Of the Hiiforie of Plants. 
1 B.2. 
«t, S 
yeeldeth a milkie fap or iuyce as the others do : it perifheth like as the other when it hath perfe-: 
£ted his feed. This may be c&llzd'Tragopogon minus anguftifolium, Little narrow leaued Goats-; 
beard. 
«j The Place. 
The firft growes not wild in England that I could euer fee or heare of, except in Lancaihirevpon 
the banks of the riuer Chalder, neere to my Lady Heskiths houfe, two miles from Whawley ; it is 
fowen in gardens for the beauty of the Houres almoft euery where. The others grow in medows and; 
fertil paftures in moll places ofEngland.lt growes plentifully in molt ofthe fields about London i 
as at.Illington,in the medowes by Redriffc,Detford,and Putney, and in diuers other places. 
'The Time. 
They floure and flouriih from the beginning of Iune to the end of Auguft. 
The Names. 
Goats-beard is called in Greeke : in Latine, Barbahircj , and alfo Coma : in high-Dutch i 
250 C]Cbaert*. in lovv-Dutcb, 3 Iofepl)e^b!oeme!K in French, Bark tie bone, a nd Sapfy in Italian’; 
Sajfefrica : in Spanifh, BarbaCabruna .* in Englilh, Goats-bcard, Iofephs flonre, Star of Icrufalem, 
>joone-tide,and Go to bedat noone. 
The T cmpcralure . 
ndrr 
Tliefe lierbcs are temperate betvveene heate and moifture. 
The Vertues. 
The roots of Goats beard boyled in wine and drunke,a(f\vageth the paine and pricking Hitches 
of the fides. 
I he fame boyled in water vntill they be tender,and buttered as parfeneps and carrots,areamoft 
pleafant and wholfome raeate, in delicate tafte farre furpaffing either Parlenep or Carrot : which 
mcate procures appetite, warmeth the ftomacke,preuailetli greatly in confuniptions,and llrength- 
neth thofe that haue been fickeof a long lingring difeafe. 
Chap. 253. Of Viper s-CjraJfe. 
I Viper aria, fiue Scorzoncra Hipanica. 
Common Vipers Gralfe. 
a Viper art a humilis. 
Dwarfe Vipers Gralfe. 
