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A Ckmiimnffifloiae called Lwut»jjivejtre}erpufiUumjaA may becalled in Englift very lov 

 „^ ar f e ^!deFIax:forthisvvordcWjoynedtoany Simple,doch fignific, that it is a low o 

 Wc kinde thereof; being fcarce an handful hign,hath palcand yellow floures : butas it h in al 

 things like vnto nax,fo the tioures,Ieaues, ftalkes, and all other parts thereof, are foure times lefie 



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There is alfo growing wilde in this kingdome a fmall kinde ofwilde Flax, which I take 

 c Lhocaps defer ibed by Tfaliusfnd mentioned by Camerarius^ the name otLinumftlue- 

 trmfiUumcandiCMtibtispribus. i-Anno 1525;, when I firft found it, in alournall written of fuch 

 i as I gathered, I fee this by the name of Linum fylveftre fuftlhm candidis floribus 5 which my 

 jrifljd M r lohn Goodyer feewg,hc told me he had long knowne the planr,and refer'd it to the Linco- 

 ln!: there were fome which called it in Englift Mil-mountain,and vfed it to purge . and of late he 

 bath lent me this hiftorie of it,which you fliallhaue aslreceiued it from him. 



Linum Jjlveftre Catharticum. Mil-mountaine 







Itrifcth vp from a fmall white threddy crooked root, fometimes with one, but mod commonly 



* ft*/*? ra ° re /?r ftalk , s > abouc a / oot ° r ninc inches high,of a brown or reddnli color 

 e» ftalk diuiding it felfe neere the top or from the middle vpward,into many parts or branches 

 ofagreener colour than the lower part of the ftalke si the leauesare fmall,fmooth,of colour green, 

 of theb.gnefTe of Lentill leaues .and haue 10 the middle one rib or linew,and no more that may be 

 pcrcciued^nd grow a bngft the ftalke in very good order by couples one oppofit againft the other 

 at the tops of the Imall branches ;grow the ^oures^f a white wIour^fi^ofLfmallkiS 

 apjecer e nailes whereof are ye low : in the infide are placed fmall ftort chiues alfo of a yellol 

 unX^ h C ° m u VP •"• fc kn ° b - S or , b » ttons > I** top whereof when the feed is ripe dS 

 npetheherbperifheth:thewhoehprh; S nf a K,V^^a „.,j tXti.. #_T7 ? ltc ^wqen tne ieed 



iv m the vnmanured inclofures of Hampfhire,on c^SZ^^^^^,tiP.A 





t 3 Limmfifoeftrelatifolium.. 



Broad kiued wilde Flax. 



C hamuli mm perpufiUi 



Dwarfe wilde Flax. 



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