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which rife vp diucrs Iong,flat Ieaties,tougb,and very hard,con filling as it were of many little leaucj 

 fct ooeat the end of another, making of many one entire leafe, of a greene colour : amoneft which 

 come forth diucrs naked hard ftalkes,very fmall and ftiffc, on the tops whereof ftand fpikie earcs of 

 yellow floures, like thofe of Broome, in fhape like that great three leafed graiTc, called Lwtu, or 

 like the Fox-taile grafle : after which come flat cods, wherein is inclofed fmall feed like°to Tares 

 both in tafte and forme. 



5 Genijlella Lag$poides major. 



Hares foot Grecneweed. 



5 GeniftcHdLagepoides minor. 



Small Grecneweed with Hares foot floure. 







6 This differeth not from the precedent in ftalks>roots and lcaues:the floures con fill of a floc- 

 kie foft matter,not vnlike to the graffic rufr of FoxtailCjrcferobling the floure of Lagofmfii Harcs- 

 foot,but hauing fmall yellow floures Icfler than the former, wherein it chicfely differeth from the 

 other of his kinde. 



• q The Place. 



The firft being our common Diers-weed3growethin moft fertile paftures and fields almofteuc* 

 ry where. The reft are (hangers in England. 



•J The Time. 



They floure from the beginning of Iuly to the end of Auguft. 



^f The Names. 



The firftofthefeGreenweeds is named of moft Herbarifts F/ttr/*0mw ) butmorerigbtIy,(7t~ ' 

 a a Twfforiapdhis Pliny hath made mention [The Greeneweeds,faith bc,do grow to dye clothes 

 b] in his i8.booke,i£. chapter. It is called in high Dutch, jfcfbhintCfl, and 3lCfeetb JCttl t in 



"anfierretta, and Cofaria, as ^Matthiolm writeth in his chapter of Lyfimachia } ox Loofe-ftrife : in 



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Woodwaxen 





The reft we refer to their feuerall titles. 



ff The Temperature and Fertues. 



Thefe plants are Iikevnto common Broome in bitternelTe,and therefore are hot and dry in the ^ 

 x>ad degree:they are likewife thought tobe in vcrtues equall;notwithftanding their vfe is ootfo 

 •II knowne. and therefore not vfed at all where the other mav be had : we (YmW nor needtoff* 1 * 



ofthat 



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