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them, having fach like darke greene leaves fet by couples, but fomewhat fmaller then they : the flowers like- 
wife (land in the fame falhion, but fomewhat fmaller alio and of fo darke a purplifh colour, that it feemeth to 
be a blacke, and are fcarfe difeerned unleffe one looke very earncftly upon them: after which come more plen¬ 
tifully then in the former, fuch like cods, with a white filver downe, andiccdesinthemas in the former: the 
rootes hereof are not lo bufliye as in the other, neither fmell fo ftrong, nor doth it give any milkic but a watery 
juice whenit is broken, fofarreas ever Icouldobferve. 
3 . Afclepias Cretica. Swallow-wort of Candy. 
This Candy Swallow-Wort, rifethupin the fame falhion that the former doe, with many (lender flexible 
greene branches, with leaves fet at the joynts, on either fide, as the white kinde hath, and are very like unto 
them, but fomewhat of a paler greene colour; the flowers (land in the fame manner, three or foure together 
uponaftalke, but are fomewhat of a paler white colour, notfo white as they, to whom fucceede fometimes 
but one, but moil ufually two pods together, which are thicker and (hotter then thofe ofthe white kinde, (Ira. 
ked all along, and double forked at the ends, wherein lye feedes and filke as in the former : the rootes have not 
fo many (Irinas as the laft, and have as well as the reft of the Plant, a ftrong fmell refembling Boxe leaves. 
The Place. 
• The two firft grow in roogh untilled places,and in mountaines in divers places, both in Trance about Narbone, 
Mitrfeillcs and Mempelier, and in Italy alfo, and in other places. The laft grew in Candy from whence the feed 
came. 
The Time . 
Thev all flower in the moneths oflune and luly, and fometimes not untill Augufl, if the yeare be backc ward, 
and their cods with feede is ripe about a moneth after: the empty huskes abiding on the dry branches, when the 
feed and filke is fhed out, and fallen on the ground, or blowne away with the wind. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke <«**»<« Afclepitts,ah t^fculapie, qui dmhmdt Gratis dicitrtr antique medicine: doliere: 
fomebaftard names it hath alfo, is raesiSv quaf hederula,vcii»esefdM hederefolium : and thereupon or from the 
forme of the leaves like unto Ivy: Ruellim calleth it Hederalis, in Latine it is called ufually Afclepias and Vixce- 
toxiatm , which is as a gcncrall word to denom inate any Counterpoif on, for Vincetexicum quaf Alexipharmacum 
dilhim, & quod illi mfieri: adverfui venentt vis inft ft. was anciently called fjirundinariti,( although both the kindes 
ofChelidonittm majut and minus, be alfo called Hirundimria ) otfome, quia acute: &apertete]tu flique, cum cm- 
dida lanxgine volanti hirundixifere ftmilit el?, ali} vero a femme Unugine pinnate, it a did Aunt : that is, it is cal¬ 
led Swallow-wort of fome, becaufe the pointed cods when they are open; and the filke appeareth out of them, 
doe fomewhat refemble a Swallow flying; others fay from the likeneffe ofthe feed, fethered as it were with 
the downe about it_: it is called in ItalianVenci tajftco & Afclepiade , in high 'Dutch SchwaHen mtrtz, in low 
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