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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Of Wild e Flaxe 





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1 ^^swildekindcoflane or Flaxe hath Ieaues I ft* ,w 1 , 



X graving vpon round bright and fhinine (o:iL Vfr^i g ' T< \ C 2 FI »^ut narrovve, 

 X red FJ»,butofa white colour. Tl^%^&^**«<>»« likeihcn,a „ 

 thereto. J This is fometimes found with deep S SS ^'"'P f ? me fibrcs an "«cd 

 times with white,ftreaked with purple lines. tl ° Ures ^ lthvioIct colored I ]oure$ J and feme. 



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L in urn fy h eft re floribut 



Wilde white flaxe. 







Ltnum fyfoejtre ttmifoliu 



Thin leauedwilde flaxe. 







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2 The narrow and thin leafed kind of Line is very like to the common Flax, but m all points 

 Jefler. Thefloures confiftof fiueleaucs, which do foone fade and fall away, hauing many ftalkes 

 proceeding from one root , of a cubit high, befet with fmall leaues,yea leflcr than thofe oiLimm 



fntpurea. 



* Our Author in the former edition gaue two figures vnder this one title ot Lammjflvifirtt^ 

 **^//7ww,making them the fecond & third-but the defcription of the third was of the rough broad 

 leaued wilde Flaxe, whofe figure therefore we haue put in that place. Now the two whofc figure 

 were formerly here are but varieties of one fpecies, and differ thus- the former of them (irfioic 

 figure we haue omitted as impertinent) hath fewer Ieaues, which therefore ftand thinner vpor i tec 

 ftalke, and the floures are either blew or elfe white. The later, whofe figure you may finde n« 

 fet forth, hath more Ieaues, and thefe growing thicker together : the floure is of a light purple, or 

 flerti colour, t f „ 



3 There is a kinde of wilde flaxe which hath many hairy branches, rifing vp from a very ft l 

 roor,which doth continue many yeres without fowing,increafing by roots into many other pun h 

 with (talks amounting to the height of one cubic, befet with many rou^h and hairy bro*d woe • 



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