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of their colour, being set near a quickset hedge, -will 

 bravely adorn the same by climbing up thereon, so that 

 they may be discerned a great way, not without admira- 

 tion of the beholders at a distance. But they will go 

 near to kill the quicksets by cloathing them in scarlet. 



Ladies Bed-Straw. ? (h, d. I.) 



Besides the common name above written, it is called 

 Cheese Rennet, because it performs the same office ; as 

 also Gallion, Pettimugget, and Maid-hair; and by some 

 Wild Rosemary. 



Descript.l This riseth up with divers small, brown and 

 square upright stalks, a yard high or more; sometimes 

 branches forth into divers parts, full of joints, and with 

 divers very fine small leaves at every one of them, little 

 or nothing rough at all; at the tops of the branches grow 

 many long tufts or branches of yellow flowers, very thick, 

 set together, from the several joints, which consist of four 

 leaves a piece, which smell somewhat strong, but not 

 unpleasant. The seed is small and black like poppy seed, 

 two for the most part joined together. The root is red- 

 dish, with many small threads fastened unto it, which 

 take strong hold of the around, and creepeth a little; 

 and the branches leaning a little down to the ground, 

 take root at the joints thereof, whereby it is easily 

 increased. 



There is another sort of l^adies Bed-Straw growing fre- 

 quently in England, which be.ireth white flowers as the 

 other doth yellow.; but the branches of this are so weak, 

 that unless it be sustained by the hedges, or other things 

 near which it groweth, it will lie down to the ground. 

 The leaves are a little bigger than the former, and the 

 flower* not so plentiful as these, and the root hereof is- 

 also thready and abiding. 



Place.] They grow in meadows and pastures both wet 

 and dry, and by the hedges. 



Time.] They flower in May for the most part, and the 

 seed is ripe in July and August. 



Government and Virtuss-I They are both herbs of Ve- 

 nus, aud therefore strengthening the parts both iuterual. 

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