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Of the Hiftorie of Plant 



5 Mufcus ramofui fioridta. 



Flouring branched Mone, 



heath t< 



{hewed 



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don. in our maMfiS^S^ °/ Lo 



knowledge in Simples tS , f 9 , J ourfi «aer 

 the ftalkes thereof are lot 1^ ° f Mo ^ 



green colour , out of whicl X« L^ 



fometimes very fine naked ft«n i P Dg . ' 

 blacke.voon L ,l71r. ft , em '. fom «vh ; 



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roots 



l^idianthu 



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three kindes, m^^Z^gS 



threds vpon their branches,when as thelcaft 

 hath onely three or foure clofetotheroot- 

 and this is the leaft of plants that Ieucr yet 



grow 

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gethe 



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of MofTe hauing many flender branches 



found vpon old Okes and Beeches 



growethin moift places alfo, commonly in 

 old moffie and rotten trees, likewife vpon 



rocks,and oftentimes in thechinks and cran- 

 nies of ftone walls. 



whereon are placed confufedly very many fmallthreds like haires,ofagreenim am- colour: vpon 

 the ends of the tender branches fometimes there commeth forth a floure in fhape like vntoa little 

 buckler or hollow Muftirom,of a whitiih colour tending to yellownes, and garaiftied with the like 

 leaues of thofe vpon the lower branches. 



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% 6 Of this MofTe there is another kinde, which Ltd in his Dutch Herbal hath kt forth vnder 

 the title of m ufcm Pyxidat* jthich I haue Englifted, Cup MolTe or Chalice MofTe : it &»*» 



the moft barren dry and grauelly ditch bankes, < 

 but of a yellowifh white colour : among which 



fadvioned like a little cup called 



L vpoo the ground ****££* 



'p here and 



"" BW,au " fcV • *«"= cup cauea a ceaicer or v-, nance, -uu w ««. i«..«v ««~. .. »- - - UCQ 



Jower leaues, which vndoubtedly may be taken for the floures : Ae pouder of wnicn w« 6^ 

 tb children in any liquor for certaine daies together, is a moft certainc remedy againw w p- ; 



loos malady called the Chin cough. 

 X There BUkewife found in the ftiadowic places of high 



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and at the foot of old 



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