4 . 7 * i thymalas linifolias Par alio congener, Baftard Sea Spurge. 
This Spurge, rifeth up with brownifh ftalkes, having many narrow leaves growing thereon, like unto the firfi 
Sea Spurge, but fomewhat larger and a little broader: the flowers feede and rooteare not much differing from 
it. 
The Place . 
Thefirftof thefe groweth by the fea flde, as wellin divers places of ourowne Country, as beyond the Sp i; 
The fecondgrowethpn the fhores of the Adriatikg fea in many places, and in thelfland Lio that pertainetht© 
the Venetians. The third in C anc ^l as Honorius Bellas faith. The latl in Franconia or Frangeland f neerc unto ths 
bankes of the river of Mayne . 
The Time, 
They flower in Iuly for the mod part, and their feede is ripe in Auguft, 
The Names , 
T/3 vW(^- in Greeke is fo called as it is thought from tj 9 o( mamma & ua\o< exitiofa % cjuia laElem ab aberibui 
i exitioj am reddit , in Latinc Tithymalas alfo and Laftaria or herba Lattaria of giving milke, which is common to 
I all the reft of the Spurges. Some call it alfo LaEluca marina & caprina, both for giving milke as Lettice doth, and 
I that Goates delight much to eate it. They are all in generall called Spurges in Englifb , from the purging quality, 
! and Milkewort likewife from the milke they yeeld, whiefeas Ifaydis common toall the fortsof them. The 
firlt of thefe is called almoft by all writers Tithymalas Par alius or maritimas , agreeing with that of Tiofcorides 
' (which he fayd was called in his time Tithymalis and Mecona) in all points. The fecond Angaillara thinketh to 
I be Alypnm of 'Diofcorides■ and Pena and Lobel fay, that at Venice it is ufed as a kinde of Pityufa or Efala by the 
Phyfitions & Apothecaries there, whereupon they called it in their Adverfaria, Efala rara c Lio Vendor urn infala . 
The third is remembred onely by Bellas in his third Epiftle to Clujius , faying that in Candye, (becaufeic is of the 
kindred ofthe Tithymals, giving aboundance of milke, they call it GalaJHvida > as differing from another of that 
name, which I have (hewed you before, in the 2 2 chapter, of the former part, under the name of Blattaria Cre- 
'ticaJpinofa , which Clujius called Leacoium jpinofam Creticam , and was judged of others to be a Verbafcam jpino- 
fum. The laft is called by Camerarias, Tithymalas linifolius Paralio cognatus, and by Bautinas in his PinaxfTithy~ 
\ malo maritimo ajfnis linariafolio- by Tabermont antis 3 Tithymalas amygdaloides angujHfolias , 
The Vert ties. 
The firffof thefe fea Spurges is not mentioned by any author either ancient or modefne tobeufedinPhyfickej 
For the vehement and fharpe exulcerating quality thereof is fuch,and fo great in purging exceeding other {purges, 
that it is not fafe to ufe it inwardly, and outwardly applyed it doth burne the skinne, and therefore unlefle it bee 
to take away fcarres,fcabbes,or warts, or the like it is not ufed at all: onely Galen faith of it, that the milke 
thereof mixed with mcale and call; into the water, aftonifheth fi(h fo much,that it maketh them to life to the top 
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