The Form, 
Common Englith Maidenhair doth from a number of ard black Fibres fend 
forth a: great many blackifh fhining brittle {talks hardly a {pan long, in many 
not half{o long, fet on each fide very thick, with {mall round dark: green leayes 
one againft another and {potted onthe back of them like Ceterach and ather 
{mall Ferns. ae 
; The Place and Time. 
Some have reported the firftto be found in Glofter{hire, but I doubt it: Wall 
Rue is found at Dartford, and the bridge at Afhfordin Kent, at Beaconsfeild in 
Buckinghamfhire, at Wolleyin Hentingtonfhire, on Framingham Cattle in Suffolk, 
onthe Church wall ac AZapfeild in Sufex, and in divers other places. Englifh 
Maidenhair groweth much upon old {tone Walles in the weftern parts, Wales 
and Kent, but particularly upon New Colledge Wallin Oxford, on the Garden 
~ ‘Wall which was formerly Mr. Bu/fards next to-Adderbury Chutch yard, and 
upona wall nearco Goreham berryin Harefordfhire. At joyeth likewile to crow 
by Springs and Wells, and other rocky moift and eter places ; They are 
green in Winter as well as Summer, bur never flowér chat knowofK 
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inpasGaterteftifeth doth dry, make thin, watt away, and 
inameambetween heat and coldneffe.' Ade(we fheweth thar it confitteth of 
~anlike or dilacreeing parts, and that fome are warerie and earthy, andthe (ame 
inding,and another. fuperficially hot andthin.:’ And that by this it taketh 
away obftructions or {toppings maketh things thinthat are chick;loofeneth the 
belly; efpecially when ie istrefh and green: for asthis part isthiny fo isit 
quickly retolved and that by reafon of its binding and earchy parts, Wall Rue 
and the reft are not much unlike to this in temperature and f oS 
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