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hit when he received Herdu-es as his Gueit, and therefore of ome was called 
Chironinn. Tc hath formerly thongh talfely been calied Rha Pont cum, ond u- 
fed infleed hereof, that being a kind ofRubarbe. The leiler is called xer]duproy 
1d ubys tn Greek Centanrium parvum and minus in Lavine, and Centaurea as a\io 
Fel-terra tor che extraordinary bitcerneffe thereof? and F. ebrifuga, of curing Fea- 
vers taough chat name properly belong to another Piant calied Feavyerfew; of 
fomeallo -ALaltirad x, buc why I know not, Diofcorides faith, it was called Lime. 
nefion, and Pliny Libadiow, becaule it loveth to grow in moift places, yetin our 
Country ic lovech co grow in dry places alfo, It is. called in Englith,Small Cena 
sanry and che lefler Centor7, + ? 
oe The Kinds, 
Ofthe’e two hinds above named there be Eleaven forts, foure of the greater 
and eaven of the lefler. 1. The Common Great Centory.. 2. The ‘Pyreneam 
great Cencory. 3, The great Centory of Portugal, 4+ The great yellow 
Centory. 5. The réd ordinary {mall Centory. 6, White flowered Centory, 
7. Small fpiked Cencory. 8. Small yellow Genrory. 9. Small yellow tho- 
rough leated branched Centory, 10. Small yellow unbranched Centory, 11, 
The leaft yellow Centory, 
‘The Form  S Peg cee 
Though T have fet the oreatelt Centory foremolt fot his gre fake 
lefler being thaz at who'e defeription 
followetb. The red orc 
one round, and fom 
ever I {aw, branchitie 
were ih an Umbell or tuft, divers {mall flowers of a pale red colour tending toa 
Carnation, confifiing of fix, bur nfually of five {mall Leaves , fomwhat like unco 
thofe of St. Johns-wort, which in the day time » when the Sun fhineth, open 
themfelves, and towards the evening fhut themfelves againe; atrer which cometh - 
the teed in liccle fhore Huskes in torme like unto Wheat Cornes, but much lefler, 
The Leaves are{miall and fomwhat round like unto thole of St. Johns-yort buc 
lefler, The voor is {malland hard. _ : See 
: The Placesand Time, 9 ee Se ar 
The fir? and third crow upon the eA/ pes and Adount Baldus, the name ofthe 
_ fecond will dilcover its place ; the fowrth is anacurall of Mount Baldws alfo: the 
fift.is found almoftevery where in fields , pafures, and woods, as ina field by 
Oxford highway ftom Banbury not farre from Beechen Tree, and in a place called 
New-pafture in the Common fields of Adderbury Eatt, not farre from the high 
way fide and in fome of Walton groznds, which are onthe other fide the River 
Charwell, and other places hat l ould name : } 
venth about Mompelier, and neere unto Padoa upon the Engatiean Hilles ; the ~ 
eighth in afield next Sr. Francis Carew’s houfe Se Lext; at Beddington neere Croy- 
~don, andin many other places , where the other forts are fomtimes found, and 
‘Temoved into the Gardens of the curious,where fome of the greater forts. may be 
alfofeene: They do all fower about Jaly , and give their feed in Anguft, only 
the Portugal kind isfeldom brought to flower in our Country much leffe to feed, re 
The Temperature, ~ | 
The great Centory is hot and dry in the third degree. The 
in the 
fecond degree, and very bitrer. 
ld name:the fixth is not fo frequent, the ea= —~ 
