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Show “Lip. 2 Of the Hitterie of Plants. 5 Peapaphyllumperrofum,Heptaphyllum Clu/y Stone Cinkfoile. +t 66 Pent Pentap hy konfupinum aphy inae Poveatadheyig Pitan Siluerweed Cainkfoile; Ofthe Hiftory of Plants! 989 + 90 Thethird kinde ofCinkefoile hath leaueslike thofe ofthe laft deferibedianid his foures areofa purple colour ; which beingpaft, tlfere fucceedeth a round knop offeed like a Strawberry before it be ripe :the ftalkes ate creeping vponthe ground : the root is) of a wooddy fubftance, fall ofblacke ftrings appendant thereto, + This differs not from the laft deferibed, butin the colout ofthe floures. + Thefourth kinde of Cinkefoile is very like vnto the other, efpecially the great kinde: the parts, fomewhat fhipt ftalkesarea cubit high, and ofareddifh colour : the leaues confift of fiue about the edges : the floures growat the tops of the ftalkes like vato the other Cinkefoiles,faning that they beofa darke red. colour : the root is of awooddy fubftance, with fome fibres or threddy ftrings hanging thereat. 9. Pentaphy lum incanum minus CEPEMS Small hoary creeping Cinkefoile. 10 Quinquefolinm [yludticnm majus flo. albo: Wood Cinkefoile,with white floures; 3 Pestaphylluat Incanai. 7 Quinquefolinm Tormentilla’ facie. Hoarie Cinkfoile. Wall Cinkfoile. The fifth kinke of Cinkefoile groweth vpon the cold mountaines of Sauoy, and in the eof Auftenfie, and in N in France, and (if my memoryfailenot) I haue {een the fame & vpon Beefton caftle Chefhire:the leaues hereof are few,and thinne fet, confifting of slike the other Cinkefoiles, oftentimes fix or feuen fet vpon onefoot-ftalke, nor {nipt edges as the other, but plaine and fmooth; the leafe is ofa fhining white filuer colour iv like ftarres, vpon flender ftalkés by tufts and bunches, ofa ' in fafhion like the floures of Alchimilla, or Ladies mantle + aul IMap z ke andfull of ftrings,and ofa browne purple colour, . 406 This planzwhofe figure our Author formerly gaue for Fragaria fterilis; 8 in his deferip- “o8contounded with it,to auoid confufion,} thinkefit to giue you here among‘ che Cinkefoiles, and in that e the Fragaria flerilis,as mot agreeable thereto. This feemes to challengekindreé . Ib plants, that is, Ginkefoile, Tormentill, and Siluer-weed, for ichath the vpper ‘lowfloures, creeping branches, and. root of Cinkefoile, but the lower Ieaues are of and grow many ypon one middle rib like thofe of Siluer-weed , the fruit is like bel calls this Pentaphyllumfupinum Tormentile facie rand Tabernamont anus, ¢of Cinkefoile, Peva that diligent fearcher of Simples found in the re Clauena,and at the fir fight fuppofed it to bea kinde of Tormentillajot Pena Oooo saphghore, |