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Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
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1 T^Irnperncll is likevnto Chickeweed •, the ftalkes are fbure fquare,trai ling here and there 
1 vpon the ground, whereupon do grow broad leaues,and (harpe pointed, fet together by 
coil pies .-from thebofome whereof come forth (lender tendrells, whereupon doe grow 
fmall purple floures tending to rednefle : which being pad there fucceed fine round bullets like 
vnto the feed of Corianders, wherein is conteinc-d fmall duftie feed. The root confiftetb offlender 
firings. 
a The female Pimpernell differeth not from the male in any one point, but in the colour of 
the floures ; for like as the former hath reddifh floures, this plant bringeth forth floures ofa moft 
perfect blew colour, wherein is the difference. 
t 3 Of this there is another variety fet forth by Clufuts by the name of Anagallis temifolia Mo- 
»c//;',b*caufe hereceiued the figure and Hiftory thereof from lohn Mondl of I ournay in Franc 
it differs thus from the lafl mentioned, the leaues are longer and narrower, fomewhat like thofe o 
Granola, and they now and then grow three at a joint, and out of the bofomes of the leaues come < 
commonly as many little footftalkes as there are leaues, which carry floures of a blew colour with 
the middle purplifh,and thefe are fomewhat larger than them of the formal, otherwife like. £ 
t 3 Anagallis tenuifolia. 4 Anagallis lutea. 
, r ^, C 7 dlovv ^' m P erne fl many weake and feeble branches trailing vpon the ground, 
befet with leaues oneagamft another like the great duckweed, notvnlike t o NummulariaA 
Money woort betweene which and the ftalkes, come forth two Angle and fmall tender foote- 
t They grow m plowed fields neerc pathwaies,in gardens and vineyardes s almofteuery where. 
I found the female with blew floures in a chalkie corne field in the way from M\ William Stvaines 
houle of Southfleet to Long field downs, but neuer any where ella. i I alfobeing in Effcx in the 
company of my kind friend .Nathaniel Wright found this among the corne at WrHitsbridge 
being the feate of M r . lohn Wright his brother. $ The yellow Pimpernell growes in the woods be- 
tweene High-gate and Hampftead, and in many other woods. 
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hailing occa, ion to go vnto their harueft worke,will firft behold the floures of Pimpernel!, where- 
by they know the weather that (hall follow the next day after - as for example, if the floures be 
(nut c!ofevp,it betokenethrameand foule weather jeonrrariwife, if they be fpread abroad faire 
weather 3 
Narrow leaned Pimpernell. 
Yellow Pimpernell. 
ftalkes, each bearing at their top one yellow floure and no more. TlTe root is fmall and threddy, 
f The Place. 
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1 hey floure in Summer, and efpecially intheraoneth of Auguft,atwhat time the husbandmen 
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