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Of the Biftorie of Plants. 
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B. 2, 
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t 5 Horminumfyluejlrcflore rubro. 
Red floured wilde Clarie. 
blacke and liues many yearcs. It floures in lime 
and Iuly,and growes wilde in many mountainous 
places of Germany, (.lufius callji.it MetngtwmM. 
uejtn tertium. u 
4 This hath long leaues next - vnto the 
ground, growing vpbn prettie long ftalkes, broad 
at their letting on, and fo ending by little and 
little in fharpe points, they are not deeply cut in, 
but onely lightly fnipt about the edges ; they 
arealfo wnnckled on the vpper fide, and wbitifti 
but hairie on the vnder fide. The fquare ftalkes 
are Tome cubite high, iointed, and fit with two 
leaues at each ioint. The floutes g,ow alongft 
the tops of the branches,and are of a fnovv white 
colour. There is a varietie of this with the leaues 
greener, and the floures of an elegant deepe pur- 
pic colour. This is the Horwinum fylucftris quarti 
poesfrmo of clufa, and the varietie with the 
white floures is his Hormwi fyluejlns q„„t, (becks 
frima ; and the figure that our Authour 
sane in 
^ 5 V. 
the nrft place was of tbefe. 
5 There is another variety of rhe laft deferi- 
bed, which alfo hath fquare ftalks fet with rough 
lmpt leaues , which end in {harp points, but arc 
narrower at the lower end than the former, and 
they are grecne of colour : vpon rhe tops of the 
ftalkes grow red hooded floures, and thofe not 
very large : the feed is final! and blacke, and the 
root hues many yeares.Tliis floures in Inly. clu- 
■V m makes this his HnmmfyluifirU quart, fieces 
The firftgrowetli wilde in diuers barren nlare. a 
of Holborne neere vnto Grayes Inne, in the high wav hu . eLTer 5' Country, el]iccially in the fields 
Chelfey next to London, in thehighwayas yoif<*o from Hip of ab " cke wa j 1: attheend of 
waters fide, and indiuers other places. b c Q. t,eenes pallace of Richmond to the 
The other is a ftranger in Englandrit groweth in my garden. 
They floure and flourifh from Iune to the end of Auguft. 
Clarie.and Oculus chrijli. Latin z,Hormmm , of fom efieminalic ? in Englifli,wiid 
bJwkh“,!2^ 
Cl«« Jthleaaesand flour esof a pipt “ 
it fo as I my felfe muft needs do vnr/U fnrL / r’ i odo ” tu, > £ ^riand others, who haue accounted 
cannot be done, * ’ ™ rcalba be Acwne ro the erratic, the which I thinke 
U Temperature and Venues. 
B _ The feed of.wilde Clarie, as Diofc orides wrireth. heino- An n: i 
nneta faith it 
-a, .he fine and lining .Wof.efpadall, hdngpV. 
