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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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I Cacalia inctuto folio. 
Hoarie leaned Horfe-foot. 
f 2 Cacalia folio glahro . 
Smooth leaned Horfe-foot. 
next the ground, and more cornered and fharper pointed; the tops of the flalkes and branches car - 
ne bunches of purp'e floures, as in an vmbell: and commonly in each bunch there are three little 
floures confiftingofroure leauesa peece, and a forked pcftell,and thefearcof a purple colour, and 
a vveake,but not vnplealanc fmell, and they at length turne into dovvne.amongft which lies hid a 
Iongifh feed : the root, if old, fends forth diners heads,asalfo ftore of long whit ilh fibres. 
2 Theleauesofthisaremorethin,coughandhard,andofadeepergreeneon the vpper fides, 
neither arc they vvhicifh below, nor come fo round or clofe whereas they are fattened to their ftalks 
(which are norcrefted as thofeof theother,but round and fmootb) they are alfo full ofveines,and 
nicktabout the edges, and of fomewhat an vngratefull hot and bitter tafte. The llalkes are alfo 
fmoother,andthe floures of a lighter colour. 
«Jf The Place. 
Both thefc grow in the Auftrian and Stirian Alpes vnder the fides ofvvoods, among bufhes and 
i fiich lhadowie places : but not in England, that I haue yet heard of. 
The Time. 
I find it not fet downc when thefe floure and feed, but iudge it about the fame time that Coltfi. 
i foot doth. 
%The Names. 
This by Clufitts,Lo'o:l and others, hath beene called CUcaiia , and referred to that defended by Di- 
t ejcoridesjih.^.cap. 123. which is thought to be that fet forth by Galen by the name of Cane arms, ifi 
Ittie Hifloria Ligd.pag.io’ti . The later of thefe two here deferibed is figured by the nameofzi^i- 
! hero A/pitta five Montana, and the former is there, page 1 ;oS, by the name of Cacalia, but the floures 
i are not righdy expreft : and ifmy iudgement faile me not, the figure which is in the feuenteenth 
1 page of the Appendix of the fame Authour,by the title of AconitumPardalianchesprimum , is of no 
' other chan this very plant. But becaufe I haue nor as yet leene the plant, I will not pofiriuely af- 
f firmeit:but referrethis my opinion to thofe that are iudicious and curious, to know the plane that 
r railed fuch controuerfie between Matthiolus and (?«/»«•, and whereof neither Comer mitts nor na-Jn 
■t who haue fet forth Matthiolus his Commentaries, haue giuenvs any certainor probable knoyy lecge-< 
