Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
>\ B. 2. 
in faftiion ofa erode ; andthereare alfo eight threds with their pointalsin the middies of them. 
Thefe floureshauefomewhat the fmell ofa Primrofe (whence M r . Parkin [on gatie it the Englifh 
name, which I haue alfo here giuen you:) after the floures are fallen, the cods grow to be fome 
two inches long, being thicker below, and fharper at the top, and fomwhat twined , which in fine 
open themfelties into foure parts to fhatter their feed , which is blacke and fmall ; and fowne , it 
growes not the firft yeare intoa ftalke, but fends vp many large leaties lying handfomely onevpon 
another Rofe-fafhion. It floures in lime, and ripens the feed in Auguft. f: 
5 The fecondkinde of Willow-herbe inftalksand leaues is like the firft, but that the leaues 
are longer, narrower, and greener. The floures grow along the ftalke toward the top, fpike-fafhi- 
on, ofa faire purple colour :\vhich being withered turne into dovvne, which is carried away with 
the winde. 
5 Ly[imacbiaptirpur(tt fpicata. 
Spiked Willow-herbe. 
oLw’lt'C'VW/VnA- 
6 Lffmacbiit (iliqi/oft. 
Codded Willow-herbe. 
6 This Lyfm.uhia hath leaues and ftalkes like vnto the former. The floure groweth at 
the top of the ftalke, comming out of the end ofa fmall long cod, ofa purple colour, in fhape like 
aftocke Gilo floure, and is called otmany F:liw me Patrem (that is, The Sonne before the Fa- 
theObecaufe that the cod commeth forth firft^auing feeds therein, before the flouredoth (hew 
tt iefe abroad * The leaues of this are more fofr, large, and hairy than any of the former : they 
are alfo fmpt about the edges, and the floure is large, wherein it differs from the twelfth, hereafter 
aefcribed ■ and from the eleuenth in the hairincfleofthc leaues, and largeneffe of the floures alfo 
as you fhall finde hereafter, f ° ’ 
Z T1 jf be ^S tho J I g ht b y to be a baftard kinde, is (as I do efteeme it) ofall the reft the 
moft goodly and ftately plant, hauing leaues like the greateft Willow or Ozier. The branches 
come out of the grouna in great numbers, growing to the height of fix foot, garnifhed with braue 
floure, of great beauty confiding of foure leaues a piece, of an orient purple colour, hauing fome 
th eds in the middle ofa yellow colour The cod is long like the laft fpoken of, and full of downy 
matter, which flieth away with the windewhen the cod is opened. 
t S This alfo, which is the Chamxnerion of Gefner, as alfo his Epiloiion, axa. a Vio- 
let or floure vpon a cod, may luftly challenge the next place. Vodonxu, calls it P(iudolyf,macbium 
purpnreum 
