

XJ^TI Of the Hiflorie ©f Plants. Ittj? 



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He female Feme bringeth forth prefcntly from the root broad leaues and rough,forae- 

 what hard, cafie to be broken, of a light grcene colour, and ftrong fmelljinore than a 

 cubit long,fprcd abroad like wings, compounded as it were of a great number ftan- 

 diog voon a m idd !c r ib'euery one whereof is like a feather, nicked in the edges and on the backe- 

 fidcarc Iprinkled as it were with a very fine earthy coloured duft or fpots,wbich many rafhly haue 

 rikco for feed : the root confiftcth of a number of tufts or threds,and is thicke and blacke, and is 



iritbouc ftalke and feed,and altogether barren. 



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'is (vulgo) maris vmetas & differtntU. 



Differences of the male Fcrnc. 



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>rnc,by moft writers efteemed to be the male Feme ofDiofct 

 Kjin*uilLr^ Gefer s Ctftlvittu, arid Clufitss > accounted to bee the female, and Co indeed 



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tude. If you looke on thefe 



done ; which I am afraid hath bcene the occafion of defcribing more forts than indeed 

 nature. Thefe defcriptions I made by them when they were in their perfect growths. 



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The roots arc nothing but an abundance of fmall blacke hairy firings, growing from the lower 

 parts of the maine (bikes (for ftalkes I will call them) where thofe ftalkes Ire ioyncd toother At 

 thebegmmng of the Spring you may perceiue the leaues to grow forth of their folding clutters 



S V? "T^ fca,CS " S e fu P«&« of the earth,vtry clofely joyned together a yopS 

 plant hath but a few leaues , an old one ten,twelue, or more : each ftalke it his lowlr end neS! 

 joymng to has , feUowes at his firft appearing, before he is an inch long ^auinTfome of thofe bTacke 

 fibrous roots for his fuflcnance. The leaues being at their full growth hath each of hem a three 

 fa d.mfion, as hath the Feme which is commonly called the female : the main, : ftalk? th fit 

 Ea^S^S 3« S branchel^ £!££<£ 

 to foure in length) fall of thofe 'broZ^kfllr ™u ° ng *? u there are vfuall y from «* foot 



f round,nakf d L^^^S^S^^S^T^ T °°f rme >™ fide *«> * 

 the longcfl being the third paire from riSS? t • P • ? . de branches - The fide branches, 



™ds t & he top, if numbe aC tt nty Se •' for the mnT *?, *** ^ ? ° rtCf and *° r "* to! 

 couples, almoft oppofite the neerer the C^i f u r ft **" t0wards the root d*y grow bv 

 kaues, the Ioqgp^^S^^^ *f" W»fition : the nerues bearing the 



of the fide branches . about tw^ty in "mXlZZ^CA ? ?° rtCrand ^ter toward the tons 

 grow for the moft part by couples on the n^T ^ fide ? f the ,O0 S cft fide b ™<* • The leaues 

 g^ed by the fide^, th £SS endTng with Sn" S rt -°I ""? ^ °° a ner,,e $ ea <* leafe S 



ft* c !^ by the fal ii^ S ^fe!-^ P b . fer . ued very many fmaM l«L°t° l r0tten tcs, 



T1 >c roots o 

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bearing the leaues. 



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