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Show a - -- a rae Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. ai a alee Amygdaloides . $ 10 Tithyn 7a ———at Lisa, Characiasa angnpifaliy Narrowleaued Wood-fputce F al ; * ay : > : +, Of the Hiftory of Plants, Ci — iuided intofundry branches mentioned, finger thicke,and but diuided fomewhat into fundrybran e ies. finger t nic a ‘fomew nat hairy,notre dairy, not redd as che the= . . H 5 others, but white; the leaues be long and narrow, whitifh,and alittle dow ny :the floures are yel- low,but in otherpointslike to the reft ofthis kinde, ; hal 8 The eighthkinde rifeth vp with oneround reddith ftalke two cubits high, fet about with Jong thin and broadJeaues like the leaues of the Almondtree : the foures come forth at the top like the others, and ofa yellow colour. The feedandroot refemble the other of his kinde. 9 Theninth (whichis the commonkinde growing in moft woods) is like the former,but his leaues be fhorterandleffe,yet liketo the leaues of an Almondtree : the floures are alfo yellow, andthe feed containedin three corneredfeed-veffels. + to This fourth kinde of Tithymalus Characias, or Valley Tithymale (for fo the name iinports) hath Iong, yet fomewhat narrowerleaues than the former, whitith alfo, yetnothoaty, the vmbels ortufts of floures are ofa greenifh yellow,which before they be openeddo reprefent the thape ofa longifh fruitjas an Almond,yet in colour it is like the reft of the leaues:: the foures and feeds are like thofe of theformer, andthe root defcends deepe into the ground, 1x The fifth Characias hathalfo long leaues fharpe pointed, and broader at their fetting on; andof a light greene colour, andfnipt or cut about the edges like the teeth of afaw. The vmbels are {maller, yet carry fuch’floures andfeeds astheformer. + 12 Thiskinde hath great broadleaues like the yong leaues of Woad, fetround-abouta ftalk of afoot high, ingoodorder : on the top whereof grow the floures in {mall platters like the commonkinde, ofa yellowcolour declining to purple, Thewhole plantis full of milke, as are all the reft before fpecified. ymalus Dendroides ex Cod.Cxfareo, Great Tree Tithymal, : (erratifolius. ; i ; malusl Characias of eet a i CutleauedSoe VVood-fpurge. 14 Efulamaior Germanica. Quackfaluers Turbith, 12 Tithymalasplatyphyllos BETS Broad leaued Spurges x ISS ae N 4B IAP\ ZANS — ther kinde of Tithymale, whofe figurewas taken forth of4 Manufcri pt ofthe 4oneus, that hatha ftalke of the bigneffe ofa mans thigh; growing likea tree vato elfe into fundry armes or branches toward the top, ofa red. nder,muchlike yntothe leaues of Myrtus : the feedis likeviito ‘tasaccording to the authority ofPerer Bellome: ymale called Bfala maior, which eatartinus Rulandus had in great Tt 3 arg veneration, |