Chap. 
I J2. 
Herb, 
s. 
into Jeven Leaves. ] and fometimes into but five, each 
°J is Something long. , dented about the edges 
and pointed, of a fad green color, and fet on both 
fides oj the middle Rib, one againfi another. The 
Stalk, which beareth blowers, rifes up in the fame 
manner with the Leaves, and is bare or naked of 
Leaves, to the middle thereof, where it Jhpots forth 
d Leaf and fo one or two more up higher, each con- 
filling but of five Leaves, and fometimes but of three 
having a If o the uppermost. Jingle •, at each whereof 
comes forth afmall round Bulb, cloven, or as it were 
divided into J eve ral parts or cloves, of a fad pur ! 
plifh green color, which being ripe, and put into the 
ground will grow to be a Root, and bear Leaves, like 
ns the Bulbs of a red Bulbed Lilly ■, about zvhich , at 
i be very top, (land four or five blowers in long 
Husks , upon JJjort Footjialks , opening into four Je- 
vei.il Leaves , of a purp/ijh color , and very like unto 
the h lowers a/Stock-gillitiowers, or Dames Violets. 
,f e ptng pajl away , fmall long horns , or Cods 
pointed at the ends come forth ; in which Pods or 
Cods lyes fitch like Seed at are in the Cods of Dames 
Vtolets i which oufoon as it is ripe , the Cod opens 
ana the Seed falls out : The Leaves , and indeed the 
Ttfle P/<,W> “ ^ “ bhteriJh ' hot ’ t har P, Radijh-liie 
Odalbcd 
Coral wort 
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IV. The Second, or Small Coralwort, has a Root 
J mall, and fomewhat long, compofei as it were of 
many fmall, very Jhining, Mti > thick fcales, grow- 
ing upwards, and having man ■ white fibres at the 
head of them, of a little fwee ijh bitter, Jharp and 
ajtringent Tajie. From tl'hs Root Spring forth three 
or tour /lender pale green Styks of Leaves fome- 
what divided on their edge *f, lot half a foot high 
and not of half that height ft home places, very like 
unto thofe of the hollow Root}: - ut f mailer , and of a 
paler Jhining green color ; five,, among which rife 
up one or two fmall Stalks, ^ eolith two fuch like 
Leaves thereon, but J, mailer, and a little above them , 
afmall round greenijh yellow head, which Spreads 
not into Leaves , but into four or five mofjte heads 
of Threads, andfo abides a while, ( having no other 
f lower ) which pafs away leaving in their room ma- 
ny fmall kernelly Seed. The Leaves have a bitter 
[meet /cent, fomewhat like unto the Musked Cranes 
Bill, yet more fine et when it grows Wild 1/1 its na- 
tural places, than when it is tranf planted out of 
them into Gardens. I his Plant is referred by many 
unto the Ranunculi or Crowfeer, to which it has but 
a fmall refemblance, and ought rather 10 be inverted 
in this place, for the likenefs of its Root fake. 
fmall Q_arall nrorl 
C orall=tuort true 'lehob 
V. The third Kind, which is the firjl Cinkfbii 
Coralwort, has a Root which is greater than the fhfi, 
and made as it were into Joints, not fo white as 
that is, but with longer Fibres coming from between- 
the Joints . From this Root rifes one or two Leaves 
F f upon 
