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Show = Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. —— AB Lis. 2, Lis. 2: tighte anibop oni japedale: s¢tho is c2 white woollineffe or bairenetibigs in aie Hawkeweed which eat llowfloure like that o 7 , and full of milkie juice, and hath cer. elgnsaliaewae tipe. Therootis blacke taine me Eeeethat blacke roots a finger thicke, full of milkie juice, decpely ing thereto: as - ghcone‘pit lone thruft ale the ground,with fome {mallfibers belong downe 2 nine ¢ no ona es ' a{oft Teaues hal fe an inch or more broad, couered with and hard fta Ikes , w bE ret fi d € ae me fer colour :and among ft the leaues come vp naked hisfee caried away with Of the Hiftory of Plants, $0 3 towards the end, andputting forthftringy fibres on thefides, Thus much Clufizs, whoreceiued this figure and defcription fromhisfriend Zaques Plareaw of Tournay. I coniedture this to be the fame plant that Bavhine hath fomewhat moreaccurately figured and deferibed in his Prod. pag .68 vader the title of Chondrilla purpurafcens fatida : whichplant being an annual, I haue feen growing” fome yearesfince with M*. Tuggy at Weltmintter ; and the laft Summer with an honeft and skif. full A pothecarie one M*. Nicholas Swayton of Feuerfham in Kent: but I muft confeffe I did nor comipareit with Clufins ; yet now Tamofopinion, that boththefe figures and defcriptions aré of one andthe fame plant. It flgures in July and Auguft; at the later ehd ofwhich monet! 1 thefe into downe, and floures fet ina woollie cup or chalice, which is turned alfo cometoripeneffe. a finger long,blackoece eeRoath Hawkeweed hath a thicke root aboue and itis dinided inte fome bes nc vice the top ofthe ground, and putting out fomefibres, longifh ae sts : si “ a The ofat the top ofthe earth putteth out fomefix or feuen ee thed like to Dandelion,with nakedhairy ftalkes, bearing at their tops faire large andvery double yellow floures, whichfadingfly away indowne, It growes infome medowes. ‘ others precedent, i. t ee ige it S : and fomewhathoarie,hairie, and foftas are the pe t gafhes are neereftthe ENEDaT as u ct the edges,but the deepef ,and dle rib, whichis trong and large. The ftalke is fmooth,naked 6 Thisother(not defcribed by Clufiws, but by Lobel) hath long rough leaues cut in and too- £5 Hicracium parvum Creticum, + 6 Hieracium Der Dandelion H Small Candy Hawk-weed. fomewhathigh ; thei yellowand doubleas the other. jer aci 3 Clufins Hitracium 6. .Clufij. Clufij his 6.Hawkeweed- 4, Hitracium 7.Clufij. Clufius his 7. Hawkeweed, dy 44 13 @ The Place. ‘a ; Ein ‘ ofTae emeccnsncenng ifig to the report ofClufises, do growin Hungarie and Au- roteeeceetaly dry billssandherby and barren Alpith mountainesand fch like places: $5 Thefame Author hath alfo fet forth another Hieracinm, vnder the name of Hieraciwm P*- var Creticumwhich he thus deferibes; this is an elegant little plant f{preading fome ix,0r moe oe : q The Names. ‘ Be: gogo hath ngs {aid more than here 1s fet dow ne as touching the names, fo that amongft thefe tifevp twovor three little ftalkes about a foot high, without knot vntill you ° th almoft to the top,whereas they are divided intotwolittle branches, at which place growes a feaues muchdiuided ; the floures grow at the top ofa fufficient bigneffe confidering the me tude of the plant,and they confift of manylittle leaues lying one ypon another,on the vp yf G The Nature andVertues, Ifinde not an 7 ything atallfer wne either of theirnature of vertues, and therefore I forbeare to > fay anythin . oe leaucs vponthe top of the ground, being narrower at that parr whereas they adhere ¢ and broader at the other enan cutabout the edges, hauing the middle rib of a put eo lamer ie my memoric aileme not Thaue feene them growing in. fundryplaces in Eng3which I meane, Godwilling, better to obferue hereafter,as opportunitie fhall ferue me, ‘ © The Time, He faith they floure from Mayto Auguft,at whattimethefeed is ripe, wholly white,and onthe vnderfide of a fleth colour. The rootis fingle, longith,gr owingMe hat hath nowbeenfaid,referring the handling thereof to a further confideration. gclfofthem, as a thing not neceffarie to write of their faculties ypoh my oine conceit an d im; agination, Chap 12D |