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the garden parsneppe beinge neare as bigge as a mans arme, and 

 as high as a tall man, with greate corners deepe chamfers, and 

 hollowe within, devided into many braunches ; whereon growe 

 greate broad leaves like those of the garden parsneppe, composed 

 of 5 or 6 sometimes 7 or 8 indented smooth leaves sett on ech 

 side of a longe midle ribbe, and one at the toppe, of a stronge 

 smell. The flowers were not come forth. 



[Two lines left blank, perhaps for a description of the flowers.] 



The rootes are infinite growinge at the lower ptes of the stalkes 

 within the water and mudd, white, as bigge as wheatestrawes, and 

 they againe sendinge forth abundance of threddy strings, by which 

 rootes the plant encreaseth, usuallie 3 or 4 stalkes together from 

 one tuft. This I found growinge wild plentifully by the Rivers 

 sides and in the water diches about Oxford, 5*° Julii 1622. — MS. 

 f. 82 V. 



Stachys gennanica L. 

 Stachys. Wild Horehound. [? 8 Julii 1622] 



564 Stachys. — Wild Horehound is also like to comon horehound. 

 There rise from the root hereof a greate number of stalks high 

 or ioynted, and out of everie ioynt a coople of leaves, opposite 

 or sett one against another, somewhat hard, a little longer than 

 those of comon horehound and whiter, as also ye stalks are sett 

 with soft haires and of a sweet smell. Ye flowers doe compasse 

 ye stalk about as those doe of comon horehound, but they are 

 yealowe and y^ whorles be narrower. The root is woodie and 

 durable.— Jf 5. f. 7. 



Calamagrostis. 8 Julii 1622 



[See 27 Apr. 1622.] 



Sweet Flag. Acortis Calamus L. 

 Acorus legittimum Clus. 231. Acorus, Ger. ^6. 6 Julij 1623 



Acorus hath the leaves all most of the greater narrowe leaved 

 Iris [Iris augustzfolia], but much longer, and of a most pleasant 

 greene, the midle nerve or rib somewhat appearinge forth on 

 both sides as in ye leaves of Xiphium whose forme they 

 sufficiently resemble ; and like them or that moorish plant which 

 brings forth yealowe flowers like ye flowers of Iris, which some 

 call Iris palustris, the better skilled more trulie Butomus. 

 They come one out of another, but the midle leafe is most 

 comonlie longer than the rest ; but although they be of a tast 

 somewhat bitter, yet not unpleasant, and beinge crushed they 

 yeld a pleasant and aromaticall smell, which also they retaine 



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