in 6 Of the Htftorie of Plants. Lib.z. 
fay Icceraria,ot Hepatka,Liuerwoon : in French, c Magnet : in Englilh, Woodrooffe, Woodrowe, 
and Woodrowell. 
^y The Temperature. 
Woodrooffe is of temperature fomething like vnto our Ladies Bedftraw, but not fo ftrong, be- 
ins; in a meane between heate and drineffe. 
^y The Vertues. 
It is reported to be put into wine, to make a man merry, and tobe good for the heart and liuerrit 
A preuaileth in wounds, as Cruciata , and other vulnerarie herbes do. 
C h a*p. 464. Of Ladies L>edjlra\v. 
^y TheKtndes. 
iHere be diners of the herbes called Ladies Bedftraw, or Cheefe-renning ; fome greater, others 
leffe ; fome with white floures,and fome with yellow. 
^y 7 he Description. 
Adies Bedftraw hath fmall round euen ftalkes,weake and tender, creeping hither and 
.thither vpon the ground : whereon doe grow very fine leaues,cut into fmall iags, finer 
than thofe of Dill.fet atcertainc fpaces,as thofeof Woodrooffe : among which come 
forth fioures ofa yellow colour, in cinders or bunches thicke thruft together, ofa ftrong fvveet fmel 
but not vnpleafantrthe root is fmall and threddie. 
L 
I Gallium luteum. 
Yellow Ladies Bedftraw. 
2 Gallium album. 
Ladies Bedftraw with white floures. 
2 Ladies Bedftraw with white floures is likevnto Cleauers or Goofe-gtaffe,in leaues,ftalkes, 
and manner of growing, yet nothing at all rough, but fmooth and foftithe floures be white.the lee 
round : the roots (lender, creeping within the ground: the whole plant rampeth vpon bufhes,fhru s 
and all other fuch things as ftand neere vnto itiothetvvife it cannot Hand, but muft reeleand fall to 
thc S roud - .This 
