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Of tlieHiftorieot Plants. 



4.55 





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HA P 



.s 7 . 



Of Englt/b Fehoort 



m TheDcfc 



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HOHo.v lea fed Felwoort or Englifh Gentian bath many long tough roots, difperfed hither 

 and thither w ichin the vpper cfuft of the earth ; from w h ich immediatly rifeth a fat thicke 

 ftalke jointed or kneed by certairte diftances,fet at euery knot with one leafe,and fometimes 

 moe.kcepin.; no certaine numbenwhich leaues do at the firft inclofe the ftalkes round about, bc- 

 ill jot whole and entire leafe without any incifure at alf,as it were a hollow trunke; which after it 

 is grdcrne to his fu!nciTe 3 breaketh in one fide or 6ther,and becommeth a flat ribbed lcafe,like vnto 

 the great Genrian or Plantaine. The floures come forth of the bofomc of the vpper Ieaues,fet vp- 

 ti tender t'oir fta'.kes, in rtiape iikcthofe of the fmall Bindewced, or rather the floures of Sope- 

 vvoorr,ofawhiti,"!icoloiir,wamtabout the brims witha little light carnation. Then followeth the 



fee.ljwhicriasyetlbiuenotobfertfed. v-.'i/ 



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Gintuna cone mm. 



Hollow Fclwoort. 



• ^j The Place. 



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1 1 found this ftrange kind of Gentian in 

 3 fmall groue of a wood called the Spinie, 

 neere vnto a fmall village in Northamp- 

 ton fhire called Lichbarrow relfewhere I 

 haue not heard of it. 



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K^ingliCA ; and ( 



„ The Time. 



It fpringeth forth of the ground in A- 

 prill, and bringeth forth his floures and 

 feed in the end of Auguft. 



^f The Names. 



I haue thought good to giue vnto this 

 plantain Erig/iOi,thc name Gentian 3 bcing 

 doubtiefle a kind thereof. The which hath 

 not been fet forth, nor remembrcd by any 



that haue written of plants vntil this time. 

 In Latine we may call it Gent: ana concaua t 



of the hollow leaues. It may be called alfo 

 hollow Ieaued Felvvoort. 



«J The Temperature and Pert ues. 



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Of the faculties of this plant as yet I 

 can fay nothing, referring it vnto the other 

 Gentians, vntill time (hall difclofe that 

 which yet is fecret and vnknowne. 



* Bauhwe rcceiued this plant with the 

 figure thereof from Doftor Lifter one of 

 h« Majefties Phy fltions^nd he referres it 



l (as rarre as I can mni^A.i,^ w«»t . 











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