i. C httmiepitys vulgttrU. The ordinary or common Ground Pinei 
Our common Ground Pine groweth low, feldome riling abovr an handbreadth high, (hooting forth diverfc 
fmall branches, fet with (lender (mall long narrow grayifti or whitifh leaves, fome what hairy, and divided into 
three parts many times, many bufliing together at a joint, and fometimes alfo fome growing fcatteredly upon the 
(hikes, fmelling fomewhat ftrong like unto Roden ; the flowers are very fmall, and of a pale yellow colour 
growing from the joynts of the (hikes, all along among the leaves, after which come fmall long, and round 
huskes : the toote is fmall and wooddy periflhing every yeare. 
2. Cbamtpttys odoratior The fweete Ground Pine, 
This other Ground pine is alfo a fmall herbe, growing up with many hairy and hoary white (lender branches^ 
not above an hand breadth high, whereon are fet many fmall long leaves, yet (hotter than the former, hairy alfo 
and hoary white not in tufts or bufhes, but growing by couples clofc together all along the (hikes, cut in, or di¬ 
vided into fome parts,of a ftrong but fweeter fent,by much chan the former: at the toppes of the branches grow 
the flowers many togcchcr, of a pale yellowilh white colour: the roots is fomewhac long and flefhy like the 
toote of Succory or Dandelion, with many fibres thereat, but ftnaller. 
3. Chamtcpitys Auftrittca Clujij. Clufiui his Ground Pine of hujlrit,. 
This kind of Ground Pine hath diverfe fquare ftrong hairy (hikes, a foote long, with many joynts on them,, 
whereat grow, two fomewhat long and hard leaves, fomewhat like unto the firft but broader, greene and fhining 
on the tipper fide, and fomewhat hoary and full of veines on the underfide, divided into three or foure parts, or 
fometimes into more, fomewhat hot in talfe but not unpleafant, nor of any dilpleafing fent: from the joynts 
fpring forth (mailer branches, with the like leaves on them but lefl'er divided, and toward the toppes nothing ac 
all but fmooth, and long like unto Rofemary leaves ■ from the upper joynts and ends of the (hikes and branches 
(land diverle gaping flowers, like unto Germander, of a deepe purple or violet colour, for the mod part, but 
fometimes of a lively red colour, and fometimes of a bleaker blew, or skie colour, the lower leaves or chappes of 
the flowers being whitifh, fpotted with reddifh fpots: after which come blacke flhining fomewhat long and cor¬ 
nered feede, foure for the mod part enclofed in every of thofe rough huskes, wherein the flowers flood before s 
the roote is compofed of many blacke and hard flrings, growing fomewhat deepe in the ground, and fpringing a- 
freflo every yeare. 
4. Chamtpitys actulterinafeuVfeudo Chum/ipitys. Badard Ground Pine. 
The baflard Ground Pine is a fmall low bufhing herbe, very like unto the common kinde, having fmall hairy 
(hikes, (et full of long hairy leaves all alongfl them, patted into three long parts, of no fent almofl, but an un¬ 
pleafant herby one rather, the flowers fland at the joynts with the leaves, at the toppes ofthe branches, very like 
unto thofoofthe common Ground Pine, but of a white colour,and fomewhat greater: die feede that follweth is 
grayifh.greaterthan the common and rounder,foure forthe mod part contained in every huske: the roote is 
fomewhat thicke and white ahd abideth the Winter. 
The place. 
The firdisthe mod common in our land, yet not growing in manyothe'r (hires thereofthen Kent, asfarreas 
ever (could yetheareor learne : but there it groweth in many places, from on this fideTWr/Walong to South- 
fleete, Cobbam and Rochefter , and upon Chattani downe hard by the Beacon, and halfe a mile from Rocheffer in a 
field nigh a houfe called Selfey. The fecond is more rare to be found faith Ptmt % who onely faw it on the dry hills 
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