9* 



Oftl 



ie Hiftorie of Plants, 



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IB. J. 



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tfi 



x 



m 



THc fir A kind ofwilke Cow- Wheat C/#/?«, in h 

 veJlris,oim\dc Pclljtory : which name, accon 



not 



• x -miuiJicK niuory calls Parictatufil 



anfwer the Plant,' he knoweth not SSS^iS^fi^S?^ ? " 

 any name thereunto I yet becaufe fomc banc fo t^SS^S^fS^ ™ T &* 

 Ending he referred it vnto the kindes of McuJ^t I ^2ff«* lhc fa _ me narat - Not* lth - 



of M dampy 



OW^tbcYYlJdc 



,. w lich icdoch very well anfiverindiurr«nriinfG ul.*u l • r ^.'"^^uc 

 very tender, weake and eafietibreake, not aWewSKr'Jhr^?^ ^'y.^^eOalke, 

 boursthatdwellabouthim,a Wh'SKS IT ^^l_!? r ? h _ twit ?°« *» ^Ipeof his neiah! 



by 



entxmes 



grccnifli, 



joynt, longand hollow fomewhat gaping like lhc floifres of a dead net ", ZTZ oS v7 

 low 5 and after of a bright golden colour 5 which do floure by decrees firft a fc an, 5 ►£„ F V u * 

 meanes whereof it is .long in flouring. Which bein, paft, ^^l^l^^T 6 ^ 



n 



2 Red leafed wilde Cow-whea't is like vnto the former, fauine that the leaues he mr, nBM , a 



the tuft of leaues more jagged The ftalkes and leaues are of .^AhifcSft It 



floures in forme are like the other, but in colour differing, for that the hollow partofthe floure 



v th the heele or fpurre is of a purple colour, the reft of the floure yellow . The feed and e l" s a c 



like the precedent, ' U)aa 



This kinde of wilde Cow-wheat Tabernamontanm hath fet forth vndcr the title of odontitis 



? 



«/?, 



oody 



fcaues are indented about the edges, fharpe pointed, and in moft point's refembline the former 

 Cow-wheat . fo that of neceflity it rauft be of the fame kinde,and not a kinde of Eycbrichtas hath 







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woods 



Ide kindes of Cow-wheat doe grow commonly in fertile paftures^and bufhie 



Hampfted heath 



berry bufhes in all parts of the faid heath, and in euety part of England where I haue trauelled 



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They floure from the beginning of May, to the end of Auguft 



™ J - The Names. 



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f 



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Wood Millet, and Alfincfyluatica^ or Wood 



<Ji I ilium 



2 



3 The 



Englifh, Wilde 



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Hippocrates called the wiide Cow-wheat, Polyc*rpum> and Potycritum. 



i/fc i/tow, and J?*^J, 





^f The^jture 



There is not much fet downe either of the nature or vertues of thefe plants : onely it is reported 

 that the feeds do caufe giddinelTe and drunkennefle,as Darnell doth. 



The feed of Crattogonon made in fine pouder, and giuen in broth or otherwife^mightily prouo 



Iccth Venerie. ^r 



Somewrite,that it will likewife caufe women tobring forth malechildren. 

 f See the vertues attributed to Cratdogonon by Diofarides before, Chap. 3 8. B. 



HAP. 70. 



Of JVbite <iAJphodilL 





f 



HAuing finirhed the kindes of come, itfolloweth to fhew vnto you the ^J^g^.^ 

 dils, whcieof fomc haue bulbous roots, other tuberous ^^V^^^TriZ 

 Jour, and feme of mixtcolouts :notwithftanding Divides maketh mcntic «but o on A ip* 



ivnetwojirbich D/^j^ con firmcth, faying, Th a t there is thca:«e«a 



Th 



A» maketh mention. 



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