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Of he Hiftory of Plants. 
t 3 Hieracium hortcnfe latifelium,ftue 
Pilofellamajor. 
Golden Moufe-eare, or Grimme 
the Colliar. 
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confidering the fmallnefTe of the plant. The 
noures, like a? others of this kinde fly awav 
m downe, and carry the feeds with them. 1 
3 This planr(whichfomealfohaue con- 
founded with the firft defcribed) hath a root 
at the top, of areddifh or brownifh colour 
but whitith within the earth, & on the lower 
fide fending forth whitifh fibres : it brinceth 
forth in good and fruitfull grounds leaues a- 
bout a foot long, and two or three inches 
broad, of a darke greene coloured hairy, lit- 
tle or nothing at all cut in about the ed<res- 
amongftthefe leaues rifethvpa ftalke fome 
cubit high, round,hollow,and naked, but that 
itfometimes hathaleafeor two toward the 
bottome,and towards the top it puts forth a 
branch or two. Theflourcs grow at the top 
as it were in an vmbell, and are of the bignes 
of the ord inarie Moufe-eare,and ofan orange 
colour.The feeds are round, & blackifh, and 
are caned away with the downe by the wind. 
The ftalkes and cups of the floures are all fee 
thicke with a blackifh downe or hairinefle as 
it were the duff ofcoles ; whence the women 
who keep in it gardens for noueltie fake, haue 
named it Grim the Colliar. 
f Tfe Time. 
All thefe floure in Iune,Iuly, and Atwuft 
about the later part ofwhichmoneth they ri- 
pen their feed. ’ 
If The Place. 
a. , » _ j cenr . . , _ ^ d receiued fome plants of this from 
U'.lohnGoodjer^ofob ToutiditMay 27, ,g }1 . ,n floure, and the , of thefellowing May not 
fs“feTntdope a C ° PfC “ Godlemen ln Suire >'> a^ioyning to the orchard of the Inne whofe figne 
2 This I had from my kinde friend M'. Willi am Coot e,vAtoyrtot tomee, Thathefound them 
growing on a hill in the L ady Bridget KmgfmBs ground, in an old Romane campe, clofe by the De- 
amtnc port, on the quarter that regards the Weft-South- Weft, vp 0n the skirts of the hill. 
3 This is aftranger 3 andonely to be found in fome few gardens. 
1 he Names . 
1 This was firft fet forth by Tragus, vnder the name of Auricula murk major : and by Taforn 
(who gaue three figures exorefling the feuerall varieties thereof) by the name of PulmonariaValli. 
cajiueaurea • Dale [champ! us hath it vnder the name of Cor chorus. 
2 This was by Libel .(who firft fet it forth) confounded with the former, as you may feeby the 
title ouer the figure m his Obfetuations,^. 3 1 7 . yet his figure doth much differ from that of 
if V s ’ ' vho nclther in hls h g llfe nor defeription allovves fo much as one leafe vpon the ftalke . and 
n^TT Umi Zl }7 C l h f, °r Whidl it , fel ^ 0lne vvants - this by Lobels figure hath many 
fu,I aL h an . d b y, th ^ Defcn Ptf«h^/», 2 5 3- it is no more than an handfull, orhand- 
W irh lb f hl S h = w ! llch , vcr y well agrees with the plant wee heere giueyou, and by no meanes 
hai^defcHhT 5 'd^ hofenakedfta kesareatleaftacubithigh So iris manifeft thatthis plant I 
naue delcribed is different from the former,and is that which Pena and Label gaue vs vnder the ti- 
tle of Pulmonarta Gallorum fore Hicracij. Bauhinc alfo confounds this with the former 
Ba J ilBe ( lcr <nhis Hart us Ey fleet enfis hath well expreft this plant vnder the title of liter mum 
in£h ^ j Bauhlms Cal ' s T 't Hieracium hortcnfe for, bus atropurpurafeemibus . 
faith that fome call it Ptlofe/la major : and I nidge it to be the Hieracium Germanicum of F abuts 
OwTlt a l [° ^ emes rather to be theherbe Coftaof Camerarius, than the firft deferibed ■ and 
if? be b °' d C ? e . f ame : for he faith that it hath fat leaues lying flat vpon the 
Its ■ rnt Jr f m ., uch , as coulddifcerne by the figure, agreed with the Hieracium latifoliumofclu- 
lndeed Jn ^ he ,eau€ ~> u ,is ve ry like, as you may fee by the figure which is in the firft 
loures heforeS ° lnSChapter,WhlChVeryVV&1IrePemblcSthlS plant3 if itIladmore and fmaller 
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