here and 
there intcrmixt.+ 
^ The Place and Time. 
. They require(faithr/w/>/M/ar)a Tandy and bad foile : they hardly comevp in tilled pi aces brf 
tng of their owne nature wilde : they grow in my garden, and in other mens gardens about London ; 
They are planted in Apml and bring forth their fruit at twoor three fund rie times, as though it 
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t neiced of the garden Lupine is^w that is to fay much and often vfed.as Galen fairh !n t,,v 
books of the Faculties ofNourifhments.-for the fame being boiled and afterward^fteepedirTfah 1 !; 
S n l^ tlmcas ,td rrV t0gether lofe hls naturad bittcrnes,and laftly being feafoned 
with a reafonable quantitie of falt,it is eaten with pickle. The Lupine is ofan hardand farthv Tub 
&n W or er< f? r "? 1 SneCe J al rjly ofharddigeftion,and contained in it a thicke mice • of which 
being not perfedUy concodted in the veines,is ingendred a bloud or iuice which is proper! v called 
bitternes by preparing or dreinngofit(a^Tforeiaid)it^s 
- Cr! a C 1S t0 Uy ’ t °/ 1,ch tur )S s as arc without relilh, which is perceiued by the tafte ■ & be 
11 t “ bool “ rf ^P““l“«° f <i»Pten 1 edki„ c .,one’of.h= 
dl ? "f u , ra11 bitte ™ efl f doth as yet remaine, it hath power to clenfe and to confume 
Tu 7 M Vay 5 edlwo ™es m the belly,bemg both applied in manner ofan ointment and si- 
uen with hony to licke on, and alfo drunke with water and vinegcr. ^ 
Moreouer 3 the decoaion thereof inwardly taken 3 voideth the wormes • and likewife if it be fun- 
fX m r e r tWardlyvfed aS 3 bath 3 1C 1S a remed y a s ainft the morphew,Vore heads, the fmall Pox 
vvi de fcabs, gangrenes, venomous vlcers, partly by clenfing, and partly by confumin<r and drvin^ 
ueSmr S3 M§ “ h RCW ^ Pepper ’ that “ “ 7 ■* *e plea^e^SliK 
^Itbringethdownethemfenfes, andexpelleth thedead childe if it belayed to with myrrh and 
Moreouer the meale of L upines doth wafte or confume away without an v biting m.al irle for 
Z TX i cit geMo- and it alio taketh away blew marks and what thii 
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