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and I invite your attention to the description of "the great 

 straw-coloured Beares eare," at page 238 of the book last men- 

 tioned. "This hath almost as mealy leaves as the last, but 

 nothing so large ; the flowers are of a faire strawe colour, with 



Fig. 2— AURICULA URSI, after Matthioli, Epitome, 706. 



a white circle at the bottom of them." These three last (that 

 is the great yellow, greater yellow, and great straw) "haue no 

 shew or shadow of any other colour in any part of the edge, as 

 some others that follow haue," 



