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t 4 It may be our Authour would haue 
deforibed this in the fir ft place, as I coniedlurc 
by thofe words which he vfed in mentioning the 
place of theirgrowing ; and [Clinof odium vnlgare 
groweth in great plentie vpon Longfield downs 
in Kent • ] but to this neither figure nordefcrip- 
tion did agree, wherefore I will giue you the Hi- 
ftorietherof.lt fends vp many little Iquare ftalks 
fome handful and an haIfehigh,feldome diuided 
into branches: at each ioint ftand two final gree- 
nifh leaues, little hairy, and not diuided or fnipt 
about the edges, and much like thofe of the next 
deicribed, as you fee them expreft in the figure : 
the little hollow and fomewhat hooded floures 
grow in roundles towards the tops of the ftalkes, 
as in the firft defcnbed,and they are of a blcwiili 
violet colour.The feeds I haue not yet obferued: 
the root is fibrous and wooddie,and lafts for ma- 
ny yeares.The wholeplanthath a pretty pleafing 
but weake fmell. It floures in Iuly and Auguft, I 
firft obierued it Anno 1626, a littlpon this fide 
Pomfret inYorkfhire, andfinceby Datfordin 
Kent, and in the lie of Tenet. I haue fometimes 
leene it brought to Cheapfide market, where the 
herbe women called it Poleymountaine.lbmcic 
may bee that haue taken it for Folium montanum 
miftnforming them • Clufius firft tooke notice of 
thisplanr,and called it Acinos Anglicum, finding it 
growing in Kent, ^»«i>,i58t.andhe thinkes it to 
be 
