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I found this herb in the Danish Harbour, on the 18th of 

 Jaly. INIy iiguie agrees most with that which Camerarius 

 hath given in the fourth book and third chapter of Mat- 

 thiolus. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Of an Herb like unto Mouse-ear. ^ 



This herb bringeth forth smooth-edged leaves by pares, 

 they are rough and like mouse-ear. The stalks are smooth 

 at their first putting out, but they afterwards grow rough, 

 where the uppermost leaves grow : they are roundish at the 

 bottom. At the end of the stalk groweth a white fiower out 

 of its perianthium, the number of its leaves I did not tell, 

 nor had I time enough to observe the seed. The root is 

 round and slender, with small and tender fibers. 



It seemeth this plant should belong unto the hairy or 

 rough Alsine, and perhaps it may be the third or fourth kind 

 of the hairy Alsine of Dodoneus, in the fifth book and tenth 

 chapter of his first Latin Herbal, if the leaves of his Avere 

 not cut, as these are not. I gathered this plant in the South 

 Haven, on the 17th of July. 



CHAP. IX. 



Of a Plant like unto Periwinkle. 



Tjiis plant runneth upon the ground, and bringeth forth 

 roiuulish leaves by pairs on creeping stalks. 



The leaves as I think are like those oi pcrixoinkle, but they 



' Evideutly a Cerasliuiii or Stellaria. 



