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fomewhat higher: the flowers arc fewer on the toppe, but fomewhat larger then of 

 the Bee flowers, made to the refemblance of a Gnat or great long Flic : the rootcs are 

 two round bulbes, as the other are. 



6. Orchis Myodes. Flic Orchis. 



The Flic Orchis is like vnto the lalt defcribed, both in leafe and roote, the diffe- 

 rence is in the flower, which is neither fo long as the Gnat Satyrion, nor fo great as the 

 Bee Orchis, but the neather part of the Flic is blacke, with a lilt of afh-colour eroding 

 the backe, with a (hew of legges hanging at it : the naturall Flic fecmeth fo to bee in 

 loue with it, that you (hall feldome come in the heate of the day, but you (hall rinde 

 one fitting clofe thereon. 



The Place. 



Thefe grow in many places of England, fome in the Woods, as the But- 

 terflie, and the two former handed Satyrions: others on dry bankes and 

 barren balkes in Kent, and many other places. 



The Time. 



They flower for the moll part in the beginning or middle of May, or 

 thereabouts. 



The Names. 



Their feuerall names are exprefled in their titles, fo much as may fuffice 

 for this difcourfe. 



The Vertues. 



All the kindes of Orchis are accounted to procure bodily luft, as well the 

 flowers dirtilled, as the rootes prepared. 



The rootes boyled in red Wine, and afterwards dryed, are held to bee a 

 lingular good remedie againlt the bloody Flixe. 



CHAP. XXIII. 

 Dens Caninus. Dogs tooth Violet. 



VNto the kindes of Orchides, may fitly be ioyned another plant, which by 

 many is reckoned to be a Satyrium, both from the forme of roote and leafe, 

 and from the efficacy or vcrtue correfpondent thereunto. And although it 

 cannot be the Satyrium Erythronium of Diofcorides, as fome would entitle it, for that 

 as I haue (hewed before, his Satyrium tryphillum is the Tulipa without all doubt ; yet 

 becaufe it differeth very notably, and carrieth more beauty and refpedt in his flower 

 then they, I (hall entreate thereof in a Chapter by it felfe, and fet it next vnto them. 



Dem Caninus Jtore albo. Dogs tooth Violet with a white flower. 



The white Dogs tooth hath for his roote a white bulbe, long and fmall, yet vfually 

 greater then either of the other that follow, bigger belowe then aboue, with a fmall 

 peece adioyning to the bottome of it, from whence rife vp in the beginning of the 

 Spring, after the Winter frofts are palt, two leaues for the molt part (when it will 

 flower, or elfe but one, and neuer three together that euer I faw) clofed together when 

 they firft come vp out of the ground, which inclofe the flower betweene them : the 

 leaues when they are opened do lay themfelues flat on the ground, or not much aboue 

 it, one oppofite vnto the other, with the ftalke and the flower on it (landing betweene 

 them, which leaues are of a whitifh greene colour, long and narrow, yet broader in the 



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