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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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furrowed, of a yellowifh greene colour : the leaties fhoot forth ofthe ioynts and branches, like vn- 
to wilde Hem’lockc, but much thicker, tatter, and oileous, very finely cut or iagged , alnioft like 
thole of the fmalleft Vifraga, or Spanifh Tooth- pickes : the floures Hand at the top of the ftalkcs 
in final 1 whit ifh tufts : the feed followed^, blackifhy of the bigntffe of Anile feed, and of a facet : 
fauour : the root is thickeand long, within the w^ter, very foftand tender, with 1 very many firings 
faftned thereto. 
The Place. 
i This growes among (hones and rubbirh,by the walls of cities and towns almoft euerv where. 
The other grovveth in themidftofwater ditches and (landing pooles and ponds, in mod places 
of England it groweth very plentifully in the ditches by a caufey, as you goe from Redriffe to 
Detford neere London, and in many other places, > 
The Time. 
They floure and flourifh in Inly and Augufl. 
% The Thames. 
f r This is Petrofelini vittum otfrague ■ and Dauci irntilk genus of Gcfner : Thditts calls it A. 
■pium deuterium • Lobel , Cicutariafatua : T abernamontamis, Petrofehnum camnum • which name we mav 
fitly make Englilh, and call it Dogs-parfiey. , 
• ’ This is Ligu jlicitip fyl.& Focniculum fyl. of T ragtis : Cicutaria faluftris of Lobel and others : T)o- 
dmam thinkes it P linics PhcUandrion . and Cxjalpinus nidges it his Silaus. t 
The Temperature arid Vertues. ' 
T !l eir temperature and faculties areanfwerable to the common Hemlocke, which haueno vfe 
in phy ficke, as we haue faid. 
4 The Pgi'rc fornierly in the firft place was of Myttbis j the description I thinkc was intended, yet not throughly agreeing with this I here °iue vou, wherefore 
I haue a little altered ir. ° ° ’ 
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Chap. 431. 
Of Earth-nut, Earth Qhejl-nut, or Ifipper-nut. 
t 1 Bulbocafianon minus. 
Small Earth-nut. 
O S l VH/L- 
2 Bulbocaftanon mains . 
Great Earth-nut.- 
(,1^) ten 
