Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Chap, i 8 i. Of Flea -Vp or t. 
The Dcfcription. 
*- i the common Flea-wort hath many round and render branchi : ,ftt ftiH of Ion* 
JL and narrow leaues fomewhat hairy. The top of the ilalkes are garni Ihed with fundfie 
round chaifie knops, befetwith fmall yellow floures : which being lipecontaine niary 
little Chining feeds, in proportion, colour, and bignefle like vnto fleas. 
2 The fecondkindeofPj5//««K or Flea-wort hath long and tough branches,ofawooddy fub- 
ftance like the precedent, but longer and harder,with leaues reYembling the former, but much lon- 
ger and narrower. The chaffie tuft which containeth the feed is like the other, but'more like the 
care of Pbalarit, which is the eare of Mpifli, the Canarie feed which is meats* for birds that come 
from the Iilands of Canarie. The root hereof Jafteth all the Winter, and 1’ikewife keepeth his 
greene leaues, whereof it tooke this addition of| stnipPvirens. 
i Pfylliumjluepalicaris her ha. 0 a PfyUiumfempcrvirens Lolelii. 
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r Thefe plants are not growing in bur fields of England, as they dcid in France and Spaine, yet I 
haue them growing in my garden. 
^y The Time. 
They floure in Iuneand Iuly. 
qy The Names. 
Flea-wort is called in Greeke+^m ■: in Latine, PW/o<W4,dnd Uerha Pulicaris .- in fho'ps ■ 
in Englifh, Flea-wort; not becaufe it ldlletli fleas, but becaufe thfc feeds are like fleas : of fonie, 
FIea-bane,butvnproperly : in Spanifli, Zargatona ■ in French, L herhe atts pulces in Dutch, IBUPljjJ 
blopc erupt, 
Galen mdSerapio record, that the feed of PfyUium (which is chiefely vfed in medic'ne)is co'd in 
Ncucr dying Flea-wort. 
The Place. 
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