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Of lie Hiftory of Plants. 
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t J 'Drain alum repens. 
The .other creeping Crefle. 
IT The Time. 
The firft of thefe floures in May and the 
beginning pflune. The 2 and 3 in Aprill.The 
fourth in lune and Iuly, 
5T The Pi nee. 
None of thefefthat I know of) are found 
naturally growing in this kingdome • the 
Iaft excepted, which I thinke may be found 
in fome places . 
The Thames. 
1 This by a generall confent of Matt hie. 
Ins, Anguillara , Lolcll,&c. is iudged to be the 
carafe, or Drain of the Ancients. 
2 Drain altera of Clufias. 
3 Draba tenia fiicculento folio, oh Clufias 
lime a CWwralis ot D alefchamfias . 
4 This by Camcrarius is fet forth vnder 
the name of Arabis quorttndam, and he affirmes 
in his Hor . iWfa'.that hehad it outof England 
vnder the name of S olidapo • The which is very 
likely,for without doubt this is the very plant 
that our Author miftooke for Soli dago Sarra- 
ccnica , for he bewraies himfelfe in the Chap- 
ter oh Ef medium, whereas he faith it hath 
cods like Sarraccens Confiund-,\vben as both he 
and all other giue no cods at all to Sarracens 
Confound. My very good friend M r . lohn Good- 
yer was the firft, I thinke, that obferued this miftake in our Author; for which his obferuation to- 
gether w ith fome others formerly and hereafter to be remembred, I acknowledge my felfe behol- 
den to him. 
«[ The V ertnes, attributed to the fir /l. 
1 Dicfcorides faith, that they vfe to eate the dryed feed of this herbe with meate,as we do pepper 
elpecially in Cappadocia. ‘ ^ 
Theyvfelikewifetoboyletheherbewiththedecodlion of barly,called Ptifana -which be- 
ing fo boiled, concofteth and bringeth forth of the chcft tough and raw flegme which iticketh B 
therein. 
The reft are hot, and come neere to the vertues of the precedent, f C 
Chap. 25 . Of Sbcpbeards-purfc. 
«[f The Defcri ft ion. 
1 r T~ He leanes of Shepheards purfe grow vp at the firft long,gafhed in the edges like thofe 
J. of R° c ker 3 rp rc d vpon the ground : from thefe fpringvp very many little vveake fta Iks 
diuided into fundry branches, with like leaues growing on them, but lefler ; at the 
top whereof are orderly placed fmall white floures : after thefe come vp little feed veflels, flat,and 
cornered, narrow at the item like to a certaine little pouch or purfe, in which lieth the feed. 
c l00t lsw hite not without firings. $ There in another of this kindewith leaues not finuated, 
or cut in. t 
V. 2 ^^ e P^ ear ^ s purfe commeth forth oh the ground likethe Cuckow floure, which I 
aue Engl lined Ladie-lmockes,hauing fmall leaues deepely indented about the edges • among 
r j C1 7., V P mai }y tender ftalkes with floures at the top, as it were chaffe. The huskes and 
leed is like the other before mentioned. 
t, r , , , „ f Tie Place. 
. 11 2 , ™ es “° § row °f themfelues for the moft part, neere common high vvaies, in defert and 
vntilled places^ among rubbifli and old walls. 
The 
