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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
IB. Z, 
c H A F. 88. of deciders -Tongue. 
The Defcription. 
O phMrt, or Lingua Serpent* (called in Englifh Adders tongue ; of fome Adders 
Graffe, though vnproperly) rifeth forth of the ground haumg one leafe and no more, 
^ t fintTpr Inner anH vf*rv like thevong and tender !• 
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of Marigolds • from the bottome of which leafe fprmgeth out a fmall and tender ftalke one fi ^er 
and a halfe long, on the end whereof doth grow a long fmall tongue not vnhke the tongu»of a fer- i| 
PC T ,W I h hauefeenTanother like the former in root, ftalke, and letife ; and differeth, in chat th^s i 
plant hath two and fometimes more crooked tongues, yet of the fame fafhion, which it my g- . 
men fade noXnceth per accident, euen as we fee children borne with two thumbes vpon one 
hand : which moueth me fo to thinkc, for that in gathering twenty buthels of the leaues a man 
fhall hardly finde one of this fathiOn. 
I Ophiogloffon. 
Adders-Tongue. 
$ j ophiogloffon abortivtmt. 
Mif-fhapen Adders-Tongue. 
qy The Place. 
Adders Tongue erovveth in moift medowes throughout moft parts of England •, as in a Mea- 
downeere the preaching Spittle .idiot ing to London ,in the Mantels by London, in the me- 
dowes by Cole-brooke, in the fields in Wa'tham Forreft, and many other places. 
1 TkcTime. 
They are to be found in Aprill and May ; but in lime they are quite vanished and gone. 
1 The Names. 
OphmMam is called in fhops Lingua ferpent is, Unguace , and Lingualacc : it is alfo called Za»«4( 
-■ ' ")»,and in Englifti, Adders tongue, or Serpents tongue ; in Dutcti,! 
Chrilli,Enephy/lon,andLingttavHlneraria 
l^atettotiguw : of the Germanes, £tntct ?ungelin 
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