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9. Aflcr Virgineus fattens membranaceo cattle', Y ellow Starwort of Virginia with a filmy flalke. 
Tills yellow Starwort groweth to be < 5 .or 7.foot high,with many ftalkes,whofe lower part thercoftalmoft to the 
haife, is round, hard, and ftrong, the other part upward having a fmall filme of skin on foure Tides thereof (as is to 
bejfeene in many other plantsjup to the toppe which brancheth not,butbeareth l'undry fmall flowers,as it they were 
tufts at the firft,but being blowne open, each is a yellow ftarre compofed of five or fixe fmall and long yellow leaves 
with fmall thicke yellow pointeL in the middle, each having a blackifh tippe or point relembling flowers, and 
afterwards turne to be flat feed, broad at the head, which are fo fcparately fet together, that they refemble the head 
of feed of a Ranunculus , but greater: the leaves ftand fingly on each fide of the flalke, being very like unto the for¬ 
mer, of a dead or fullen greene colour, but not altogethehfo large and broad, a little longer pointed alfo, and more 
rough in handling, with a fmall foot-ftalke under each: the roote is knobbed and wooddy,with l'undry long firings 
faftned unto them, andencreafcthmuchatthefides, but creepeth not, holding ftronglyin the ground: this flow- 
reth late with us, and that not but in a warme yeare, whereby we feldome obferve the feed : divers doe take this 
to be the Wifancksx V/ofocan of the Virginians,but if Gerards information be right, as it is moft probable,that which 
he calleth Wifanck^, beareth crooked pods, and fuch doth the Periploca of Virginia , as I firft well obferved in 
Mailer FrancquevHies garden, whofe roote creepeth farrc under ground, and therefore in my judgement this cannot 
be their fVifanckj this alfolofeth the flalkes as the former, and fpringeth frefh every yeare. 
I o. Afler Virgineus fattens alter minor. Another yellow Starwort of Virginia. 
The other yellow Starwort of Virginia groweth up but with one upright fmall round lliffe flalke, foure or five 
foote high, bearing two faire greene long fhining leaves at every j’oynt, dented about the edges, but fmaller than 
the former, {landing on fmall foote-ftalkcs, and l'omewhat hard in feeling : at every j‘oynt with the leaves on both 
fides,fromtheverybottome come forth branches,haife a yard long at the lead, with the like leaves on them: at 
the toppe of each flalke and branch flandeth one flower, whofe greene fmall round button under it, hath divers 
fmall greene leaves on the head thereof, out of which breaketh the flower, confifling of a dozen yellow fmall and 
long leaves, compafling a middle deepe yellow thrum: this although I and lome others have had ft growing with 
us, yet flowred and feeded with none but Mailer Tradefcant at South Lambeth. The feed by rcafon it flowreth late, 
we have not yet well obferved : the root is compofed of fundry white and long hardifh firings,with fmall fibres at 
them, and abideth divers yeares, encreafing by the Tides, but perifheth to the ground, fhooting new heads every 
yeare. 
1 r. Afler Conyzoidcs. Fleabane like Starwort. 
This kind of Star wort hath long and narrow leaves growing on the branched ftalkes, which are a foote high, fet 
nngly thereon without order: the flowers grow fingly at the toppe of every flalke and branch, compofed of many 
duskieyellow leaves, with a browner thrum in the middle turning into downe, which with the fmall feed is car- 
riedaway with the wind : the roote is threaddy. . .. 
Wee have had from Virginia another fort of this kind, very like unto it, but with fmaller flowers. 
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