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1 . Car famine flore plent. Double Cuckow flowers. 
The double cor famine hath a few winged leaucs, weake and tender, lying on the 
ground, very like vnto the Angle medow kinde ; from among which rifeth vp a round 
greene ftalke, fct here and there, with the like leaucs that grow below, the top wherof 
hath a few branches, whereon ftand diuers flowers, euery one vpon a fmall footeftalk, 
confifting of many fmall whitifh round leaues, a little daflit ouer with a (hew of blulh, 
fet round together, which make a double flower : the rootc creepcth vnder ground, 
fending forth fmall white fibres, and fhooteth vp in diuers places. 
2 . Cirdtminc triftlU. T refoilc Ladies fmockes. 
This fmall plant hath diuers hard, darke round greene leaues, fomewhat vneuen a- 
bout the edges, alwayes three fet together on a blackifli fmall footdalke, among which 
rife vp fmall round blackifh ftalkes, halfeafootehigh, with three fmall leaues at the 
ioynts, wherethey branch forth; at the toppes whereofdand many flowers, confining 
of foureleauesapeece,of a whitifh or blufh colour very pale : after which come vp 
fmall, thicke and long pods, wherein is contained fmall round feede : the root is com- 
pofed of many white threds,from the heads whereof runne out fmall flrings,of a dark 
purple colour, whereby it encreafcth. 
The Place. 
The firn with the double flower is found in diuers places of our owne 
Countrey, as neereMicham about eight miles from London; alfo in Lan- 
cafliire, from whence I receiued a plant, which perilhed, but was found by 
the induflrie of a worthy Gentlewoman, dwelling in thofe parts heretofore 
remcmbred,calIedMiflrefleThomafinTunnall, agreat louerof thefedc- 
lights.The other was fent me by my cfpecial good friend Iohn Tradefcante, 
whobroughtit among other dainty plants from beyond theSeas, and im- 
parted thereof a rootc to me. 
The Time. 
The lad mod vfually flowreth before the former, yet not much differing, 
that is, in the end of Aprill or in May. 
The Names. 
The fird is a double kinde of that plant, that growing wilde abroade, is 
vfually called Car famine altera , and Sifymbrium alterum of Diofcorides,and 
of fome r Ut cuculi, but not fitly ; for that name is more vfually giuen vnto 
the wilde featherd Campions,both finglc and doublets is before exprefTed: 
yet for want of a fitter name, wee may call it in Hnglifh, cyther Cuckowe 
flower,or Ladyes fmotkes,which you will. The fecond hath beene lent vn- 
der the name of Sankula trifolia, but the mod frequent name now receiued, 
is Car famine trifolia, and in Enghfh T refoile Ladies fpockes. 
TheVertues. 
The double Ladies fmockes are of the fame qualitie with the finglc, and 
isthoughttobeaseffeiduallas Watercrefles. The propertie of the other I 
thinke is not much knowne, although fome would make it a wound herbe. 
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