446 Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
t 3 This in roots, leaues, and manner of growing is very like the firft defcribcd , but leffer 
by much in all thefe parts : the fioures alfo are afawhitifh,and fometimes ofa purplifh colour : it 
growes in barren grauelly and wet places. 
4 I haue thought good to omit the impertinent defeription of our Author fitted to this 
plant, and to giue one fomewhat more to the purpofe : the ftalkes of this are fome two foot high, 
tender, greene,and fometimes purpliih, hollow, fmooth,fucculent and tranfparent,vvith large and 
cm inentioynts, from whence proceed leaues like thofe of French Mercurie,a little bigger, and 
broader toward their ftalkes, and thereabout alfo cut in with deeper notches : from the bofomes 
ofeach of thefe leaues come forth long ftalkes hanging downewards , and diuided into three or 
foil re branches ^ vpon which hang fioures yellow, and much gaping, with crooked fpursorheeles, 
and fpotted alfo with red or fanguine fpots : after thefe are pad: fucceed the cods, which containe 
the feed, and they are commonly two inches long,flender,knotted,and of a whitilh greene co’our, 
crefted with greenifh lines ; and as foone as the feed begins to be ripe, they are fo impatient that 
they will by no meanes be touched, but prefcntly the feed will fly out of them into your face. And 
this is the can fe that Label and others haue called this Plant Noli me t anger t. As for the like reafou 
fo ne of late haue impofed the fame name vpon the Slum minimum of Alpinus, formerly defcribcd 
by me in the feuenth place of the eighteenth chapter of this book e,pag. i 6 q.$ 
The Place and T imt. 
They grow very common almofteuery where in moiftand waterifh plafhes, and necre vnto the 
bums o( l iners, ditches, and running brookes. They floure from Iuneto Auguft. 
* Thc c °dded or impatient Arfmart was firft found to grow in this kingdome by the indu- 
ftne of my good friend M'. George Bowles , who found it at thefe places : firft in Shropfhire, on the 
11 a® a d ' e ru j r Kem!ec at Marington in the parifh of Cherberry , vndera Gentlemans houfe 
called M Lloyd., but efpecially at Guerndee in the parifh of Cherftocke, halfe a mile from the • 
lOrelaid-Riuer, amongft great Alder trees in the highway. if 
The Names. 
t Ai finart is called in Greeke : of the Larines, Hydropiper, or Piper aciuaticum'or Aqua. 
' ‘ 01 vvarer Pepper : in high-Dutch, i in low-Dutch, ; in French, 
Cur age, 
