Lib. I. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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eare beginneth to flourc below, and fovpvvard by little and little vnto the top: the finall Jeaues 
before the opening of the floures, and likevvife the buds of the floures, ate white of colour. Then 
come vp broad husks, wherein are enclofed two feeds fomewhat like wheat, but fmaller and brow- 
ner. The root is of a woody fubftance. 
t 2 3 Thefe two are like the former in ftalkes and leaues, but different in the colour ofthcir 
floures, the which in the one are purple, and in the other blew. Clnfius calls thefe, as. alfo the Cra- 
taogonon treated of in the next Chapter, by the names of Panctaria fylve/lres. ± 
4 Ofthiskinde there is another called OVtclampyrum /«t£«»/,whichgrowethneere vnto the 
ground, with leaues not much vnlike Harts home, among which rifeth vpa fmall ftraw with an 
eare at the top like Alopecuros, the common Fox-taile, but ofa yellow colour. 
Theplace. 
i The firft groweth among cornc, and in pafture grounds that be fruitful! :itgroweth plenti- 
fully in the paftures about London. 
The reft are ftrangers in England. 
They floure in Tune and Iuly. 
The time. 
The names. 
Melampyrum is called of fome Trithum vaccinium : in Engliih, Cow-wheat, and Horfe-floure s 
in Greeke,fi.^(.»£>.: The fourth is called Melamjyrtim Intetim : in Englifh, Yellow Cow -wheat. 
1 he danger. 
The feed ofCow Wheat raifethvp fumes, and is hot and dry of nature, which bein°- taken in 
meats and drinks in the manner of Darnell, troub leth the braine, cau ling drunkennefle and head- 
ache. 
Chap. 6y* Of Wilde Qo^-Wheat' 
1 CraUogonon album. 
Wilde Cow-wheat. 
The deferiptitm, 
1 r I ^ He firft kinde of wilde Cow-Wheat 
Clufrn in his Pannonick hiftory calls 
Parietariafylveftris , or wilde Pellito- 
rie : which name, according to his owne words, if 
itdonotfitlyanfwerthe Plant,hee knoweth not 
what to cal it, for that the Latines haue not giuen 
any name thereunto : yet becaufe fome haue fo 
called it,heretaineth the fame name. Notwith- 
flanding he referreth it vnto the kindes ofi MeUm. 
pyrum, or Cow-wheat, or vnto Crat&ogonon , the 
wilde Cow-wheat, which it doth very wel anfvver 
in diners points. It hatli an hairy foure fquare 
ftalke, very render, weake, and eafie to breake, not 
able to ftand vpright without the helpe of his 
neighbours that dwell about him, afoot high or 
more - whereupon do grow long thin leaues, llharp 
pointed, and oftentimes lightly fnipt about the 
edges ,of a darkc purplifti colour, fometimes 
greenilhjfet by couples one oppofiteagainft the 
other; among the which come forth two floures 
atoneioynt,longand hollow, fomewhat gaping 
like the floures of a dead nettle, at the firft of a 
pale yellow, and after ofa bright golden colour ; 
which do floure by degrees, firft afew, and then 
more, by meanes whereof it is long in flouring. 
Which being paft, there fucceed fmall cups or 
feed veflels,wherein is contained browne feed not 
vnlike to wheat. The whole plant is hairy,notdif. 
_ n .. r , ... „ , fering from the plant Stichwort. 
rherufi-r.n W1 C - ovv ' w heatis like vnto the former fauing that the leaues be narrower, and 
the tultofleaues more ragged. The ftalkes and leaues are ofa reddiili horfe-flelh colour. The 
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