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. T- He fir ft kinde of Water-archer or Arrow-head,hath large and long leaues,in fhape like 
1 the figne Sagittarius fst rather like a bearded broad Arrowhead. Among which nfeth 
vp a fat and thicke ftalke, twoor three foot long, hairing at the top many prettie white floures, de- 
dining to a light carnation, compaft of three fmall leaues: which being paft, there come after 
great rough knops or burres wherein is the feed. The root confifteth of many firings. 
8 a T he fecond is like the firft, and differeth in that this kinde hath fmaller leaues and floures, 
, & The third kinde of Arrow-head hath leaues infhape like the broad Arrow-head, ftanding 
vpon the ends of tender foot ftalkes a cubit long : among which rife vp long naked fmooth (talks 
of a greenifh colour, from the middle whereof to the top doe grow floures like to the piecedent. 
The root is fmall and threddie. 
The place. 
Thefcherbes doe grow in the watrie ditches by Saint George his fieldneere vnto London ; in 
the Tower ditch at London ; in the ditches neere thewals of Oxford; by Che mesfordin EfleK, 
aad many other places, as namely in the ditch neere the place ofexecution, called Saint Thomas 
Waterings not far from London. 
The Time. 
They flotire in May and Iune. ^ 
