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Lib. x 



Of the Hiftorie of PJa 



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J 15 Erica Cor is folio. 9 .Clufij 



Small Auftrian Heath. 



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them little narrow and Jong.fh leaucs . on thefe 

 ftalkes fpike fafhion to the tops of them yet but 

 on one fide, grow elegant redde floures, pointed 

 withblacke. Thisgrowesin that traft of Ger- 

 many which leads from Bohemia to Noremberg 

 on dry and vntilled places, and neere woods, ft 

 floures in Aprill. 



1 2 This Grubby Heath is commonly fome 

 cubit high, hauing flender branches which come 

 out of the maine ftemmes commonly three toge- 

 ther . and the leaues a I fo grow in the fame order 

 the tops of the branches are adorned with many 

 floures of a darke purple colour, hollow, round 

 biggeft below.and (landing vpon long foorftalks' 

 Clufim found this growing in the vntilled places' 

 of Portingale abouc Lisbone, where it floured in 

 December ; he calls it Erica Cor is folio l 5 . 



13 BeGdesall thefe (faith Lobel % hauing firft 

 treated of diucrs plants of this kinde) there is a 

 certainc rarer fpecies growing like the reft afrer 

 the manner of a fhrub in pots, in the Garden of 

 M r lohn Brandon: the Ieafe is long, and the purple 

 floures, which as far as I remember con lifted of 

 foure little leaues apicce,grow on the tops of the 

 branches. I know not whence it was brought, and 

 therfore for the rarity I call it Erica Pere<rrma\hzt 



is, Strange or Forreine Heath. ' ' 



14 This hath many round blackifh purple 

 branches fome foot or cubit high,Iying oft times 

 along vpon the ground : thefe are befetwith ma- 



-' ■ 4* . -'—'&'^«" L "v. ^hjuhu .- tucicarcDeietwitn ma- 



.vjir-uj r t . ny narrow little leaues, almoft like thofe of the 



nltf J^iT ^«*« longer, com ™?ly growing foure, yet fometimes fine to, ether of 



™m wT 5 thC htt!C fl ,T eS g r,° D the t0 P ofthe b«nches,longifh,hollow,and of a hgh 



purple colour, comminpf our of fnnr/» H-i-a !«*•,« „i~,«a~r.t... r.J. __._ ... . '. "'""h" 1 - 



Iuly. 

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g plentifully 



11 feed;the root is bard,wooddy,and'runnes diue 

 ground now and then take root againe. cliif. 



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foot high 



foure 



»!.» T»» e- , : , . . — »..w ^-lu, ui «* ucmtuiuui, lUHccacr »vitn tne toure lit- 



SriSP ?' °^ hlCl ll h 7 g]°^ , haui ng «ghc blackifh little threds in therewith a puroliOi 

 C 1] ' nt r he ? ldd i c - Jhefeedisblackeandfmall,the rootwooddyas in other plants of this 



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'/*/?** found this in fome mountanous woods 



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Hatnpfteed Heath 



iuui^t *? V ^ ^ muuuwiMCJwuiwarc aungry ana Darren, asvpon HamDfteed Hparh 



5 berde S TTh re *" ** f T d ° tf "' ^ ** ™ h the white fl ° Ures > ^ ^ 

 H T '•? Therearenocaboue£hr ee or foure forts that I could euerobferue- 

 «eath with the white floures groweth vpon the downes neere vnto Grauefend. 



Heath whirTi Ur>*rotU k<.»:.. .1. :. .u. vt_.l i>t~ t • . 



grow there, $ 



u.,., ... , —"«•"*■- 8-^"'-i"v l ,uui.ucu«viruc5iicercvinovjrraueiend. 



CiSk t C r • I eth b . errie8 S rovvcth in the North parts of England, namely, at a place called 

 £ b ^Lauenfwa ith, and in Cragge clofe alfo in the fame countr? : from whence Lue receded 

 nc rcd b «nes by the gift of a learned Gentleman called M< lames Tfrnatts. 



«Mcickiri 



September. 



Heath is cal led in Greeke, *»' 



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l^etfden 



ne «n,Hathet and Ling 



ine alfo Erica ; diuers do falfly name it uujric* 

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in high 



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