12 ,az Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. i: 
riieBeacon, vpon the right hand as you go from London, neere vnto a grauell pit : they grow alfo 
V pon blacke Heath, in the highway leading from Greenwich to Charleton,withinhalfea mile of 
the tovvne. 
TheTime. 
They floure from Iune to the middle of September. 
«] The Names. 
t I This Gefuer calls Vulneraria ruJlica-.Dodonxus , Lobcl, and Cluftus , call it oAnthyllis^ and An- 
thyllis leguminofa. t 
3. 4. I cannotfindeany other name for thefe plants, but Oinithopodium : the nrft is called in 
Englifh, great Birds-foot ; thefecondfmallBirds-foot. 
The Nature mid Vertices. 
Thefe herbes are notvfed either in meate or medicine, that I know of as yet ; but they are very 
good food for cartel, and procure good ftore of milke, whereupon fome haue taken them for kindes 
o l Poly gala. 
C ha p. 52 , 2 ,. Of 'Blacke milke Tare. 
Glaux Diofcoridis. 
Diofcorides his milke Tare. The Defcriptiov. 
T He true Glaux of Diofcorides hath very 
many tough and wooddy branches trai- 
ling vpon the ground, fetfull of fmall win- 
ged leaues, in fhape like the common Glaux, 
but a great deale fmaller, refembling the 
leaues of Tares, but rather like Birds-foot, of 
a very gray colour : amongft which come 
forth knobby and fcaly,or chaffie heads, very 
like the Medow T refoile,of a faire purple co- 
lour.-the root is exceeding long and wooddy, 
which the figure doth not exprefle and fet 
forth. 
The Place. 
The true Glaux groweth vpon Barton hill, 
foure miles from Lewton in Bedfordfhire, 
vpon both the fides of the declination of the 
hill. 
TheTime. 
Thefe plants do floure and flourifh about 
Midfommer; 
The Names. 
Thefe plants haute in times paft been cal- 
led Glaux, i. folia habens glauca,Jiue pallentia ■ 
that is, hauing skie coloured, or pale leaues. 
Sithens that in times paft,fome haue coun- 
ted Glaux among the kindes of Polygala, or 
MilkewoortSjWe may therefore call this kinde of Glaux , blacke Milke-woort. 
*J ' the Nature . 
Thefe herbes are dry in the fecond degree. 
«j The Vertues. 
A The feeds of the common Glaux are in vertue like the Lentils, but not fo much aftringent : they 
flop the flux of the belly, dry vp the moifture of the ftomacke, and ingender floreof milke. 
4 Our Author cithcu not knowing, or forgetting what he had done,againe in this chapter, defcribed the (jl eux T , «f£tfrw>whofi;hifloryhe gaue vs but fourfi 
chapters before, by the name of Hedfktum ghcjfbi&tum - } wherefore IbauQ omitted it here as not ncceffary, 
