2 60 The Natural Hijiory 



Stalk (huts into another three fquare one, 

 with triangular Branches, on which grow 

 many purpled five-leaved Flowers i The 

 Plant has a grateful fowernefs, and is much 

 efterned as a Sal let. 



1 47. White Sorrel. Grows feven or eight 

 Inches high., with Leaves like Mujiard 5 at 

 the top grows a long Spike of fmall white 

 Flowers like our Sheep Sorrel. 



148. The Squil. Has three or four Leaves 

 near half a yard long, and about four Inches 

 where broadeft, netted with green Veins. 



149. Rats Tail. Grows near two foot 

 'higK c ' ac k joynt hath four, five, or more 

 narrow notcht Leaves of different fizes 5 at 

 the top grows a taper Spike a foot long, 

 fird all about with blewifh Flowers of five 

 Leaves, each fmelling fomething like a Vio- 

 let. 



150. Broad Rats Tail. Like thelaft, but 

 Spikes broader. 



151. Germander Rats Tail. Its Leaves 

 grow in pairs, ferrated and hairy, the Flow- 

 ers ftand on a long Spike, are four-leaved 

 and red, refembling Batchellors Buttons. 



152. Citron Time. Grows four or five 

 foot high ^ Branches at each/joynt, where 

 grows two fharp-pointed notcht leaves 5 

 its Homers fmall and pale blew, growing in 

 a Spike two or three Inches long : This 

 Plant has a grateful Scent of Citrons mixt 

 with Bawna > which it retains fome Years dry. 



