HERB/E capillares. 
FERNES AND CAPILLARIE 
herbes. 
CLASSIS DEC IMA. 
THE TE 3 K.TH E. 
CHAP. I. 
FiUx mcu vnlgarie, The common Male Feme! 
F the Male Feme there is fome diverfitie as (hall be fliewed. The Male Feme (endeth 
forth divers hard rough unbranched flalkesofwinged leaves, naked or bare «the lower 
end, confiding of many leaves up to the toppes with ore at the end, fet on both fides 
thereof, not fully oppofite but as it were in the middle betweene two on the contrary 
fide each leafe not tully devided but deepely nicked in on the edges, all of them of a 
pale'greene colour, hard anddry or without fappe.broadettat thebottomeandlmal- 
lert@ward:the toppe, onthebacke 
fide of whom there arc certaine brow- 
nifh fmallfpots which are the feeds, 
for by the falling of them young ones 
are encreafed : this and all other forts of Femes and Capillarie 
herbes in this Claffis mentioned, have no flowers nor other 
feeds then fuch fpots, or fcalcs whereby they as*I faid are en¬ 
creafed, although many have denyed that any of them have 
eyther flowers or feedc, and fume have beenc reclaimed 
upon my inflancc ofthcplace in Gencfis i, 11.12. and fo have 
declared it i the roote hereof is made of many thickc blacke 
threads defending from a bro wne fcaly thicke head, 
FiUx mtu aculeata. The prickly Male Feme. 
This other Fernediffereth not from the former, but onely 
that the winged leaves are not dented in, but whole, having 
a frnall pricke at the endof each of them and growing not fo 
high. 
The Tlf.ce. ^ 
The frrfb growrth as well on Hcathes and open places of 
lulls, as in fhadowy places by the fides of fields,reafonable fre- 
quent in all countries, but the fecond groweth. very tew yet in 
the like places alfo. 
The Time. 
Thefe feldome hold their ftalkes with leaves greene in the 
Winter : but flaoote out new from the rpote in the Spring 
which at their firll rifing are browr.ifh and foulded in round .* 
The time when thofc heads on the backe of them are ripe and 
doe fall is Midfomer, and falling on the ground doefpring, 
for whereby elfe fhould it be encreafed, feeing God in the be¬ 
ginning appointed every herbe and tree, to have the feede of 
their kind (and not of another) wjthinthcm- 
, Fjlixrrai vulgaris. The common male'Ferne; 
Jk. 
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