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Show eee Crap OF, Serephularia major vulgaris. Ordinary great Figge-wort, I. Theatrum Botanicum. Trib k.5e Scrophularia major altera elegans. Another dainty great Figge-wort, Tepe 5: Lhe Theater of ‘Plants. Cuar.68, 611 {omewhat like the la{t;but larger and more cut in.on tke , and eachpart cut in entheiredges likewife, ma King every leafe feeme like unto a Ferne, or the leafe ofthe red Rattle; trom the middle of the ftalke, fhoore forth roundabout it, up to the toppes almoft, other branches, andthey againe fome {maller, having onall fides fuchlikeleaves, but leffer than grow below, fer thereon; andat the coppes of the ttalkes and branches, are ma- ny {mall flowers, fet omewhatlike unto the firlt ordinary Figgeewert, but pa’ tof adeeper and part of a paler purple colour, with fome yellow threds, rifing out of the middle: the roote is of a fingers thickenefle, and divided into diverfe other parts, 4. Scrophularia peregrina, Sttange great Figge- wort. This ftrange Figge-wort beareth divers {quarc browne ftalkes, rifing from the roote about two foote high, whereon grow witheut any order, many foft leaves like Nettles, butnot pricking or ftinging at all, fomewhat longeralfo and deeper cut in onthe edges, efpecially in fome of them, of a darke greene colour on the upperfide, andgreene underneath : the ftalkes branch themfelves into many other {mailer ones, with leaves on them to the topes, like the lowerbut lefler, where ftand many darke purple flowers; whofe upper leaves turne upwards, and the lowerfall downelike lippes, each of them ftanding in greene huskes, that are parted into five points; whereinafter the floweris fallen and paft, commeth around head, divided ‘as it were with a feame into two parts, with alittle point atthe end, wherein lye {mall brownifh feede, like the commonfort: this alfo hath a {trong fent, rather worfe than the laft. : 5. Scrophularia peregrina altera. Another ftrange great Figge- wort. The ftalke hereof is about rwo foote high: the leaves are of a faire greene colour,as it were winged, the fow- ers are yellowifh, with pale thredsin the midale: the feedis {mall inround huskes being by-forked at the ends. 6. Scrophularia flore luteo, Yellow Figge-wort. : Theyellow Figge-wort bringeth forth diverfe fquare browne ftalkes, fomewhat hayrie and foft, about two foote high, at the joynts whereof grow two Uroenesed: round,hayrie,foft greene leaves, deepely dented about the edgess, {tanding upon very long footeftalkes, thofeat the foote ofthe ftalkes being largeft, which in winter lye inacompaffe upon the ground, round about the roote; and thofe on the ftalkes leffer and leffer up to the toppes: at each joynt with theleaves commeth forth, evenalmoftfrom. the bottome, one {mall naked branch, bearing manyflowers in tufts at the ends of them, which are rotind and yellow, fomewhatlike the ordinary fort, parted orcut in at the brimmes, into feverall pecces, having fome longyellowifh thredsin the middle: after the flowersare paft, come larger round heads thanin the former, whole pointat the endislong, and alittle crooked, containing within them {mall blacke feede: theroote isthicke and blackifh, with many ftrings and fibres thereat, but not havinganyknobbesthereonatall, j 7. Scrophularia Indica, Indian Figge-wort. The Indian Figge-wort,hath divers thicke but weake branches,lying all about upontheground,full of joynts, 3. Scrophularia cretica latifolia. Greatleafed Figge-wort of Candye. 5: Scrophulavia peregrina alcera. ateFiggeswort. Another ftrance great 8. Scrophularia : 2 Sambucifolio, Elder-like Figge-wort. |
