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Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
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4 cfhmdimtnf of l'ome called Linumfylv.efrt perpufi llum ,and may be called in EnrrliiB vcry ] 0ly 
or DwdrFewilde fiaxe ; for this word Chums. 10'ined to any iimple,dotb iigni fie, that it is a low or 
dvvarfekinde thereof) becing fcarcc an handfullhigh, hath pale yellow floures: but as it is in all 
things like vnto flaxe, fo the floures, leaues, and ftalkes,aud all other parts thereof, are foure times 
leflcr than 
f 5 There is alfo growing wilde iri this kingdome a fmall kinde ofwilde flaxe, which I cake 
to be the Lmcarfos deferibed by T kali us, and mentioned by Comer. mm, by the name of Eimm 
Jyluefire pufil/um cand/caniil/us firnbas. Anno i 623, when as I firft found it, m a Iournall (written of 
inch plants as we gathered}! fet dovvne this by the name of LinUin fyluejirc pufiUum Candida fori bus 
which my friend M ’Join Qoodycr feeing, he told me he had long knovvne the plant, and refer’d it to 
Lines . but there were fomfc which called it in Hnglifh,Mil-mountaine,and vied it ro purge, and of 
late he hath fent me this hiftorie of it, which yo.LUhall liatte as 1 receiued it from him. 
Lmum fyluejirc cotharticum. Mil mountaine. 
It rifeth vp from a fmallwhire rhreddy crooked root, fometime with one, but moft commonly 
with hue or iix or more round lfalks, about a foot or nine inches high, of a brownc or reddifh color 
euery ftalk diuiding it felfe necre the top, or from the middle vpward into many paits or branches' 
of a greener colour than the lower part of the ftalke : the leauesare fmall, fmooth,of colour <neen 
ofthebignes of Lenrill leaues, andhaue in the middle one rib or Anew, and no more that may bee 
perceiued,& grow along!! the ftalke in very goodorderby couples, one oppofi teagainft the other: 
at the tops of the fmall branches grow the floures, of a white colour, confiding of hue fmall leaues 
apiece, the nailcs whereof are yellow : in the infide are placed fmall ihort clriues alfo ofa yellow 
colour , afrerwhich comevp little knobs orbuttons,the top whereof when the feede is ripe diui- 
deth it felfe into flue parts ; wherein is contained fmall, fmooth, flat, flippery,yellow feed.-when rhe 
feed is ripe theherbe perifheth: the whole herbe is ofa bitter talk, and berby fmell. Itgroweth 
plentifully in the vnmanured incloflires of Hampfhire,On chalkie downs, & on Purfleet hils in Ef- 
fex,and in many other places.lt rifeth forth of the ground at the beginning of the Snring.andflou- 
reth all the Sommer. & 
$ 3 Linum fyluejirc loti folium. 4 Chtimdinumpcrpufi'Jum. 
Broad leaned W ilde flax. Dwarfe Wilde flax. ’ 
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