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fmall Madders , nor yet any of the other five laft 
Kinds in the faid aforegoing Chapter, are any ways 
equal or to be compared to thofe of the firji great 
Garden Kind , for which fpecial redfon, that is only 
or chiefly in Ufe. 
CHAP. CCCCLXIII. 
Of MAIDEN-HAIR Englifli. 
1 . / Tp' H E Names. It is called in Greek , 
_ 1 _ ’AJ'/a.t'nv Anglic um : in Latine , Capil- 
lus Veneris Anglicus : and in Englijh , Englijh 
Maiden ■ Hair. 
II. The Kinds. There are four feveral forts of 
it, viz. I. Tei^om, Grace’. Trichomancs Latine , 
alfo Capillaris , and Filicula, as Gaza has it: in 
Englijh , Engliff) Maiden-Hair , and Common Maiden- 
Hair. 2. ’ASiayrov Thalij ; Politricum au- 
reum majus Bauhini : and of fome, Adiantum au- 
reum majus ; mufcus Capillaris , Po/ytricbum 
ApuleiFuckfij , the greater Golden Maiden-Hair. 
3. Polytricum aureum minus Bauhini , Adiantum 
aureum minus , the leffer Golden Maiden-Hair. 4. 
Capillus Veneris Tragi , Adiantum album Cordi , 5(7*7- 
Jraga major Brunfelfij , 6? Eucbftj ; Put a mtiraria 
Mat thiol 1, who afterwards took it be Paronychia 
Diofcoridis , .SWunz Fite Lobelij Cf Lugdunenfis ; in 
Englijh , Common White Maiden-Hair, Wall- 
Hue. 
T/jc Defer iptiotjs. 
III. Tfo 0rEnglifh Maiden-Hair. 7 /j- 
rfte fmall , hard , Pibrous or Thready, 
from whence come forth a great many blackilh 
Herbal. Lib. I. 
filming little Stalks, fcarcely a Span in length, 
and in many Plants not half fo long ; on each fide 
let very thick with fmall round dark green Leaves, 
and lpotted on their backs like Ceterach , and other 
fmall Ferns. 
IV. The fecond , or Greater Golden Maiden-Hair. 
It has a fmall and thready Root , ivhofe Fibres are 
wonderful fine. It is a kind of Mofs , and its 
Stalks are not above a handful high, covered with 
fiiort hairs (landing very thick together, of an eb- 
feure yellow green color , out of which Stalks, 
fpring up fometimes very fine naked Stems fom»- 
what black ; upon the tops of which hang as it 
were little Grains like Wheat Corns. 
V. Parkinfon fays it has a very fmall and Threat 
dy Root : and that it has a company of fmall 
brownifh red Hairs to make up the form of Leaves, 
growing about the Ground from the Root: and in 
the middle of them in Summer time, rile up 
fmall Stalks of the fame color, fet with very fine 
yellowifh green Hairs on them, and bearing a fmall 
gold yellow Head, leffer than a Wheat Corn, 
Handing in a great Husk. 
VI. The third f or Leffer Golden Maiden-Hair. 
of this there are two Kinds , viz. the Leffer , and 
the LeaJ ?, both of which are very like the former, 
but that the Stalks grow not to much more than 
half the height of the greater. 
VII. The fourth , or Common white Maiden- 
Hair, commonly called Wall Rue , but is generally 
accounted one of the Capillary Herbs or A-faiden- 
HairSj and that not of the leaf account. It has a 
Root which is black and full of firings , from 
whence fpring forth many Leaves a/mofi round and 
Jlender Ji ending upon Jhort foot Stalks. It has 
riling up from among thofe Ground Leaves fine 
pale green Stalks, almoft as fine as Hairs, fet con- 
fufedly, with divers pale green Leaves , on very 
Ihort foot Stalks, fomewhat near unto the color 
of Garden Rue , and not differing much in form, 
but fomewhat more like unto the true Adianthum 
in the next Chapter, being more and more diverfly 
cut in on the edges, and thicker ^ fmooth on 
the upper part , and fpotted finely on the 
under. 
VIII. The Places. The firft grows upon old 
Stone Walls in the Weft of England , and in Wales - 
in Kent, and in feveral other places t>f this Land : 
it delights alfo to grow by Springs and Wells, 
and in Rocky, naoilt and fhadowy places, and Mr. 
Goody er faid, that in January 1624, be faw 
enough to lade a Horfe, growing on the Banks in 
a Lane, as he rode between Rake and Headly in 
Hampfhire , near Woolmer For ref It was alfo 
found growing in a fhady fandy Lane in Betfome , 
in the rarifh of South-fieet in Kent : as alfo upon 
Stone Walls at her Majefties Palace of Richmond. 
The fecond is feldom found but upon Bogs and 
Moorifh places, yet fometimes alfo in (hady dry 
Ditches, where the Sun does not come : Gerard 
found it in great abundance in a (hadowy Ditch 
upon the left hand, near unto a Gate which leads 
from Hampfiead Heath towards Highgate. The 
third is found in or near the fame places where the 
fecond is faid to grow. The fourth is found in many 
places of England , as at Hartford, and the bridge 
at AJhford in Kent , at Beckonsfield in Bucking- 
ham-Jhire\ at Woolly in Huntington-Jbire: onl’ram- 
lingham Cattle in Suffolk : on the Church Walls 
at May-field in Suffex , and on the' Rocks near 
Wefion fuper Mare in Sommerfet-Jhire : on the 
Walls of the Churoh-yatd at Sittmgburn in Kent, in 
the middle of the Town near a Lake of Water; 
and upon the Church Walls of Rally in EJJex, and 
other places. 
IX> The 
