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gently bathed on the places troubled with the itch, taketh it away in a very [bon fpace: the fame (imple watec ; 
alfo clenfeth foule vlcers and fores. The leaves being boyled in fat broath, worketh to fome purpofes more fafe- ■ 
ly, though more weakely. It is held by many good authors,to be effeauall for all the purpofes,the greater Spurge i 
et Palma Chrifli is applyed unto. 
Chap. XVIII. 
TithymaliJive Efula minores. The fmaller Spurges 
Aving (hewed you all the forts of the greater Spurges, there remaine diverfe other fmall kinds, 
which I will comprehend in this chapter, that fo I may accompliih, and fet forth the whole family 
of them together. 
1. Pityufa, T ithymatm P ineel five Eftdet minor, pine Spurge or fmall Efula. 
This fmall Spurge hath diverfe yveake and fender [hikes, halfe a yard long, whereon grow |i 
many fmall long and narrow pointed leaves, without order round about them, very like unto the leaves of Tode- ii 
fiaxe; at the toppes of the (hikes grow yellow flowers,fometimes dalht over with purple, like the former Spur¬ 
ges but leffer, and (landing in the like cuppes,which falling away,the feede groweth in lmall three fquare liuskes, 
wherein is contcincd fmall round feede: the roote is fmall and long, of the bigneffe of ones finger, fome what 
blackifb on the outfide, but white within, and abiding many yeares, yet the extremities of the winter, doe j 
fometimes rot it and caufc it to perifh: both milke, roote and feede, are fomewhat like in heate and fharpeneffe 
unto the garden Spurges, but not altogether fo violent: the roote of this Efula is accounted of the moll skill- 
full, to be the trued Efula minor-, and thecxtrafl out of the roote hereof, rightly prepared and called Extralh-.m i 
Efula. 
a- Tityufa five Efula miner florifais ruhis. Small Spurge with red flowers. 
There is another of this kinde growing a foote high with fuch like leaves thereon, whofe flowers arc reddilh 
Handing in the like cuppes, that the other Spurges doe. 
toourboufe. 
The Cypreffe Spurge is fo like unto the firfl: defcribed.that it deceiveth many,that doc not marke them precife- 
ly; for this hath alfo diverfe (lender brownifh Aalkes, whereon grow fmallnarrow leaves, yet fomewhat fhorter 
and thicket than the former, and thicker fet upon the (hikes alfo the flowers and feede are like the other, and fo 
is the roote alfo, whereupon diverfe have midaken it, and take it for the true Efula minor, and fotaveufed it 
in (lead thereof. 
I. Tlymtlta pinie. Pine Spurge’. 
2 . Efula minor altera pupureis floributl 
Small Spurge with red flowers. 
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