48 VOYAGE INTO 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of Crow's-Foot} 



Some of these plants are figured in the plates, see Nos. T, 

 8, 9, and 10. 



These four following plants are all crows-feet, only dis- 

 tinguished by their leaves. The first and fourth are very 

 like one another as to their leaves, whereof they have both 

 two sorts, the undermost broader and not so much cut, and 

 the uppermost smaller and deeper divided ; yet they diff'er 

 in this, that the first does not grow so high, and puts out 

 many leaves out of one and the same root ; but the fourth 

 hath but one long stalk, whereon sprouted out one single 

 leaf at a place. The fourth hath yellow flowers, but whether 

 the first hath yellow ones (which I suppose) I cannot well 

 remember. The flowers of the fourth hath five leaves, 

 broader at the ends and smaller at the bottom ; they grow 

 out of a rough perianthium or cup that is split into five also. 

 The flowers of the first have six leaves, they are small, and 

 the seed-vessels are like one another. 



The roots are differing, that of the first hath many small 

 fibers, and the fourth hath a thicker and longer, with tender 

 and small fibers. The fii'st burns the tongue like persicaria 

 or flea-bean, but somewhat less than in our countries : the 

 leaves of the fourth do not burn so. 



I found them both in the Danish haven, the first in great 

 quantities ; they flower in July. 



The second hath somewhat diflfering leaves from the two 

 former, for though the lowermost leaves agree with them of 

 the first, yet they arc less ; and those that grow higher, and 



' IiaiiuHCidus salj)/iufeus {H^. 10). Iiaiiuncidus sceleratus {&g. 7). 



