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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants, List a Lis. 4, £ Cuar.itu Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, Cynoforchis Morio minor. ; The leffer {potted Foolesftones. 209 | The Place. Of Fooles Stones. Thefe kindes of Fooles ftones do grow naturally to their beft liking in paftures and fields that feldome or neuer ate dunged or manured, q The Defcription, He male Foole ftones hathfiue,fometimesfix long broad and fmooth Teaues, not yn: like tothofe ofthe Lilly, fauing that they are dafht and fpotted in fiindryplaces A The Tie, with blacke {pots and ftreakes. The floures grow at the top, tuft or fpike fathion, They floure 4h May_and Tune, Their ftones fomewhatlike the former, but thruft more thicke together,in fhapelike to a fooles hood,orcocks ate to be gathesed for medicine in September, as are thofe ofthe Dogs ftones. combe,wide open,or gaping before, and asit were crefted aboue, with certaine eares ftanding vp by euery fide, anda fmalltaile or {pur hanging downe,the backefide decliningto a violet colour, ofa pleafant fauourorfell. |] The Names, Cynoforchis Movie mus. at The oemale Foole ftones. 2 Cynoforchis Morio femina; The female Foole ftones, Thefirft'is called Gjmoforchis Morio : of Fuchfius, Orchis mas anguftifolia s ofApuleius, Satyrion: and alfo it is the Orchis Delphinia of Cornelius Gemma. “ + The fecondis ‘6ynoforchis morio/femina of Lobel : Orchis anguflifolia famin.of Fuchfius : Te- friculus Morionisfewsina of Dodoneus, 3 This is€ypaforchis minimes ce fecundiin caulem, Cre. maculofis foliis, OfLobel, The Temperature, Fooles ftones both male and female are hot and moift of nature. ] The Vertues, Thefe Fooles ftones are thought to haue the vertues of Dogsftones, whereunto..theyare referred. T The fick was of Cynoferchis maculits, being the third in the former chapter. Crap. 112. Of Goats Stones. qG The Defiription, I 2 The Female Foolesftones havealfo fmooth narrow leaues, ribbed with nerues like thole of Plantaine. The floures be likewife gaping, and like the former, as it were opén: hoods, with # little horneor heele hanging behindeeuerie one ofthem,and fmall greene leaues forted or mixe ftanding vp, but lying vponthe hooded floure,in furch fort, that they cannotat the fudden viewftraight be perceiued, The 1008 are a paite of {mall ftones like the former. The flouresofthis fort doe varie infinitely in colots among them, refembling cockes combes, with lifle cares, not accordingto the foile or countrey where they do grow : fome bring forth their floures ofa deep violet colour, fomeas whiteas fhow ; fome ofa fleth colour, and fomegarnifhedwithfpots ofdi- uers colours,which are not pofible tobe diftinguifhed. + 3 This hathnarrow {potted leaues, with a ftalke fome footor more high,at the cop wher ofsroweth a tuft ofpurple floures in fhape muchlike thofe of the laft defcribed, each foureco™ fifting of a little hood, two {mall wingsorfide leaues , and a broad lippeor leafe hanging downe, + g Tht TT greateft of the Goats ftones bringeth forth broad leaues, ribbed infome fort like y vntothe bioadleaued Plantaine, but larger: the sroweth to'theheightof a cubit, fet with fuch great leaues euentothe topoftheftalk e by equall diftances. The tuft or buth offloures is {mall andflat Open,with manytenderftrings or laces comm ing from the middle part ofthofe fmall floures, crookedly tangling one with another, like to the {mall tendyels ofthe Vine,or ratherthe laces or ftrings that grow vponthe herbe Sauoric. The whole floure confifterh ofa purple colour. The rootsarelike the reft of the Orchide s,but greater. 2 Themale Goatsftones haueleaueslike to thofe of Lilly, witha ftalke a foot long, wrapped aboureuen tothe tuft ofthe floure with thofethehisgarden in this buthortuft be veryfmall, in forme likéyaro a Lizard, leaues, The floures which grow secaufe ofthe twifted or writhen tailes,and {potted heads, Eueryof thefe {mall floures is at the Srft like Ztoundclot hus} ofthe bigneffe ofa peafé, which whenit Openeth there commeth out of it a little longand tende {purre or taile, white toward the fetting ofit to the floure , the reft {potted with red dathes, hauing vpou each fide a {mall thing adioyning vnto it, like toalitt le legeor foot’, theteft of the faid taileis twifted crookedly-about,and hangeth downward. The whole plant hath aranke or ftinking fmel or fauout like the fmellofa Goat,whereof it rooke his name. ; he female Goats ftones haue leaues like t >malckinde, faying- that they be much fmalmanyfloures on thetuft r flies that feed vpagtefh, orrathegticks. The |