Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 
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T1 r , ftalkCS 3re aCU , bke long, Tull of knots or knees, very ro^r 
many b u nCheS T the “R s ^ereofgrow yellow floures In round 
t 1 fa ® ad , c 11 V Th Jf, root is asbrgasa finger, and blacke like />eWa»«w,whereunto it is 
likcintafte/melljandrefemb aneeof feede, which doth the more perfuade me that it is the true 
Bupleurum, w hereof I now fpeake,and by the authoritie of Meander and Pliny confirmed 
i Buplatrum angufiifolium Monjpelienfe. 
Narrow leafed Hares Eare. 
2 Bupleurum lati folium Monfpelienfe. 
Broad leafed Hares Eare. 
i The fecond kindc called broad leafed Haves Eares, in figure, tuftes, and floures, is the very 
fame with the former kinde, fane that the leaues are broader and differ, and more hollow in the 
midfhwhich hath caufed me to call it Hares Eares, hairing in the middle of the leafe fome hollow- 
nelfe refemblir.g the fame. The root is greater and ofa vvooddie fubftance. 
«[ The Place. 
They grow among Oken woods in ftony and hard groundsin Narbon.I haue found them grow- 
ing naturally among thebufhesvpon Biefton caftle in Chelhire. 
^ The Time. 
They floure and bring forth their feed in Inly and Auguft. 
TheNames. 
Hares Eare is called in Latine Bupleurum: in Greeke/wi&ewthe Apothecaries of Montpelier in 
France do call it duri cula leporis,, and therefore I terme it in Englifh Hares- Eare .• Valerius Cordus 
nameth it Ifophyllon, but whence he had that name, it is not knowne. 
«|J The Temperature. 
They are temperate in heat and drinefle. 
ThtVcrtues. 
Hippocrateshath commended it in meats ; for falladsand Pot-hearbs : but by the authoritie of 
A Glaucon and Meander, it iseffedhiall in medicine, hairing the tafteand fauour of Hy/>eHw»,feruing in 
the place thereof for wounds, and is taken by T rag us for Panax Chimnuim, who doth reckon it inter 
Her has vulnerariaa. 
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