3 lagged Speare-woort hath a thicke fat hollow ftalke.diuiding it felfe into diners branches, 
whereon are fet fomtimesby couples two long leaues,fharp pointed'&cur about the edges like the 
teeth of a faw. T he floures grow at the top of the branches, of a yellow colour,in form lile thofie of 
the field Crowfoot : tberootconliftethof a number ofhairy firings. 
4 Marfli Crow-foot,or Speare-woort(whercofitisakinde,takenofthebeftapprouedauthors 
to be the true Afium rjfus, though diuers thinke that Pulfatilla is the fame: offome it is called Apium 
h&morrhoidurum ) rifeth forth of the mud or waterilli mire from a threddie root, to the height of a 
cubit, fometimes higher. The fialke diuideth it felfe into diuers branches , whereupon doe °rovv 
leaues deeply cut round about like thofe of Doues-foot, and not vnlike to the cut Mallow, buc 
fomewhat greater, and ofa mod bright fliining green colour : the floures grow at the top of the 
branches, of a yellow colour, like vnto the other water Crow-feet. 
If The Place. 
They grow in moift and dankifh places, in brinkes or wafer courfcs,and fitch, like places almoft 
eucry where. • . 
% The Time. ' 
They floure in May when other Crow. feet do. 
If The Names. 
Speare-woort is called ot the later Herbarifts Flammida,3.nA. Ranunculus Flammeus ;of Cordusjtdl 
tumculits or broad leaned Crow-foot : of others, Ranunculus longifolius ,or long leafed Crow 
foot :rn.how Dutch.CcgelCOOlCtJt in Englifh,Speare- Crowfoot, Speare-woort,and Banewoort,be- 
caufe it is dangerous and deadly for fheep ■ and that if they feed of the fame it inflameth their li- 
ners, Iretreth and blifiereth tbeirgurs and intrails. 
