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Chap. 5 38. ‘Englijh Herbs. 
C H A I\ DXXXVIIf. 
Of PAIINASSUS — GRASS. 
0 R, 
LIVER-WORT White. 
1. ’T - ' H E Karnes. It has no Greek Name: but 
» is called in Ldtine, Gramcn RarnaJJi : and 
in Englifh, Parnajfus Grafs. 
IL T he Kind's. There are two Kinds of this 
Plant, viz. 1 . The fingle Flowered, which may 
be called in Creek, i * (w: ; which is 
the Name Camerarius , ip 'his Epitome of Mat- 
thiolm gives to our Unifo/ium or One Blade , but 
very unjuftly: Matthiolus himfelf in his laid Epi- 
tome calls it in Greek , 'At fvr/r mfuivus, which 
he.afcribes to the true Plant, but with out any 
Flower, which We here give you in the firft place: 
fo that upon the whole it is much to be queltioned 
whether our Parnajfus Graf here intended. Was 
ever known to the Greeks -, however thefe Greek 
Names will very well fuit with what we here offer 
you : in Latin , it may be called Gramcn Parna/fi , 
and probably may be the right Gramen Parnajft Diof- 
coridis. , (tho 1 i think we cannot be pofitive of it : ) 
for Gcfncr in bonis Germania , fays, that the 
right is not known to any in our Days:) 
Cordus in his Hiftory of Plants calls it Hepatite 
alba ; Lobe/, Gramcn Parnajfi bederaceum recentio- 
rum : and Tabernemontanns , Gramen bederaceum 
if f lot Hepaticum : Common Parnaiius Grafs.’ 
2 . GramenParna/Ji Flore duplicato Lobelij : Parnaf 
fus Grafs double Flowered. 
Parnajfus Grafs of Mathiolm, 
without Flowers. 
The Dcfcriptmn - 
III. The firft , or Common Parnaffus Grafs which 
’.s 1 ingle Flowered. It has a Root confijhng of a 
[trial l blatkifh fibrous Bufh of Threads , enduring all 
the Wi nrer. From the Head of this Root rije tip 
nany Leaves , not altogether round , but Jbapcd 
below like the upper part of a Heart , broad 
*in the middle , and ending in a point , feme.- 
times fharp , and font dimes blunter like the 
lower part of a Heart , f mailer and thicker than 
Violet Leaves , not much unlike to fome Ivy Leaves , 
or Leaves of Afarabacca, but f mailer , and not of 
fo dark a color , yet of a fr ef fort of green, every 
Parnajfus Grafs Common 
hngle Flowered. 
one /landing on a long fool Stalk-, among which 
there rife s up feveral /lender weak Stalks about 
a boot high ft weak as that they arefcarcely 
able to ft and upright, on which grow at the feveral 
Joints, fuch like Leaves as the former, but frai- 
ler and without any foot Stalk ; but joining them- 
/elves fo cloft to the blower Stalk, that the faii 
Stalk feems almoft to run thro ’ it. The lops of 
the Stalk are naked and bare of Leaves unto 
the flowers , for a good way. The flowers are 
at the tops of the Stalks , and are white confifl- 
ing of fve Leaves a piece , round at their ends 
and not pointed: in the middle of which is a 
frnal/ round green Head or Button, which the 
flower being fallen, grows fomething larger , and 
contains within it, fmall reddijh Seed. 
JL 
IV. The 
