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their full lenght, but ioyned close together with 5 corners, which 

 after in a short time open and are round like a little bell, like those 

 of white Bindweed, but of a delicate Azure or as it were a color 

 of blevve and redd mixed together, with five straight strakes or 

 lynes in the inside like redd darke colored crimson velvet. This 

 glorious shewe continueth but awhile, for towards night the same 

 dale that they open, they beginn to vade and fold themselves in 

 together at the toppe, and never open againe, and the next daic fall 

 quite away. Quaere, whether they do always so. — MS. f. no. 



Ce7itanrea sahnantica L. 

 Stoebe Salmantica j"*^ Clusii foliis Cichorei. 8 Sept. 162 1 



Hath at the first large leaves about a foote and a half longe 

 spread abroad uppon the ground unorderly lagged even to the midle 

 ribbe and those iaggs are indented about the edges sawe fashion, 

 but not devided into other iaggs, ech small indentinge endinge 

 with a weake sharpe prickley point verie thick sett with fine softe 

 cotton-like hairines somewhat like the devided leaves of Cichorie 

 amongst which riseth uppe a round straked stalk 5 or six foot high, 

 devided into many branches, of a browne reddish color, with a softe 

 hairines like that on the leaves towards the root, whereon growe 

 leaves like the former but lesser and lesser upwards on the stalk, 

 the stalk and branches beinge very little or nothinge at all hairy 

 towards their topps, and bearinge very narrowe prickley topped 

 leaves almost without haires, not devided like the former, but onlie 

 deepelie indented, endinge with sharpe but weake pricks. At the 

 toppe of ech stalk and branch groweth one head sett on the outside 

 with smooth scales, ech scale endinge with a very small short harme- 

 lesse prickle, out of the toppe whereof groweth abundance of pale 

 purple cheives very like the flowers of Cardmis viilgatissivms, or 

 Cardiius btilbosiis nwnspel. and not unlike the flowers of Jacca, but 

 havinge no larger spreadinge flowers on the borders like it, or like 

 the flowers of Cyamis. — MS. f. 92. 



Aiitheniis tinctoria L. 

 Buphthalmum vulgare. primum Matthioli. 9 Sept. 1621 



Hath manie small round straked brittle branches cominge from one 

 root about 2 foot high, and those againe devided into other branches 

 covered with a little thinne white cottonlikc woollines whereon 

 growe the leaves of a whitish greene color, spread abroad devided 

 into many parts and those small devisions are finelie iagged or 

 minced like the leaves of Tansie but much smaller. On the topps 

 of the stalks and branches crrowe the flowers somethino-e like those 



