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broader and rounder at the ends: thefe (Hikes have no branches at all hm r e u -7-- 
the toppes (land three or foure flowers, upon flender footeftalkes in Ionnh7b° me of , the “PP" Joynts, andati 
tszr r -“ ■» ■ ™ 
other was firft found and fee forth by Mr CnWinhi. H„L S n j i L lc , rvet0 decke up thetrhoufes, t h» 
clfe then in that little Grove called theSpiny which^s m^unto!uMerrm\nNmhimptlrifiirt° W ^ ^ b 
will be quke’lpent!' bcfore ’ and fo cotinuc a » and part of September, bc f ore they 
4tTfi'fofS an y thing wid,all ;& thcrcforc 
and f.to.which eommeth from theGree£wtJdS®,' whffiS"°‘ D “ M > C ‘'".7*Sg 
qmte differeth from tt as you (hall he .re by and by ■ f or althou-h AAAn W*?’* CMd “ t «‘ fane, but 
of their Routing and clenfing quality; yet none of them hfL.U "7“ a ™ ny othcrs >“ a y be called Sr™ 
the Latines is called Radscula, and Lanarilherba, and by feme other S h a C lfo S t h ram C / CnP H IOn °S i,rH,hium (which of 
neoufly) and overpaffed by Diofcorides as rn„ „ell ‘ Il0 transferred to this Saponartuhm ““ 
neoufly j and overpaffed by DUfa&k ,as t^wefuntwne inht da^e' 10 , t ? 1 f fe " ed t0 this Sap.naria but ato- 
but remembred onely by Theophraftue m his lint Booke and thtrd Chap ofhis Morvof Pl^ n ° defcri P tio n, and 
whole eaves are pnckley. P%,nhisi 9 . Booke and third Chap? defcribfhT™ f A “ B **“ M S*ofeherbc» 
words I thinkefit tofttdowne and afterwards interpret them.that all 22, ” at lar g e = his 
divers have (hewed in referring the more oblcurc Plants of the I,;,™ L „ fa T" 113 ' ,ltt,c care and judge 
the.r Authors words and dec arations. At vocautr Radical* (SpZ a,,d “““lining 
mirum cjuantum confirms cmdor i wU.tucpuc. ^„ e „* /citHr mZ" ” M«x 
[axofis & afperuloca, tram Eupbratem tamen Lmdatijmm.caulefir»Lceotemi&ivh, ‘l, m A fi a - tyiaepue, 
ttngcnti qn\f;(]uidfit cum quo decoqttatur , folio Ole*, StrmhtumGraci vocant ■ „‘\ U 'xpetito, & 
cdore,Jpwt>fa rr caulslarmgmofi femenei nullum radix maona an* conr-d, a £ ft ate grato affebln vernm line 
be thus Englifhed, but that herbe which is called Radial, hath a inictor f^neth 7 * “ f * m ! which ™7 
wonderful! to fee what whiteneffe and fmoothneffe thereby iegiveth unto them A ' ^ afl) cIotIl “ = ft l 
and 
many indivers P laces,butofitowneaccordin7pand e !y% I l l ro?k7n 0 drf ra ' T u he f am!rcdfort g rowet bi 
moft pratfe worthy groweth beyond Euphrates, having a fmall fcmbus fhlTe g t, P n^u ! - but the chiefeft 
with their meats, and is apt to colour ordye any thine that fliall he hat \rA • u- W ^ IC /] r ^ e inhabitants doe cate 
tree: the Greekes call it Strmhi„ m . I t flowrefh in Summer and is nL f l’ (" kh the leafe of an OliV ‘ 
mg prickly, and the (hike woolly: it beareth no feede the rlrJ • p fan 5 r ,° fc£hold buc without any fent be 
ufesaforefayd. Thus farre Pl,>y. P eCC£s W tt 
thatth tSaponaria, hath no Olive like leafe, but rather like a Planra^e'" '"'b W l, tb tb:s defeription, you fhall finde 
fmooth and joynted it hath no prickly leaves buc fmooth nor no great roote bur"? u'^j n ° r W °° 1,y (lalke - 
ney ther fent nor (eede, as Pity faith Struthi« m doth : fo that I J r , [ mal1 and cre£ P‘ng; it wantech 
one.for one qualities fake onely of fcowring or clenfing when fomanv ^ ^ ^ th ° uld make them both 
therefore doth MtttAulm contrary Fudrbu, plainelv as alfo rW 7 J d£llI ] eatIons “re abfolntely different-and 
which he therefore called pL, v “E K.” al ‘°, t i ,0 . fe took the Lme a , Qr LuteoUherba to be*™ 
the Arabian *,which is thought to be the Stmhium of the Greekef and 1 “ be it affo Cmdif , 0 . 
purpoRs whereunto they have appropriated their c»4unto - but appl> ’c d and ulcd ic for all thofi 
nthele words ilc is theroote of a plant (that hath prick y ft"* defeription of Condi], 
thumbe fomewhatyeHowifh on the infide and blacke without ftarnehnth’ T ^ ? thicknef fc of onei 
[corides faith) the rootcis long and round, and of, n . ’ lh, tpc both m fent and tafle(Jfr<pi<, 0 utofZJw 
(h Wr>rd« ITf* lirone,'.,- .. r l 
f^'th^ / ^hit^^■ tIle d < T 0 t C •i ^, ^ on S a n^ round, and of^ejuicke fharpe^aft^whi^h" ^*\ tand ta ^ e ^ er *pi° butofZ)^ 
faith in the printed Latme copies) with the decoftion thereoftf arC wann '"g as Lydanenfi. 
fwcete oyntment makers m D«mafco,doe put it into their confer™. !h ^ b 7 h W00 " and clothes ; and the 
which giveth them fuch a whitenefle that ?hey feeme asT “hey were^f ° f 7 ney ’ and bo ? lcd ^ 
cut into peeres,the Spans u fe to wa(h the filth out of their garments Y ? tarch : with tht ro °t' 
beene fomewhat tedious in declaring chefe things that other. VI I (i ln!lead of Sope or Lye. Thavi 
and thatneitherS^oMrMnor/.OT^eanbeitf for there is no heate n o d r e n! 3nd wh * t . S,ru,hiam “nd Condifi are, 
leir differing forme t the firths generally called Saponaria by all writers ew^f' e , ythcr of thcm > befide: 
fits, and Fufchu (f, who as is fayd called it Struthiim : the other Gerard who caIIeth ic Violaaore. 
bothT° t lem ’i thlnkln S « a/pnrw thereof, but it is plainely feene and knn^ Gmtm * and placed it 
both in rootes leaves, and flowers, and not with G«fM* but in the Mr. t0 asrec with the Saponaria, 
opewort.and of fome Brmfewort: the countrey people in Kent and J^calh't At * ufual,y cal,ed 
Ther™ . .... The Venues. na " ^ caU 1C Gill run by the ftreet. 
The r™n, T - The Venues, ‘ mn uy enc itrcet. 
,„d,t«n_,|,e„ 0 f. th « Jti , dl <r„sr t “ 
provoke urine, and thereby to expell gra^Mdtk ffo°^ i n n ?he k refnes"' ‘K? • t ' lereof ’ thac k is di o r «-«ll to 
ecureic \ . womens treene and pewter veffels 
thers judoe, tha* have iudoe r< " ,, ’ t ^ Cn Cltbcr ^‘"'f a P ari,l ‘ ! > Gu ‘ I jacum, or China 
rheoneh^lf. 3 ^ n ,f e lodgement upon true knowledge of the truth- for m„ii"ir”)' "‘“m now true it is let c 
e, untill more evident ptoofes doe convince me. ' y elfe,I cannot be induced to beleev 
as uy expert 
they no leffe extoll it to performe 
can d°e ; which how true it is leto- 
