Trib* 15. 
TheTheater of Plants. 
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P.7. 
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I. Lmumfthvm frw ltvlgpn* 
Maflwed FUxs, 
3 . Linum JylxrtRre laiifol'uimc<tTuku&,, 
Broad leafed blew wilde Flaxe. 
3, Linum fylveftre latifolium C£ruleU •»<> 
Broad leafed blew wilde Flaxe. 
This wilde Fiaxe rifechup (omecimes bit with one 
(UIkc,and often with more, a foote or iometimes more 
high, which are ftiffe, thicke,and hairy, fee with greater 
a id broader hairy leaves, then in any of the other forts, 
the ftalkes branch forth towards the toppes,bearing fmal- 
ler leaves then thofe below, andlargcr flowers, even as 
great as Mallowes, of a deeper or paler blew colour, the 
heads containing the (eede are fet in the greene huskes, 
that held the flowers, which open being ripe, (hewing 
a blacke flat fliining feede like the reft, the roote is greac 
and liveth after feede time, (hooting new ftalkes with 
woolly leaves on them, and (o abide all the Winter: this 
growethin Hungary and Aufiria. 
Of this lore there was obferved by Clufiui in S paine, 
one with large broad woolly leaves like it, but the flow¬ 
ers were white with purple veines in the leaves. 
4. Linum fylveftre latifolium luteum. 
Broad leafed yellow flowred Flaxe. 
The divers ftalkes of this Flaxe are round browne, 
and ftiffe, with large leaves on them , and not hairy 
but hard; the flowers are many that fland at the toppes 
of the ftalkes,and large, ofa fa ire fliining yellow colour, 
wit 1 fome threds in the middle, the (cede veflels arc flat - 
fer,and the feede blacker then the other, and not (hining 
like them: the roote is thicke and crooked, with fibres 
thereat .and perifheth not but abjdeth many yeares. 
r Baulomm makech mention of one with broad leave', 
whofe ftalke is glutinous or clammy, and the flower of a 
red colour which grew on the hills by Bonon.a, and about 
Tngolftad in Germany. 
5. Linum fylveftre andftiftIfoltum caruleovela&o 
flore magna. Narrow leafed wilde Flaxe, 
with cither white or blew flowers. 
This Flaxe hath fundry ftalkes, of a foote highland ma- 
