2do Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. 2. 
6 Curd&mine ^yllfina. 
Mountaine Lady-Smocke. 
8 Citrd.imnejmmiLi Betlidis folio 
TheDwarfe Dafie-leaued Lady- 
fmocke of the Alpes. 
^ 7 Siam minus impatient. , 
The impatieht Lady-fmocke. 
6 Mountaine Lady-fmocke hath many 
roots, nothing elfe but as it were a bundle of 
threddy firings, from the which do come forth 
three or foure fmall weak or tender leaues made 
of fundry fmall leaues , in fhew like to thofe of 
fmall water Valerian. Theftalkcs befmalland 
brittle, whereupon doe grow fmall floures like 
the firftkinde. 
t 7 I Ihouldbeblame worthy if in this place 
I omitted that pretty conditioned Siam which 
is kept in diners of ourLondongardens, and 
was firft brought hither by that great T reafurer 
of Natures rarieties, Tratlefcant. This 
plant hath leaues fet many vpon a rib, like as the 
other Sium defcribed in the fecond place hath ; 
but they are cut in with two or three prety deep 
gafhes : the ftalk is fome cubit high, & diuided 
into many branches, which haue many fmall 
white floures growing vpon them : after thefe 
floures are part there follow fmall long cods 
containing a fmall white feed. Now the nature 
of this plant is fuch, that if you touch but the 
cods when as the feed is ripe, though you do it 
neuerfogently,yet\villthe feed fly allabroad 
with violence, as difdaining to be touched : 
whence they vfually call it Nolime tangere •, as 
they for the like qualitie name the PerftcarU fi- 
liquofa. The nature of this plant is fomewhat 
admirable, for if the feeds (aslfaid) be fully 
ripe. 
