Lib.- 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants;' 
Chap, 52, Of W'ilde <z 5 \fercurie. 
t I Cjnocrambe. 
Dogs Mercury/. . . 
3 PhjIIon T 'hclygtt$on,fiite F cnnimftcum. 
Childrens Mercurie, the female. 
t 2 Phyllon arrhenogonon.fiue marificm^ 
Male childrens Mercury, 
The Defcriptiex. 
S T"N Ogs Mercurie is fomewhat like 
L/ vnto the garden Mercury,fauing 
the leaues hereofare greater, and 
the ftaike not fo tender, and yet very brittle, 
growing to the height of a cubit, without 
any branches at all, with final yellow floures. 
The feed is like the female Mercurie. ^ It is 
allb found like the male Mercurie, as you fee 
them both expreft in the figure , and fo there 
is both male 8 c female of this Mercury alfo. 
2 Mali: childrens Mercury hath three or 
foure ftalkes,or moe : the leaues be fomwhat 
long, not much vnlike the leaues of the oliue 
tree, couered oner with a loft downe or vvooll 
gray of colour • and the feed alfo like thole 
of Spurge, growing two together, being firft 
of an afh-colour.butafter turnetoablew. 
t 3 This is much in Chape like to the 
laft defcribed,btitthe ftalkesare weaker, and 
haue more leaues vpon them the floures alfo 
are finall and molfy.and they grow vpon long 
ftalks, whereas the feeds of the other are fa li- 
ned to very fhortones : the feed is contained 
in round little heads, being fometimes two^ 
otherw hiles three or more in a duller, f- 
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