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8. Cynogloftum Crcticum angufiifoliam* 
Narrow leafed Hounds tongue of Candy. 
10 . Cynoglojjam fore caruleo. 
Small Hounds tongue with blew tiow- rs. 
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the (lalkes at the bottotnies of them, arid (harpe at the point: on the toppe of the (hike flandeth a round hoary 
head, of the bigneffeof a reafonable apple, which opening it felfe, fheweth forth many woolly leaves, with 
red ribbes, (landing at the foote of the branches and (lalkes of flowers, which are of an excellent 
Vermillion red colour, [landing in larger and more woolly huskes, and arc more laid open like a llarre. 
Handing on both fides of the flalke, and not all on fide as the laft : the feede that followeth is fmaller and not fo 
rough, with a fmaller hollow middle : the roote is thicke and long, with a thicke blackifh barke, on the outCde, 
and a hard wooddy pith in the middle, of an unpleafant tafleas the leaves, bitter and aftringent and hairy 
at the head, which are the ribbes ofthe withered leaves: the roote fpringeth afrefh before Winter, after the 
leaves and (lalkes are all dre and withered. 
j. Cymgloffumfemper virens. Ever greene Hounds tongue. 
This Hounds tongue doth not much differ, from the common or ordinary fort, but that the leaves are alwayes 
frefh and greene, fomewhat long and narrow with a great whitifh greene ribbe in the middle, fmoothonthe 
upperfide, and more hoary underneath : the flalke at the firfi is but low, with many narrow long leaves, com- 
palling it about, but more tbinnely than in the former : the flowers are red, bur fomewhat larger than the ordi- 
nary, Handing in the like manner upon fmall branches that are writhed or turned like the Hetmropitim, or the 
firft kinde: the feede that followeth (landeth all on the onefide, and is fmaller and lcfl'e rough, bur the flalke is 
then growne much higher : the roote is blackifh, as the ocher: This hath no manner of hoarineffe, or isof fo 
ftrong a fentas the lad, and doth ipring forth with frefh leaves,bcfore theoldftalke with feede is quite dric and 
withered. 
6. Cynogloftiimfubrubcnte verjicolore flore. Hounds tongue with party coloured flowers. 
This beautifulland rare Hounds tongue, from a fmall (lender wooddy roote, fhooteth forth divers heads, of 
foft hairy and fmaller leaves than the lad: the flalke rifeth up a foote and a halfe high, fet on both fides, with the 
like fmaller leaves than fhole below, the toppe whereof is parted into three branches offlowers, which are 
fmaller than the lad, but of ablu(h colour, (Iriped with long bloud red drakes, having the bottomes of them of a 
deeper blufh: the feede dandeth in the fame manner that others doe foure together in a huske, but they have the 
middle fomewhat raifed up, and fmall at the toppe, with a pointed thereat, and a large thinne circle or lid about 
them. 
7. Cyncg/ojfam CrnicumUtifolium. Broad leafed Candy Hounds tongue. 
This Candian hath for the firfh yeareof thefpringing many leaves lying on the ground, fomewhat broad and 
not very long, with a long foote flalke to every one of them, foft, and covered with a whitifh (hining woolli- 
nefl'e, almoft like filver, and a thicke whitifh ribbe in the middle: but the next yeare after, the flalke rifeth from 
the middle of them, fet here and there with fhorter leaves compafling it at thebottome, and fo fmaller up to the 
toppe •• this flalke is branched from the middle upwards into divers others, that are crooked or writhed inwards, 
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