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Lib. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
1 5 u 1 r e fi , Grccne ' vccd hatha wooddie tough root, with certaine fttings annexed thereto: from 
which rifevp diners long, flat leaues, tough, & very hard,confifting as it were of many little leaues 
let one at tne end of another, making of many one entire leafe,of a greene colour .-amoneft which 
come forth diners naked hard (talks ,very fmall and ftiffe, on the tops whereof ftand fpikie eares of 
yellow floures, like thofe of Broome, in fhape like that great three leafed grade, called Larrupm or 
like the box-raile graffe : after which come flat cods, wherein is inclofed fmall feed like to Tares 
both in talk and forme. 
5 GeniJlelU Lagoyotdcs maior . 6 Geniftella Lagomics minor . 
lares foot Greene, veed ; Small Greenweed with Hares foot floure.' 
, . 6 differeth not from the precedent in ftalks, roots and leaues:the floures confift of a flop.' 
kie foft matter, not vnlike to the gralfie tuft of FoxtaiIe,refembIing the floure of Lamm fir Hares- 
loot, but hailing fmall yellow floures leffer than the former, wherein it chiefely differeth from the 
other of his kinde. 
f The Place. 
The firft being our common Diers-weed,groweth in moll fertile paftures and fields almoft cue- 
ry where. The reft are ftrangers in England. 
T be Time, 
They floure from the beginning of Inly to the end of Auguft. 
T be Names , 
The firft of thefe G reenweeds is named of moft Herbarifts Flos Tintforius , but more rightly Ge. 
nifia Tincloria, of this Pliny hath made mention [The Greenweeds, faith he, do grow to dye cloths 
with]in his 18. bookc 16. Chapter. It is called in high Dutch, Jfctblumetl, and SdCkeCbtem : in 
Italian, Cerretta, and Cofitria, as OMatthioluswriteth in his chapter of Lyfimachia, or Loofe-ftrife • in 
Eng!ifh,Diers Greening weed, bafe Broome, and Woodwaxen. 
The reft we refer to their feuerall titles. 
The Temperature and. Venues . 
Thefe plants are like vntocommon Broome in bitternefle,and therefore are hot anddriein the A 
fecond degree : they are likewife thought to be in vertues equall ; notwithftandino- their vfe is not 
fo well knowne,and therefore not vfed at all where the other may be had: we fhall not need to fpeak 
of that vfe that Diers make thereof, being a matter impertinent to our Hiftorie, 
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