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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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BE fides the! 

 theftaftsw 



brmer Bel floures there is Iikewife a certaine other which is low and little i 

 hereof are render, two fpannes long.diuided into many branches mod com'. 

 rvnori the ground : the leaues about rhMlali-c *roUt-r} a iii:»t..ii.-.-ri-i.i i • . 





the edges :the 

 wide motithes I 



ny , y ,„ 6 v F ^. v v, 5.™ .u. »•,,» auuut cnc uaiics aremtie, ileightly nicked in 



floures are fmall of a bright : purple colour tending to blewnefT^very beautiful.with 



hkeoroad bells haumgawhitechiueorthred in the middle. The flours in theday 



time are wiac operand about the letting of the fun are fhut vp and clofed fa ft toother in ftVcor ' 



ner is they are before their firft openirig,and as the other Belffloures are. The roots be veryflen 



der.and perifh when they hauepcrfe&ed their ieed. ' 



There is another,which from a fmall and tvooddy root fendeth vp a ftraight ftalk fome- 



nvoor three inches, vet<z)che while a fdothi<?h: wh^n** ;* Hoi,*. ;«. Pj ~ roun J rh - 



times b 



a 



ftalkc iscrefted a.. •••— «rs"« *«-•<=» ""'"picuor nnuated about theedees fee 



thereon : and out of the bofome of thofe leaues towards the top of the ftalke and fomtimes lower 



come little branches bearing little winged cods;at the tops ofwhichinthe midft of fine little 



grcene leaues Hand (mall purple floures of little or no beautv .-which h P ; n(T „,n. a* JJluJji 1 ? 



*"•" *-"""• W "Y' , ; ^-""& »""- wuiKcu tuu^ ac cne tops or wftich in the midft of fiue little 

 grcene leaues (land fmall purple floures&Iittleor no beauty .-which being paft ,the cods become 

 muchlarger, and con tainem them afmallyellowift feed, and they ftil^ 

 fiue longim green leaues that incompaffed the floure. The plant is an Annual like as the foXeV ± 



I Speculum Veneris. 



Venus Looking-glaflTc 



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Speculum Veneris minus. 



Codded 



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*kr e they C Z P T^™ notc ^ewhere . from ZhTnTAT P m(ord in Kent, and in many 



guiw and defcribed m the firft p l a £ J neu e r found growing in Eng. 



Oo 2 land, 



