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many broad leaues, green aboue,and next the ground of a white hoarie or grayifh colour fafhioned 
like anhorfe foot ; for which caufe itwas called Fole-foot , and Horfe-hoofe : feldome or neuer 
fhall you find leaues and floures at once, but the floures are paft before the leaues come out'of the 
ground ; as may appearcby the firft pifture, which ferteth forth the naked ftalkes and floures ■ and 
by the fecond, which pourtraiteth the leaues onely. 
f 2 Befides the commonly growing and defcribed Colts-foot, there are other two final! 
mountaine Colts-feet defcribed by Clujitts- the firft whereof I will here prefent you with but the 
fecond you fhall findc hereafter in the chapter of Afarum, by the name of Afarinn CMatthioli. This 
here delineated hath fine or fix leaues not much vnlike thofeof Alehoofe,of a darke ihining cr reen 
colour aboue, and very white and downy below : the ftalke is naked fome handfull high, hollow and 
downy, bearing one floureat the topcompofcd of purplifh threds,and flying away in downe ; after 
which the ftalke falls away, and fothe leaues onely remaine during the reft of the yeare : the root 
is fmall and creeping. Itgroweson the tops of the Auftrian and Stirian mountaines, where it 
floures in Iune or Auguft. Brought into gardens it floures in Aprill. (lufius calls it TupUgo Al. 
fina i. and he hath giuen two figures thereof, both which I here giue you by the fame titles as he 
hath them. $ 
^ 2 T upLgo Mpina fleet apert o . t 2 Tufltlago Alpinafloreevanido. 
Mountaine Colts-foot full in floure. Mountaine Colts-foot with the 
floure fading. - 
% The Place. 
This groweth of it felfeneere vnto Springs, and on thebrinkes ofbrookesand riuers,inwet fur- 
iOweSj by ditches fldcs 3 and in other moift and watery places ncere vnto the {ea 5 almoft euery where* 
The Time. 
The floures, which quickly fade, are to be feene in the end pf March, and about the Calends of 
Apnll, which fpeedtly wither together with the Items : after them grow forth the leaues , which 
remaine greene all Sommer long : and hereupon it came that Colts-foot was thought to be with- 
out floures i which thing alfo Pliny hath mentioned, in his fixe and, twentieth booke, cap. 6. 
The Names. ' 
Folefoot is called in Greeke : of the Latines like wife Bcchion, and Tufilaro : in fhops. Far- 
fara, and \VnguU Cdallana : ofdiuers, Pat a equina . in Italian j'nghUdi Cauallo : in S panifh,/v»/W’ 
a/no in French, Pas d’ afne .■ in Englifh, Fole-foot, Colts-foot, Horfe-hoofe, and Bull- foot. The 
lame is alio Cham deuce, which Pliny in his twenty eighth booke, and fifteenth chapter reporteth to 
e like\viie called and Parranum, if there be not an error in the copy : which thing alfo 
Aetna in his firft booke aihrmeth, pretermitting the name ofSeehium, and attributing vnto it all 
the venues and faculties of Bechiumo r Colts-foot. Whofe opinion Orahaflue feemeth to be of, 
in Ins fifteenth bookeol his medicinable .Colledions, making mention of C ham deuce : only Pliny 
alfo 
