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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. 1. 
Chap. 308. Of the OjraJJe ofTarnaJJw. 
f I Gramm Parnafp. t 1 Gramen Parnafi flore duflici. 
Graft of Parnaflus. Graft of ParnafTus with double floures. 
% The Defcriftioa . 
1 f | 'He Graft of ParnafTus hath fraall round leaues, very much differing from any kind of 
i Graft, much refembling the leaues of Iuie 3 or Afarabacca, but (mailer, and not of fo 
darke a colour : among thefe leaues fpring vp f mall flalkes a foot high, bearing little 
white floures ccmfifting of flue round pointed leaues j which beeing falne and paft, there comevp 
round knops or heads, wherein is contained a reddifh feed. The root is fomewhat thicke, with ma- - 
ny firings annexed thereto. 
2 The lecondkindeofGr^wfwp^myTl dothanfwer the former in each rcfpedf.fauing that the I 
leaues are fomewhat larger, and the floures double, otherwife verie like. 
The Plaic. 
Thefirft groweth very plentifully in Lanfdall and Crauen, in the North parts of England - at 
oncafter,and in Thornton fields in the fame countric: moreouer in the Moore neere to Linton. 
by Cambridge, at Hefttalfo in Suffolke, ataplace named Drinkftone, in the medow called But- 
chers mead. t M Geodyer found it in the boggy ground below the red well of Wellingborough in 
orthampton {hire : and M'. William Broad obferued it to grow plentifully in the Caftie fields 
or Bcrwickevpon Tweed, f: [ 1 
Thefecond isaftrangerin England. 
*T The Time. 
Thefe herbes do floure in the end of Inly, and their feed is ripe in the end of Auguft. 
7 he Names. 
Valerius Co'dm hath among many that liaue written of thefe herbes faid fomethingofthem to 
good purpofc, calling them by the name of Hepatic* alha (whereof with out corrtouerfic they are : 
kmdes) in Englifh 3 v\ hite Lmeivvoort ; although there is another plant called Hefatkaalha^h'icb. i 
for 
