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Oi the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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t. " 3 This in roots,leaues,and manner of growing is very like the firft defcribed,but leiTerT 

 much in all theie parts: the fiouresalfo areof awhiciih and fometimes of a purplifh colour- * 

 growes in barren grauelly and wet places. ' u 



4 1 banc thought good to omit the impertinent defcription of our Author fitted to this nfe 

 and to giue one fomewhat more to the purpofe : the ftalkes of this are fome two foot high, tend^ 

 green,and fometimes purplim,hollow,fmooth, fncculent and tranfparent, with large and emir ^ 

 joints,from whence proceed lcaues likethofeof French Mercurie,a little bigger, and broader 7" 

 ward their ftalkes, and thereabout alfo cut in with deeper notches : from the bolbmes of each °f 

 thefe lcaues come forth long ftalks hanging downward,and diuided into three or foure branch 

 vpoa which hang floures yellow,and much gaping, with crooked fpurs or heeles, and fpotted air' 

 with red or fanguine fpots : after thefe are paft fucceed thecods,which contain the feed and th 

 are commonly two inches long.flender.knotted, and of a whitifh greene colour, crefted with er ^ 



niflil 

 be tou 



: / .. : ' "&*" . ;«»«""««•«»■««« ^ «»*«"»' &"-ci JC i.u 1U ur,creitea with gree. 



mesjand as loon as the feed begins to be npe,they are fo impatient,that they wil by norneam 

 uched, but prefently the feed will fly out of them into your face. And thisis thecauferlm 



Plant 2^£/ 



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Perfi carta pufillarepens , 



Small creeping Arfmart 





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4 Perftcaria filiauofa. *<**•** 



Codded Ariraart, c^ { 



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^[ The Place andTime* , 



They grow very common almofteuery where inmoift and waterifh plarties, and neerevntot 

 brims of riuers,ditches 3 and running brooks. They floure from Iune to Auguft. . . 



$ The codded or impatient Arfmart was firft found to grow in this kingdome by trie id 

 ftry of my good friend M r George Bowles, who found it at thefe places ; firft in Shropfliire, on 

 banks oftheriuerKemlet at Marington in the parifliof Cherberry,vnderagentlemans h°^ lc 

 led M r LLoyd: but efpeciatlyat Guerndee in the parifliofCherftock, halfea mile from rfiei 

 faid riuer,amongft great Aider trees in the highway. 



€0- 7 he Names. , $ . 



I Arfmart is called in Greeke .v***. . of the Latines, Hydropiper y ox Piper aquaticum, ? r £f J^ 



fUt, or water Pepper : in high-Dutch^aflfet $feftf \ » low-Dutch, $8>W% &t P« J * n ^ 



