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Show = Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Lae eee 1 Telephiumfloribus purpureis. Purple Orpyn. aes aa Ofthe HiftoryofPlants; 2 Telephinm fémper-virens, Neuet-dying Orpyn, Crap. 148, Of Purflane. q The Defiription, * ‘He ftalkes of the great Purflane be round, thicke; fomewhat red,full Ofjuice, fmooth; glittering, and parted into certaine branches trailing vpon the ground:the leaues be an inchlong, fomething broad, thieke,fat, glib, fomewhat greenewhiter on the nejaint yellow,and grow out at the bortome ofthe leaues. ther fide : the flouresare little,of After them {prin th vp little huske ofa greene colour, ofthe bigneffe almoft ofhalfe abarly corne, in whichis fmall blacke feed : the root hath many ftrings. 2 Portulaca fil:veftris. Wilde Purflane. ces, but fmaller, and it fpreadeth on the gtound; tlre fe, andthickneffe, but farre leffer. @ The Place, Telephiunlegitimum . and he hath thus giuenvs the hiftory thereof: It produces from 7 : ; the root manybranchesfpred vponthe ground, whichate aboutafoot long, ferwith many” 5 andin the waies andallies thereof being digged and dun ind fat foile nor dry. rdens and vineyardes, and oftentimes once fowne, ifit belet alonetill the efpecially fuch as are not come to floure ; for the otherhaue fewer : thefe leaues are imal thicke alfoandfueculent than thofe of the former kindes, neither are theyfobrittle: © f is green,inclining a little to blew:the topsof the branches areplentifullyftored with lit : growing thick - LOS ceed corneredfe -t, and compofédoffiuelittle white leaues apiece :which fadt fullofabrownith feed. The rootis fometimes asthicke a ed into fomebranches, and liuing manyyeares. $ © The Place, T ime, Names, Temperature, and Vertne ngland. The fecondflourifhes in my garden. $ Theth! are {pecified inthe the common Orpyn doth. Their names 3) u defcriptions :andtheir temperature and faculties in working arereferred to the commo? 4 BY stead tem: in Latine, Portulaca : in high Dutch, #urbeleraut > in — oe See hada tian wccia : in Spanith, 7 erdolagas + in Englifh,Purflane,and Porcelane. Xx q Te |
