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Pulsatilla vulgaris. Purple passe-flower. 



About Oxford. 

 Pirum foliatum. 



[Coloured drawing of a pear, with well developed green leaves growing 

 from the apex.] 

 Pirum supra pirum. 



[A fruit with a second pear growing among the leaves at the apex.] 

 Ranunculus minimus Septentrionalium herbido muscoso flore. Dwarfe Crotu- 

 foof, or S)nall Biinikins HollivortelL 



In Anglia frequens praecipue versus Septentrionem Folia odorem epirant 

 moscho similem, sed valde imbecillum. 



Fumaria cubica vel capnos Moschatella Cordi. 

 [A coloured drawing marked] Haec effigies praeferenda. 

 Ranunculus montanus, Cam. globosus. Globe Croiufoot. 



Floret in fine Jun et Jul: ad radices montis Ingle-borrow. Angli boreales. 

 Lockcr-Gowing vel locker goling, a flore clauso non est venenatus. 

 Ranunculus pumilus fioribus deciduis. 



The whole plant seldome exceeds 3 inches in compasse and in his full 

 strength and flowring is not above an inch or 2 high, amongst a hundred 

 plants of them yt I found not far from Oxford though it were in ye time 

 theire flowring I could not find one with a whole flower, severall of these 

 had 3, 4 or 5 little yellow leaves of flowers, about a small thrum of yellow 

 pointells, and every plant had fresh yellow pointells, with the leaves as it 

 were new fallen of. [it has not yett flowred in my garden.] ^ 

 Rosa sylvestris odora Eglenteria. Sweet Briar bush. 



Oritur in Bathonica Angliae proximis collibus non procul ab aedibus 

 D: Laur. Hyde. \^Quoted from Label, Obs. 61S.] 

 Rubia sylvestris laevis radice perenni. 



Omnino priori similis sed radice vivace ac perenni, humi maxima ex 

 parte procumbit planta et_ multis surculis brachiata, folia paulo latiore 

 stellatim disposita leniter serrata floras coerulei ex quatuor foliolis mucro- 

 natis. Caules quadranguli geniculati, e singulis geniculis folia stellatim 

 decussata quinq, quatuor, sex septem et octo. Radix longa fibrata valde 

 rubescens. Juxta Harwica prope littora maris. 

 Sagittaria minor. Small Arrow-Iiead. 



Radices — multas fibrosas, pallidas vel albicantes, prolixas inter quas 

 aliquas utpote 4, 5 vel 6 maiores radices chordis maioris Lyrae instar reliqui 

 longiores in extremo bulbosas bulbi oblongi mucronati, incurvi, membranulis 

 duabus aut tribus tecti, colore ex albo et coeruleo mixto, bulbi magni- 

 tudine inaequales, nucis avellanae magnitudinem aequantes, quorum caro 

 alba, solida. 



[A pen-and-ink drawing entitled] Sagittae minoris radix cum bulbis. 

 Sambucus foliis variegatis neere Totnam. 



Sedum arborescens Anglicum. Frutex est varius multis lignosis duris, cuius 

 folia sunt magis longa, similiter disposita, non adeo carnosa, nee crassa, 

 Sedum vulgare situ ct ortu aemulantia, radice satis longa, et crassiuscula 

 non multis fibris. Crescit in Insulis Hooms vocatis sinus Bristoiensis, 

 Oceani Anglic!. 



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