Lib. z. Of the Hiftory of Plants. , C; , 
ftalke about ■, and the other hath but two, and neuer more, wherein efpecially confifteth the diffe- 
rence: although in truth I thinke it a degenerate kinde, and hatbgottena third Jeafe peraccid, ns 
as doth lometimes chance vnto the Adders Tongue,as fhall be declared in the Chapter that fol * 
loweth. r 
t ? This kind ofTwaiblade, firft defcribed in the laft edition of Dodonaus , hath Ieaues 
floures, and ftalkeslike totheordinarie 3 but at the bottome of the ftalke aboue the fibrous roots 
it hath a bulbegreenifh within, and couered with two or three skins : it growes in moiftandwet 
low places of Holland. $ 
. I Op hr is bifolia. 
Twaiblade. , 
O 1 3 '^Y a " xj 
^ 3 Of hr is bi folia bttlbofa . 
_ Bulbous Twatblade. 
O) jo C'-|' f SfpX-sS eJfvf 
«17 The Place. 
i The firft groweth in moift medowes, fenny grounds, and fhadowie places. I h me fonnd it in 
' w ny ju S ’ aS 3t Soi,thfleet: in Kent, in a Wood of Mafter Sidteps by Long- field D iwnes , in a 
Woodby London called Hampftead Wood, in the fields by High-gate,in the Woods bv Ouen- 
en ncere to Clare in Eflex, and in the Woods by Dunrnow in Elfex. Tile fecond fort is feldome 
f leene. ‘ 
The Time. \ 
They fioure in May and Iune. 
^ The Names. 
It is called of the later Herbarifts, Bifolium, and Of hr is. 
The Nature and Venues . 
| lhefe are reported ofthe Herbarifts ofour time to be good for greene wounds, burftings, and a 
! upturns - whereof I haue in my vnguents and Balfams for greene wounds had great experience 
land good iuccdfe. 01,3 
Liz 
Chap, 
