71 6 Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
Chap. 24.5. 
Of Cjreat Figge-wort, or ‘Brownewort. 
*[f The Vcfcription, 
1 HP He great Fig-wort fpringeth vpwith ftalkes foure fquare, two cubits high, ofa darke 
I purple colour, and hollow within : the leaues grow alwayes by couples, as it were from 
one ioynt, oppofitc, or (handing one right againft another, broad, (harpe pointed, fnip. 
pcd round about the edges like the leaues of the greater Nettle, but bigger, blacker, and nothing 
at all (hinging when they be touched : the floures in the tops of the branches are of a darke purple 
colour, very like in forme to little helmets : then commeth vp little fmal feed in pretty round but- 
£>ns , but fliarpe at the end : the root is whitifh , befet with little knobs and bunches as it were 
knots and kernels. 
2 There is another Figge-vvort called ScrophuLria indicet, that hath many and great branches 
trailing here and there vpon the ground, full of leaues, in fafhion like the wilde or common Thi- 
(hle, but altogether without prickes : among the leaues appeare the floures in fafhion like a hood 
on the out fide ofa feint colour, and within intermixt with purple ; which being fallen and wi- 
thered. there come in place fmallknops very hard tobreake,and fharpeat the point as a bodkin: 
which containeth a fmall feed likevnto Time. The whole plant perifhethat thefirft approch of 
W inter, and muft be fowen againe in April], in good and fertile ground-, f This is the Scrophula- 
rin Creticn t . of Clitfias. £ 
r ? It 7\ ltal ke of this is alio fquare, and fomeyard high, fet with leaues like thofe of the 
hedge Nettle, but fomew hat larger and thicker, and a little deeper cut in : out of the bofomes' of- 
tnefe leaues come little rough foot-flalkes fome inch or two long, carrying fome foure or fine hol- 
low round floures ofa greenilh yellow colour, with fome threds in them* being open at the top, 
and cut in with fine little gafheS: the feeds are b!acke,ajid contained in veflels like thofe of the 
I ScrophuUria miior. 
Great Fig-wort. 
.tr o.ioSn^. 
£ 2 Serephulariitlndica . 
Indian Fig-wort. 
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