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Show ~~. ~Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. : i = ioeater Crow-foot ggroweth @ The Defcription. whereupon growleaues wi Crow-foot hathflender branches trailing far abroad, vnder the water moftfinely cut and iaggedlike thofe of Cammomill. ‘1 hofeaboue forme not vnlike the {mal tender leaues thewater are fomwhat round, indented about the edges, in made of I fmall, and white ofcolour , ofthe mallow, but leffer: among which do grow the floures, like the floures of the Straw-berry,and ofa fine little leaues, with fome yellownefle in the middle Crow. feet fell :after which there come round rough and prickly Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. LynB. 2 knapslike thofe ofthe field foot. The roots be very fmall hairy ftrings. the leaues leffe , and diuided into + There is fometimes tobe found avarietie of this, with are alfo muchleffer, but white ofco. floures the and ; leafe ofanLuy manner the after parts three Dale{champ), not the Ranunculus hederacens lourywitha yellow bottome. I queftion whether this be pag. 031. ofthe hit. Lugd. $ yet not amiffe to be remembred, 2 Thereis anotherplant growing in the water,of {mal moment, rare to finde, neuertheleffe I foundit called Hederula aquatica, or water Luie: the which is very neuer elfewhere : it hath {mall threddy and oncein a ditch by Bermondfey houfeneere to London, <dfthe waterto the top; wheruntoare bottome the from ifing ftalkes,r and ofroots ftead. firings in three cornered like to thole : ; @ The Time, It floureth in Aprill and May, and fometimesin Iunes Y ; G The Names. lith, Water Crow-foot, and white water Crow-foot :moft Apothecaries and Herbariftsd s py : i : ee sneither haue I knowneeither the oneor the other euer vfed or appointed in mieicide Water Crow-footis hot, and like to common Crow-foor. Cuap, 303. OfDragons. t 2 Dracontium minus. Great Dragons. Water Starwort. : called SiStebe 3 There is likewife another herbe offmall reckoning that floteth vpon the water, © hreds, comming fuses via aquatica, or water Star-wort,which hath manyfimall graffie ftems like t the bottomeofthe water vnto the vpperface ofthe fame : whereupon dogrowfmal dpa wnech Stelariato be nothingelfe but a water Ce ot ofa greenifh or herby colour. + I take this which growesalmoft in euery ditch, with two long narrow leaues ‘at each ioynt, an it may be ae feed - morelying clofe together at the top of the water,in fafhion ofa ftarre : either x the yet obferued =7 - end of Aprilland beginning of May : I hauenot ae erro. . vsin England, thoughDedoneus (from whom our Authorhad this and moftelfe) doe bl ‘ is countreymen for this miftake and error. $ ie : i The Temperature and VertyWS» i Dracontium maius. $ 3 Stellaria aquatica, « ia it Hepatica aquatica,and Hepatica alba; and with greater error they mix it in fiediein inftea ead alba, or graffe of Parnaffus. £ Iknow none that commit this greaterrorh “s d or 2 Hederwlaaquatica, Water Iuie. i _ Water Crow-foot is called in Latine Ramunculus aquatilis, and Polyanthemum aquatile : in Eng faftned {mall leaues fwimmingor floting vponthe water, triangle . ofbarren Iuie, or rather noble Liuerwort: barren of floures andfeeds @ The Place, nallow Springs y ditches and fhall prings, ing and in i other moift i and plathiei Small Dragons. G The Defcription, x oe great Dragon rifeth : : a ftraightftalke a cubit anda halfe high or higher, vpE with thi : : a round,fmooth, fprinkled with {pots of diuers colours, like thofe of the adder hake : the: Jeaues are great and wide,confi(ting of feuen or more ioyned together Older s euer ich i 5 and Lipperie Sat oes ofwhich is long and narrow, much like to the leaues of .Dockes fmooth Bape heap ofthe ftalke groweth a long hofe or huske greater than that ofthe Cuc“Ow pint] >0fa greenifh colour without, and within crimfon,with his peltell which is blackith, ONS. thi oY c €,and pointedlike ; : a horne; the skin orfilme whereofwhenthe feed waxeth big; being i ; frretched |
