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about the edges, growing commonly two or three together : the vmbel of floures is commonly of 
a yellowifh greene .-the feed is likeparffey feed, but in carte fomewhat refembics Cmnme D Letts 
Crettmi and the rinde Oi a Citron, yet feemes fomewhat hotter. ^ 
5 Water-Crelfe hath many fat and weake hollow branches trailing' vpon the mauell and 
earth where it groweth, taking hold in fundry places as it creepeth . by meanes whereof the plant 
ipreadeth oner a great compafle of ground. The leaues are likewife com pad and winged with 
many (mall leaues fet vpon a middle rib one againft another, except the point leafe, which hands 
by it ielfe, as doth that of the afh,if it grow in his naturallplace, which is in a grauelly fpring.The 
vpper face of the whole njant is of a browne colour, and greene vnder the leaues, which is a perfedl 
markc to know thephy fieall kinde from the others. The white floures grow alongft the ftalkes 
and are fucceeded by cods wherein the feed is contained. The root is nothing clfe but as it were’ 
a thrumme or bundle of threds. a 
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Siam. 
C oramoaWa ter- C re ffes . 
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Italian Water-Crefle* 
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ordinarie white, and are fucceeded by cods like thofe of our’ 
^ f The Place. 
f T- > he 1 l laue . not; found growing, noras yet heard ofwithin this kingdome. 
-p. r LCai rft tound in the company ofM. Robert Larkin, going betweenc Redriffe and 
Deptford, .n a rotten boggy place on the right hand of the way. & b 
3 .fhe third grovves almoft in euery watery place about London. 
11 us ls ™ ore rare j and was found by M r . Goodyer in the ponds about Moore Parke ■ and by 
M. Georre Bowles in the ditches about Ellefmere, and in diners ponds in Flint-lhire. ’ ' 
i ti 10 r r l ^ as rreqwent as the third,and commonly they grow neere together. 
that it Iro- 14 " mlh' vs h ^ f ° Und in Plemon b in riuelets amongft the hills : I haue not yet heard 
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