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3 Calt ha pdluftris multiplex* 



Double floured Marih Marigold. 



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Frogge-bic. 





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Author and Camerartw weredeceiuedbvr 

 3 fling the report of fome lying, orelfeWoranr 

 perfons,for I could neuer find it growi^ wild 

 with double figures here,nor Camerar^ t v * 

 yet I do not deny but by chance fome one with 

 double floures may be found both *-- ~ - ■ 

 there, but this is not euery where. $ 



tfl The Place. 



They joy in moift and marifh grounded » 

 watery medowe*. t I haue not found the dot?. 

 bleone wilde 3 but feene it preferued in diuers 

 Gardens for the beauty of the floure. $ 



^j The Time. 



They floure in the Spring when the Cray, 

 foots doe, and oftentimes in Summer: the 

 leaues keepe their greeneneffe all the Winter 



long. 



*$ The Names 



Marfh Marigold is called of Valerius Qordus 

 Caltha palufiris : of Tabernamontamu^ ?ofuL?$ . 

 but not properly i in Englifh ; March Mari- 

 golds : in Chefhire and thofe parts it is called 



Bootes 



^j The Temperature and Femes. 



Touching the faculties of thefe plants, wee 

 haue nothing to fay, either out of other mens 

 writings 3 or our owne experience. 



h a pi i&. Of FroggeMt. 



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Here floteth or fwirameth vpon the vppa 

 parts of the water a fmall plant,whicli *e 

 vfually call Frog- bit, hauing little round 

 leaues, thicke and full of juyce.very like to the 

 leaues of wall Peniwort:tbe floures gro* vpon 

 long fteras among the leaues,ofawhitecolour, 

 with a certain yellow thrum in the middle con- 

 fiding of three leaues : in Head of roots it nam 

 flender firings, which grow out of a fhort ana 

 fmall head, as it were, from whence tbeleau 

 fpring,in the bottom of the water : fioon \*w 

 head Slfo come forth flopewife certain Mt 

 by which growing forth it multiplied it «« • 



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It is found fwimmingor flotmgalmo l 

 uery dirch jP ond,poole,or ft^diM wan* 3D d 

 theditches about Saint George his field 5 , ^ 

 in the ditches by the Thames fide flee. ^ 

 Lambeth Marfb, where any that is a«r 



may fee it. 



qr 7 he Time. c a |j 



Ic flourifheth and floureth moft part 

 the yeare 





It is called of fome Etna 



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