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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Chap. 257 .OfOxe'Ei?. 
*\The Description. 
1 THe plant which wee haue called Bupkhdmum ^ or Oxe-eie, hath (lender fiaiks growing 
1 front the roots, three, foure,or more, a foot high,orhigher,about which be green leaues 
finely lagged like to the leaues ofFenell, but muchkffer .■ the lloures in the tops of theftalksare 
great, much like to Marigolds, of a lightyellovv colour, with yellow threds in the middle, after 
which commeth vp a little head or knap like to that 6f red Mathes before delcribed, called Adonis , 
confining ofmany feeds fet together. The roots are (lender, and nothing but ((rings, like to the 
roots of blacke Ellebor, whereof it hath becne taken tobeakinde. 
2 The Oxe-eie which is generally holden to be the true Bupht balmum hath many leaues fpred- 
vpon the ground,ofa light greene colour, laied far abroad likewings,confiftingofverymany fine 
iags,fetvpona tender middle rib: among which fpring vp diners Kalis, ftiffe and brittle, vpon the 
top w hereof do grow faire yellow leaues, fet about a heAd or ball of thrummie matter, fuch as in the 
middle of Cammomilljlikea border or pale. The root is tough and rhicke, withcertaineftrings 
fa lined thereto. 
3 The white Oxe-cie hath fmall vpright (Talks of a foot Ijigh, whereon do grow long leaues, 
compofed of diners final leaues,and thofe (nipt about the edges like the teeth of a faw. The floures 
grow on the tops of the (talks, in lhape like thofe of the other Oxe-eie ; the middle part whereofis 
likewife made of a yellow fubftance,but the paleor border of little leaues, are exceeding white, like 
thofe of great Dafie, called Confoltda media vidnerarierum. The root is long, creeping alongft vnder 
the vpper cruft ofthe earth, whereby it greatly increafeth. f Thisby the common confent of all 
writers that hauc deliuered the hiftorie thereofhath not the pale or out leaues of the floure white, 
as our Author affirmes,bu t of a bright and perfed yellow colour. And this is the Buphthdmumpl 
Tragus, Matthiolus,Lebel,Clufius and others, f 
I Buphthalmum five Hellehorui nigerfernlaceus. i Buphthalmum verum. 
Oxe-eie. 
The right Oxe-eie. 
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