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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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<U" The Kindes. 



$ ~T Here are many plants that belong to this kindred of the Sideritides, or Ironwoorts arA 

 *■ i'omeof them are already treated of, though in feuerall places,and that not very fitly h 

 out Author j and one of them is alio fet fo. th hereafter by the name of Clownes All-heale • th f 

 that are formerly hand led, and properly belong to this Chapter, ate firft the Herba ludAtu Leber 

 being in the fourth place of the 226 Chapter. Secondly ,the Stacbjs Fuchfti (being the firft Sidtr* } 

 ofDiojcorides) defcribed in the fecond place of the laft Chapter. Thirdly, the SidtrHis ScordttnZ 

 fet forrh in the fifth place^nd fourthly the Sideritis Alfina Hyftpifolia fet forth in the fixth place of 

 the laft Chapter. Now befides all thefe,I will in this Chapter giue you the Defcriptionsof fom e 

 others like to them in face and Vertues, and all of them may be referred to the firft Sidtrith of Li 



ofcorides his defenption. 





% The Defcripion. 



His hath fquare ftalkes fome cubit high, rough, and joynted with two leaues at each 

 joynt which are wrinkled and hai, ie, of an indifferentbignclTe, fniptabout theedges 

 o L a ftrong fmell, and of a bitterifh and fomewhat hottifh tafte : almoft forth ofeucry 

 joynt grow branches, fet with leffer leaues : the floures which in roundles incompafTe the tops of 

 the ftalkes end in a f pike,being fomewhat hooded.wbitift^well fmelling,and marked on the infide 

 wirh fanguine fpots. The feed is rough and blacke, being contained in fiue cornered feed veffek. 



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of our Author,and the difference betwecne them certainly is very fmall. 



% 3 Sideritis fneumbens raxnofa. 



Creeping branched Ironwort. 



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$ 4 Sideritis frocumhensmnrm^A. 



Not branched Creeping Ironwort 



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