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B. Z. 
Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
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f 5 \Saginx Spergula, 
Spurrye. 
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2 There is another fort of VVoodrooffe 
called Agenda Cxrulcapx blew Woodrooffe: it 
is an herbe of a foot high,foft,hairy,and fome- 
thing branched, with leaues & ftalks like thofe 
of white Woodrooffe: tbefloures thereof are 
blew, Handing vpon fliort ftems on the tops of 
the ftalks : the feed is fma I ground, and placed 
together by couples : the root is long, and of a 
red colour. 
3 There is another herb called Saginx (per. 
giela , or Spurry, which is Town in Brabant, Hol- 
land, and Flanders, of purpofe to fatten cattel 
and tocaufe them to giue much iniJke, and* 
there called Spurrey, and Franke Spurrey: it is 
a bafe and low herbe,very tender, hailing many 
iointed ftalks.whtreupondogrow leaues fetin 
round circles like thofe of Woodrootfe, but 
lefler and fmoother , in forme like the roweil 
ofa fpur:at the top of the ftalks do grow fmall 
white floures ; after which come round feed like 
thole of Turneps : tlie root is fmall and three! 
die. - 
t 4 There are one or two plants more, 
which may fitly be here mentioned: the firft 
of them is the SjerruU manna of DaUfchampius, 
which from a pretty large woodd valid rough- 
ifh root fends vp iointed ftalks fome foot long: 
at each ioint come forth two long thick round 
leaues, and out of their bofomes other lefter 
Jeauesithetopofthe ftalks is diuided into fun.* 
dry branches, bearing flouresofa faint reddift) 
,, , . . .... - colour,^ compofed of fine little leaues, with yel- 
low tfh threds in the middle : after which follow cups or feed veflels, which open into foure parts 
and containe a little flat reddifli feed : it grows in the fait marfhes about Dartford.and other fuch 
places ; floures in ally and Auguft,and in the meane fpace ripens the feed. We mav call this in 
xinglijh, Sea Spume. 1 
. 5 , n Th i S °i: her h u at ’V a ' arg f rooc ' c o nMe «ng the fmalnefle of the plant : from which arife many 
weak (lender branches fome three or foure inches long,fomtimes more, lying commonly flat on the 
ground, hailing many knots or roints : at each whereof vfually grow a couple ofwhite fealv leaues, 
and out of their bofomes other fma ltliarpe pointed little greene leaues: at the topsofthe bran- 
ches grow little red floures, fucceeded by fuch, yet lefTcr heads than thofe ofrhe former : ir floures 
m luly and Auguft,and growes in fandy grounds, as in Tuthill- fields nigh Wertminftenthe figure 
et forth mPhJl.Lugd.p. 2 179, by the titltoFchamxpeuce Plinij.fi amphor.ua minor Da/r/champijStems 
to be of this plant, but without the floure : Bauhine in his Prodrome deferibes it by the name of a l- 
Jwc Spergulx facie . This may be called Chickweed Spurrey, or fmall red Spurrey. t 
The Place. 
\\ hire Woouroofe groweth vnder hedges, and in woods almofteuery where : the fecond grow, 
e h in many places of E ffex,and diners other parts in fandy grounds. The third in Come fields. 
n . T T kc Time. 
They floure in Iuneand luly. 
f T/« Names. 
Moft haue taken Woodrooffe to be Pliny his Alyfios, which as he faith, doth differ from Enthrtd 
_ »«w,or Garden Madder in leaues onely,and leffer ftalks : but fuch a one is not onely this, but al- 
..f . vvith b JfZ floures: ^ or G-f "doth attribute to Alyffbs, a blew floure : notwithftanding Galens 
condhonltnf’r ' afe th r U§ht t0 d ‘ ffcr by GdmS ° wne words , writing ofAlyfosinhis fe- 
d booke or Counterpoifonspn Antonins Com his compofirion,in this miner. AlifTos is an herb 
tending t V oblew° reh0l,nd)bUC r0l,gherand fuller of P rickles the circles : it beareth a floure 
otwS^ iS !^ d ° fdiL ^ odQrata , and ofmoft men Afrirgulaoctoma-.o f 
others, Cot/zafo, and Ste/lana: in high Dutch, f ettjfccpDt : in low Dutch, : that is to 
Bbbbb 3 fey. 
