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Rtci floured wild* Clarie. 



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blacke, and hues many yeates. It floures in I« ae 

 and Iuly,and growes wilde in many mountainous 

 places of Germany, clufm calls it Hominum fit. 



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4 This hath long leaues nixt vnto the 

 ground, growing vpon pretty long (hikes, broad 

 at their fctting on, and fo ending by little and 

 little in (harpe points,they are not deeply cut in 

 but onely lightly (nipt about the edges : they 

 are alfo wrinkled on the vpper fide, and whicio/ 

 but hair icon thevnder fide. The fquare (hikes 

 are fome cubit high, joynted, and let with two 

 leaues at each joync. The floures grow aiongft 

 the tops of the branches, and are of a fnow white 

 colour. There is a variety of this with the leaues 

 greener, and the floures of an elegant deepe pur- 

 pie colour. This is the Hormini Jyluejfru qua* 

 jpecies frim* of Cluftut, and the variety with the 



whire floures is his Borminifilueflris quartipcus 



frim a .• and the figure that our Authour gauein 

 the fir ft place was of thefe. ' 



5 There is another variety of the Iaftdefcri- 

 bed,which alfo hath fqtiare (talks fet with rough 

 fnipt leaues, which end in fharpe points, but are 

 narrower at the lower end than tne former, and 

 they are greene of colour : vpon the tops of the 

 ftalkes grow red hooded floures, and thofc not 

 very large : the feed is fmall and blacke, and the 

 ioot Hues many yeares. This floures in Iuly.c 

 fius makes this his Hormni fyluefitis quarti Jfu 



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The fir ft grovveth wilde in diuers barren places, almoft in euery country, efpecially in the fields 

 of Holborne neere vnco Grayes Inne, in the high way by the end of a bricke wall : at the end of 

 Chelfey next to London, in the high way as you go from the Queenes pallace of Richmond to the 

 waters fide, and in diuers other places. 



The other is a ftanger in England : it groweth in my Garden. 



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They floureand flourifh from lune to the end of Auguft. 





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oftheeies : in Greeke, V*: and likewife 



Chrifi 



Clarie, and O cuius Chr iflt . ; 



The fecond is thought of fome to be the right Clarie, and they haue called it Horminnn trm x 

 but with greater errour : it may be called in Latinc Hormimm fyluejlre folqs & fioribus furf*n*\ 

 Clarie with leaues and floures of a purple colour. 



t Our Author fhould haue rtiowne his reafons why this is not the H0rminumvrruw,tohwe c0 ' 

 uifted the errour o c t^An^uillar^Matthiol^ y Gefner,Dodonau^ Lebel, and others, who haue accoun 

 it fo, as I my felFe mufl needs do> vncili fome reafon be fliewed to the contrary, the which I ttun 

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is hot and moderately dry, and italfoclenfeth. 



The feed of wilde Clarie,as Diofcorides writctb,being drunke with wine 

 fetb theeies from filmes and other imperfeaions,bcing mixed with hony 



The feed put whole into the eies.cWif.nh anA nnro-rrh rhem exceedin 

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away the paine and fmart/ng theteof, efpecially being put into the eics one iced at one .* « 



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