Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
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or three inches high: the leaaes arc fomewhat like thofeof the yellow Fumitorie, or Rad, x cava, 
butmuch lclTe: the floures grow cindering on the top of the ftalke,commonly fi • or feuen toge- 
ther, each of them made of foure yellowifh green leaues with fome threds in the n ; it floures in d- 
prill,and is to be found in diners places amongft bufbes at that time, as in Kent about Chifleburft* 
cfpecially in fits his wood, and at the further end of Cray heath, on the left hand vnder a hedge a- 
mongbryers and brambles, which is his proper feat. $ 
9 Radix can a miner. 
Bunnikens Holvvoorti 
I o Radix cm a minima viridi flirt . 
Small Bunnikens Holwoort. 
'~l cL&xxx-- 1 1/K oS e-L. 1 
^ Tit ftaef. 
Thefe plants do grow about hedges, brambles, and in the borders of fields and vineya'rds,in low 
and fertile grounds,in Germanic and the Low-countries, neuertheleffe the two firft, andalfo the 
two laft deferibed do grow in my garden. 
The Time . 
Thefe dofloure in March, and their feed is ripe in Aprill : the leaues and ftalkesaregohinMay, 
and nothing remaining faue onely the roots, fo little a while do they continue. 
The Names. 
Hollow root is called in high Dutch t in low Dutch, K|00!ct003lfclc, that is, Radix cm 
ha : in Englifh, Hollow root, and Holcwoort : it is vfed in fhops in fteed of Ariflolochia , or round 
Prrthvvoortjwhich errour is better knowncthan needfull to be confuted : and likewife their errouf 
is apparanr,who rafhly iudge it to be Pifltlochiafir little Birthwoort. It fhould feem the old Wri- 
ters knew it not ; wherefore fome of our later Authors hauerriadeit Leontopetali fpecies , orakinde 
of Lions Turnep: others, Eriphium : and oihex Come, Tbeflum moftmen, CafnoSChelidonia : it lee. 
meth to agree with Leontopctalon in bulbed roots.and fomewhat in leaues, but in no other refpevff s, 
as may be perceiued by D/fl/rar/irr and Pl/mes deCcription of LeontovetaliH. And if Eriphium haue 
his name &79* fi ~P*C, that is to fay of the Spring, then this root may be not vnproperly Eriphium , and 
Verts P lanta : or the Plant of the Spring : for it is euident that it appeareth and is greene in the 
Spring onely: fome thinke it hath beetle called Eriphium,uP Harbor of the Goat: but this Eripbion 
is quite another plant, as both Apulcius writeth, and thatbooke alfo mentioneth which is attribu- 
ted to C?a/r»,and dedicated to P.itcrnianus. In the booke which is dedicated to Patcrnianus, there be 
read thefe Words ; [ Eripbion is anherbewhich is found vpon high mountaines, it hath leaues like 
Smallage,afine floure like the Violet, and a root as great as an Onion : it hath likewife other roots: 
which 
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