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Oi the Hiflorie of Plants 



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The male blacke Feme 



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They remaine grcene all the yeare long, othcr T 

 wife than Polypodie and Maidens haire do- yet do 

 they not ceafe to bring forth new leaues in Sum- 

 mer : they are deftitute of Hours and feed, as is the 

 former. 



«U rhe Names. 



This is called of diners of the later herbarirts, 

 Dryopteris nigra, or blacke Oke-Ferne, of the Iike- 

 nelTe it hath with Dryopterts-, which we h3ue cal- 

 led in EngliOi ^Oke-Ferne or MofTe-Ferne s of o. 

 thzxs, Adiantum nigrum or black Maiden-hair, that 

 it may differ from the former, which is falfly cal- 

 led Adiantum. There are of the later Herbarifts 

 who would haue it to bee Lonchitrs afpera, or rough 

 Spleen- wort: but what likcntiTc hath it with the 

 leaues oiScolopendrium ? none at all : therfcre it is 

 not Lonchitis ajpera , much leflTe v^Adiantum Plinij y 



for 



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phrajhs : the right Adiantum we wil defcribe here- 

 after. Notwithftanding blacke Oke-Ferne was 

 vfed of diuers vnlearned Apothecaries of France 

 and Germany for x^ddiantum or Maiden-hairc of 

 Lumbardy : but thefe men did erre in doing fo,yec 

 not fo much as they who take Polypody of the 

 Oke for the true Maiden-haire. 



% The Temperature and Vertues . 



The black Oke-Ferne hath no ftipticke qualitie 

 at all,but is like in faculty to Jrichomaties o*r Eng- 

 lifh Maiden-haire. 





HAP. 



470 



Of HartsSTongue. 



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