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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The Description, 
1 \A 7 Ater Crow-foot hath {lender branches trailing far abroad, whereupon grow leaues 
v V vnder the water moft finely cut and iagged like thofe of Cammomill. Thofeaboue 
the water are fomwhat round, indented about the edges, in forme not vnlike the fmal tender leaues 
of the mallow, but lefier : among which do grow the floures, fmall, and white of colour , made of 
fine little leaues, with fome yellownelTe in the middle like the floures of the Straw-berry, and ofa 
fvveet fmell : after which there come round rough and prickly knaps like thofe of the field Crow- 
foot. The roots be very fmall hairy firings. 
$ There is fometimes to be found a varietie of this, with the leaues lefle, and diuided into 
three parts after the manner of an Iuy leafe ; and the floures are alfo much lefier, but white of co- 
Iour,with a yellow bottome. I queftion whether this be not the Ranunculus better actus Dalejcbampif, 
fag, 1031. oithehift.Lugd. -t 
2 There is another plant growing in the water, of fmal moment, yet notamifie to be remembred, 
called HcdeniUatjuattc^otwatct Iuie: the which is very rare to finde ; neuerthelefie I found it 
once in aditch by Bermondfey houfe neere to London, and neuer elfewhere : it hath fmall threddy 
firings in ftead ofroots and ftalkes, rifing from the bottome of the water to the top ; wherunto are 
faftned fmall leaues fwimming or floting vpon the water, triangled or three cornered like to thofe 
ofbarren Iuie, or rather noble Liuerwort : barren of floures and feeds. 
2 Hedcndaaauatica. f 2 Stellaria actuatica. 
3 There is Iikewife another herbe of fmall reckoning that floteth vpon the water, called Stelln- 
ntt apatica, or water Star- wort, winch hath many fmall graffie ftems like threds, comming from j 
tne Dottorne of the water vnto the vpper face of the fame : whereupon do grow fmal double floures 
ot a greenilh or herby colour, f I take this Ste/laria to be nothing elfe but a water Chickeweed, 
which growes a 1110ft in euery ditch, with two long narrow leaues at each ioynt, and halfe a dozen 
or more lying dole together at the top of the water, in fafhion of a ftarre : it may be feene in this 
| enct A P* l! 1 an d beginning of May : I haue not yet obferued either the floure or feed 
