the roore is fomewhat great and thicke, fpreading many fibres within the ground, but perifheth every yeare af¬ 
ter feede time. 
2. Qerinthe minor flore luteo & rtibro . The leffer red and yellow Honywort- 
This lefier Hony wort, hath his branches both fhorter and leaning downewards, not (landing upright, whereon 
grow long greene leaves, without any fpots on them, and lefier than the former; the tops of the oranches are as 
full ofleaves and flowers as the former,but turne not in the fame manner:the (lalkes thatfuftaine the flowers,and 
fo likewife the fmail leaves at the foote of every flalke, are fomewhat purplifh, but the huske wherein the flower 
ftandeth is greene,cat into five divi(ions,the flower is long andhollow like the former,and almolt as great, of a 
gold yellow colour, dented at the ends, and with a red or deepe crimfon circle about the middle of them : the 
feede that folio weth is like the former, but a little lefier • theroote is long and full of fibres, perifhing every 
yeare. 
5. Cerlntbe major flavo flore. The greater yellow Hony wort. 
This yellow Hony wort rifeth up with a reafonable’great ftalke, branched on all fides from the bottome to the 
toppe, many of the lowermoft lying upon the ground, and the other (landing more upright, whereon are let 
large and long blewilli greene leaves, fpotted as the former is, but not fo large at the bottome, whei e they com- 
pafie the flalkcs, yet having fome prickles in the middle thereon as they have, and a little hoary about the 
brimmes or edges; the toppes of the branches doc bend downewards fet withfmall leaves andflovyers at them 
as the former, and as grear,but without any circle or bottome of purple, being wholly of a faire yellow colour, 
with fuch like threds as the reft have; the feede is like the former, and fo is the roote alfo perifliing after feede 
time in the fame manner. 
4 Cerlnthe m inor flavo flore . The lefier yellow Hony wort. 
This fmalier Hony wort hath a flenderer ftalke than the former, neare two foote high, fet with finaller, nar¬ 
rower yet fpotted leaves thereon without order,one above another on both fides of the ftalkes, which fpreadeth 
into many fmail but longer branches, from the middle thereof thicke fet with leaves and flowers, which are like 
the laft, all yellow but fmalier, and dented at the brimmes of them ; after which come fuch like feede as the laft, 
hut fmalier:the roote hereof is likewife white and long,and that which grew in my garden,did not abide the firft 
Winters blaft, and molt ufually perifhed at the firft therewith, yet Cluflm faith that his lefier yellow fort, wheb 
he found wild in the fields of Auftria and Stiria , did fometimes abide greene in the Winter. 
5, Ccrintbe major flore purnurantc. The purple Hony wort. 
The purple Hony wort groweth very likethe great yellow kinde, with low bending branches, and fomewhat 
large blewifli greene (patted leaves, like as the reft have .* the flowers (land in the fame manner that the reft doe, 
and as large, wholly of a darke purplifh colour, on the fuperficies whereof is a little whitenefie perceived •* the- 
feede that followed! is like the other,but greater than any of them? and two for the moft part (landing together 
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