784- Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2* 
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growing flat vpon the ground, of a faint greemfh colour on the vpper fide,& vnderneath of a white 
or mealy colour : among which rife vp imalland tender iialkes of a foot high, hailing at the top 
ofeuery ftalke abulh ot fmall floures in lhape like the common Oxlip,fauing that they are of a 
faire ftammell colour tending ro purple : in the middle ofeuery fmall floureappeareth a little yel- 
low fpot, refembling the eye of a bird ; which hath mouc-d the people of the North parts (where it 
aboundeth) tocall it Birds eyne. The feed is fmall like duff, and the root white and threddy. 
2 The l'econd is like the firft, failing that the whole plant is greater in each refped, and that 
the floures are ofawhiti lh colour. 
5f' The Place. 
Thefe plants grow, very plentifully in moift and fqually grounds in the North parts of England 
as in Harwood neere to Blackburne in Lancafhire,and ten miles from Prefton in Aunderncfll-alio 
at Crosby, Rauenfwaith, and Crag-Clole in We’ftmerland. ’ 
They likevvife grow in the medowes belonging to a village in Lancaflrire neere Maudfley cal- 
led Harwood, and at Hesketh not far from thence, and in many other places of Lancalhire,butnot 
on this fide Trent, that I could euerhaue any certaine knowledge of. Z^f/reporteth, That doctor 
Penny (a famous Phyfition of our London Colledge) did finde them in thefe Southerne parts. 
5f ThcTimt. 
They floureand flourifh from Aprill to the end of May. 
51 The Nam,es. 
The firft is called Primrofe with the red florae : the fecond, Primrofe with the white flourtyind 
ty The Nature andVertues. 
abJ l enamed eandVertUeS ° fth?fCied WhitC Primrofes muft be fought out amongft thofc 
C hap; 275: Of Scares eares , or Adountaine fourflips. 
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