\^6 The Natural Hiflory 



of the foot-ftalk, like Tormtntill : The flowers are of the big- 

 nefs and colour of common Cinque-foil, but generally made up 

 of four leaves, as in Tab.y. F/g. 5, and but very rarely to be 

 found with five. It grows in the edges of the Corn-fields between 

 Hockley and the Woods under Sbotover-h'\\\. 



8. Orobancbe Verbafculi odore. The root of this Plant is skaly 

 and obtufe, to which are appended a bundle of complicated Fi- 

 bers, like thofe of Nidws avis, whence it rifeth up with a foft 

 round very bxixiltftalk-, feldom eight inches high, fet with thin, 

 fmall, fhort fkaly leaves like skins, growing clofe to it : At, or 

 very near the top of which ftalk., grow fomtimes eight or ten 

 fmall flowers, altogether different from thofe of the common 0- 

 robancbe, each confuting of four pretty large leaves, within which 

 are contained as many leffer, as in Tab. 9. Fig. 6. About the 



feed veflel (which is round at the bottom, with a narrow neck, 

 and a hole at the top fomwhat refembling a childs fucking-bottle, 

 as in Fig. 6. a) ftand fmall chives with purplifh tops, as in Fig. 6. 

 b. The whole herb, flowers, ftalks and leaves, are at the firft flow- 

 ering, of a whitifh yellow, or ftraw colour, and being broken 

 or bruifed, fmell like the root of a Primrofe. It grows at the bot- 

 toms of Trees in the woods near Stoken-Churcb, and we find it 

 mention'd infome MS. notes of the famous Mr. Goodyer. 



9 . Saxifraga Anglica annua Alfine folio. This fmall annual Sa- 

 xifrage from a fmall fibrous root, fpreadeth its trailing jointed 

 ftalks about an inch or two from it, at each joint come forth 

 fmall narrow leaves as in the other C bickpeed- break fione, 

 and from the upper joynts toward the end of the ftalks, come 

 fmall ht rbaceom flowers made up of four leaves, which prove 

 the cafe for the fmall included feed veffel, as in Tab. 9. Fig. 7. 

 This Plant differs from the common one-, which is of a light frejh 

 green, -perennial, and fomtimes roots again at its joynts; in that 

 its ftalks and leaves are of a brownifi green colour, the Plant an- 

 nual and nev 'err ept ant: it grows plentifully in the walks of Ba- 

 liol College gardens, and on the fallow Fields about Heddingtcn 

 and Cowley, and many other places. 



10. To which perhaps I might add two different Lychnis's 

 from the fylveftrh flore albo Gerardi, obferved this Year by Mr. 

 Richard Stanley ; one whereof bears a white flower fomwhat lefs 

 than the common, yet at the center having another little flowery 



circle, 



