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more leaves then the former,the fecde of them both islmall and fomewhat likeunro Linfeede contained in rou r d 
^This alfo is found to have Torre divcrfity both in the ftalks growing more upright.or elfe lying upon the ground, 
and al lo in the flowers, fome having the white threds in the middle tips with blacke, that it maketh the whole 
flower feeme to be blacke or e'le with pale yellow. 
The Place andTime. 
The firfl fort groweth more ufually under hedges, and upon dry bankes of ditches or the like, and flowreth a 
monech earlier then the other,that is in April!,the other is more common in the fields of Corne, and clfewhere in 
the more open and champion grounds,and flowreth not untill Map or line. 
The Names. 
7>««JcalUth ' K Eafiafiagramen,and Lrmkerw Etifrafia major. Camcranm Gramm fioridum, Mattthiolm Gra¬ 
mm alteram, Fttch/iw/Dodtm.eM and others, Gramm Lettcanthemum. Dodonsm and Label call it Holoftium Rttelhj, 
who took it to be the Helefiium of ‘Diofcorides,‘Dotbms:m alfo referreth it to the C r,i taegontm of Dtofeorides, which 
lie faith was alfo called Melampjrt<m. Baahimtt calleth them both CarrophjUm arvenfu.glabcr flare majorc&mim- 
ri, but why he (hould reterre them to the Carpephplli I fee little reafon, I would thinke they (hould better agree 
with the Chickweedes. The Germane! call them Augcn troftgrajf, and the Dutch Oaghen troeflgnu ,and we in Eng. 
HJlj Stichvvort. 
The Vertttcs'. 
It is much commended by fome to cleere the eyes of dimnefle, or filmes that beginne to grow over the fight, to 
dreo fome of the juice into them. It is no leffe accounted oftohelpe flitches in thefides, to drinkethepouther 
thereof with white wine. Other properties this is faid to holds but they are onely taken from Diofcorides his Ha- 
In/lcum. which whether this be it, is much doubted,and therefore,the properties, whereof one is that Diefcorides 
faith it is fharpe.is not found in this herbe. 
Chap. II, 
MeUmpjrum & Crataogmm. Blacke Wheate,and Cow Wheate. 
Hele two names although they feeme to be different, yet are the plants referred unto them, notfo 
I much differing one from another, but that I may joync them both in one Chapter, their varieties to 
be explained are as followeth. 
i . Crataegonum vulgare. The common Cow wheate. 
This that is mofl: frequent in our Land, hath an hairy fquareflalke, branched almoft from the bot« 
l. Crateoionumvulgere. 
The common Cow Wheate, 
t. Cru£ogo$ua fine varia, 
Another party coloured Co* Whcare^ 
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