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J Filicttla petraaftemina, five chamafilix marina. 
ihe female dwarfe (tone Ferae. (^Anglic a. 
j fiAb W 
nifti filken colour : it growes in thechinkes 
of therockesbytheSealide in Cornevv’all. 
^ The tlace. 
The place is fufficiently touched in the de- 
fcription. 
^ The Time . 
Theyflourifh both Winrerand Sommer, 
forvvhenthe leaues witherby reafonof age, 
there arife young to fupplie the place, fo that 
they arc not to be feene without greene and 
Withered leaues both at once. 
The Names. 
It fufficeth what hath bin faid of the names 
in their feuerall titles : notvvithftanding the 
laft dcfcribed we haue called Chamafilix mari- 
na Anglica : which grovvcth vpon the rockie 
cliffeneereHarwich,asalfoat Douer, among 
the Sampire that there groweth. 
The T emperature and Virtues. 
Their temperature and faculties inworking A 
are referred vnto the kindes of blacke Oke 
Femes, cal led Dryopteris,and Onoptcris. 
. .. R JeTcrintions, wherefore I hane left his descriptions as I found them: the Second 6- 
4 It ishard to fay what our Author in this chapter meant, by his SP ^..^.he Lovchitis Maranthti, mentioned in the foregoing chapter.I haue put Clufuts hijfi-- 
?ure which was vervlikethefirftl haue amited: forthethuJ, wii cn wa Aurhors defenptiominthe fourth place I haue put LabbtlUCbttmtfihx marine 
I Caplins Veneris verm , 
True Maiden-haire. «. r 
- CZcxji Vi 
Chap. 473 . Of true Maiden-haire. 
1 may be added another called Rutamuraria, Or wall Rue, equ ’ 
cfwewillintreat. 
1 ^ The Deficription. 
1 t t 7 Hofo will follow thevariable opini- 
W onsof writers concerning the Feme 
* called Adiantbttm vemm, or CapiUue 
Veneris vents, mull ofneceffitiebebrought into a la- 
byrinth of doubts, confidering the diners opinions 
thereofrbut this I know that Venus- haire, or Maiden- 
ha ire, is a low herb growing an hand high, fmooth,of 
a darkeenmfon colour, and glittering withall : the 
leaues be fmal.cut in funder-and nicked in the edges 
fomething like thofe of Coriander, confufedly or 
without order placed, the middle rib whereof is ofa 
blaeke fhining colour : the root confifteth of manic 
fmallthreddie firings. 
2 This Affyrian Maiden-haire is likewife abafe 
or low herbe, hailing leaues, flat, fmooth, and plaine, 
fetvponablackifh middle rib, likevnto that of the 
other Maiden-haire, cut or notched in the edges, na- 
ture keeping nocertaine forme, but making one leafe of this fafhion,and another far different from 
it :rhe root is tough and threddie. 
i! This plant which we haue inferred among the Adiar.thesas a kinde thereof, may without 
errour fo pa(Te,w hich is in great requeft in Flanders and Germanie.where the prailitioners in Phy- 
ficke do vfe the fame in (lead of Capillm veneris, and with better fucceffe than any of the Capillare 
