Lib.*, 
Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
6 oi 
hands, the flimineflc is fLich,that your fingers 
will flick and cleaue together ,as if your hand 
touched Bird-lime : and furthermore, if flies 
do light vpon the fame, they will be fo intan- 
gled with the limine (Te, chat they cannot fixe 
away-infomuch that in fotnehotday or other 
you dial fee many flies caught by that means. 
Whereupon I hauecalled it Catch Flie, or 
Limewoort. tThis is Lychnis [jl. i.oCclttfius- 
Vifcxvo of C ttmer arias , and Mnfcipula (iueVifca- 
ria of Lob el. f: 
a This plant hath many broad leaues like 
the great fweet VVilliam,but fhorterfwhere- 
of it is likewife a kinde) fet vpon a ftiffe and 
brittle (talk, from the bolom of which leaues, 
fpring forth fmaller branches, clothed with 
the like leaues, but much lefler. The floures 
grow atthetopofthe ftalkesmany together 
tuft fafhion,ofa bright red colour. The whole 
plant is alfo poirdfcdwiththelike liminefle 
as the other is, but lefle in quantitie. ^ This is 
Lychnis fyl, i . of Clufius-^ and Mufti pula five Ar- 
mor art uniter n of Lobrt : Dodonatts calls it Ar- 
menia flos 3. in his firft Edition: but makes 
it his fourth in the laft Edition in Folio. $ 
t 3 There is alfo belonging vnto this 
kindred another plant which Clufrns makes 
his Lychnis fyl.^} It comes vp commonly with 
one ftalke a foot or more high,ofa green pur- 
plilh 
