Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
Lib. z. 
Chap. Z37. Ofjlinging 3\(ettle. 
The D efcriptim. 
1 i-pHe ftaikes of the firft be now and then halfe a yard high, round, and hollow vvirhin: the 
JL lcaues are broad, (harp pointed, cut round about like a favv,they be rough on both fides, 
and couered with a flinging downe,which with a light touch onely caufeth a great burning, and 
raifeth hard knots in the skin like blifters,and fometimes maketh it red. The feed commeth from 
the roots of the leaues in round pellets bigger than Peafe • it is flappery, glittering like Line-feed, 
but yet lefier and rounder. The roote is fet with firings . 
1 VrticaRomima. 
Romane Nettle. 
. VUHa.- 'pa -■ l( - j 
2 Vrtica vnns. 
Common flinging Nettle. 
2 Thefecond Nettle beeing our common Nettle is like to the former in leaues and ftaikes, 
but yet now and then higher and more full of branches : it is alfo couered with a downe that ftin- 
geth andburneth as well as the other : the feed hereof is fmalfand groweth not in round bullets, 
but on long (lender firings, as it were in clufters,as thofe of the female Mercury, which grow along 
the ftaikes and branches aboue the leaues, very many. The root is full of firings ; of colour fome- 
thing yellow, and creepeth all about, t This hath the ftaikes and rootes fometimes a little red- 
difhjWhence Tabernam out anus and our Authour gaue another figure thereof by the name of vrtica. 
rubra , Red Nettle, i 
5 Thethird is like tothe fecond in ftaikes, leaues and feed, that groweth by clutters, butlef- 
fer,and commonly more full of branches.ofa light greene,more burning and flinging ; the root is 
frnall and not without firings. 
The 
