1^8 The 3\(atural Hijlory 
in his Hcrtu4 Ejftettenfis ^ : Alifmaquorundam Cordi % and Ali[ma 
Cjmhaleanthemon Thalii ^. Which Authors^ and others, we have 
diligently fearched, and by comparing them together, find the 
flant to agree with each Figure^ as well as they could do one 
with another, had they (as indeed they commonly are) been 
Printed from one Plate. 
14. The Plants which he doubts whether fpecifically dhJin^i^ 
yet fcwind fo in Oxford-fiire^ are alfo Helleborine's ; the one his 
Helleborine fiore atro -rubente^ and the other Helleborine latifoUa 
montana^^ both plentifully growing on Stoken-C hurch hills: 
Whereof the former has fmall narrow leaves, fomwhat like the 
Palufirisy and growing thicker on the ftalk ^ whereas thofe of 
the latter are broad and much thinner, the one alfo flowering a 
full month after the otber^ which we take to be diftingu idling 
CharaSiers enough, though not fo fignally differing in the flowers 
as Mr. Ray owns his to do ; our latifolia montana coming nearer 
to that of Gerard^ then of him or Vodon<£us , having purple 
flowers, but as deep or deeper than thofe of the Helleborine flort 
atro rubente. 
15. Of Accidents that are incident to herbaceous Plants^ be- 
fide what I have feen amongft /orre/^wery in Gardens^ I have met 
alfo with fome amongft the natives of Oxford-Jhire ; which \ guefs 
may happen to them (as likewife to all others') mofl: times through 
excefs-i or defeSi in their nourifiment. Thus have I feen the flalks 
of Dyers-weed and Succory^ from a round near the root, fpread 
themfelves upward into a hroadflat ^^2Wy as if there were feve- 
ral of them fafciated together, occafioned 1 fuppofe by reafon 
of the afcent of to much nouriflmient for one ftalk, and yet not 
enough ^OT two. The fafciation (if 1 may be allowed to coynfuch 
a word) being as it were an attempt for two ftaiks, which upon 
the afcent of fuflicient faj?^ is fomtimes accomplidi'd, the flat 
flalk then dividing into two^ asl obfervcd it this Summer in a 
Draba lutea fiHquls ftri^ijjimis^ and fevcral other Plants in the 
Gardens. 
16. ^h\c\\ accident of Plants the German Virtuofi think only 
to happen after hard and late Winter s'^^ by reafon whereof in- 
deed the fap being reftrained fomwhat longer than ordinary, up- 
» HortiEyBett.Plavt. Vernal. Ord. 9. 5. , V^ler. Cordi Hift. de Flant- lih. 2. cap. 107. 6 Joh. Tha- 
lih HarcyniaSaxono-Thuringica^f. i^. « inCatalog. riant, An^l. ^ Mifiellan. (Hrieja Med.Fhyf. Acad. 
tiat.Curioforum-^An. i.ohftrv. 102. 
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