Lib. 2. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 7?? 
Chap. 252. Of foats ‘Beard, oY Cjo to bed at noone . 
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1 y'-'l Oats-beard, or Go to bed at noone both hollow (talks, fmootb,and of a whitifti green 
It colour, whereupon do grow long feaues crefteddovvnethe middlewith a (welling 
rib, fharpe pointed, yeelding a milky iuyce when'it is broken, in fhape like chofe of 
Garlick ; from the bofome of which leaues thruft forth fmall tender (talks let with the like leaues 
but Idler : the floures grow at the top of the ftalkes, confifting of a number of purple leaues, dalht 
ouer as it were with a little yellow dull, fet about with nine or ten fharpe pointed greene leaues : 
the whole floure refembles a llarre when it is fpred abroad ; for it fhutteth it felfe at twelue of the 
clockc, and ihewerh not his face dpenvntill the next dayes Sun doth make it floure anew, where- 
upon it was called Go to bed at noon : when thefe floures bp come to their full maturitie and ripe- 
ne lie, they grow intoadowny Blow-ball like thofeofDandelion, which is carried away with the 
winde. The feed is long, hauing at the end one piece of that downie matter hanging at it. The 
root is long and Angle, with feme few threds thereto anexed, which perifheth when it hath perfe- 
&ed his feed, yeekfing much quantitie of a milky iuyce when it is cut or broken, as doth all the 
reft of the plant. 
2 The yellow Goats beard hath the like leaues, ftalkes, root, feed, and downie blow-bails that 
the other hath, and alfoyeeldeth the like quantitie oftnilke,infomuch that if the pilling white it 
is greene be pulled from the ftalkes, the milky iuyce followeth : but when it hath there remained a 
little while it waxeth yellow. The floures hereofareofa gold yellow colour, and haue not fuch 
ling greene leaues to garnifh it withall, wherein confifteth the difference. 
3 There is another fmall fort of Goats-beard or Go to bed at noone, which hath a thicke root 
full of a milky fap, from which rifevp many leaues fpred vpon the ground, very long,narrow,thin, 
and like vnto thofe of graffe, but thicker and grolfer : among which rife vp tender ftalkes , on the 
tops whereof do ftand faire double.yellow floures like the precedent, but Idler. The whole plant 
yeeldeth 
