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stalks and leaves, are of a mealie white color, and are some what 

 like the leaves of PorUilaca : the flowers are small, yealowe, like 

 those of Scorpioides rcpcns Bnpleiiri folio L'Obelij, but smaller, 

 growinge forth of the bosomes of the leaves, on long footstalks, 

 sometimes three, most comonly 4 together. After which cometh 

 on ech footstalk as many longe, small, jointed, slender, sharpe 

 pointed codds, bowinge like the tailc of a scorpion or like to birds 

 clawes, wherein is contayned betweene everie ioynt one longe 

 slender yealowish seed like Galega. The root is small, white, with 

 a fewe thredds, and perisheth when the seed is ripe. — MS. f. 88. 



Criicianella sp. 

 Rubia spicata Cretica Clusii, p. clxxvii. 19 July 1621 



This hath proceeding from the root many knottie foure square 

 rough little stalks, a foot high, devided immediately from the root 

 into many branches, having but one side branch growing forth of 

 one ioint : about which ioints grow spread abroade 4, 5, some- 

 times 6 narrow, short, sharpe pointed leaves, somewhat rough : 

 the toppes of the stalkes and branches are nothing but long small 

 foure square spikes or eares, made of three leafed greene huskes : 

 out of the top of each huske groweth a very small greenish yellow 

 flower, having foure exceeding smal leaves scarce to be scene : 

 after which followeth in each huske one smal blackish seed, some- 

 what long, round on the one side, with a dent or hollownesse on 

 the other. The root is small, hard, woodie, crooked or scragged, 

 with many little branches or threds, red without, and white within, 

 and perisheth when the seed is ripe. — MS. f. 88 ; Ger. einac. 11 19. 



Campanula pinnila hort. C. pitlla e. 

 Lesser Bellflower. [19 July 1621]? 



Ye lesser Bellflower hath small, rough, round, straked stalks, 

 seldom braunched, or above a foot or a cubit high. The leaves are 

 rough, of a light greene colour, very lightly indented about y® 

 edges in form like sloe leaves, or those of yc wild violett, those 

 that grow below have footstalks, & those above are smaller, & 

 grow close to yc stalk without any footstalk at all ; the flowers are 

 like small bells, & devided in the toppe into 5 sharpe pointed 

 leaves, which are pointed in y'' middle devided in ye toppe in 

 3 pts. Some whereof grovve alongest ye stalk, and some times 

 12 together in a bunch or Cluster at very toppe of ye stalk, after 

 which cometh ye seed cod in small rough (?) husks. The root is 

 white, small, strayght, with many threads & pcrennis. — MS. f. 8 v. 

 [Note on ihe back of a letter from F. Waller to Sir T. Bilson, 

 bearing date 19 July 1621.] 



