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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



growing flat vpon the groundyjfa feint greenifb colour on the vpper fide,& vnderneatLlrf^vW 

 or mealy colour : among which rife vp fmall and tender ftalks of a foot high hauins at the c 

 eucry ftalke a bufh of fmall floures in fhape like the common Oxlip,fauini that thev are ofTf • 

 ftammel colour tend ing to purple : in the middle of euery fmall floure appeareth a little Ye 1W 

 Ipot refembling the eye of a bird ; which hath moued the people of the North parts ( where "» 

 boundeth)tocaIlit Birdseyne. The feed is fmall likeduft $ the root white and threddy * 



- The fecond is like the firft,fcuing the whole plant is greater in each refpe<SLand the floure. 



iiri (h colour. r tcs 



of a whitifh colour. 



^ Tie Place. 



Thefe plants grow very plentifully m moift and fqually grounds in the North parts of Eneland 

 as in Harwood neere to Blackburn in Lancafhire.and ten miles from Prefton in Aunderneflf 9 i<x 

 at Crosby.RauenswaitMd Crag-Clofe in Weftmerland . Aunaoneue ja]fo 



They likewife grow in the medowes belonging to a village in Lancafhire neere Maudfley ca l 

 fed Harwood,and at Hesketh not far from thence,and in many other places of Lancafhiie.bui not 

 on this fide Trent that I could euer certainly know. X^/reporteth,That D'Pewy (a famouspbv- 

 fition of our London Colledge) did finde them in thefe Southern parts. " 



«[f The Time. 



They floure and flour ifh from Aprill to the end of May. 



^f The Names. 



The firft is called Primrofe with the red floure : the fecond,Primrofe with the white flouruod 



Birdseyne. 



named. 



% The Temperature andVertuei . 



of thefe red and white Primrofes muft be fough 



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C h a p. 175. Of ^e ares tares, ormountaine CowJIips. 





I jiurictdavrjiflBreltiteo. 



Yellow Beareseare* 



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2 Kjiuricuhvrfifloreprfureo] 



Purple Beares eare. 







