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fashion of a long quiver, that is to say, smal at the one end and 

 byg at the other. The leves of the floures are full of crestes, 

 and the overmost ends of the leves bowe a little backwarde 

 and from the lowest parte within come forth long small yelow 

 thynges lyke thredes of another smelle than the floures are of. 

 The roote is round and one pece groweth hard to another 

 allmoste after the maner of the roote of Garleke, but that the 

 clowes in the lily are broder." 



" The leaves of the Bay tree are alwayes grene and in figure 

 and fashion they are lyke unto periwincle. They are long and 

 brodest in the middest of the lefe. They are blackishe grene 

 namely when they are olde. They are curled about the edges, 

 they smell well. And when they are casten into the fyre they 

 crake wonderfully. The tre in England is no great tre, but it 

 thryveth there many partes better and is lustier than in 

 Germany. The berries are allmoste round but not altogether. 

 The kirnell is covered with a thick black barke which may well 

 be parted from the kirnell." 



" Blewbottel groweth in ye corne, it hath a stalke full of 

 corners, a narrow and long leefe. In the top of the stalke 

 is a knoppy head whereupon growe bleweflowers about mid- 

 summer. The chylder use to make garlandes of the floure. It 

 groweth much amonge Rye wherefore I thinke that good ry 

 in an evell and unseasonable yere doth go out of kinde in to 

 this wede." 



" Pennyroyal. It crepeth much upon the ground and hath 

 many lytle round leves not unlyke unto the leves of merierum 

 gentil but that they are a little longer and sharper and also 

 litle indented rounde about, and grener than the leves of 

 meriurum ar. The leves grow in litle branches even from the 

 roote of certayn ioyntes by equall spaces one devyded from 

 an other. Where as the leves grow in litle tuftes upon the 

 over partes of the braunches. . . . Pennyroyal groweth much, 

 without any setting, besyd hundsley [Hounslow] upon the heth 

 beside a watery place." 



