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them letter then they ; in the middle whereof ftgndeth a round darke purplifh button or head, compaffed about 
with eight fmall yellow mealy chives or threds, which three colours make it the moreconfpicuous, and lovely 
to behold : this button or head in the middle, when the other leaves are withered, becommeth a blackifh purple 
berry full of juice, of no hot nor evill, nor yet of any fwectifh tafle, ofthebigneffe ofa reafonable grape, ha- 
ving within it many white feedes i the whole plant is almolt infipidc, without any manifeft tafte, "and by the 
effects, in reprelling humours and inflammations is accounted as cold as the Nightfhade. 
a. Herb* parit triphyllos ‘Brajili.ino, Hcrbe true Love ot BrafW. ' 
The roote of this herbe is fmall and creepeth like the other/ending forth a (lender ftalkc of foure or five inches 
high,having three broader and longer leaves fet thereon,then are in the fornier.the (lalke rifethabout three inches 
above them,bearing at tl« top three muchnarrower leaves,as it were the huske to the flower,(landing in the mid¬ 
dle, confiding of three white leaves having feme veincs in them, and are about three inches long, and one broad. 
3. Herb* Parit Canadenfu rotunda radice. Herbe true love of Canada with a round roote. 
This herbe groweth with three large leaves like the lad, and at the toppe of the upper ftalke one flower, con¬ 
fiding offixe leaves, three whereof are greenc and fmall, which are as it were the huske to the other three leaves 
which are larger and longer, ofa darke purple colour, and in fome white, in the middle whereof groweth a 
fmall round blackifh berry, full offmall feedes like Nightfhade feeder the roote hereofcreepeth not as the for¬ 
mer, but groweth into a fmall round tuber. 
The Place, 
The fird groweth in our woods and copfes, as alfofomctimes in the corners and borders of fields, and wade 
grounds, in very many places of this land, for beddes thofe places which Gerard hath fet downe, which areal- 
mod all waded and confirmed, every one running thereunto, that is next him, and gathering it-- it is found in 
Hinburj wood, three mile from cMaideftone in Kent, in a wood alfo called Harwarfli , neere to Pinmnden heath, 
onemile from the (aid ATaidefione ,in a woodby Cbiflclhurft in Kent ,called Long wood,and in the next wood 
thereunto called Ifeets wood, efpecially about the skirts ofa hoppe garden bordering thereon, in a wood alfo 
over againd BoxTy Abbay a mile from Maideftone in great abundance, not farre from the hedge fide of that Med- 
dow,through which ruunes a rivelet,related by M r,George B owlet a young Gentleman, of excellent knowledge 
in thefe things. The fecond was found as Bauhtnm faith in the woods of Brajilfaut I had the knowledge thereof 
given me from Mcunfier Loumeau of Rocbell Preacher!who had it out of Canada, The lad was brought out of 
Canada, and mentioned by Corunttu in his booke of Canada plants. 
The Time , 
They fpring up in the middle of Aprill, or May, and are in flower foone after, the berries are ripe in the end of 
May, and in fome places in Iune, 
The 
