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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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the vvindc when the feed is ripe.The root is blacke and full of milkie j\ 



firings annexed thereto, *i & 



This kinde of Hawkeweed hath blackerootsa fineer tbicke. fi 



top 



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3 lnisKi 

 thruft into the 

 leaues halfe an 



II of milkie juicqdeepeJy 



ground,wirh fome fraall fibres belonging thereto : from which come vp many Jong 

 inch or more broad,couered with a fofc downe or hairinefle, of an ouerworne nift. 



colour : and amongft the leaues come vp naked and hard ftalks,w hereupon do grow yellow flou IO 

 fct in a woolliecup ox chalice, which is turned into downe, and carried away with his feed by the 

 winde. 



root 



top of the ground,and putting out forae fibres , and it is diuided into fome heads,each whercofat 

 the top of the earth putteth nut forae fix or feuen Iongifli leaues iome halfe an inch broad, and 

 fomewhat hoarie 3 hairie 3 and foftas are the other* precedent, and thefe leaues are fnipt about the 

 edges, but thedeepeft gafhesare necreft the ftalkes,where they are cut in euento the middle rib 

 which is ftrong and large. The ftalke is fmoothoiaked^ and fomewhat high: thefloures be velinJ 



3 Hieracium6.Clufif. 



Clufius his 6 Hawkeweed. 



4 HieraciumyXluftj. 



' Clufius his 7. Hawkeweed. 







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$ 5 The fame Author hath alfo fet forth another Hieracium t vnder the name ofHitrWl 

 vum Crettcumyvhich he thus defcribesjthis is an elegant little plant fpreading fome fix, or ®°* 

 leaues vpon the top of the ground,being narrower at that part whereas they adhere to the roor,a«» 

 broaderat the other end, and cut about the edges, hauing the middle lib of a purple colour -> 

 mongft thefe rife vp two or three little ftalkes about a foot high, without knot vntiil 7 ouC0!D ^l 

 moft to the top, whereas they are diuided into two little branches , at which place growesJ^ 

 leaues much d iuided h the floures grow at the top of a fufficient bignefle, confidering the ntfp ' 

 tudc of the plant,and they confift of many little leaues lying one vpon another, on the vppej •' 

 wholly white, and on the vnder ftdeof a flefh colour, the root is Angle, longi/Ti, growing 10 " 



