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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 502 ie veneration,asby his exttaction which he vfed for many infirmities may and doth appeareatlars, in his bookes entituled Centurie curatiosum Empiricarum, dedicated vnto the duke ofBauatia, Thi Si alee. Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. £17 EfulacxiguaTragi. Dwarfe Efula. 18 Lathyre:(eu Cataputia minor. Garden Spurge. plant of Rulandus hath very great and manyroots couered ouer with a thicke barke, plaited asi were with manyfurculous{prigs ; from whicharife fundry ftrong and large fkemmes ofa finges thickneflé, in height two cubits, befet with many pretty large and long leaueslike Lathyri,bw that they are notfo thicke : the feed and floure are not vnlike the other Tithymales. 15 This is like thefifth, faue that it hath fmaller and more feeble branches ; andthe whole plantis alrogetherleffer, growing but fome fpan or foot high , and the flouresare ofa redorellea greene colour. 16 There is anotherrare and ftrange kinde ofE/ala,in alliance and likeneffe neere vnto Fil minor, thatis the fmall Efi:la or Pityufa vfed among the Phyfitions and A pothecaries ofVeniceas akind of E/i/a, in the ConfeGionoftheir Benedicta and Cathartickepills,in ftead ofthetmezf- fa : Ieyeeldeth a fungous, rough, and browneftalke two cubits high, diuidingit felfe into funty branches, furnifhed with ftiffeandfat Jeaues like Licorice, growing together by couples, The floures are pendulous, hanging downetheir headslike {mall bells, of a purple colour, and wihia they are ofa darke colourlike Ariffolochia rotunda. Tt 15 Efula minor, fen Pityufa. Small Efula. $ 16 EfulaVentta marititn. Venetian Sea-Spurge. 19 Peplus, five Efula rotunda, Pettie Spurge. = 17 Thetesrowes in manychalkie grounds and fuch dry hilly places,among comes Spurgewhich feldome growesto two handfuls high ; the rootis fmall, and fuch alfoare and leaues,which grow pretty thicke thereon; which oft times are not fharpe, but flat Ea the feed-veffels and floutes ate very finall, yet fafhionedlike thofe ofthe other Tithym™™ tobe found incornefields in Iuly and Auguft. + ot 18 The bigger Carapytia orthe commongarden § purgeis vied ; wherefore Twill not {pend time abouthis defeription. beft knowneofall there ery be die The finall kinde ofCaraputia is like vnto the former, but leffer, whereby it mayeafily ° ghifhed ; being likewife well knowne vnto all,thar I hall not need todeferibe it. re $ Thefe two (I meane the bigver andleffer Cataputia ofour Author) differ not but by «ae bit oftheir age, and the fertileneffe and barrenneffe ofthe foile,whence the leaues are anne der, and otherwhiles narrower, ¢ : 20 Peplise Ifope Spurge,| |