Lib. 2. 
Of theHiftory of Plants; 
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Chap. 178. Of Hedge Hyffope:. 
«j] The Defer ip ion, 
1 T T Edge Hyffope is a low plant or herbe about a fpan long, very like vnto the common 
j[ 1 Hyffope, with many fquare ftalkesor flender branches, beferwith leaues fomewhac 
larger than Hyffope, but very like. The floures grow betwixt the leaues vpon Chore 
Items, of a white colour declining to blewneffe. All the herbe is of a rooft bitter tafte, like the 
final! Centory . f he root is little and threddy, dilating it felfe farre abroad • by which rneanes it 
multiplied! greatly, and occupieth much ground where it grovveth. 
• + j 2 n^j r L° n !e; ' ued , Hedge Hyffope from a fmall fibrous white root fends vp areddifh 
round crefted ftalke dtuided into fundry branches, which arc fetwith leaues like rhofe of knot 
graffe of a pale greene colour, and without any ftalkes : out of the bofomefof thefe come floures 
let in long cups compofeu of foure leaues of a p leafing blew colour, which are fucceeded by Ion- 
s' 111 leed-veffells conteymng a fmall dusky feed. The whole plant is without fmell, neither hath 
it any bitterneffe or other rhanifeft tafte. It varies in leaues,fometimes broader, and otherwhiles 
narrower, the plant growing fometimes but an handful], and otherwhiles a foot high. Gef/er -cal- 
led this Grotrola minor. and Camsrarim,HyJfopoieles : and Banhinc onely hath figured it, and that by 
r' 0 ^tyffopifoliafiue Gratiola minor, Cordat firft mentioned ir,and that by the Dutch name of 
Graffe Poley, which name we may alfo very fitly rctainein Englifh. t 
5 u lcaucd hedge Hyffope hath many fmall and tender branches, foure fquare, and fome- 
what hollow ortfurrowed, befet with leaues by couples one oppofireagainft another, like vnto the 
former, but fomewhat fhorter, and much bioader : among which grow the floures of a purple 
C c c colour.' 
