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Tl! a ? 1 fl 0n0fa u r0fr ^ and there are aIfo ei § hc threds w " h *eir pointals in the middi^rTT^ 



nam 'which^h ? ^ the fmdl °/ % Primrofe ^nce m' Parkin gaue ^h e °E fe 

 name,which I haue alfo here giuen you : ) after the fioures are fallen,the cods|row to be fhm 8 ft 



W ° ngsbein f thickcr be, ° W ' and ^ ar P er at tbe to P> and fomew h" twine! which in So 

 " u « into f oure P« c f to fatter their feed, which is blacke and fmall , and fowne itl ^ 



Sod fl rft ye \ r T° a fta, ^ but fe , nd . S V P man y Iar 8 e Ieaues lying handfomdy one vpon ST 

 Rofe-fafliion. It fioures m Iune,and ripens the feed in Auguft. ± P ther 



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Sf * SS h?,rn^ 3nd K - The fl ° Ures § rOW aloQ S tbc ftalJ "= toward *e top, fpiMaS 



of a faire purplccoloar : which being withered turne into downe, which is carried' away ^ 



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5 Lyfmachia purpurea flicat 4 



Spiked Willow-herbe. 



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Codded Willow-herbe. 



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.yfimachia hath 



topoftheftalke,commingoutat the end of a fmall long cod, of a purple colour, in fhape likea 

 ftockc G illof.oure, and is called of many Filimante Patrem (that is, the Sonne before the Father) 

 becaufe that the cod commeth forth firft, hauing feeds therein, before the flouredbth fhewitfehe 

 abroad. % The leauesofthis are more foft, large, and hairy than any ofthe former .-they are all? 

 fnipt about the edges, and the floure is large, wherein it differs from the twelfth, hereafter defen- 

 ded ; and from the eleuenth in the hairinefle of the leaues, and largenlTe of the fioures alfo,as you 

 fliallfinde hereafter. $ 



7 This being though t by fome to be a baftard kinde, is (as I do eftceme it) of all the reft raod 

 goodly and ftarely plantjiauing leaues like the greatcft Willow or Ozier. The branches comeout 

 of the ground in great numbers, growing to the height of fix foot, garnifhed with braue fioures ot 

 great beauty, confifting of foure leaues apiece, of an orient purple colour, hauing foroe threds in 

 the middle of a yellow colour. The cod is long like the laft fpoken of, and full of downy m atter ' 



•»l>i*/%V. AtH>th aivnv with the wmApuihan t-U* smA «'«• nnonn^l 



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which flyeth away with the winde when the cod is opened. 



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let or floure 



fner t as alfo his Epilobh» y quaff <**#» '• 



it place. DodfiMus calls it rfetMjf" 



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