Lib.z. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
f n Scoparia y or after Dodortaus, Ofyris^ 
which the Italians cal Belvidete^ hath very ma- 
ny ihoots or (prigs riling from one final ftalk, 
making the whole plant to referable a Cypres' 
tree, the branches grow fo fiandfomely ; now 
it growes fome three foot high, and very thick 
and buflnic, lb that in fome places where it 
naturally groweth they make befomes of it, 
whereofit tooke the name Sctparia, The leaues 
be fmall and narrow, almoft like to the leaues 
of flax. The floures be fmall, and ofan hear’oie 
colour, growing among the leaues, which keep 
greene all the Winter, t I neuer knew it 
here to ripen the feed, nor to out-liue the firft 
fro.ft, + 
12 This plant alfo for refemblance fake 
is referred to the Linaries, becaufe his leaues 
be iike Linaria. At the top of the fmall bran- 
ched (talks do grow little yellowilh floures, 
pale of co!our,fomewhat like the tops ofev^-y- 
focome. Iohn c Mouton of Turnay taketh it to be 
ebryfocome altera. And becaufe there hath bin 
no concordance among Writers, it’s fuificient 
to fet forth his defeription with his name Paf r 
ferina. % Bauhine refers it to the Gromills, and 
palls it Lithofiernmm Linaria folio Monfpdiacum. 
t 13 This which Tabern. calls Lingua 
Paferwa, and whofe figure was giuenby our 
Authour for the former , hath a fmall (ingle 
whitifh roor, from which it fends vp a (lender 
ftalke fome cubit and halfe high, naked on the 
lower part, but diuided into little branches on 
the vpper, which branches are fet thicke with little narrow leaues like thofe of Winter Sauorie or 
Tyme : amongft which grow many little longifh feeds ofthebignefle and tafte of Millet, but 
fomewhat hotter and bitterer. The floures confift of fourefnull yellow leaues. Tragus calls this 
Pajf •rina- > Dodonaui makes it LUhoJj/ermum minus .and Coltmna hath fet it forth by the name of Lina- 
ria altera botryodes mom ana. ^ 
t 14 This which Clufius, hath fet forth by the name of Anonymos, or Nameleffe, iscalled in 
the HiH.Lugd.^ pay. 1150. Anthyllis mont ana ; and by Tabern. Linariaadulterina. It hath many hard 
pale greene branches of fome foot high; and vpon the/e without any order grow many hard narrow 
long leaues like thofeofflaxe, at firft of a very tart, and afterwards of a bitterifh tafte : the tops of 
the ftalkes are branched into fundry foot-ftalkes, which carry little white floures confiding of fine 
fmall leaues lying ftarre-fafhion, with fome threds in their middles : after. which at length come 
Jingle feeds fiue cornered, containing a white pith in a hard filme or skin. The root is white, diui- 
ded into fundry branches, and liues long,euery yeare fending vp many ftalkes, and fometimes cree- 
ping like thatofTode-flax. Itfloures in May, and grows vpon mountainous places of Germany- 
M Goody er found it growing wilde on the fide of achalkie hill in an inclofure on the right hand of 
the way, as you goe from Droxford to Poppie hill in Hampfhire. 4 
«[ The Place. 
The kindes of Tode-flax grow wilde in many places, as vpon (tone walls, grandly grounds, bar- 
ren medowes,and along by hedges. 
t Ido not remember that I haue feene any of thcfegrowingwilde with vs,vnlefle the firft or- 
dinary kinde, which is euery where common, t 
®T The Time. 
They floure from Iune to the end of Auguft . 
u\Thc Names. 
t Tode-flax is called of.the Herbarifts ofourtime.Z^W^or Flax-weed, and Vrimlis: of fome, 
ofyrv , in high Dutch, ftytlfetflUt, and ftatUlten flafcl): low Dutch, uatlt Ulagl : in Englilh, 
Wild-flax, Tode-flax, and Flax-weed : the eleuenth is called in Italian, Bcl-vtderefit Faire in fight. 
The famp plant is alfo called Scoparia , and Herba Jludioferum , becaufe it is a fit thing to make brooms 
of, 
