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Show OFthe Hiftoryof Plants, ai Chamefyce. Lina, a 22 ApiOS Vera, Spurgce Lime, Kagbbed Spurge, OF the Hiiftoryof Plan “Lis. 25 hath many!branches and leales crec ping on the ground ofa paleggreenecolour, not-unlike to Hit niaria, DUC givin > milke as all the other Tithymke s doe, bearmg ‘the like feeed,pouch,and floures but fmaller in each refpect. cuery 22 The twoand twe ntieth kinde of Tithymale hath aroundroot like {mall Tur Authour doth report: yet my felfe haue the fameplant wimygarden which¢doth alee wie often viewed the roots.y Lich doapof which I haue giuendiuers vnto myfriendsSihereby peste ynto me fomewhat tuberous,andtherein n othingGanfvering the deferiptions w] iE Pena,andothers haue expreffed andfet forth. This argueth,that eithert} te deceiued.and defcribed the’ famebyheare-fay, or elfe the plant doth degenerate being bi foile. The leaues are fet all alongfta fmall rib like Fraxinclla, fome reddifh vnderneath. Thefeed groweth among theleaues like the feed of full of milke like the other Tithymales. + Our Authonrhere wrongfully taxes other\ which fhev For his i i recne aboue,a s of plants, & 2: thecither neuer tead, or elfe vnde deritoxometwhar they writ, fortneiither oft (nor any other that I knowof) refembles the root of this toa Tut Ea 1 | oot, &c.as you mayfee in aeib.4: CAP.177.Bee 1e fo grow notlby couples one ag. certaine order, as in other is {ai j i { vsnath alfoa tubcrous root, Die not apie sae ion but almoft« whereof an equall tthicknefle ; beeingg d fometi i 1OnB> and the lower part thereof is diuidedd into Bose other roots ,or thicl ders, growing oH little and little, anc {fendi S ; with 1 ‘iat ond the fede is dod dir thymalus tuberofus,ox I(chas altera of Clufius. + gq The Place. tkinde of Spurge groweth by} the Sea fide vpon the rowling } D t : D Sand and Baich, 3 as 4at Leee t Lang-tree point rightagainft Harwich, at Whitftable in Kent, and in many other place Ss. Thefecond groweth in grounds that liewafte, and in barren earable foile, almofeuery w} Thethirdand fourth, asalfothefoureteenthand eighteenth,grow in gardens ut notwil x ’ de in ¥ 23 Apios radice oblonga, Long knottie rooted Spurge: ains 19 Thefifteenth kindecallLed Paps hath a{mall, and fibrous root, bringing forth many fuicfallbranches two hand fuls long,but little and tender,’with leaues like the“Sun Tithymale, but rounder an much fimaller: it hath ‘alfo finall yellow floures : which being paft there appear a flender pouchet,three corneredlikethe ita vey other Tithymales, hauing within medullous whitith feedikke Poppi, whole plant yeelding a milky inice" ich argueth ittobe akinde of Tithymale, 20 Asinnamefoin fhape this ewels tieth refembleth Peplus, and commeth ia likelihood neerer the fignification ofFe Plumox Flammeolum than the other,therefore Diofcorides affirmethit tobe Thee amphilaphes, fox that it bringeth foot! gteater plentie of branches,“more ¢ knit and wound together , with fhinily twifts and clafpersan hand fulland alalt long. The leaues are leffer Chan Peplus,of an indifferent likenefle aalde emblance betweene Chamefyce 2and wild f Purflane. Thefeed is great,and likerhat Peplys:the rootis fmall and fingle. at Theoneand twentieth ‘Kinde! ma be eafily knownefromthetwro laft Mentioned,although they be ber! Inc 1, Tie ninth Spurge called Characias groweth in moft VVoods of England that are drie and iteenth and nineteenth growin falt ma tthes neerethefea,as in theifle of Thanet by detwixt Reculvers and Margateir Thefe plants floure from Iuneto the et Sea Spurge is called weitet mtich that is to Lupinum lac, #. The firft is ca} f glith Sea land fou arch, M.fire! é 5 nFge : I or sp Wolfess Spurg ( pa V pt S ‘in high Dutch s called Tithymalus /Vartwoort, The fecond,Sun Spurge; oramong's VVelcome to hrub Spurge,and ttee Mirtle Spr leafed Spurge : the ao Great eeighth ree Spurge: hefixteenth VeniceSpurge xe,the feuentcenth the nineteenth and twentieth Petie Sputgoe vo and twenticth, True 4pios or thekrbed Temperature . thymales or Spurges are hot and driealmoft in thefourth degrec,of a fharp A Cte hehconfumin .F irf his milke and fap isinsaan” aenSe fait eric. nee; ema call]led M: wt.ae 1g in the t into mywht Ww‘hich neuertheleffe did fo inflame ahd edwith my life. And in like cafe was the gentleman,which { pofte for ous liuesvntothenext farme houfeto dtinkefomemilk muitic of our heatewhich then ceafed, a The B |