The S\(amral Hifiory 
of the foot-ftalk, XiVt Tormentill i The flowers are of the big- 
nefs and. colour of common Cinque-foil^ but generally made up 
of yb«r leaves, as in Tab,(), Pig- S-^ snd but very rarely to be 
found with five. It grows in the edges of the Corn-fields between 
Hockjey and the Woods under Shotover-\\\\\. 
8. Orobanche VerhafcuU odore. The root of thi^ i^/^«/is skaly 
and obtufe, to which are appended a bundle of complicated Fi- 
bers^ like thofe of Nidu6 avis^ whence it rifeth up with a foft 
round very brittle ftalk-i feldom eight inches high, fet with thin, 
fmall, (hort fkaly leaves like skins, growing clofe to it : At, or 
very nearthe top of which ftalk-) grow fomtimcs eight or ten 
fmall fiowers^ altogether different from thofe of the common 0- 
robanc^e, e^ch confiding of four pretty large leaves^ within which 
are contained as many lefTer, as in Tab. 9. Fig. 6. About the 
fied velTel (which is round at the bottom, with a narrow neck, 
and a hole at the top fomwhat refembling a childs fucking-bottle, 
as in Fig. 6. a) ftand fmall chives with purplifti tops, as in Fig. 6, 
b. The whole herb^ flowers ^Jialkj and leaves^ are at the firft flow- 
ering, of a whitifli yellow, or ftraw colour, and being broken 
or bruifed, fmell like the root of a Primrofe. It grows at the bot- 
toms of Trees in the woods nt^v Stohn-Church, and we find it 
mention'd in fome MS. notes of the famous Mr. Goodjer. 
9. Saxifraga Anglica annua Alfme folio. This fmall annual Sa- 
xifrage from a fmall fibrom root, fpreadeth its trailing jointed 
ftalks about an inch or two from it, at each joint come forth 
fmall narrow leaves as in the other Chicks eed-breaK ftone^ 
and from the upper joynts toward the end of the ftalks^ come 
fmall herbaceous flowers made up oi four leaves, which prove 
the cafe for the fmall included feed veftl^ zs in Tab. 9. Fig. 7. 
This Flant difi^ers from the common owe, which is of a light frefi 
green, perennial^ and fomtimes roo/^ again at it^ joynts % in that 
its ftalks and leaves are of a brownifi green colour, the Plant an- 
nual zn&ntwcr rept ant i it grows plentifully in the walks of Ba- 
liol C ollege gzrdcns^ and on the fallow Fields about Heddington 
and Cowley^ and many other places. 
10. To which perhaps I might add two different Lychnis'' s 
from the fylve§lri6 florealbo Gerardi, obferved this Year by Mr. 
Richard Stanley ; one whereof bears a white flower fomwhat lefs 
than the common, yet at the center having another little flowery 
circle^ 
