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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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1 B. 2. 
The Place. 
Thefe do grow in rough and ftony places, but are all Grangers in England. 
TheTime. 
Thefe floure in May and Iune,and fhortly after ripen their feed. 
t The Names. 
£ i f thinke none of thefe tobe the Sefamoidesof the Antients : The firft is fet forth by Clufias 
vnder the name we here giue you : it is the MufapuU altera mufeofi florc of Lobel : Vifiago maior of 
Camerarius. 
2 This alfo Cluftus and Zo£f/haue fet forth by the fame name as we giue you them . 
Matthiolus , Camerarius , and others haue fet this forth for Scfamoiles parvum : in the B ijlnria 
Lugd. it is called Catanance quorundam : but molt fitly by Dodon.ClmdrilU Jpecies tertia, The third 
kinde of Gum-Succory, f 
TheTemperattirc. 
Galen affirmeth that the feed containeth in it felfe a bitter qualitie, and faith that it heatfth, 
breaketh, and fcoureth. 
*[[ TheVertttes. 
Dicfcerides affirmeth, that the weight ofan halfe-penny.of the feed drunke with Meade or honi- 
ed water purgeth flegme and choler by the ftoole. 
The fame being applied doth wafte hard knots and fwellings. 
t That which here formerly enjoyed the third plicc, by the title of Sefamoida maim Scali»ert, was no other than the plant that is hereafter deferibed by the 
name of Xirton-\aire GaBoproumcia, where you may findc both the figure and dcfcription. 
C h a p. i$6: Of T)jers JV ?cd. 
Luteola. Dyers weed or yellow weed. 
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TheDefcription, 
D Yers weed hath long narrow and greenifh 
yellow Ieaues,not much vnlike to woad, 
buta great deale fmaller and narrower 5 
from among which commeth vpaftalke two 
cubits high , befet with little narrow leaues : 
euentothe top of the ftalke come forth fmall 
pale yellow floures,clofely cluttering together 
one aboue another, which doe turne into fmall 
buttons, cut as it vverecro(fe-wife,wherein the 
feed is contained. The root is very long and 
«[ The Place. 
Dyers weed groweth of it felfe in moift, bar- 
ren, andvntilled places, in and about Villages 
almoft euery where. 
•j The Names. 
Pliny Jih. H. cay. 5. maketh mention by the 
way of this herbe,and calleth it Lutea: Vitru- 
vius in his feuenth booke, Lutum it is the AnJorrl, 
ticarhinum of Tragus : & Pfeudojlrnthium of Ma- 
thiolus : F/>^; 7 /,inhisBucolickes,Eglog 4. cals 
italfoZ«r«;» .• in Englifh, Welde, or Dyers 
weed. 
TheTime. 
This herbe flourifheth in Iune and Iuly. 
The Nature. 
It is hot and dry of temperature. 
