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Show pia THE SECOND BOOKE (OF THE HISTORVE OF PLANTS, weede is holden fora kindes notwithftanding this of Spaine, though itbe coumed Lelle wothye: itis commended of Dio/corides and Plinée againft poifons. The leaues hereof, faith Diofcoridesatey counterpoifon againft deadly medicines, whether they be drunke before or after, Offmoothorgentle Bindweede. 73 Ofwhich mall: Bindweede there are founde otherforts wt lich onely-vatie: ia the éolotir ofthe flowers, vie ‘onuoluulusminitsvspicafolins, [pice fols Conwo Lauenderleafed Bindweed, Chap.303. ae ad 4 Volubilis migra, Blacke Bindweed, & The kindes. i Here bediuersforts ofBindweedes, differing as well in countrie,asin forme and figure.as(hall be declared in thisprefent Chapter. 2 Smilax lenisminor. 1 Smilax lenisfine lenis maior. Great {moothBindweede, Small gentle Bindweede, > The defeription. 3 iesin Thisthirdeki z : neSBindeweede, Pens faith heneuer fawe but in the brinks ofquickfers 5.and cdsabout great Dd. auoyand Narbone, notwithftanding I found the fame growingin the corn , k % The defeription. ded astiaté comeThskinde of Bee Effex in fuch abundaunce,,that it doth very great hurt vnto their ah amore del; indweedor Volubilis is like vnto the {mall Bindweed before mentioned,butit Cillbefore the fan flower > Plaited or fouldedin the compaffe of the bell, veryorderly, efpeo adatke pi Unnerife(forafterit openethit felfe, the welts are not fo muchperceitied ) and T isa ftrange thing vnto me, that thename of Smilax fhould fo largely be a at any pat braunches oe eel The feede is not vnlike the reft;cornered andflat, growing outo of the forme-of Smilax indeede. But we will leaue ‘contronerfies to the furt aiiyy cll mehr 5 hattow,refembling Lirariebothin colour andhairinefle, in tafte dry thould be affigned to thofe plants that come nothirig neere the nature and a oe der of fuchasloue to daunce in quagmires, and to come to this our common ingot amiarl and knowen by that name among vs, or rather moretruly by the name saree a bilis maior : Wt beareth the long branchesof a vine, but tenderer, and for the lenge ha vetooent : ‘ : : e, i ding thereof, very fittomake fhadowes‘in arbors.° Theleaues are ovo en hollow ot nes aitlon ic fas yprightand thicke togither,proceeding out of a woodie white root 4 Thefourth kir, : ; todleaueortg 7 ofBindweed called Helxine ofthe Greek word éax%,whichfignifieth to draw, Nature aad poe :beingconferred with the forelaidekindes of Bindweedes togith C : ie 6 ‘ lckindesof or . of purging > May yeelde manifelt reafons why Cifampelos {houldbe alfo of bigger,and being brokenfull ofmilke; among{t which comefoorthgreat, W mene hero ers like bels.The feede is three cornered,prowing infimall husks,couered with athi , is {mall white and long, like the great Dogs grafle. &, feted 2 Smilax lenisminor,s vouchlike vnto the former, in ftalkes, leaues,flowers, * ches i leco uing that in allrefpe&ts itis muchfinaller, and creepeth vpanthe ground. Thebrane rpc colt ; : andfimooth: thelittle leaues tenderand {oft: the flowers like vnto little bels, of a PME The feede three corneredlike-vnto the others, : 0 tdifstenee Wulus which Dedonewscalleth Conuoluuhwnnigrum. Butfor as muchas there Polabilis, w of, to beconfidered in the herbe Conuoluulus, or as the commonpeople tea bod to oncom hauenotas yct by any one beenefer foorth: I hauetherefore Pace o¢ Sionin this Folubilis for the right Cxfampelos , which agreeth moft with | ides n Wridesnoe propertic ofpurging, ote?! $94Sal{o . in his euident : e whichis the oncly q ateny:, meelieth vato him,whichthe ftudents of Paduacall Broeclay . oth thinke it to be akinde ofthe true Scammonie, This ¢ offampelos, vy OC b |