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Show Cu ap. 18. \ Theatrum Botanicum. Tris, the places troubled withthe itch, taketh itaway ina very fhort {paces the fame fimple water Seen fas and fores. The leaves being boyledin fat broath, worketh to fome purpofer morefafe. ly, thoughmore weakely. It is held by many good atuthors,to be effeCtuall forall the purpofes,the greater Spurge or Palma Chriftiis applyed unto. Tripez.2. The Theater ofPlants. Cuar.18, 3+ Tithymalas Cyparifiias vulgaris. Oypreffe Spurge or welcome to our houfes $+, Tithymalus Leptophyllos, Small anauall Spurge, Cuap, XVIII. 5 % of them together. ~ : 1. Pityu(a, Tithymalus Pineafive Efula minor, Pine Spurge or {mall Efula, ‘This finall Spurge hath diverfe weake and flenderftalkes, halfe a yard long, whereon grow many {mall long and narrow pointed leaves, without order round about them, very like unto the leaves of Tode~ flaxe: at the toppes of the ftalkes grow yellow flowers,fometimes dafht over with purple,like the former Spur= ges but leffer, and ftandingin the like cuppes,whichfalling away,the feede growethin {mall three {quare huskes; whereinis conteined {mall round feede: the roote is {mall and long, of the bigneffe of ones finger, fomewhat blackifb on the outfide, but white within, and abiding many yeares, yet the extremities of the winter, doe fometimesrot it en WW PA iN AX Yh TERi Ts pAving fhewed youall the forts of the greater Spurges, there remaine diverfe other {mall Kinds, §, which I will comprehendin this chapter, that fo I may accomplifh; and fet forth the whole family Ley Tithymalifive Efule minorés, The {maller Spurges? ASS ATS Ws= = SSSe — eS and caufeit to perifh : both milke, roote and feede, are fomewhatlike in heate and unto the garden Spurges,but not altogether foviolent: theroote of this Efula is accounted of the fharpenefie moft skillfull, to be the trueft E/u/a minor; andthe extract ont of the roote hereof, rightly prepared and called Eatrraétum Efile, B ZL 192 2. Pityufafive Efula minorfloribusrubriss Small Spurge with red flowérs, Theré is another ofthis kinde ens a foote high with {uch like leaves thereon » Whofe flowers are reddith ftandingin the like cuppes,that the other Spurges doe, 3. Tithymalus Cypariffias vulgaris. Common Cyprefle Spurgé or Wellcometo our houfe; The Cypreffe Spurge is fo likeunto the rft defcribed, thatit deceiyeth many,that doe not marke them precifely; for this hathalfo diverfe flender brownith ftalkes, whereon gtow {mall narrow leaves, yet fomewhat (horter and thicker than the former, and thicker {etupon the ftalkes alfo : the fowers andfedea relike the other, and fo isthe rootealfo, whereupon divérfe have miftaken it, and take it for the true E/ila minor, and fo have ufed it inftéad thereof, ; : 3, Thymalus Pitea, Pine Spurge; 2. Efwla minor altera pupureisforibus; Small] Spurgewith red flowers, ~ 4 Tithymalus Cypariffias maenlatisSolis. Cyprefle Spurge with {potted leaves. This other Cypreffe Spurge, differeth not much from the former having fmooth round reddifh ftalkes, two foote highat the lealt, the tops whereofdoea little bend downewards; the leavesare fat and longlike unto the former, but ftanding moretogetherat {paces, which are greene onthe upperfide, and more yellowith underneath, thicke fet with deepe yellow fpots almoftred, whichare eminent likewife are ofa little deeper colour, tending to aredor purple : the rooteis at their firft {pringing: thé flowers {maller than thofe of the former,and morepartedinto {prayes or branches, with manyfibres at them, of a browni(h red colour on the outfide, and pale within, not abiding as the other dothafter feeding time. Thereis another ofthis kindelefferin all parts thereof, elfé not differing from ir, 5. Zithymalus Leptophyllos. Small anniial Spurge. . This annual] {mall Spurge hath manyflender weakeftalkes, bufhingfo farre upon the ground, whereon grow very {mall long and narrow rth into many branches, and fpreading leaves, ftanding upright, the uppermol t whereof are fomewhat broade at the hottome, and compaffe theftalkes, ending ina long fharpe point or end : the flowersare yellow, like unto the other and very fmall, after which comethree {quare heads, bat very fmall, wherein is conteined very {mall round grayith fede, not much biggertha hard and woody, perifhing every yeare as foone asithath given fede. n poppy fecde : the roote is {mall long , 6.Efularotundafive Peplus. Round headed Spurge, or Vineyard Spurge. This Spurge fhootethforth round about the roote many {mall weake reddifh upright branchés with {mall leaves fet bycouples for the molt part, fomewhat like the leaves of Sun-turning Spurge, bucrounder pointéd and {maller, ofa grayifh greene colour onthe upperfide, and little reddi(h or putplifh underneath, oftentimé s which will change to be wholly purple, inthe Sommertime flowers are very {mall and yellow ftanding moreround, or clofe together, as it were in an umbell, otherwif: ethe like unto the reft : and fo isthe feede alfo very fmall, conteined in three fquare heads : the rooteis fmall and fhing alfo every yeare, and rifing againe ofit owne fowing. long, With manyfmiall ftrings and fibres at it, perie , 7. Peplis. Small purple Sea Sparge, This fmall purple Sea Spurge, {preadeth his {mall purplifh other,and fomewhat leffer; whereon doe grow many{mall branches upon the gtound moreplentifulthan the leaves like the other,but notfo round at the ends; and purplith likewife both underneath and above s, efpecially in the beginningof the heate of the yeare: the flowersare finall and yellow like the other,oftentime and{0 is the ther for the moft part, not onely upon thetoppes, but here feede, but fomewhat bigger and ftanding’ two toge= and there upon the branches alfo s the roote is {malf and flender and ofno nfe. ; 8. Chamsfjce, Petty Spurge or timé Spurge. Saat The ettie Sparge is one ofthe fmalleft Spurges that is, having very{mall (lender branchés, lyinig upon the Stound, divided oftétimes into other finaller, with {mal pale greenleav es fet thereon, fmaller than thol¢o bas s of Miner |
