An Appendix to 
been feene, failing that thofe which Gerard calls red W hordes, and they are of a very pale white 
cr rC en till they be full ripe, fo as when the ripe ones looke rcd,thevnripc ones Icoke white. 
& Cloud-benieafiuredly is noother than Knout berric. 
HfiferPnin-role grovveth in Clap-dale. If M r . Hcsket found inhere it was foroe extraordinary 
luxurious floure,for now I am well affured no fuch is there to be feene, bur it is onely cherished in 
■out gardens. 
Gerard faith many of thefe Northerne plants do grow in Cragge clofe. In the North euery town 
and village neereany craggie ground both with vs & in Weftmerlandhaue doles fo called, vvher- 
by Girards Cragge clofe "is kept clofe from our knowledge. 
Cham amor as Jen V accinia nubis. Knot, or Knout- berrie, or C Icud-berrie. 
T His Knot,Knoutor Cloud-berrie (for by all thefe names it is knovvne to vs in the North, and 
taketh thefe names from the high mountaines whereon it grovveth, and is perhaps, as Gerard 
faith, one ot the brambles, though without any prickles) hath roots as frnall as packc thred, which 
creepe far abroad vndcr the ground ,of an ouerworne red colour. hr re and there thru fling more faft- 
ly in to the motile hidockcs tufts of fmall threddie firings, and at certaine joints putting vp fmall 
ftalks rather tough than woondy,halfe a foot high, fom thing reddifh bclowxn which do grow two 
or three leaues of'a reafonable lad green colour, with foot-ftalkes an inch long, one alone another 
without order : the bigheft is but little,and leldonie well fpread open they are iomeihing rugged, 
crifpie,fuli of nerues in euery part, notched about the edges , and with fc me 'cure gall ts a little 
deeper rhan the reft, whereby the whole Icafe is lightly diuided into flue portions. On the top of the 
flalkco mwchone floureconfiftingoffoure,fomerimes offiue leauts apiece, very white and ten- 
der, and rather crumpled than plaine, with feme few llort yellow thredsin the mid if : it llandethin 
a little greene husk of fine ieaues,out of which when the floure fades, commeth the fruit, compofed 
ofdiuersgraincs like that of the bramble, as of eighteen or tweluc, feme-times of fewer, and per- 
haps through fome mifcbancebut of three or two,fo joined, as they make fomc refemblanceofa 
heart, from whcncefitmay be)hath grown thaterrour in Gerard oi diuidirg th.is plant into 2 kinds: 
the fruit is firft whitifh greene, after bccommeth yellow, and reddifh on that fide next the Sun. 
It grovveth naturally in a blacke moift earth or moffe, whereof the countrie maketh a fewel we 
call Turfe,and that vponthe tops of wet fells and mountains among the Hc-ath,n:ofTe,and brake.-as 
about Ingleborovv in the Weft part of York-fhire, on Graygjcth a 1 is h fefton the edge ot Lanca- 
fhire,on Siainmor fuch a like place in Weftmerland,and other fuch like high places. 
The leaues come forth in May, and in the beginning of luce the f.oures : tl t fruit is r.ot ripe till 
late in Inly. 
The berries haucaharfh and fomethingvnpleafant tafte. 
T His rvorke tv as begun to be printed before fuch time as roe receitted all the figure 1 from beyond the Seas, 
which was the occafion I omitted thefe following in their fitting places but thinking it not ft to omit them 
wholly fiauing them by mefi wilgtue you them with their titles jind the reference to theplaces whtrtothey 
btlanv. 
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* In Auguftlaft whiles this worke was in the Prefte,and drawing to arend, IandM r . William 
Zfn«.r</vvereatChifrd-l.urft with my oft mentioned friend M‘. George Btwlcs, and going ouer the 
heath there I obferued this fmall S part urn whofe figure I here giue,and whereof you fliall find men- 
tion,in the p'ace noted vnder the title of the figure^but it is not there deferibed, for that I had not 
feen it, nor could finde thedefeription thcrof in any Author, but in Dutch, which I neither had nor 
vnderftood.Now this little Matvveed hath fome fmall creeping ftringy roots:onwhicb grow fom- 
whar thick heads, confiding of three or foure leaues, as it were wrapt together in one sb-in,biggeft 
below, and fo growing fmaller vpvvards,as in SchananthjintiW they grow vp to the height of halfe an 
Inch, then theferufhie greene leaues (whereof the longcft fcarce exceeds two-inches) breakeoutof 
thefe whitifh skins wherein they were wrapped, and lye along vpon the ground, and amongft thefe 
grovves vp 4 fmall graffie flaIke,fome bandfull or better high, bend ing backe the top, which carries 
tworowes of fmall chaffie feeds.lt is in the perfection about the beginning of Auguft. 
FI&CIS. 
