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forementioned right Honorable Earle, with tome branches yet retaining the leaues. Thefe little 
he ads con ii lied of many (lender, narrow, and as it were prickly little leaues; amongft which lay hid 
round feed s,fmooth,blacke, and fomewbat fwoln in the middle : the floures I faw not,neitherknow 
I whether they were brought with the reft : but whether the leaues of this plant being green, & y ec 
growing on the ground, do wither at theapproch of ones hand, as Chnftopber A Cojla writes and for 
that caufe impoles the name thereon, they bcft know who haue fecne the greene and yet growing- 
plant : for the faculties you may haue recourfe to that which A Cofia hath fet dovvne. Thus much 
out of Clufius. 
Novemb. 7.1652. Ibeingu ith M .lob Befl at the Trinity houfe in Ratcliffe ; amon* other varie- 
ties, he fhewc-d me a dry plant hereof, which I hec-dfully obferucd.and carefully opemn°- out fome 
of the faireft leaues, which (fte alio the whole plant befides)were carelefly dried, I found the leaues 
grew vfually fome dozen or more on a foot-ftalke.iuft as many on or.e fideas on the other- & they 
were couered oner with a little downines, which (landing out on their edges made them look as if 
they hadbinfnipt about the edges, which they were not :alfo I found at eueryioint two little hoo- 
ked prickles, & not two little leaues or append ices at thefettingon of rhefoot-ftalks, but three or 
foure little leaues, as the rudimentot a yong branch, comming forth at chcbofom ofeach foot- 
ftalk.'the longed branch (as tar as I remember) was notabouea (pan 16 ng ; I then drew as perfect a fi- 
gure as 1 could of the perfeffeft branch therof, disw ingas rerre as 1 could the leaues to their ful 
bignefle, the which I here prefentyou withal!. There are two figures formerly extant, the one this of 
Cluft.m,w hich 1 here giue you, and the other in the 1 8.booke,& , 44 -chap. of the Hifi.Lw which is 
out of A Cojla jand this feeems to be fo far different Iron that of Clufws, that Baubine in his Pmax 
faith fltthus not is fu is in Actfiam dwtrfam plane fipttrampropof, iitjirrbttm tumbfam nominans .- but he did 
notvvelconfiderir,for if he had, he might haue found tliefe fomuchd ;ffc-renr,thus far toao-ree-they 
both make the branches prickly & weak : the leaues many on onerib,oneoppo(ite to another with- 
out an odde one at the end ; but Clufius figures the leaues fo clofe together, that they feem but one 
leafe,and Acejla makes them too far a funder, and both of them make them too (harp pointed • ChtC. 
made his be taken from a dried plant,and Acosla I iudgmadehisby the Id xa thereof which he had 
in his memorie,and after this manner,ifmy iudgementfaile me not, are mod of the fi mires in him 
expreft.-butofthisenoughjifnottoomuch. D 
C h a p. 8. Of theStajffe tree^nd cue r -greene Tnuet. 
I CelaJlrtuTheophrafti. 1 2 P hilly eat.Cluf 
T he ftaffe tree. Clufius his 1 . Mocke Priuct, 
