DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 133 



Phalaris caiiaricnsis L. 

 Phalaris minor Baetica Boelij, semine nigro. 20 Julij 1621 



Is in stalks, height, leaves and scalie eares, like the greate 

 Phalaris, but twise as small, of a darker greene color, and the seed 

 is much smaller and of a blackish color. — MS. f. 88. 



Phalaris minor L. 

 Phalaris minor Baetica semine albo Boelij. [20 July 1621] 



The stalks growe not above a foot high, the leaves are whighter 

 then the other, the eares are also whighter, and scarce growe forth 

 of the greate hose or uppermost leafe, the seed is whitish in all 

 things else like the former. — MS. f. 88. 



Phalaris bnlbosa L. 

 Phalaris bulbosa Boelij. [20 July 1621] 



Is altogether like the Phalaris with blackish seed in stalks, 

 leaves and spikes, but the roots are bulbus, like those of Catts taile 

 grasse, growinge most comonlie on the upper crust of the earth, 

 with a fewe small threddie roots hanginge thereat fastened within 

 the earth, the seed is of an Ash color or darke white, the bulbus 

 roots most comonlie live manie yeres. — MS. i. 88. 



Valeriana Corjincopiae L. 

 Valeriana mexicana. 20 Julij 162 1 



non est Valeriana Indica Clusii. 



The stalke is round, tender, brittle, verie much straked, hollowe, 

 greene, yet reddish in some places, & ioynted,devided into branches, 

 about 2 foot high ; at everie ioynt groweth two leaves^ those on the 

 lower parte of the stalk are crompled, not notched by the sides, 

 round topped, of a light greene color, verie like the leaves of garden 

 lettice (nothinge at all like the leaves of Lactnca agnina) about 

 4 ynches longe, and 3 ynches brode, with broad leafed footstalks ; 

 those on the upper parte of the stalke, are narrower^ shorter, some- 

 what notched by the sides, without footstalks ; on the topps of the 

 branches growe the flowers as it were in umbells, and are longe, 

 of a bright purple color, everie flower contayninge 5 small round 

 topped leaves, whereof 2 are greater then the rest. The seed 

 followeth (sem. i. Sept.) growinge in chaffie scales or hedds, as 

 bigge or bigger then a wheate corne, blackish, seminge to be nothinge 

 but light husks and no seed. 



The root is very small for the bignes of the plant, white and 

 threddie, and perisheth when the seed is ripe ; the whole plant 

 is without any manifest tast or smell. |1 Clusius, Gerard & Bauhinus 



