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this is of a yellow colour, which by age oft times becomes wholly red : after thofe floures fucceed 
cods, broad and flat, little lefle than thofe of the broad leaued Thlafpi ^ and gteene of colour, rough, 
and in each of thefe cods are commonly contained a couple offeeds,ofthe bignes of little Chick- 
lings, ofablackifhafh colour, rough, and refembling a little dug. 
This is fometimes found to vary, halting the two winged leaues yellow or red, and the middle 
one yellow.- 
•f The Place. 
It floures in Aprill and May,and ripens the feed in Iune 5 it growes vpon mod of the Auftrian 
and Stxrian AIpcs,and in diuers places of Hungarie.llt is neither vfed in Phy ficke, nor the facul - 
ties thereof m medicine knowne. 
C hap. 6 . Of Winged Bind weed.or Qiumoclit 
^htamoclit.fivc Conaoluulus Pennttus. 
Winged Windeweed. 
The Defcription. 
1 plant was Cafalpinue, & that by the name 
of Gelftminum rubrum durum .-after him Ca- 
rnerariHs gaue a defcription and figure thetof 
in his Hart m Medicus , by the name of 9uaw- 
clit .-and after him F afous Column* both figu- 
red and deferibed it more accurately.whofe 
defcription is put to the figure of it (we here 
giue)in C/«/.his Curafojleriorcs Jtis fo tender 
a plant that it will not come to any perfecti- 
on with vsjvnlefle in extraordinary hot yeres 
and by other artifieiall helps, wherefore I will 
borrow the defcription thereof out of F alius 
Column* This exoricke plant, faith he, cannot 
more fitly be referred to any kinde, than to 
the family of th c Convolvuli, or Bindweeds, 
joi in the nature and whole habitirisalmoft 
like them, excepting the fhape of the winged 
leaues : it is ftored with lefTe milk : the flours 
are long.hollow, but parted into fine at the 
top, of apleafingred colour, with /freaked 
lines or fold standing vpon long ftalkcs one 
or two together eomming out of the bofomes 
of the leaues at each ioint of the branches,and 
they hauein them fine yellowifhpointajls - 
then fucceeds a longifh fruit f+anding in a fca- 
fy cup , ending in a lharp poiotall, and co- 
uered with a tough skin, as that of the com 
mon Convolvulus , but lefTer, hauing within it 
tafle The leaues grow alternately out of tile ioints of°thepurple^inS 
and finely diuided,twifeas fmall as the common Rbefeda , of a darkegreene colour hnrrhe “ 
ones are yellowi(h,firft hauipga few diuifions, but afterwards more.tifl they come to haue tlfirteef 
on a fide,and one at the rof?: but the lower ones areofttimes forked ■ bv reafnn r>f rlr, ^ - '>' e n 
of leaues and flouring /talks or branches,winding themfelues about artificial! hoops f roflino-s"^ 
other fafhioncd workes of Reeds, or the like, fet for winding herbs to clime mnn t, i r L°* 
theeieof thebeholder,and is therefore kept in pots in »d o 
beginning of the Spring growes vp in ij, anS the firl leauestftb^he^inS tic 'of £ 
. laple , itflou.es in the end of AugUft,and ripens the feed in the end of September, 
Chap, 
