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PLANTS CATHARTICS 
SIVE PVRG ANTES- 
PVRGING PLANTS* 
CLASSIS SECVNDA, 
The Second Tribe. 
chap, i 
TlEine to (hew you here the chiefeft forts of purging plants that may grow with us • 1 mnft as 
' well fpeake of them that worke upwards, as downewards, as alfo of thole that are conducing 
or helping thereunto, although they be not fo forcible in working as the others, 1 lay the chief- 
eft or molt, becaufe, that as in the former Cluffs feme are omitted that are dilpCTledly re and 
of in other nlaces of this Worke,fo likewife it will fall out in this and fome of the otherfollow¬ 
ing ClaDisi and begin with the hearbe Aloes, whofe bitter juyee is fo frequent mufe every 
where knowne by the name of Aloes and Aloes Succotrina. 
. Aloe vulgmit HeibeAlfei fweStuptrvi-Jtimmtriama. 
Sea Houflecke. 
f, vihevutgarii Hcrbe Alan,five Sempervivnm marmum. 
Sea Houfleeke. 
This hearbe hath divers long flefhy pale greene leaves, of the 
ttiickneffe of ones finger, with divers hard dents or points on both 
(ides of them, and po'inted at the end likewife, the one endofing 
the other at the bottomc, and (landing round, the outward-mod 
bending for the mod part backwards, efpeciallyin thofe wee fee 
are brought to us; but in the natural! places trending all of them 
outright and (lifte,or rather bowing inward than backward,\vhofe 
leaves are nothing bitter in taftc in the places either natural or plan¬ 
ted, but rather cold : in the middle of tnefe leaves rifeth up a ihort 
thick (hike, branching forth into a.or 3, parts; little more than a 
foot & ahalte.or 2.foot high,bearing many fmall bottle-like flow- 
ers.of a whitidi colour with us,& ioDiofcoriJes faith alfo,but in the 
hotter Countries yellowiih, as we are certainely informed, divi¬ 
ded at the ends, into five or fixe parts, every one hanging downe 
found about the dalkes, from the middle thereof up to the top; it 
bearetb feed in huskes like unto an Afphedill, after the flowers 
are pad : the ro»te is thicke,and about afoote long or leffe within 
the ground, (hooting out fome thicke fibres at the end, and fome 
fmall ones round about the fides, cfpecially in the naturall places, 
but arc feldome feene to give any with us, as they hang up in our 
troufes, but may better be difeerned, ifany of them be put into the 
;round in' the Summer time : the ftalkes neir to the roote will 
lave the markes of the withered leaves when they are paft and 
fallen away, as may plainely bee difeerned in many ofthofe that 
are brought from Spaine hither: and (hoot forth a number of heads 
round about it, whereby it may be ealily encreafed. 
2. Aloe Americana. Hearbe Aloes of America. 
The neare refemblance of the leaves hereof unto the forrher hath 
caufedit tobethusentituled, for itbeareth very large long leaves, 
of a pale greene colour, whereon is to bee feene an eye, ot blue or 
afii colour, being of the length of a man, and of two or three fin¬ 
gers thicknefl'e in the naturall places.dented about the edges where 
they are rhinneft, with hard fharpe teeth liks the other, and ending 
in a hard rouhef bigge bhckifH'thorne'orprick,’ as bigge as a Fan!- 
