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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
purple coloured floures, fpotted on the infide with many fmall purple fpots and little lines or 
ftreakes The fmall floures are like an open hood or helmet, hauing hanging outofeuery one as 
it were the body of a little man without a head, with armes ftretched out, and thighes ftradling 
abroad, after the fame manner almoft that the little boyes are wont to be piftured hanging out of 
Sat times mouth. The roots be like the former. . ... , . c 
, Spotted Doo-s ftones bring forth narrow leaues, ribbed in fome fort like vnto the Ieaues ot 
narrow Plaintaine or Rib-wort, dafht with many blacke ftreakes and fpots. The ftalke isacubic 
and more high : at the top whereof doth grow a tuft or eare of violet-coloured floures, mixed with 
a darke purple, but in the hollowneffe thereof whitifti , not of the fame forme or firape that the 
others are of, but leffer,andas it were refembling fomewhat the floutes of J.arkes-ipur. The toots 
” 4. ' Marifh Doo-s (tones haue many thicke blunt Ieaues next the root, thick (freaked with lines 
or nerues like thofe of Plantaine. The floure is ofa whitifh red or carnation : the (talk and toots 
be like the former. 
•j j Cynoforchis maculata. 
Spotted Dogs ftones. 
4 Cjnoforchis paluftris. 
• Marifh Dogs ftones. 
4 : j Thishathfiueor(ixlittleleaues-,thcftalkeisfomehandfullorbetterinheight, feta- 
bout with fomewhat lefle leaues : the tuft of floures at the top of the ftalke are of a purple colour, 
final], with a white lip diuided into foure partitions hanging dovvne, which alfo is lightly fpotted 
with purple ; it hath a little fpurre hanging downe on the hinder part of each floure. The feed is 
finall, and contained in fuch twined heads as in other plants ofthiskinde. Therootsare likethe 
former, but much lefle. £ 
The Place. 
Thelekindes of Dogs ftones dogrow in moift and fertile medowes. The marifh Dogs ftones 
grow for the moft part in moift and waterifh woods, and alfo in marifh grounds. $ The 5 grovves 
in many hilly places of Auftria and Germanie. $ 
