Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



1071 



Cbnfii Cilli. Yellow rattle or Coxcomb. 



f The Place. 



It growes in dry medowesand paftures 

 and is to them a great anoyance. 





^J TheTime. 



It floureth moft part of the Summer. 



% The Names. 



It is called in !oir-Dutcfa,ltttetal, and 

 &tt\i UatClCH t commonly in Latinc,Cr/- 

 Jt* Caff/^ and GallwAcea Chnjlrln Englifli 



Coxco.nbe,Penny-grafll%yelIow or white 

 Rattle : in high-Dutch it is called gee! 



BOM J in French,0^ de C^.diuers take 

 it to be the old writers AlecloroUphos. 



$ Some thinkc it to be the Mimmulm : 

 or as others (and that more fitly) rcadc ir 

 Tlummulw > mentioned by fifty lib, 18. 

 caf.28. t 



^j The Nature and Virtues. 



What temperature or vcrtuc this herb 

 is o£ men haue not as yet been carcfull to 

 know, feeing it is accounted vnprofi table. 









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HAP, 



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A. I 





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Pedicular^. 



Loufe-wortjor red-Rattle. 



Of 'Red Rgtk or Loufe 



y 



TbeDtfe 





IA 



Fiftul. 



fi 



Pena^nd others,the true Alettorolophos) hath ve * 

 1/ nuall rent or jagged leaues of a brown red colour • 

 and weakc fraall and tender ftalks.wherof fomc lie a-' 

 long trailing vpon the ground : in very raoorifli me- 

 dows they grow a cubit high and more:butinmoift 

 and wet heaths and fuch like barren grounds not a- 

 boue an handfull high : the floures grow round about 

 the ftalke,from the mid ft thereof euen to the top of 

 a brown colour,in fhape like the floures of dead Net- 

 tle : which being part, there fucceed little flat pou- 



contai 



fhew very like to the formenthe root is fmall white 

 and tender. ' » 



I the Place, 



Itgrowesinmoiftand moorirtl^nedows:theherb , 

 is not only vnprofitabl^but alfo hurtful to medowes 



% The Tim. 



It is found with the floures and ftalks in May and 

 Iune . 



