yio 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lie. 2. 
£ 3 Cannabis Spuyiatertia. 
Small Baftard Hemps. 
5f 7 hcDcfcription. 
T 
'His wilijp Hempe, called Canna- 
bis Spuria , or Ballard Hempe, 
bath fmal {lender hoary and hai- 
rie ftalkes a foot high, befet at euery ioynt 
with two leaues, finally indented about the 
edges fomevvhat like a Nettle. The floures 
grow in rundles about the ftalkes, of a pur- 
ple colour, and fometimes alfo n hite : the 
root is little and threddy. 
2 Thereis likewifeanotherkindofwild 
Hempe which hath hairic ftalkes and leaues 
like the former, but the Homes are greater, 
gaping wide open like the floures of Lamium , 
or dead Nettle, whereof this hath been taken 
forakinde : but hee thatknoweth any thing 
may call ly difeerne the fimor of hempe from 
the fmell of dead Nettle. The floures are ofa 
cleareand light carnation colour, declining 
to purple. 
3 There is alfo another kinde of wilde 
Hempe like vnto the Lift before mentioned, 
fatting that it is fmaller in each refpeA , and 
not fo hairy . The leafe is fomewhat rounder : 
the root fmall and threddy : the floure is lar- 
ger, being purple or white, with a yellow fpot 
intheinfide. 
5j The Place. 
Thefe kinds of wild or baftard Hempe do 
grow vpon hills and mounraines , and barren 
haue often feene in the corne fields of Kent, as about GraSd ’ sfuthfleet, an” iS 'the'frlft 
from thence to Canturbury,and in many places about London. 
5f The Time . • 
Thefe lierbes do floure from Inly to the end ofAuguft. 
*1 i'bt Names . 
It fhall fu fficewhat hath been fet downe in the titles for the Latine names : in Englifh Wilde 
Hempe, Nettle Hempe, and Baftard Hempe. & N v llae 
5T The Temperature andVertues. 
nJ i ’ ctc .mprTature and faculties are referred to the manured Hempe, notwithftanding they are 
not vfed in phyficke where the other may be had. r 0 - drc 
Chap. 24.0. Of JFater-Hempe. 
51 The Defcription. 
VV Atcr - H , c ; ni P e or Water- Agrimony is feldome found in hot 1.*, 
it is called Eupatorium Camabinumfoemim Septtntriondium, and groweth in the cole 
Ijcmc COnnrrif c in nnA .V. +U.-. : Jn _ r in . & wvv 111 UJt ~ COlC 
c regions, for which caufe 
vt . ;r u-wina, tcrncmrionaiium, and 
Thcliinir c °u n tnes m moift places, and in the midft of ponds, flow runnintfriuert and ditches 
Hie root contmueth long, hailing many long and (lender firings after rhe n i e S 
ciftaiices one from another. Thelcaues are more indented and leffehairv than the V i ^ i J 
non: es grow at the top ofa browne yellow colour, fporred with blacke foots like 
which confifteth of fuch a fubftance as is in the midftof the iS or K T'r 
about with fmall and fliarpe leaues, fuch as areabout the Rofclich SttlSi “ t 
referable a ftar,and it iauoreth like gum Elemni,Rofme .or Cedar wood when it is bnrnp 1 ° 
is long like P,.^./(w,clorely togethcr.andlighcly cl^ueik roa^ivooHcngMnK^dtaTl 
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