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in Eychmonde Grene, in Brantfurde Grene, and, in mooste plenty of al, in 

 Hunsley Hethe." (Pt. i. fol. 18, 19.) 



5. AvENA SATiVA? " Thcr is another kinde of otes, called pill otes, 

 which growe in Sussex ; it hath no husk abydyng upon it, after that it is 

 threshed and is lyke otemele (oatmeal)." (Pt. i. fol. 39.) 



6. Myrica Gale. " There is a shorte bushe that groweth in the fenne 

 called in Duche Gagel, in Cambridgeshyre Gall, and in Summersetshyre 

 Goul or GoUe." (Pt. iii. fol. 47.) 



7. Veronica serpyllifolia. " Paulis betoni. Thys herbe groweth in 

 Syon gardyn, and in dyuerse woddes not far from Syon, wyth a Avhyte floui'e 

 myxed with blewe, and wyth a sede lyke unto bursa-pastoris." (Pt. i. 

 fol. 34.) 



8. Brassica oleracea and Crambe maritima. " There are yit ii. 

 kyndes of wyld cole, wheroff I fyud no mencion in any -nTyter. The one 

 is a wonderful great cole, and hath leues thrise as thike as euer 1 saw any 

 other cole haue. It hath whyte floures, and round berryes, like yuy (ivy), 

 where in the sede is conteyned." 



B. OLERACEA. " I ueuer saw it in all my lyfe, sauyng in Douer clyffes. 

 This is myche lyke the other cole ; but it is whyter, and rougher, and bytter 

 with all." (Pt. i. fol. 37.) "This herbe groweth at Douer (Dover), harde 

 by the see syde. The other kynde of wyld cole groweth euer by water sydes, 

 with a leafe indentyd, as rokket is : in taste, smelle, fasshione, floure, and 

 sede, lyke unto the gardyne cole ; of thes I name in Latyne brassicam do- 

 bricam, in Englyshe Douer cole : because I found it fyrst besyde Douer. 

 The second kynde I cal brassicam fiuviatilem, and in English waterkole, 

 because it groweth euer by water sides." (Pt. i. fol. 37.) 



9. Alnus Betula. "Byrche is called in Latin betula. I haue not 

 red of any vertue that it hath in physik : howbeit it senieth for many good 

 uses, and for none better then for betynge of stubborne boyes, that ether 

 lye or wyll not learne." (Fol. 34.) 



10. Calamintha clinopodium. " Horse tyme. I founde thys herbe 

 ryght ouer against Syon." (Pt, i. fol. 60.) 



11. Plantago Coronopus. " Herbe ivy or crow foote plantne. Theodor 

 Gaza calleth it siligo. It groweth much aboute Shene in the hygh waye, 

 and aboute the sea syde in the banks whych are made by man's hand." 

 (Pt. i. fol. 67.) 



12. Crithmum maritimum. " Sampere. It groweth plentously be- 

 syde Douer and in Susexe by the sea syde." (Pt. i. fol. 68.) 



13. HiERACiUM VULGATUM? (boreale). " Hawke wede. I have 

 sene this in greate plenty bothe in Englande and in Germany, in the fields 

 about Bonne, in Englande in the medowe a lytle from Shene." 



14. Mentha Pulegium. "Penny ryal groweth much, without any 

 settyng, besyde Hundsley (Hounslow), upon the heth besyde a watery 



