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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORI E in 1 Galliumluteum. eAferult. Ladies yellow Bedftraw s Theplace. White Woodrooffe groweth ynder hedges, oatve. os ae Woodroofk and in woods almoft euery where: the feconde groweth in manyplaces of Eflex,anddiners other partsin fandie grounds. se The time. They fowerin IuneandIuly, g % The names, Moft haué taken Woodrooffe tobe pijnie his Alyffes which as hefaith, doth differ from zy. throdanum, or garden Madder , in leaues onely,& lefferftalkes; but fuch a one is not onely this,but alfo that with blew flowers: for Ga/endothatti. bute to C4Ayffis, a blew Sowers notwithftanding Galens and Plinies Alyffos, axe thoughtto difer from Woodrooffe,by Ga/ensown words, writing of Aplfosin his fecond book of Counterpoifons, in Antonius Cons his compofitionin this manner; Abyffos is an herbe verylike vnto Horehound, but rougher and ful'er ofprickles about thecitcles;it beareth a flower tendingtoblew. Woodrooffe is namedofdiuers in Latine Afpernlaodorata, and of moftmenAfpergulaodsrata , of others Cordéalis, and Stelarta: in high DurchDertzfrepat : inlow Dutch iL ener brautt that is tofaie Jecoraria, or Hepatica Liuerwoott: in French Aduguet: in Englith Woodroall Woodrowe,and VWoodrowell. % The temperature. 3 Gullinm rubrum, Ladies Bedftraw with redfowers. g Woodtooffeis of remperature fomthing like vnto our Ladies Be dftraw,, bur not fo ftrongbein in a meanc betweenc heat and drines, A % The vertues. line: Itis reported to be put into wine,to make aman merrie, andtobeg ood for the hart and it prevaileth in wounds,as Cruczata,and other vulneraric herbes do. OfLadies Bedfiraw. (hap.4.48. & The kindes. : shes Here be divers of the herbes called Ladies Bedftraw, or Cheefe renning, fomegreater, ome lefle,fome with white flowers,and fomewith yellowe. % Thedefeription, + hiner andt Adies Bedftrawhathfnall,round, euenftalkes, weake and tender,creeping hit “Goes ther vpon the ground: whereon doe growe veryfine leaues, cut into finall285s ; f thofe ofDill, fet at certaine fpaces, as thofe of Woodrooffe: among oe fel flowers of a yellowcolour, in clufters or bunches thicke thruft rogither, of a ftrong fweet® but not vnpleafant: the rooteis finall and threddie. ; ; A 2 Ladies Bedftraw with white flowersis like vato Cleauers or Goole graffe,in in leaues,!4 lentes oo be Bowers the : fmoothandfoft but manerofgrowing, yetnothing at allrough, round: the rootes flender , creeping within the erounde: the whole plant ramperh . fhrubs and allother fuch thingsas ftande neere vuto it,otherwife it cannot ftande, »® and fall to the ground, %The |