Li 
b; 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants.’ 
merly defcribed, fag. 274. *) but {hoi ter : which came not to ripenefle in my garden by reafon 
that it was dried away with the extreme and vnaccuftomed heat of the Sun, which happened in the 
yeare 2590 . fince which time from yeare to yeare it bringeth feed to perfe&ion. Further D jo fori 
dcs and Pliny do report.that it is without floure or feed . 5 J 
The Place. 
t It groweth in the moift medowes of Italic about Bononia and Vincentiaut groweth in the 
garden of my friend M r . John Milton in 01d-ftreet 5 and fome other gardens about tovvne. 
%The Time. 
It floureth in Aprill and May, when it hath taken faft hold and fetled it felfe in the earth a veare 
before. 1 
51 "The Thames. 
It is called Ef medium ■ I haue thought good to call it Barren woort in Englifh • not becaufe 
tha tp/ofemdes faith it is barren both of floures and feeds, but becaufe(as fome authors affirme) be- 
ing drunke it is an enemieto conception. 
^ThcT emftraturc and Vertices. 
. rmeth that k is moderately cold,with a waterie moifturc : we haue as yet no vfe hereof 
in Phyficke. ' 
t Chap, 131. Of Fleabane. 
t I Conjzamaier. 
Great Fleawoort. 
X 2 C» n i\aminorvera, 
Small Fleabane. 
$ T'He fmalneffeofthenumbei 
A of thefe plants here former- 
ly mentioned, the confufion notwith. 
Banding in the figures, their nominati- 
ons & hiftorie.not oneagreeing with an- 
other,hath eaufed me wholly toomit thq 
deferiptions of our Authour,and to giue 
you new, agreeable to the figures ; to- 
gether with an addition of diuers other 
plants belonging to this kindred. Be- 
; Bides there is one thing I imifl aduertife 
Cr n . , . . „ , . _ , you of, which is, that our Authour in the 
urn place defcribed the Pace harts Monfpe/ienftum 01 Lobelgx CenyzamaioroX Matthiolus & it is that 
which grows in Kent and EfTex on chalkie hils ; yet he gaueno figure ofit,butas it were forgetting 
what he had don, a Hotted it a particular chap. afterwards, where alfo another figure was put 1 for it- 
but there you (Ball now finde it, though I rauft cor.fefle that this is as fit or a fitter place for it, but 
1 will follow the courfe of my Authour, whofe matter, not method 1 indeauour to amend. 
The 
