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leaues alfo i but the cafes wherein the feedcis contained, are likevnto the ItedvdfeJs of Myofitis 
S cor fioidcs.j or Moufeare Scorpion graffe.The floures arc fmall and white. 
There is another fort of W hitlow grafieor Nailewoort, that is IikcwifeaIoworbaleherbe,ha- 
ninga fmall tough roote, with fome threddie firings annexed thereto : from which rifevpdiuers 
flcnder tough ftalkes/et with little narrow leaues confufedly like thofeof the fmalleft Chickweed 
whereof doubtlefie thefc be kindes-alongft the ftalks do grow very 1 ittle white floures, after which 
come the feeds in fmall buttons, of the bignefle of a pins head. % Our Author fcemes here to dc- 
fcribe the Paronychia i.ofTabern, f; 
r Paronychia ’vulgaris, 
C ommon Whitlow grade. 
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Thefe fmall, bafe and low herbs grow 
vpon bricke and ftone wals, vpon old ti- 
led hoitles , which are grownc to haue 
much molfe vpon them, and vpon fome 
fhadowie,and dry muddy wals. Itgrow- 
eth plentifully vpon the bricke wall in 
of Southampton, in the Suburbs of London, and fundry bd ° n§inS t0 the EarIc 
r a IT T he Time. 
, U The Names. 
. The Grecians haue called thefe plants - w*., which Cicero calleth Reduvia , There be many 
ktndes °f plants called by the fatd name of Paronychia, which hath caufed many writers to doubt of 
o raiked v in i C ' bL ' Cy ° l ’ l ma y ver y k° Id| y take thefe plants for the fame,vntill time hath reuealed 
or railed vp fome new plant, approchmg neerer vnto the truth : which I thinke will neuer be,fo that 
we may call them in Enghfh,Naile-woort,and Whitelow grafie. 
. . ^ TheTmperaturcs mdyertues. 
A hei le rhprTc^r he , r f °f> vv ' c h al,e nothing to fet downe : onely it hath beene taken to 
heale the difeafe of the nailes called a Whitlow, whereofit took his name' 
ferjpeioru' AlKll0, ^ CrCl ^ aUe VItw0 ^2 urc, > atld 31 man T defcripcions of both ihefc pbms,whcrclcrc I hane ciritttd 3,ofttcIigu r eija^icIihcmoiCTnpeTfe£l Vc. 
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