( 19 X ) 
Tall Roman Catch-Fly. Ray H. Pi. Vo 1 . 3. p-488. 65' _ 
Lychnis vifcofa alriffima, flore mufcofo, Ocymafri facie L^atne. 
Triumphet. novse Plantar. Icon . Sc defcript. p. 58. Fig, . . 
The Root is as thick' as ones Thumb, from whence rife ® e f cr7 P t! 
divers Stalks 3 or 4 foot high, with oppofite Chickweed 
like Leaves 5 it branches very much towards the top, 
each ending in (ingle, whitift, deep cut Flowers , which 
quickly turn into (mall Pear-fafhioned Seed Vejfete , clofe 
(hut till ripe, and then open with a ferrated Griftce like 
all the reft. It grows in the Clifts about the Convent of place, 
the Brutin Carthufans , call’d St. Bartholomeo di Trifulti , 
where it was not long fince dilcovered by John Baptijl 
Triumfeiti. Pleader and Super Intendant of the Phyfhk 
Garden at Rome. I have obferved this elegant Plant iaTme. 
Chelfey Garden, where it Flowers and Seeds from 'July 
till Autumn . 
Candy Plantain, Ray H. PI. 88 r. 13. Holcficum five 
Leontopodium Crcticum C. B. 190. 4. Prodr. 98. c. 12. A r ^ 
defer. Holefteum Creticum alterum C. B. pin. 190. 5/ 
Holofteum Creticum five Leontopodium Creticum . Park. 
499. Fig. 5. Leontopodium Alpin. Exot. c. 51. p. 114. 
Fig. Belli Epift. ad Clus . p. 300. Leontopodium legitimum 
Impcrati 672. Fig. Leontopodium Creticum C. B. Phyt. 
512. 2. defer. & Fig. in append. Leontopodium Crctic . 
Clus. 1 . v. p. hi. Fig. Sc L. Crc?. aliud. Ejufd. 112. fvg. 
Plantago Cretica minima tomentofa, caule adunco Town. 
Coral. 5. Parkinfon , that accurate and knowing Botanift, 
is of the Opinion that all Clufius his Figures are only differ- ^ & 
ing ftates of (he fame Plant, which I am alfo inclined to 
believe, not only of his, but alfo thofe of Alpinus , Bait- 
hine , and Jmperatus , which are all different both from 
Clufius and one another, which may afffe from'a pecu- 
liarity it has, especially in dry Seatons, to (brink or fend 
its Head towards its Root, the Flower Stalks being 
fnort and extream woolly; for which reafon I look up- 
on Rawilfs Plantain-, which the Hift. LugrB’app, 21. Fi- 
ll 12 guns 
