Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
55t 
9^ The Defcription. 
I T Maria being a kinde of Antyrhinumjn ach fmall, flender,blackifh ftalkesjfrom which do 
| jg row many long narrow leaues like flax. The floures be yellow, with a fpur hanging at 
the fame like vnto a Larkes fpur, hatting a mouth like vnto a frogs mouth, euen l'uch as 
is to bee feene in the common Snapdragon ; the whole plant before it come to fioure fo much re, 
fembleth Tftla minor , that the one is hardly knowne from the other, but by this old verfe : 
F.fiela laclefcitjine laBe Linaria ere fit: 
t Eft la with mi Ike dotit flow, 
Toad-flaxwithout rnilke doth grow, t 
2 The fecond kinde of Tode-flax hath leaues likevnto Bc/tif maiorpr the great Dalle, but not 
fo broad, and fomewhat iagged about the edges. The ftalke is fmall and tender, ofa cubit high, 
befet with many purple floures like vnto the former infhape. The root is long, with many threds 
hanging thereat, the floures are of a reafonablcfweet fauour. 
3 The third, being likewifea kinde of Tode-flax, hath fmall and narrow leaues like vnro the 
firftkindeof Linaria : the ftalke is acubit high, befet with floures of a purple colour, in fafhion 
like Linaria , but that it wanteth the taile or fpurre at the end of the floure which the other hath, 
Tire root is final! and threddie. 
t 4 Linaria Valentina hath leaues like the lefl'er Centorye , growing at the bottome of the 
ftalke by three and three, but highervp towards the top, without any ccrtaine order : the ftalkes 
are of a foot high; and it is called by Clti fiat, Valentina, for that it was found by himfelfe in Agro Va- 
lentino, about Valentia in Spaine, where it beareth yellow floures about the top of the ftalke like 
common Linaria, but the mouth of the floure is downie,or mo(lie,and the taile ofa purple colour. 
It floure th at Valentia in Marcliand groweth in the medowes there, and hath not as yet been feene 
in thefe Northerne parts. 
5 Of ns alia hath great, thick,and long roots,with fome threds or firings hanging at the fame, 
from which rife vp many branches very tough and pliant, befet towards thezop with floures not 
m uch vnlike the common Toad-flaxe,but ofa pale whitifh colour, and the inner part of the mouth 
f 0 mewhat more wide and open, and the leaues like the common Tode-flax. 
t 3 Einaria purpurea altera . -)■ 4 Linaria Valentia Cluf. 
Variable Tode- flax. T ode-flax of Valentia , 
