¶ The Description.
1 THe stalkes of the great Purslane be round, thicke, somewhat red, full of juice, smooth, glittering, and parted into certaine branches trailing vpon the ground: the leaues be an inch long, something broad, thicke, fat, glib, somewhat greene, whiter on the nei∣ther side: the floures are little, of a faint yellow, and grow out at the bottome of the leaues. After them springeth vp a little huske of a greene colour, of the bignesse almost of halfe a barly corne, in which is small blacke seed: the root hath many strings.
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1 Portulaca 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Garden Purslane.
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2 Portulaca silvestris. Wilde Purslane.
2 The other is lesser and hath like stalkes, but smaller, and it spreadeth on the ground: the leaues be like the former in fashion, smoothnesse, and thicknesse, but farre lesser.