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Tribe 3. 
fc or ides & Pliny {e c it down. faith it was called Bajihca: of fome it was called as fome copic3 of 'T'iofcorides 
hath ic Centanria radix 3 - of fome Aloes Galina Narce sCh.ronion , and as Ti ny faith, fome Romanes called it Cnen- 
dia and fome Ciminalis. The Italians and Spaniards follow the Latine name Gent tana , the Trench alfo Gent ane , 
the C cimanes Gentian, Endian, and BitterwHrt^buttht Gentiana Conciata, they call CModelghcer • we call ic 
in Englijh either Gentian or FellwortCj mixed asl take:of Latine and Englijh together, or Bitterwort, and of 
fomeBaldmony : all Authors doe generally call them all Gentians, and diftinguilhed according to the colour of 
the flowers, as they are in their titles. 
Gentians minores <vernaks femmes. The leffer Gentians of the fpring,abiding. 
1. GentianelU major five GentianelU A fir a laiifolia magno fore. The greated (mall Gentian of the Spring.' 
T His greated of the fmall Gentians is very like unto the Gentian ofthe Spring, that 1 have already fet forth, 
yetitisnot thefame, having larger greene leaves, of two inches long and one broad, fomewhat round 
pointed, with three ribbes or veines running through them, as the others have ,the dalke rifing fl om the middle 
olthefe leaves, groweth about foure inches high, withafmal! leafe or two thereon, bearing at the end thereof 
a large huske, fudained by two Imall and long leaves, from the middle whereof fhooteth forth a very large and 
great hollow blew flower, ending in five fmall points: therooteis linall yellowifh and fibrous. 
2- Gentimeila angufiifolia verm. Small narrow leafed Gentian of the Spring. 
This fmall Gentian ofthe Spring, fhooteth from the roote, which is long (lender much fpread under the 
ground and yellowifh, many heads of divers (mall long and narrow leaves fet together, Somewhat longer then 
the next that followed!; from fome of thefe heads, (for all flower not in one and the fame yeare, thofe flowring 
theycare following, which flowrednot theyearebefore, and thofe that did flower, not flowring againe the 
next yeare after,) rifeth up a fmallilender dalke, fomewhathighcr then the former, bearing thereon, two fuch 
like fmall leaves at a joynr, and at the toppe one flower for the mod part,(feldome more or the flalke branched) 
much 1 mailer then the lad, narrow long and hollow like a hofe or huske of one entire leafe at the lower part, but 
ending above into five corners or fmall pointed leaves, laid open like a darre, having fmall peeces of leaves like 
as it were eares, fetatthebottotneofthedivifionsofthem, both of them of a perfed: blew colour, but not fb 
deepe as the former, having a white line in the middle of each of them, and the ground or bottome of the flower 
whitiflialfo, with a few threds (landing about a fmall head, net to be feene untill the flower be almod or fully 
pad, unleffe’one open it; which after it isripe is fmalUnd long, containing very fmall brownifh feede, 
5. Of ntitmelU minor Verna. The fmaller Vernall Gentian. 
This little Gentian groweth in all things like the lad, faving that the leaves are not fo long and narrow, but are 
fmall, and ofthe breadth of the naile of ones little finger, fomewhat pointed at the end: the dalke is mucha- 
bout the fame height, and beareth luch alike fmallblewflower, fometimes having thofe fmall peeces or eares 
at them, and fometimes without them: and thefe be the chiefeddifferences betweene them. 
4, Gentianellaomniumminima. The lead Gentian of all. 
This lead Gentian (fo called becaufe of the bittemeffe in it. elfe it might very well be accounted rather a kind 
of mode) fpreadeth, and as it were matteth upon the ground, with many fmall and long leaves, among which 
- Gentianel/a Alpha vtrna major. n.~*s~.~n --— 
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The greateft of she fmall Gentians of the Spring. 
Gentitnella verna minor. 
The fmaller Vernall Gentian, 
