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Ruralwtenfii wajo’. 
The greater ordinary garden Rue of Hearbe or Grace. 
foure tqnare heads (and fometimes in three fquare heads) like the other. This is of a more ftrong and virulent 
icentandtaftethanthegardenkind. 
4. Ruta/yhefiris minor. Small Wild Rue. 
This fmall Rue, is alfo like unto the former, but that the leaves hereof are much more finely cut than it, both 
Ihortcr and {mailer, but as ftrong, Or rather more than the other, both in feent, tafte, and quality : the ftaikeherc- 
ofrifclh not fohighas the other,but brancheth at the toppe, bearing yellowifh final! flowers, and fmall feed in 
foure-fguare heads, like thereunto: therooteis long and wooddy. 
Rutamontaruii Mountainc Rue. 
This Rue is the fmalleft of all the reft, whofe leaves are the fineft cut, and divided of them alfo, fo that it hath 
fcarfe the face or forme ofany leafe of Rue; they are alfo much whiter in colour than any of them, and the moft 
virulent and pernicious of all the reft, both in feent and tafte : the flowers and feed are like unto the other forts, but 
the fmalleft of them. 
6 . Rut it fylvefiris Syrota five Hiirmala* Wlid Aflirian Rue. 
The Aflirian wild Rue rifeth up with many darke round greene [hikes, about a foote high or more, whereon are 
Tet divers long leaves, divided into many parts, each whereofis longer, thicker, and greener, than the fmall wildc 
Rue, but not of fo ftrong or virulent a favour as it, yet fomewhat ftrong, and a little flrarpe and bitter: at the tops 
of the [hikes Hand many flowers, confiding of five white leaves, larger than in any of the other forts of Rue ; in rhe 
middle whereofriferh up a greene three fquare head compaffed about with many yellow threads: in which three 
fquare head when it is ripe, is contained fmall brownifh cornered feed i the roote is thicke, and fome what yellow- 
ifti, with divers fmall fibres annexed to it. 
The Place. 
The two forts of Garden Rue arc onely nu'rfed up in gardens in all places.yet the fecond is not fo common as the 
firft, but onely kept by a few- The other two wild forts grow upon the Mountaines in Spain* and Italy, and about 
cJMempelier in Prance-, bur how we fhould belecve Gerard, who iaith fome of them grow on the hills in Lancashire 
and Torkcjbire , you may eafily gefle by their abiding our W inters, in gardens, for being of fb hot and burning 
qualities, and growing inrhot Countries, not enduring any cold; how Ihould they benaturall to our climate, efpe- 
ciaily the more Northerly parts: the fifth in SpainezXfo, Prance, and ocher hot Countries. The laft growethin 
Syria, from whence it was fent into thefe Countries: as alfo in the fields, and about the hedges" neare unto Conjian- 
Unoplc , as BeUomits faith, in the fifth Ghapter of his third Booke of obfervations. 
The Time . 
The garden kindes efpecially the lelfer, doth feldome flower in our land, and therefore fcarfe ever beare good 
feed. And the wild or Mountaines kindes doe the like. 
The Names. 
It is calledin Grceke -irnyrnw, Feganum ^nia caliditate femen ger.itale caaemintat, the roote of the fifth kmde, as. 
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