the Paradife of Plants. 191 
Though there be a great number ofrhefe Gentians rechensed up by Parkinfow, 
in both his Books, yet I fhall omic molt of them, and nominate only thofe fix 
Forts thar grow within the Conifines of great Briccain. 1, Hollow, Gencian or 
Fellwort. 2. Crofwore Gentian, 3. A/pes Felwort of the Spriny-time, 4, Gens 
tianella, with a white Flower 5. Battard or eect tehicwece 6, Autumn Gen- 
tian, ie sore be ceed? Leaves. sees 
Pia | a 4 : Bete ‘ . LP ey 
 Hollow-leafed Felwort, or Englith Gebsian, BL Tuaby Jong, eee Roots, 
difperied hither and thither, within, the upper cruft of the Barth , from which 
_ immediately riferha fat. thick flalk, joynted or kneed, at cerrain diftances, fet at 
every knot with one leaf, and fometimes more, keeping no certain number? 
which Leaves do at the firft inclofe the flalks roundabout, being oné whole en-— 
tire Leaf, without any incifure at all, as if it were a hollow Trunk; which after. 
it is grown to his fulnets, breaketh on oe fade or other, gad b becom 1 umeth a 
ribbed Leaf, like unto thole of the great Gentian or F antane.The Flowers come 
forshiofshe baloce Of she woperi-ot et upon der foc ' 
‘hole ofthe {mall Bind-wee che J 
colour, Ww the =C ut tne > brit E lic 
= seed, yhich hi 
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The Places and Tine. ji 7 E 
The firlt was fonind by Gerard, in a all Grove of Web, called she Spi 
hear unco-a{mall Village in Northampronfhire, called Licbbarrow. The tl 
groweth i 2 a Pafture ar the Weft end of Little Rain in Effex, on thé North fide 
of the wa leading from Braintry to Dunmow, and in the Hor'e-way by’the pe 
Clofe. The third groweth abundantly on the “Mountaiie Between Gore's ind Ga ai 
loway in Scotland, The toutch near the Devizes, and by Hachbary its} lilbire. 
The fifth in the Phyfick-Garden in Oxford, “The fixth in-divers etasof Rew, 43 
about Semth-fleet, and Long-field, upon Barton-hills in Bedfordjhire : al'o not far 
from St. A/baxs, upon a peece of waft kchally pr00s eround, as you go out of Dunftable 
way, towards G: - The firlt weligs out of the ground in April, and 
bringeth forth his Flowers in theend of eAugu/t, and diesacd is ripen 5 Sepems 
es and fo do all the ee a 
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te 
The Root of Gentiae, which is chiefly in ufe, is hoe 28d jennie be Des - 
gree, or hot in the en ee mae 
RP. The Siguasure and Vetnes, 
: . Se of Gentian that hath Leaves like an Heartand is ; 
a which I mentioned not amongft the reft, be 
eth notin ain, ving in it the vertue of ftrengchening the F 
© gentle eesantiounding, and ee all pu rifaGion, 
