Chap. 587. ‘Lnglijb Herbs. 
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The Descriptions. 
III. The Jirft , or Our common Rag. wort. Its 
Root is made of many Fibres , fome greater , others 
leffer , by which it is firmly jajined into the Ground , 
and abides many Tears. This Greater common Rag- 
Wort, has many large and long dark green winged 
Leaves tying on the Ground , very much rent and 
Rag-wort Common. 
Rag-wort Sea. 
torn on the fides into many pieces even to the 
middle Rib. From among which rifes up fometimes 
but one , and fometimes two or three fjuare or 
ere fled blackifh or brownijh Stalks , three or four 
Feet high , fometimes Branched , bearing divers fuch 
like Leaves upon them up to the tops , at feveral 
dillances , where it branches it felf forth , each 
branch bearing yellow Flower s, con fifing of divers 
Leaves , fet a* a Tale or Border , with a dark yellow 
Tbrumb in the middle , which do abide a great while : 
but in the end growing full ripe , are turned into 
Down, and with a fmall blackifh gray Seed , carri- 
ed away with the Wind. 
iy. The fecond, or Our leffer Rag-wort. This 
in its Roots , Stalks, Leaves, Flowers , form and 
manner of growing is very like the precedent, fo 
that many who do not well view it, do over-pafs it 
as judging it the fame with the former but the 
chief ef differences are thefe , it ufual/y rifes in 
Stalks not fo high , nor is the Tlant in the whole 
fo great ■, the Leaves are not fo finely jagged , nor of 
fo fad a green color , but rather fomewhat whitifh 
foft and woolly and the Flowers are commonly paler 
yet in many of them are much alike. 
V. The third, or Our common Sea Rag-wort. 
Its Root is long and more woody than the others 
with feveral fmall Fibres adjoining to it • it has 
hard ere fled Stalks about two Feet high , all hoary 
or while, on which grow hoary white 1 eaves, much 
much jagged, or cut into many parts , yet each part 
“J ™em broader than any of our Wild Rag- worts 
and fomewhat ft iff, but yet foft in handling. The 
tops of the Stalks are f unified with divers Flowers 
mbofe Cups or Husks are hoary at the reli of the 
Plant ,s- but t he Flower it fe/f u of apa/e fellow 
color, with a brown iff Thrum in the middle which 
turn mo Down, and with the Seed is carried awav 
with the Wind. * 
VI. The fourth , or Leffer Sea Rag-wort. Its 
Root is fome thing great and Woody like the other 
It grows leffer and lower than the former yet the 
Leaves are longer , and much divided, or cut into 
many other jagged Leaves, each jagg betng rounder 
pointed than in the former, of a grayijh or Afh 
green color above, and very white underneath The 
Flowers are many which grow at the tops of the hard 
woody hoary white Stalks, which are fometimes three 
or four Feet high, and Branched. Thefe Flowers 
are J mailer , and oj a dun or darker yellow than 
the other and the middle Thrum alfo browner 
which abide in Flower two whole Months at lead 
before they fall away, and then at 1. aft they tun 
into Down , as the others do. ' 
rolloff, P.f Broad Lrfd Sea Rag-wort. 
Its Root is long, and thicker than any of the former 
with fome few Fibres retaining to if from whence 
Spring up round Stalks, about a Foot and half hieh 
very hoary and woolly, fpread out into divers 
Branches, the lower Leaves whereof are fomewhat 
round and jagged or a Cole-wort, each part beirn 
no it were waved about the edges, and each Left 
being about four Inches broad, and (together with its 
foot Stalk J about a Foot long, of a dark green color 
on the upper fide and of a hoary white underneath 
and foft w handling. The Flowers grow at the tots of 
the Branches upon longer and flenderer foot Stalks 
whofe Cups or Husks are hoary, and the Flowers 
themfelves greater and paJer, than in the former 
forts, the middle Thrum being of a Gold yellow 
color, which after they are ripe , are turned Jo 
WwT' “" d m! } thC Sui bl ° Wn “ Way with ,he 
VIII. The Places. The two firft grow Wild in 
Pallures and untilled Grounds in many places of 
this h ingdom, and oftentimes both together in one 
* le moi ! e . Specially in Fields or Grounds which 
are fomethmg moift , and chietiy near the 
5° r t ers of t ' eld ,?- The third grows on our own 
Coalts, not far from the Sea, in the lflcs of Sbep- 
