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Theatrum ‘Botanicum. 
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ve .7 tine yellowilh greene haires on them, and bearing a 
iinall go d ye'low head lefler then a Wheate Come, (lan¬ 
ding in-g-eat hu^ke, theroote i, very (mall and threaddy. 
3 2, Tsly tricham minus & Minimum. 
The two letter fores of Golden Maidehnaire. 
Thefe two ocher lores are very like the former,but that 
the ftalkes grow not to much more then halfc the height, 
the one of them being leffer then the other. 
The Place and Time. 
Th? firfl groweth ulually on bogges and moorifh places, 
and alfo on dry places that are fliadowy,where the fecond 
growet * like wile on Hampflead- Heath % 
The Names, 
The twofirft arc called by many Polytrichum*ureum 9 ot 
fome ddmntum aureum 9 of Thaliu* Adianttim tt<puMop t of 
others Alufcw r apiU<nii, and 'Bauhinw P olytrichttm a^rcum, 
making three lorts ma)ns ,i medium & mintu as Thaliw doth, 
but l thinke that diverfitie rather rileth from the place then 
nature of che plant. Ftichfm taketh it to bee Polytrichum 
Apulei. 
The Vert ues:. 
The Golden Maidcnhaire is of a temperaturebetweene 
heate and cold ye: it dryech rarifieth anddigefteth : ithel- 
peth to expectorate tough flegmc from the Cheft and 
lug s nolefle then the other Maidenhaires being boyled 
and drunke : it alfo provoketh urine, and helpeth to ex¬ 
pel! the Hone, is profitable for Splcneticke perfons and 
thofe that have the Falling fickneffe, the herbe boyled in 
water or Lye.and the head walhed therewith ftrengthneth 
the roptes of the haire, Hayeth it from (bedding, and cau- 
feth them to grow thicke where they arc thin-.briefely it is 
held to be as effe&uali as any of the maidenhaires, many 
other incredible things are reported hereof which arc ra¬ 
ther fupcrflicious and therefore I forbeare to relate them. 
P alytrkhum aureum vutjus (f minus. 
Gol^n Maidcnhaire the greater and the leffer. 
Chap. X I111* 
I. Ros [old five Rerall* vel Rofafolitm 
Sundew or Rofa lolis. 
Et mee place this plant with the rely being ufually 
tftceme formerly, and tell you that it hath divers fmali 
round hollow leaves, fomewhat greeni(h,but full of certaine red 
haires that make them feeme red, every one (landing upon its 
ownc footflalke reddifh hairy likewife. the leaves have this 
wonderfull propercic that they are continually moill in the hottelt 
R,i So is fve RnyeUavel Rof* foJit major (? minor. 
Sundew or Rof.i foils the greater and the leffer. 
2. Ros fold (j/lveftrli longifolius • Long leafed Rofa folia. 
