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C HAP. XXVII. 
Scorfonera. VipersGrafle. 
Lthough I have fee forth in my former Booke two forts of Scorfonera or Vipers Grafle which arc 
the Spannifb kinde and the low purple kinde, yet becauie there are fome ethers that Qltifiw and 
others have made mention of, and fome alfo not yet publilhedfly any, I thinke it meete to de¬ 
clare all thofc not fpoken of beforefln this place and Chaptcjv 
I, Scorfonera major Pannonica latifoiia . 
The greater Hungarian broad leafed Vipers Grafle, 
’i This greater Hungarian Vipers graffe is very like unto the Spanlfj kinde, in all things almoA, the leaves here¬ 
of are more in number, that rife from the head of the roote, as broad and long as they, but not crumpled about 
;thcedges, norof thatgrayifhgreene colour, butfmooth, and ofadarke oreviilgreene colour ■ this hath two or 
Jthree Aalkes rifing up among the leaves,and fometimes but one, according as the roote hath en ere a fed into l'eve- 
Irallheadsjhaving fume leffer leaves upon them,and at the top,a fcaly fomewhat long greene head, from the mid¬ 
dle whereofgroweth the like double yellow flower as the Spanijh kinde hath,and the like feedc alfo,lying in luch 
rdowny fubflance, neither of them to be well difeerned the one from the other, after they have grow ne any time 
jiii the garden together: the roote alfo is long and great, Spreading into many branches, and (hooting forth into 
.divers"heads, from the upper part thereof, blackifh on the outfide, and white and pleafant within as the other, 
lyeelding milke in every part in the fame manner alfo, abiding many yeares and not perifhing after feede time, as 
j the Goates beards doe, whereof all thefe are accounted as kindes. 
2. Scorfonera humilii latifoiia Pannonica , The dwarfe Hungarian Vipers graffe. 
! This dwarfe or low Scorfonera , fhooteth forth not fo many long leaves but almoA as broad as the laft, fome- 
Iwhat Aifter and fhorter ; and of the fame greene colour ; from among which rifethup oue firme, but hollow and 
ifhortftalke, not above an handbredthhigh, bearing fome few fmall and fliort leaves thereon and a yellow 
:flower,out’of the like greene fcaly head, but (horter than the other, with the like feede therein alfo; thcroote is 
1 blacke without, and whitewithin yeelding milke as the other doth. 
3. Scorfonera minor anguflifolia Pannonica. The fmall Hungarian Vipers grafle. 
This fmall Vipers grafle hath long and very narrow greene leaves, very like the leaves of Tragopogon or 
Goates beard, but fhorter and not fo many, the Aalkes are (tenderer and much lower then the HrA, bearing fmal- 
ler and more Angle flowers upon them then it, and lefler feede, but like in all other refpeds, lying in fuch downc; 
the roote likewife is long and blacke without and white within, but fmaller and flenderer, never growing to be 
halfe fo great, neither yeeldeth fuch ftore of milke as the other doth. 
2.3. 
x. Scorfonera major Pannonica latifoiia. 
The greater Hungarian broad leafed 
Vipers grafle. 
, Scorfonera tuberofaradice. 
The fmalleft Spanifi 
Vipers gtafie„ 
Scorfonera humilu latifoiia & avgnfiifolt&i 
The greater low, and the leffer tall 
Hungarian Vipers graffe. 
