Chap. XXXIII. 
Fetctfites vulgaris. The Butter burre, 
2 H E Bntter burre is of two forts, the one grea- 
1 ter the other leffcr,differing alfo in the Bowers, 
as you (hall heare : butbecaufe they are fo like 
one another, one difcription (hall ferve for 
them both. Each of them rifeth up very early in the 
yeare, that is, in February: with a thicke ftalke about a 
foote high, whereon are let a few fmall leaves, or rather 
peeces, and at the toppes a long fpiked head of flowers, in 
the one which is the lefie and the more rare to finde, 
wholly white and of a better lent than the other (yet 
fome fay it hath no fent) in the greater which is more 
common with us of a blufh or deepe red colour according 
to the foile wherein it groweth, the clay ground bringing 
a paler colour fome what weake,& before the ftalke with 
the flowers have abidden a moncth above ground will be 
withered and gon, blowen away with the winde, and 
the leaves will beginne to fpring, which when they are 
full growne are very large and broad, that they may very 
well ferve to cover the whole body, or at the leaft the 
head like an Vmbello from Sunile and Raine, being 
fomewhat thi'nne and almoft round, whofe thicke red 
foote ft alkes about a foote long, Band toward the middle 
of the leaves ; the lower parts being divided into two 
round parts clofe almoft one to another, and of a pale 
greene colour above, and hoary underneath, that with 
white flowers bringing fmaller leaves than the other, and 
having divers ribbes and veines therein : the roote is long 
and fpreading under ground being in fome places no beg- 
ger than ones finger, in others much bigger, blackilh on 
the outfide, and white within, of a bitter and uppleafant 
tafte. 
Ptiafites vugaru. 
The common Butter burre. 
