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fhed forthe delight of their louers, where they all abide , and grow fairer 
then in their naturall placés 5 except the {mall Birds eyes, which will (as I 
faid) hardly abide apy culture ; but groweth; plentifully.in all the North 
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and frofts, and the mildneffe of the time will permit : yetthe Cowflips doe 
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| Allchefe plants recalled mot fually in Latine, Primula vers, Print 
__ pratenfes;and Primule filuarum, becaufe they thew by their flowring the new 
Spring tobee comming on, ‘they being as it were the firft Embafladours 
thereof: They haue alfo diners other names, as. Herba Paralyfis, Arthritica, 
Herba Sancti Petri, Clanes Sancti Petri, Ver bafculum odoratum, Laneria prerat 
tica,Phlomts, Alifma filuarum, and Alifmsatis alternm genus, as Fabius Co- 
-lumna calleth them. The Birds eyes arecalled of Lobel in Latine, Paraly- 
tica Alpina , Sanicula angustifolia, making a greater anda leffer, Others call 
oo them Sanicula ang uflifolta, bur'generally they are called Primula verti minor, 
» Dhane (as you fee} placed them withthe Cowflips 5 re a difference be- 
_ tweene Primrofes and Cowflips.’ And fome haue oe pare He 
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Primula veris Elatior, that is,the Taller Primrofe, and 
the other Humilis, Lowe or Dwarfe Primrofes. In Englith they haue in like 
manner divers names, according to feuerall Countries, as Primrofes, Cow- 
flips; Oxelips, Palfieworts,and Petty 'Mulleins. The firftkindes, which are 
lowerthen the reft, are generally called by the name of Primrofes (as I 
"Ser dethinke) throughout England. ‘The other are diuerfly named ; for in fom 
_ Countries they call them Paigles,or Palfieworts bey Milleins, which 
are called Cowflipsin others.‘ Thofe are vfually cal Oxelips, wiste 
i » flowers are naked:, orbare without huskes to containe them , being not fo 
_ Lweete asthe Cowllip; yet haue they fome little fent , although the Latirie 
name doth makethemte haue none. ‘The Franticke,Fantafticke,orFo 
Cow/flip, in fome places is called by Countty people, Tackean Apés on 
horfe-backe, which is an vfuall name with them, giuea to many other 
plants,as Daifies, Marigolds, &c. ifthey be ftrange or fantafticall, diffe- 
ring in the forme from the ordinary kinde ofthe fingle ones, The{malleft 
are vfually called throughalithe North Country, Birds eyen, becaufe of 
the {mall yellow circle inthe bottomes of the flowers, refembling the cye 
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Primrofes and Cow/lips are in a manner wholly vfed in Cephalicall dif- 
_eafes, either among other herbes or flowers, or of themfelues alone, to cafe 
- paines inthe head, and is accounted next vnto Betony, the beft for that pur= 
pofe. Experience likewife hath fhewed , thatthey are profitable both for 
the Palfie, and paines of theioynts, euen asthe Bearesearesare, w 
_ hathcaufedthe names of Arthritica, Paralyfis,and Paralytica , tobec given 
them, The iuice of the flowers is commended to cleanfe the {pots or marks 
of the face, whereof fome Gentlewomen haue found good experience. Ze 
