i>6 o Of the Hiftory of Plants. L i b. 3 
heath toward fiigbgate ; which place I haue 
(hewed vnto diuers expert Surgeons of Lon- 
don, rn our wandering abroad for our farther 
know ledge in Simples. This kind of Mofle, 
the ftalkes thereat are not aboueone band- 
fuil high, couered with flrort haires handing 
very thicke together, of an obfeure yellow 
green colour 3 out of which ftalkes fpring vp 
fometimesvery fine naked hems, fomewhac 
blackc ? vpon the tops of which hang as it 
were little graines like wheat cornes. The 
roots are very (lender and maruellous fine. 
h bf this di. mi bum aurcum there arc 
three kindes, different onely in magnitude, 
and that the two bigger haue many hairie 
threds vpon their branches, when as the leaft 
hath onely three or foure clofe to the root- 
and this is the leaft of plants that I euer yet 
faw grow, t 1 
4 Of this there is alfoanother kinde al- 
together lefler and lower. This kind of mofle 
growerh in moift places alfo, commonly in 
old mnflie and rorten trees , likewife vpon 
rocks, and oftentimes in the chinks and cran- 
nies of ftonewrlls. 
t 5 There is oftentimes found vpon old Okes and Beeches, and ftich like ouer-grown trees" 
a kinde of Mofle hairing many flender branches, which diuide tbemfc-lues into other lefler bran-’ 
ches ; whereon are placed confufed ly very many fmal! threds like haires, of a greenifh afh colour • 
vpon the ends of the tender branches fometimes there commeth forth a flourein fhape like vnto' 
a little buckler or hollow Muflirom,ofa whiti Hi colour tending toyellownes,and garniftied with 
the like leaues of thofe vpon the lower b ranches. ° 
6 Mu feus Pyxid.it us. 
Cup or Chalice Mofle. 
5 Mufcusrsmsjus floridtu . 
Flouring branched Mofle. 
the tit bof V °l k f ° IS 1 n ° t u h f r L kinde ' W hich LoM in his DL,tch Verbal hath fet forth wider 
the moft b imS’ P ; x f tus ^ lch J * laut Englifhed,Cup MofTeor Chalice Mofle : it groweth in 
but of a veivSft if S rauclI >’ dltch bankes , creeping flat vpon the ground like vnto Liuerwort, 
faSd r r ' vblte co -^ ur •' among which leaues ftartvphere and there certaine little things 
SSSf, S 5 :,e ™P “g! a Bcakcr or Chalice, and of the fame colour and fubftance of the 
^htldrcn inanv y ™ ay be raken fo \ the floi,res : thepoudet of which Mofle giuen 
together > is a moft cercaine rcmedie a § ainft th - p e - 
7 There is likewife found in the fhadowie places of high mountaines.and at the foot of old 
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