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Of the Hiftorie of Plants* 





Lib. 2. 



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t 3 Corchoros. 



Fifli Bafill. 



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% 6 Clinopodium <^4lpwum. 



Wilde Bafill of the AlpesJ 





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$ 5 Clinopodium Auftridcum 



Auftrian field Bafill, 



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t 4 It may be our Authour would haue 



defcribed this in the firft placets I conje&ure 

 by thofe words which he vfed in mentioning the 

 place of their growing ; and [Clinopodium vulg&rt 

 groweth in great plentie vpon Long-field downs 

 in Kent • ] but to this neither figure nor defec- 

 tion did agree, wherefore I will giue you the Hi- 

 ftory therof. It fends vp many little fquarc ftalks 

 fome hand full and halfe high,feldome diuided 

 into branches : at each joynt ftand two fmal gree- 

 nifli leaues, little,hairy,and not diuided or fnipt 

 about the edges,and much like thofe of the next 

 defcribed, as you fee them expreft in the figure: 

 the little hollow and fomewnat hooded floures 

 grow in roundles towards the tops of the ftalkes, 

 as in the firft defcribed, and they are of a bicvviili 

 violet eolour.The feeds I haue not yet obferued : 

 the root is fibrous and wooddy, and Iafts for ma- 

 ny yeares. The whole plant hath a prettv pleafag 

 but weakc fmell.lt floures in Iuly and Auguit. 

 firft obferued it Anno \6i6, a little on this fide 

 Pomfret in York (hire, and finceby Datford in 

 Kent 5 and in the Ifle of Tenet. I haue foments 

 feene it brought to Cheapfide market, where tnc 

 herbe women called it Polcy mounrainc, tome 

 may bee that haue taken it for Folium tnontm 

 mifinforming them j Cluftm firft toolce notice 

 this plant,and called it Actnos ^™»>™ d *? t0 

 growing in Kent,4>W 581. and he things n ^ 



