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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Chj! p.iop. OJ r Oenm Lotiking'glaJJe. 
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; i FT Elides the former Be!-floures, there is likevvife a certaine other, which is low rind little; 
1) the ftalkes whereof are tender, two fpans long, diuided into many branches moil com- 
monly lying vpon the ground. The leaues about the ftalks are little, ileightly nicked in 
the edges. The floures are fmall, of a bright purple colour tending to blewnes,very beautifiill,witlt 
wide mouths like broad bels, hauing a white chiue or thredinthe middle. The floures in the day 
time are wide open, and about the fetting of the Sun are fhutvpand clofed fall together, infiue 
corners, as they are before their firft opening, and as the other Bel-floures are. The roots be verie 
flender,and perifli when they haue perfefted their feed . 
$ 2 There is another which from a fmall and wooddy root fendeth vp a ftraight ftalk.fome- 
times but two or three inches, yet otherwhiles a foot high , when as it lights into good ground. 
This ftalke is crefted and hollow, hailing little longifh leaues crumpled or finuated about the ed- 
ges fet thereon : and out of the bofomes of thofe leaues towards the top of the ftalke and fome- 
times lower, come litrle branches bearing little winged cods, at the tops of which in the middeft 
of flue little greene leaues ftand fmall purple floures, of little Or no beautyjwhich being pad the 
cods become much larger, and containe in them a fmallyellowifh feed, and they ftillretaineat 
their tops the flue longifh greene leaues that incompaffed the floure.This plant is an annuall like 
as the former. £ 
1 Speculum Veneris. 
Venus Looking-glafle. 
$ 2 Speculum veneris min 
Codded corne violet , 
The Place, 
It groweth in ploughed fields among the corne, in a plentifull and fruitfull {bile. I found it in a 
fie'd among the corne by Greene-hithe,as I went from thence toward Dartford in Kent, and in ma- 
ny other places thereabout, but not elfwheie: from whence I brought of the feeds for my Garden, 
where they come vp.of themfelues from yeare to yeareby falling of the feed. 
t Thatvvhich.is herefigured and described in the firft place Ineuer found growing in Eng-; 
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