Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
Lib. 3. 
1559 
1 Mu fens terresiris ■vulgaris. 
Common ground Mode. 
3 Mu fens terrefris feeparius . 3. 4 . Mnfeus capillaris,fiue Adianthnm 
Beefome ground Mode. aureum maius dr minus. 
Goldilockes orgolden Maiden-haire 
the bigger and Idle. 
hedges and ditches, and fuch like places : it is very well knowne by the foftneffe and length there; 
of, being a mofle 1110ft common, and therefore needeth not any further defeription. 
2 Beefome Mode, which feldome or neuer is found but in bogs and marith places, yet Ibme-' 
times haue I found it in fhadowie dry ditches, where the Sun neuer fheweth his face : it groweth 
vp halfe a cubit high, cuery particular leafe confiding of an innumerable fort of hairy threds fee 
vpon a middle fib, of a fliiningblacke colour like that of Maiden-haire, or the Capillare MolTeA 
diant hum aureum .whereof it is a kinde. 
3 This kinde of Mode, called eMnfcus capillar is, is feldome found but vpon bogs and moorifh 
places, and alfo in (ome fhadowie dry ditcheswhere the Sun doth not come. I found it in great 
aboundance in a fhadowie ditch vpon the left hand neere vnto a gate that leadeth from Hampfted 
heath j 
