Lib. i. 
Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 
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It is reported. That it growth in the North parts of England, neere^LLwi^ 
borough. I found it growing in the middle of a Wood in Kent two miles from Grauefend^eere 
vnto a worfhipfull Gentlemans houfe called Mailer William Swan, of HOwcke Greene The ,, 
belongeth to one Mailer Iohn Sidley : which plant I didneuer fee elfevvhere . and becaufe it i vl 
rare 1 am the more willing to giue you all the markes in the wood for the bette r findine it hZ 
caufe it doth grow but in one piece of the Wood : that is to fay, The ground is couered all aim 
in the fame place neere about it with the herbe Sanycle, and alfo with the kinde of Orchis called 
Hermaphroditic*, or Butter- fly Satyrion, - 
*[ The Time, 
, rtflourethandflouriflaethinluneand Auguil Theduftyor mealy feed (if it maybe called 
feed) falleth m the end of Auguft 5 but in my iudgement it is an vnprofitable or barren dull and 
not any feed at all. ’ 
The Names. 
It is called Satjrium abortiYum : of fome, Nidus auis 
neil, or Goofe-neft ; in Low-Dutch, Uogel# nett ♦ in 
• in French Nid d‘ oifeau : in Englifh Birds 
High-Dutch, ^ar 3 en Djeljen, 
TbcT emperature and Vertues. 
It is not vfed in Phyficke that I can finde in any authorise either of the antient or later Wri 
ters,but is eileemed as a degenerate kinde of Orchis, and therefore not vfed . 
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