Lib. i. 
Of the Hirtorie of Plants. 
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«([ The Place. 
Water Crow-foot groweth by ditches and fhallow Springs, and in other moift and plaftic 
places. 
The Time. 
It floureth in Aprill and May, and fometiraes in lime. 
ThcNames. 
Water Crow- foot is called in Latin e Ranunculus aquatilu, and Poljanthemum aquatile in Eno . 
lift, Water Cro.v-foot, and white water Crow-foot : mod Apothecaries and Herbarifts do c-rro 
neoufly name ic Heptu tea aquatica.md Hepatic a. alba 5 and with greater error they mix it in medicines 
in Head ofHepatica alba, or grafle of Parnaflus. $ I know none that commit this great error here 
mentioned, neither haue I knowne either the one or the other euervfed orappointed in medicine 
with vs in England, though Dodonaus (from whom our Author had this and moft elfe) doe blame 
his countreymen for this miftake and error, t 
*[T The Temperature and Vertices. 
• Water Crow-foot is hot, and like to common Crow-foot. 
\ 
C H A P. 3 03, Of Dragons. 
I Dracontium maius . -j- 2 Time outturn minus. 
Great Dragons. Small Dragons. 
TheVefcription. 
% # T , He great Dragon rifeth vp with a ftraight ftalke acubit andahalfehighor higher, 
J thicke, round, fmooth,fprinkIed with (pots of diuers colours, like thoie of the adder 
or fnake : the leaues are great and wide, con filling of feuen or more ioyned together 
in order 5 euery oneofwhich is long and narrow, much like to the leaues of Docke, fmooth and 
flipperieroutofthetopofthe ftalke groweth a longhofeor huske greaterthan that oftheCuc- 
diow pintle, ofagreenift colour without, and within crimfon, with his peftell which is blackift, 
dong, thicke, and pointed like a home j the skin or filme whereof when the feed waxeth big, being 
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