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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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HAP. 



88. 



Of Adders -To ngue. 





^ The Description. 



i (~\Phiogl0(fon> or Lingua ferpentis (called in Englifli Adders-Tongue ; of fome Adders 

 y^J Graffe,though vnproperly)rifeth forth of the ground, hairing one leafe and no more; 



fat or oleous in fubftance,of a finger long, and very like the young and tender leaues 

 of Marigolds : from the bottome of which leafe fpringeth out a fmall and tender ftalke one finger 

 and a halfe Iong,on the end whereof doth grow a long fmall tongue not vnlike the tongue ofaier- 

 pent,whereof it tooke the name. 



2 I haue feene another like the former in root,ftalke,and leafe • and difFereth ,in that this plant 



hath two, and fometimes more crooked tongues, yet of the fame fafhion, which if my iudgement 



failenotchanceth/w acci dens, exxen as we fee children borne with two thumbesvpon one hand: 



whichmoueth me fo to think, for that in gathering " ' " f rt ' - — 



ly findeone of this falhion. 



twentie 



I Ofbioghffbn. 



Adders-Tongue* 



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^ The Place. 



Adders- 

 neere the 



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s-Tongue groweth in moift medowes throughout moft parts of England^as ifl*M e 

 preaching Spittle ad joyning to London ; in the Mantels by London,in the medow 

 Cole-brooke,in the fields in Walthara Forreft,and many other places. 



^[ The Time. 



They are to be found in Aprill and May • but in Iune they are quite vanished and gone. 



^f The Names . - i r i f d U» cU 



Ophitglofum is called in (hops Lingua Jerpentis^Linquace, and Lingualace : it is alio calfc ^ 



Chr/JtiEnepbyfon,and Lingua vulmraria: in Engliih, Adders tongue^ or Serpents tongue : u> 



^8tmongum:oftheGermanes,iaater}ungelt^ f 



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