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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF PLANTS. v 4 Chamalinum perpufillum. Dwatfe wilde flaxe. 3, Linumflaestre tennifolium. Chap.158. OfWilde Flaxe. Thinne leafed Wilde flaxe. f 2 Linum [yluestvetennifolinm, ; hue albis. O78 _ damn fictive ; Wilde white flaxe. Thin leafedwilde flaxe, They ; ‘ %& Theplace. * Ua Senerally in grauellie grounds. gtowethin well manured places,as in : gardens,and {uchlike foiles. ‘ ‘ P er lecond iis FF ye Broweth bythe feafide, The thirdand fourth-growe vponrocks andcliffes neere % The defeription. F We hathleaues like A/paragus, Ot rather like Fen flaxe or ofLine kinde Wilde This eae the like flowers and long, foote ing ypon round bright and fhining {prigs,a but ofawhite colour. The roote is tough and {mall,with fome fibres annexect a I 2 Thenarrow andthinne leafed kinde of Line is verylike tothe common flaxe, butin t ose leffer. The flowers confift offine leaues,whichdo foone fade and fall away,batiing many intl ceeding fromone roote, of a cubitehigh, befetwithfmall leaues, yea leffer thanthofe ot £#™ par pares. : f i ‘i ; ‘ avery 1d inane fe, Sh “y ay gtowe vpon the feabankes by Lec in Effex, and in manyplaces of the yle of “ *Y gtowe alfobetweene Quinborowand Sherland houfe. Battal Theit n antsarefufficiently : ted heads full of feedes, like Linefeede,but of ablacke fhining colour. a: very Lowect 4 Camelinum(of {ome called Linum [yluestre perpufillum, & may be called in Englif i wt dwarle Dwarfe wild flaxe ; for this word Chama ioined to anyfimple doth fignifie,that itis a low ccm kinde thereof) being fcarce an handfull high, hath pale yellow flowers » butasitisinalley Rallicc cowertimes le\effer a? ynto flaxeaa fo the flowers,leaues,and ftalkes,and all other partes thereof,are fower 10 ae Linum, . jew :7 % Thenames. exprefledit n their feveralf titles, %& The nature and vertues. eg 0 fct thefe Kind s es of Wil- de flaxe are referred vnto the manured axes but they are eith erin phificke or Theficulti “Some vied 3 Thereis a kinde of wilde flaxe which hath many hairie*branches; rifing vp from i roote,which doth continue for many yeeres without fowing, increafing by rootes into er plants, withftalkes amounting to the height of onecubite,befer with many rough and gs: ch leaues: at the toppe ofthe ftalkes do growe manyfaire blew flowers, compact offiue pares greater and fairer than commonLine or faxes whichbeing paft, there fucceede final {harper % The time. Vfowerfiom Mayto the middeft of Augutt. chirurgerie: Ofblacke Salt woort. Chap.159. Voldes: % The de[cription. ; Se timethi [eke hiseae plant was vied for fauce and meate, as Purflaine andother iherbes are in thefe4 eee : 1s, andr CCined< t » *COlour ofthe ss among the Legursina. In mine opinionit was called Glaux, by sip of ~ Heinthe Sal} bate of a gray or olde dried'colour, calledin Latit ie Glancus color, . , = i i i ot) hi va oS : ghafilackea Engalatton, 1¢1 called Galax or Glax : ofothers itis : ; “Attytay icainelie €ate: ofothets ¢ Others hay MC IC 1s 00dto increafe milke in the brefts of women,ifit bemuch vied.: Rucllrss oe it ale “MANE {erdow: le Galega, Securidica, Polygala, and many other plantsafk for the tine Glanx, which |