Of the Hiftory of Plants. L 1 b. %. 
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1 Trichomanes mas . 
'The Male Englifh Maiden-haire. 
,A n i« -p 
2 The female Englifh Maiden-haire is 
like vnto the precedent, failing that it is Ieffer, 
and vvanteth thofe fpots or rnarkes that are in 
the other , wherein confifteth the difference. 
^ Our Authors figure was of the Trochomanes 
farmina of Tabernamontanu. r, which expreffes a 
variety with branched lcaues, and therein only 
was the difference, t 
The Place. 
It growes for the moll part nere vnto fprings 
and brookes,and other moift places, vpon old 
ftone walls and rockes: I found it growing ina 
fhadowie fandielanein Betfome, in the parifli 
of Southfleet in Kent, vpon the ground where- 
as there was no ftonesor ftony ground neere 
vnto it, which before that time I did neuer fee ; 
it groweth likewife vpon flone waifs at her 
Majefties palace of Richmond, & in mod flone 
wals of the Weft and North parts of England, 
t M'. Goody er faith, that inlanuary, 1624. he 
faw enough to lade an horfe growing on the 
bancks in a lane, as he rode betweene Rake and 
Headly in Hampfhire neere Wollmer For- 
reft. t 
The Time. 
It continueth a long time, the coldneffe of 
winter doth it no harme,it is barren as the other 
Femes are, whereof it is a kinde. 
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^y The Names. 
It is called in Greeke,«ee - «s<'‘< ! in Latine, Filicula,sts though we fhoukl fay, Perm Filex, or little 
Feme- alfo Capillar is .-in (hops .Capitlus Veneris. ^Apulcius in his .5 r chapter rnaketh it all one with 
Gallitrichou ; of fome it is called Polytrichon : in Englifh, common Maiden-haire. 
The Temperature andVertues.. 
Thefe, as Diofcorides and Galen do write, hauc all the faculties belonging to Adiantum , or blacke 
Maiden-haire. 
The decoftion made in wine and drunke,helpeth them jjiat are fhort winded, it helpeth the 
cough, ripeneth tough flegme,and auoidethitby fpitting. 
The lie wherein it hath been fodden,or laid toinfufe,is good tovvafh the head, caufing the. 
feurfe and feales to fall off, and haire to grow in places that are pild and bare. 
C h a r. 4 75. Of ThijUes . 
The Kinder: 
T He matter of the Thirties is diuers, fome Thirties feme for nounfhmcnt, as the Artichoke 
without prickles, and the Artichoke with prickles-, other for medicine, as the root of Carline 
which is good for many things - the bleffed thiftle alfo, otherwife called Carduus hcmdiBus ; Sea 
Huluer,and diuers others : fome are poifonfome,as Chamdeon niger 5 one fmooth, plaine,and with- 
out prickles, as the Thiftle called Beares Breech, or Acanthus [atiuus, whereof there is another with 
prickles, which we make the wilde, of the which two we intend to write in this chapter. 
^y The Defcription. 
1 TTEares breech of the garden hath broad leaues, fmooth, fomewhat blacke, gafhed on both 
jfjthc edges, and fet with many cuts and fine nickesibetweene which rifeth vp in the midlt a 
big ftalke brauely deckt with floures,fet in order from the middle vpward, of colour white, 
of forme long, which are armed as it were w ith two catkins.one higher, another lower : after them 
grow forth the huskes, in which is found broad feed : the roots be blacke without, and white with-! 
