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'Of the Hiftorieof Plants. 



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Chap. 1 13. Of wilde "Bafill. 





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Jour/afhioned like vnto the garden Bafill.The root is full of hairie threds,and creepeth along the 

 grounded fpringeth vp ycarcly anew of it felfe without fowing. $ This is the Cltnof odium dternm 



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2 This kindc of wilde Bafill called amongft the Grecians &**, which by interpretation is 

 SiHtfemine^oxSterilu, hath caufed fundry opinions and great doubts concerning the words of Plim 

 and Thiofbraftut) affirming that this herbe hath no floures nor feeds; which opinion I am fureof 

 mine oirne knowledge to be without reafon : but to omit controuerfics, this plant bearetb purple 

 floures,wharlcd about fquare ftaIkes,rough leaues and hairy,very like in fhape vnto Bafil : ; The 

 ftalkes are fome cubit and more high, parted into few branches, and fet at certaine fpaces with 

 leaues growing by couples. This is the Clinopodtum vulgtre ofLMattbiolw^nd that oiCordm Gef. 

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3 Senfit and others haue fet forth another wilde Bafill vnder the title otMolochia • and Lobcl 

 after the mindetfftlff ffrooM^alleth it Corcoros, which we haue Englifhed,Fifh Bafill the feeds 

 whereof the faid B rancion receiued from S paine, fay ing that Corcoros Pfajhuh the leaues of Bafill: 

 the fta Ikes are two handfuls high,the floures yellow, growing clofe to the ftalkes, bearing his feed 



inlmaJIIongcods.TherootiscompaaandmadeofaninnumerablecompanyorftrinssTcreepincr 

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