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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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% The Place. 



The three fir ft grow in mod gardens j but the yellow kinde growcth not common 



gardens of curious Herbarifts. 



except in the 



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The fourth and fifth grow vvilde among come in diners places. 



% The Time. 



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ummeraf. 



That which hath continued the whole Winter doth floure in May, and the reft of S 

 terwards 5 and that which is planted later, and in the end of Summer, floureth in the SDrlra7£ 

 follow 'ing yeare : they do hardly endure the in jurie of our cold Winter. ° 



% The Names. 



Snapdragon is called in Greeke, «wfr» -. in Latine alto.Amirrhwum i ofApukius Canis cerebrum 



HerbaStmiana^renufiaminor,OPalisgrata^nAorontium:h is thought to bcLepherta which Coli 

 mtllajib. i o. reckons among the floures : yet Gefner hath thought that this Leo is Columbine which 

 for the fame caufe he hath called Leontoftomium ; but this name feemeth to vs to agree better with 

 Calucs fnouc than with columbine ; for the gaping floure of Calues fnout is more like to Lyons 

 fnapthan the floure of Columbine: it is called in Dutch, fS>%mtl in Spam(h,Cabc\adcterncrj:in 

 Englifh,Calues fnout, Snapdragon,and Lyons fnap: in French, Tejlede cbienjxL&Teftt dtytAu. 



f The Temperature. 



They are hot and dry 3 and of fubtill parts. 





^[ The Venues. 



The feed of Snapdragon(as Galen faith) is good for nothing in the vfe of Phyficke^and the herb 

 it felfe is of like faculty with Bubomum or Star-wort,bu£ not fo effe&uall. 



They report (faith Diofcorides) that the herbe being hanged about one prefcrueth a man from 

 being bewitched,and that it maketh a may gracious in the fight of people. 

 C ' Apuleius wntzthtihat the diftilled water, or the deco&ion of the herbe and root made iDwater,ii 

 ft fpeedy remedy for the watering of eies proceeding of a hot caufe,if they be bathed therewith. 



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Of Tode-flax. 



1 LinariavulgdrUlutea. 



Great Todc-fiax* 



% Linariapurpureaocbrata. 



Sweet purple Tode-flax. 



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