row, fomewhat like unto the leaves o f Mefereon 
but (mailer: the flowers are yellow, and the 
feede (mall and round, growing in three fquars 
heads, like unto the other forts of Spurges. 
The Place, 
The firft and third forts, grow in fom'e places 
of Germanic and France , both by the Rivers 
fide and borders of fields, but no where naturall 
in England that I can heare, but in the gardens of 
thofe that are lovers of plants; the third is often¬ 
times found in the Country gardens of poore folkes in many places with us.The fecondis found in fomb Herba? 
rifts gardens in the low Countries; loarnes Tbalius remembreth the two forts of the fourth kinde, which he* 
found in cragged ftonie places, lying open to the funne, and in the borders of fome fields, that were dry in Saxo- 
nie neere Turin in Germanic. The fitt alfo is found in the fields in the fame places of germany, that the laftare., 
but necrcr the villages. The fixt groweth in the Vineyards of France indiverfe places, as alio in ditches and 
borders of fields there. The feventh groweth neere the Sea fide in Narbone and about U\larfei/ks. The eighth 
groweth about CUTompe/ier, in thedryfandy Vineyards and Olive grounds, neerethe Seaalfo. The Ninth and 
Tenth, grow about c JMompelier and Marfeillcsfls alfo Padoa as Bauhinus faith.The eleventh groweth on Mount 
Atl/osns'Belloniusreponeth, in Apu/iaand the Kingdomeof, Akyi/M, as Ferrantes ltnptratus affirmeth, who 
fent fome of the rootes thereof unto Clufius , in Candy alfo and diverfe other the warmer Countries,but they are 
all nurfed up onely with us in the gardens of thofe that are curious. The twelfth is not exprefled where it is na¬ 
turall. Thelaftis remembredby garner mitts who faith it was found in certaine woods about Lypf {in Germanic, 
The Time, 
They doe all flower in the Sommer Months of Iune, luly, and Attguft, fome earlyer and fome later than others; 
blit the third kinde is often found inflower in c JMay. 
The Names. 
Tityufa is called in Greeke in latino and in fhoppes Efula, or Efula minor, becaufe there is a greater 
as hath beene fhewed before; it feemeth to have taken the name from Pityufa, being derived thereof, and made 
adiminitive, as if it were Pity ufa/a, and fliort VttfuU or Efnla, as a (mail Pityufa or Pine Spurge. The firft is ta¬ 
ken to be the Pityufa of Diofioridcs, and called Efula minor generally in molt Countries, although the feede an- 
fwere not to the defeription of PDiofcotides- yetis often confounded with the third, which is called fjparijjiasby 
mod authors, and therefore Tabermontamts maketh the firft to he his fecond 7 ithymalrts Cupreffinus: that the roote 
hcreofis taken by AButrins and others for Turbith , I have (hewed before. Nicolaus CAPyrepfcus in fome me- 
decines and purging pils,doth appoint to be put thereinto Efula, by the name of Chamtpitys: whereupon Fuchfms 
thirketiurbat 'Nicolaus his Chamapitys, is the ordinary ground Pine and not any kind oFTithymall, being deceived 
by the Stimologie and double fenfe of the wordtfor Chamapitys fignifieth a low Pine, which Pityufa doth alfo: but 
(fhamspitys doth refemble a Pine.as wel in the refinous find,as in the forme of the leaves, which Pityufa doth not, 
and alfo that Pityufa is a ftrong purger,fit for filch medecines.and pills,as Nicolaus appointeth it an ingredient,and 
therefore by Chamapitys there he only meaneth that Efulavsitb Pine tree leaves.The fecond is by Lobel in his obfer- 
vations fet forth under the fame title,is here exprefled,and Ihave adjoyned unto the firft as moft likely to be a fpe- 
cies thereof, rather than of the Efula dulcis Tragi, as I have fhewinl you in the next chapter fave one before this, 
as Bauhinus would make it. The fourth Bauhinus referreth as I fay'd before to Camerarius his Tithymalus arven- 
fis, and to that which Ioannes Tbalius in his Harcynia Saxanothuringica calleth accUu'/tTr- Bauhinus in his Pirnx 
cailethitTithjmalus CyparifftasfoliispunBiscroceis rntatis, The fifth is CMatthiolus his leptophyllos, whom Ca. 
merarim and Tha/ius doe follow. itisTragus his Efula exigua, and Peplis minor of Dalechampius. The fixt is 
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