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Page 380, Line die fifteenth, put out Panaces Carpimon five raccmofum Canadenfe, but why Panax being no 
wound herbc,t fee no caufe unleffc it be for wanfof a better name, put out as I Laid all this, bccaufe it pertained! 
to another place. 
Page 380. Line the fifteenth, putoutthofe thee lafl lines in the N mes, and inftead of them put Aconitttm 
bnccU mbcii & ruf»ii: but I thinke I have more truely referred it to the Chnfiophorianx. In the Venues like wife 
put out the Panaces Carpinon^ nd all that folio wcth,and in the place thereof let thefe lines-, Commas faith, they 
gave ic the name of Aconitum , rather from the likenefle unto an Aconite then frorrwny deliceriall quality they 
knew to be in it, and fuppofeth that the white berries fhould rather portend good then harmc. 
Page \ 87. Lines pu t of the 1 8 15; and part of the 20. are to be llruckc out,not being intended for that place, 
as may plainely be difeerned by the relation. And in the (dread thereof read thefe lines •• The fourth is called by 
Clufiw Apocynum Syriacum P alejhtrttm, & forte dAd.gjptium, bccaufe he itferreth it to the 'Bcidclfar of Alpinws 
in his Bookeof Egiptian plants, and to the Ojfarfiutcx of Honor ins Beilw in his third Epiftle to him, faying with* 
all, that Doftor Chriftopbej Wei x'm,gave him the dryed branch, which he fet forth, and that as he told him he 
gathered it ncere the River Jordan , in TaUftina where it grew, and the people there called it Beidfar : this is 
CliifiM his relation and Judgement thereof: I havefaid fomewhat hereof in my former Booke, page 444, But 
I would to exphine it the better, addc fomewhat more thereunto. Firft that it is not probable to me that this 
plant which Clufius fetteth forth (and is without all question the very fame that rofe with me from the feed was 
brought out of New England upon the firft difeovery thereof, both ftalkes, leaves, and flowers, agreeing I o exact¬ 
ly thereunto, and both forme and colour of the flowers anfwering it in every point, oncly the pods white feed 
anfwcreth not unto this, which I doubt therefore is but miftaken) fhculd be found naturall to thofe parts, fee¬ 
ing as I Laid ic is naturall to Virginia, or Nero England, and efpecially that the name Beidfar fhould be given to 
it, which is moft probable belongeth to that of Alpinw i and Bcllw , which is quite a differing plant from this 2s I 
(heyved in my former Booke,both from the growing hercof,which dyeth downe every yearc,and from the railkc 
it giverh, which Is not caufticke like the O (Tar, and in the rootes which are running underground, which thco- 
ther doth nor. And thirdly, they fay that the Otfar or Beidelfar bcareth yellow flowers, and not expre'fl'ed to 
grow in clufleis as this doth ; and Laftly, that the pods of this Apocjnttm are crooked, according to the forme 
expreffed in the figure, when as thofe of Ojfar are round like Tefticles, and thofe that Clafsw fetteth forth are not 
crooked like unto theft. Basthmas in following fhewerh that he never faw the plant, and therefore ta- 
keth it .for graunted whatfeever he Laid, or Wcixltu informed him, when as by this that I have here delivered 
it is probable Waxias was miftaken, and that hath caufed all thefe errours : as alfo that of Bauhinas > that would 
make it a kindc of Docke, calling it Lap at ham esEgjptiacnm IjftcJccns[ilicjua Afclepiadu t which hath fo little cor- 
refpondence with reafon and judgement, chat I wonder that fo famous an Herbarift ^sBanhinas was, fhculd 
relye upon anorhers foolifh opinion in the denomination thereof, and fo divulge it to the world, whereof I have 
formerly Laid fomething .* The fifeh is remembred by Corntttw, among his Canada plants. 
RanuntuluA fylvarum five Anemone(ylvcflris flou 
plenodlko. The double white vrilde 
Anemone to be inferred in p.jaj. 
6. Pfeudopacyntiw Virginiamm , alijs Gelfcminu m Antri- 
canum maximum (fore phdnieeu. The great Oi renpe 
coloured P T irgin:a Ialminc. to be inferred p.j8j 
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