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Show THE: BIRST BOOKE OF THE Of Canariefeede, or Petie‘Panick, HISTORIE OF PLANTS. (hap.s7. Phalaris pratenfis is ‘called in Chefhire about Nantwich, Quakers and Shakers , taking his Canarie fede. Re name Phalaris ofthe tyrant Phalaris as aforefaid. 2 Phalarispratenfis. Quaking graffe. 1 Phalarés. 8t Caname Phalaris : inthe Nands ofCanarie _aipisti ; in Englith Canarie feed,Canarie corne,and ee narie grafle. % The nature andvertues. I finde notanything fet downe as touching the temperature ofPhalaris, notwithftanding itis : thoughttobe ofthenature ofMillet. j The iuice and feedas Galen faith, are thought to be profitablie drurfke againft the paines ofthe bladder : Apothecaries for wantof Millet do vfethe fame with good fucceffe infomentations: for in drie fomentations it ferueth in fteed thereof, andis hisfaccedanewm, ot quidpro quo. VWevicit in Englandalfo to feed the Canarie birds. Of Foxetaile. Chap.58. Alopecuros. Foxetaile. % The defeription. Oxerailehath many graffie leaues orblades, rough,andhaitie,like vnto thofe ofBarly,but lefler and fhorter. The ftalkeis likewife foft and hairie: whereupondoth growea finall {pike or eareoft, and very downie,briftled with veryfmall haires in fhape like vnto a Foxetaile, whereofit tooke hisname,which dieth at theapprochofwinter, and recouerethit felfe the next yeerebyfalling ofhis feed. %& The place. ; This kind of Foxetaile groweth in my garden, but not wildein England,andis maintained in gardens, foritis a pretie toye for wantons, The time. It fpringeth vp in Mayofthe feed that was{cattered the yeere before , and beareth histaile with his feedé in Iune. piety % Thedefeription, ee penis graffe after fome, hath manyfmall haiti¢ rootes,from which ati whole af * 4 ented like cotne,wherupon do grow leaueslike thofe of Barly,whi chefsthe shone P a ot i very well refemble, The {mall chaffie eare groweth the top Shakes = Benniaing {mall feeds like thofe of Pahike, ofa ycllowith colouratandfining $,0r quaking grafle, sroweth to the height ofhalfe a foote; and fometime higherwi"® it; grow sroweth | ir 1 lmed ; in fertil ow es, TI ce ftalke i vi a1 is ver y {tnalland-bentiie, fet with many y D 10i1 gra: fficle ane f mat : tholeof fhephedrds purfe, bur chicksbedi Re at the top a buth or tuft of flat fealie pouches, like % The names. There hath'not beene mote faid of the ancient or later writers , astouching the name, than is fer downe ,by whichthéycalled it -Aiopecarés rin En. glith Foxetaile. % The nature and vertues. Ifind not aything extant woorthie the memori¢,cither ofhis nature or vertues. ftalkes that may befound wl 20% Drowne colourfet vpon the moft {mall and weakeft hairie fot doi hang :by meanes; of which finall tisha thole tmall pouches hick atetas rie {trings, ae the knapsy , fel ke the howers , ‘ notpoflible with the moft ftedfa ts do continually tremble and fhake, in fuch ;forcehatit®‘ {the § ; Zarisof that cruel! trembling tyrant ae thaking , whereofit tooke his name?” % Lheplace i ig grow in England,or any other Quaking Phalaris gtoweth ieee ~y it eda pal decal infertil] Chap.s9. % The de/cription, Canarie fed groweth naturally; if ‘ Obes Teares hathmanyknottie ftalkes. proceeding from a tuft of threddy rootes, two'foote I high, fet with great broadleaues like vnto thofe of Reede,y amongeft which leaues come foorth many {mall branches like ftrawe of corne: on the end whereof doth grow a graie fhining feede or the Latinesretaining the po graine hardto breake, and like in fhape tothe feedes of Gromell, but greater, andofthe famecoJour, whereof I hold ita kinde: everyofwhichgraines is boredthr ughthe middeft like abead, and out of the hole commetha {mall idle or barrenchaffic eare like vnto that of Darnell, F 1 Lachryma thane €s atid indrie i oe medowes ST he time: This Canarie feed is fow enin May, andis ripe in Auguft, Canana arie feeder: The names. tic teede, or Canari : e corngj Giscalled of the Grecianseusuas: OfJobs Teares. : na |