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: Scorpion graiTe. The fiourcs arc frnall and white °*^ 



of Whitlow grafle or Nailewoort, that is likewife a low or bafe herb* U: 

 .with fome tbreddy firings annexed thereto: from which rife Z^t 

 " w ' utl l «"&" Hams, ici with httlc narrow leaues confufedlv like rhofi* of rh- r m *n /i £l P . rfc 

 wheteotdoubtleffe tbefe be kindesatongft th e tolk.X™ ^ tek .W^^ 1 *^ 

 come the feed sin f nail buttons, of the bigncflc of, pining Ou Au L S, wl^ 



fcnbQlhz Paronychia z.oiTafcm. $ r * U1 ^ u tnorieemcshcrctodc. 



I Paronjchi a vulgaris. 



Common Whitlow grafle. 



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Paronychia Rut aceo folio. 



Rew leafed or jagged Whitlow guflTe. 





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Tbefe final] bafc and loir herbs grow 



vpon bricke and ftone walls, vpon old ti- 

 led houfcs , which are growne ro baue 

 much roofle vpon them, and vpon fome 



fliadowie and dry muddy wals.lt groir- 



eth plentifully vpon the bricke wall in 

 Chancery Lane, belonging ro the Eark 

 of Southampton , in the Suburbs of 

 London,and fundry other places. 



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ire many times in lanuary and February,and when hot weather approacheth, they arc 

 : feene all the yeare after. 



^jr The Names. 



The Grecians haue called thefe plants '■*.*-, which Cicero calleth XtAw* : There be maaf 

 kiodes of plants,cal led by the fame name of paronychia, which ha th, caufed many ^^^ 

 the true kinde : but you may very boldly take thefe plants for* - - — •"— 

 raifed vp fome new plant,approcbing neerer vntothe truthtw 

 may call them in Englifh,Naile-woorr,and Whitlow grafle 



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nke willneuer be, fothtfwc 



As touching the quality hereof>e baue nothing to fet downe : only it hath beene taken 

 the difcafc of the nailes called a Whitlow,whereof it tooke his name. 



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