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Broad leafed or upright Dogs bane.- 
lfli barke.from whence arife divers wooddy .but flexible greenith branches, eafie to wmde.but very tough & hard' 
to breake,(landing for the mod part upright,and feldome trayling or laying hold of any thing that groWtth neare 
it, having two broad darkegreene leaves, but fharpe and not round at the points, fetatevery j'oynt all alon" 
but not very neare one unto another, full of veynes, fomewhat fofterthen (vie leaves, fomewhat thicke alio’ 
| 1 whofe ftalkes and branches being broken yeeld a pale yellow coloured milke ; but as ‘Dufconies and other wri- 
9 ters fay,of a much deeper yellow, that is, in the warmer Countries; the flowers come forth at the /oynts with 
I the leaves, and at the tops three or foureor more fometimes (landing together, which confift of five (mall poin- 
I ted leaves, of a whitilh colour, yet larger then thofc of Afclepias or Swallowewort ; after which fin the hot¬ 
ter Climats, but never in ours that could be obferved) grow long crooked and pointed cods, fomewhat more 
hard and wooddy then thofc oM/c/rpna,although nothing fo much as thole of the Bofebay tree,called Oleander, 
■ mod ufually two (landing together upon one (lalke, but levered at the fetting to the (hike, and are full of a fil- 
(i ken white downe.wherein lye difperfed many flat blackifh browne feedes: the roote groweth downe into the 
; ground (preading into fundry branches, with divers ftnall fibres thereat, this loofeth not his branches, but 
leaves every yeare,new (hooting forth every fpring. 
a. sApocymtm anguftifi/iumfivc refens. Climing Dogs bane. 
The diming Dogs bane fendeth forth from the roote divers wooddy branches, yet tough and flexible, of a 
darke grayifh greene colour,and fometimes brownilh efpecially neare the ground, where it beareth no leaves ah 
ter it is growne of any bigneffe or height, which winde 
themfdves from the Sun ward (as in all that I have (eene I 
have obferved) to a very great height, twenty foote or more 
fometimes, if it finde whereon it may climbe higher, or elfe 
falling downe againe with his top, whereon (land at feverall 
gooddiflances, favingat the tops where they (land thicker 
letcogether, two leaves longer and narrower then the for- 
mer.and pointed at the ends,fomewhat thicke, and of a deepe 
greene colour almofl: fliining : the flowers Hand in the fame 
manner that the others doe, confiding of five thicks leaves, 
each of them pointed and fomewhat bending backwards, 
feeming to have two leaves a peece, one lying upon another, 
like untothofeof Epimedium or Barrenwort, the undermoft 
being greenifli and larger then the upper leaves, which lye 
upon them, and are not fo large to cover them wholly, but 
leave the greene brims, or edges of the lower leaves to bee 
feene round about them, which upper leaves are of a darke 
purple or reddifh colour, and cleave fo fad to the lower,that 
it is very hard to (eparate them : in the middle of each flower 
flandeth a greene pointed, incompaflcd with five darke yel¬ 
low chives, each of them turning inwards: after the flowers 
are fallen, appeare (in the warme countries, but not 
in ours) final 1 long cods, two alwayes j’oyncd together, 
but more (Iridlly then the other, bowing fomewhat more 
outwards in the middle, and meeting almofl together at the 
points, wherein lie fuch like flat (cedes, wrapped in the like 
filken downe: the roote fpreadeth in the ground like the 
other, and fometimes fendeth forth fuckers, whereby it is 
encreafed : this likewife loofeth his leaves but not his ftalkes 
in the winter,and gaineth f re(h in the fpring. 
3. Apocynumanguflo fallen folio . Widow 
leafed Dogs bane. 
This other narrow leafed Dogs bane groweth up in the 
fame manner, thatthe laftdo:h,having twoleaves fet at every joynt ofthe climing twigs, but they are not fiJ 
thicke, butfomewhat thinner, and much narrower then they, almofl refembling the forme of a willow leafe, 
the flowers are like the other, and blow as late,loofing his leaves in the winter, in the (ame manner. 
4. S' Apocynum reflum latifolium cj* angttflifolittm Americanumfive majv.i ch minus. 
The great and lefler upright American Dogs bane. 
Although I have in my former booke given you both the dclcription and figure of the greater (ort of theft 
Dogs banes by the name of T eriplaca Virginian*, Virginian filke.yet I think it not amide to mention ic here againe, 
& give you the full figure thereof,referring you to fee the defcription,&c-there,and with it to joyne a lefier fort 
which creepeth not with the rootes in the ground like it, but from many long fibres fhooteth forth a round 
browne (lalke about halfe a yard high, having at each joynt a paire of long narrow leaves, and fuch a 
large tuft of flowers at the top, but of a deeper purple colour, wh ch have a certaine clamminefle on them that 
will detaine flics or other light things that happen to fall thereon, after which come long and ftraight cods (not 
crooked like the greater fort hereof) with flat browne feeds therein lying in a white kind of downe, like unto 
AfcUpiat Swallowewort: this yecldeth a milky fap like the other, and thought to be both dangerous, although 
no true tryall hath beene made thereof. 
■ b. Pfeudo apocynump irgimanum^liys Gel/eminum Americanum maximum flare pbaniceo, Virginian Iafmine. 
let me I pray you make bold to infert in this place to the reft this Indian, I intitle him with baltardy 
for the reafons hereafter fpecified, whofe defeription I give you in this manner. It fhooteth forth (iindry weake 
whitilh wooddy llemmes not able to luftaine themfelves without helpe of (lakes or fattening to fomc wall but 
fpreading exceeding high or farre, branching forth on all Tides into many fmall ones, at whofe j'oynts come 
forth long winged leaves fcaven or nine fet on a middle (lalke, each whereof is fomewhat broad and long poin- 
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