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Show 1226 Cuar.2, Theatrun Botanicum,. Tripets. more leaves thenthe former,the feede of them bothis fmalland fomewhatlikeunto Linfeede contained in round buttons. tins te. : 5 ‘ Thisal(o is found to have fomediverfity bothin the ftalks growing more apright,or él{e lying upon the ground, and alfo in the flowers, fome having the white threds in the middie tipt with blacke, that it maketh the whole flower feeme to be blacke orelfe with pale yellow. The Place andTime. ; ~ The firlt fort groweth more ufually under hedges, and upon dry bankes of ditchés or the like, and flowreth a moriethearlierthen the other,thatis in April/,the other is more commoninthefields of Corne,. and elfewhere in the more open and champion grounds,and flowreth notuntill 4227 or Jane. The Names, Tragus callcth it Eufrafia gramen,and Lonicerus Enfrapfia major, Camerarins Gramenfloridum, Mattthiolus Grg2 men alterum, Fuchfins,Dedoneys and others, Gramen Lencanthemum, Dodoneus and Lobel call it Holoftium Rachy, whotook it tobe the Holoftium of Diofcorides,Dodonews alfo referreth it to the €:rataogonon ofDiofcorides,which he faich was alfocalled AZelampyrum, Baubinus calleththem both Caryophyllys arvenfis,glaberflore majore G minoa vi, but why he fhould reterre them tothe Caryophylli 1 {ee little reafon, I would thinke they fhould better agree with the Chickweedes: The Germanes callthem Augen troftgralf, and the Dssch Ooghen troofgras,and wein Engs lifh Stichwort, : 4 The Verthes; The Theater ofPlants. Cuar.2, flainedby thebuthesamong whith it gtoweth, havingtwo.long 4. Melampyrum, Blicke Wheates and narrow léaves fet at‘each foyuty“broadelt next ro the ftalke, andpoinced at the end,(omewhat roughalfo on theunderfide,if it be drawne downewards-: /the téppes ofithe:ftalkesand brans ches, dre fev with tuftsoflleaves and:flowers together, which be- ing growndate feparated;! twoflowers onely Itanding/at a joynt with the like leaves fet with.clem ,but fhorcer andi {maller, the flowers are long round and hollow;¢aping open atthe end, and Rtandinglooking alone way, ofa pale yellaw colourand: white’ together, but grow ycllower intime; yecin fome ofa blewith onpurplith colour,either deeper or palet,cach ftanding in.a {mall greenebuske, wherein afterwards grow.round-cupsor veflels; containing brownith feede,not much unlike to-wheate:the roote is compotédof{mall «threds.> Igive: you hese thefigureof anos ther fortofthis Cow Wheare} which}, found-among Do@or aes papers,without defeription and.therefore can frame none Incega tam thereto. It is much commended by fometo cleere thé eyes of dimneffe,or filmes that béginne to grow overthé fight, to drop fome of the jaice intothem, Itis no leffe accounted: of to helpe fticches in the fides, cto drinke the pouther thereof with white wine. Ocher propertiesthis is faid'to‘hold; but they are onely taken from Dio/corides his Hom Loftenm, which whetherthis be itis much doubted,andtherefore,the propertics, whereof one is that Déo/corides faithit is fharpe,is not foundin this herbe. Trrsets, tome,halfe ayard high or morevery weake and flender, and fu< 4 2. Crateogonumflore vario, » o\Another party colduted Gow. Whéate: This other growethlikerhe former,butthe ftalk.is moré.reddi(h, and foate the leaves.alfojand more finely dented upwards, where the {pikes or wuts of flowers are of areddith or blufh;colour, before they {preade opensand then thew,the.flowérs to be yeliow, about rhe month or'gaping place,andithe reft parplith red. } Cap, II, 3» Crateogownm in¢ognitum, Melampyrum & Crataogonon. Blacké Wheatesand Cow Wheate! Hefe two names although they feeme to bé different, yet aré the plants referred unto thém} fiot fo muchdiffering one from another, but that I may joyne them both in one Chapter, their yarietiesto be explained areas followeth. iS : i é 1. Crataogonum vulgare, The common Cow wheate? This that is moft frequent in our Land, hath am hairy {qQuarefalke, branched almoft from the bot: 1. Crateogonum vulgare. The common Cov Wheate, BNE wy WSs : SREY Sd %. Crateogosum fore varia e Cow Wheate, : Another party coloured $s Bfelampyruia perpafilivit Jateur: *. "Small blacke Wheate, 3< Crateogonon lutenm anguftifolisas. Yellow. narrow leafed Cow Wheate. » This differethlittle from the former, bur that the ftalkes:being red,the leaves are lorigand nar- row, likeunto Linaria or Tode-flaxc, withour any-cut or dent atthe edges, the flowers are long.gapingand hollow, of a pale yellow co+ Idur.,| eu in, along {pike and looking for- ward, ue ; >, : ; 4g Melampyrum, . BlackeWheate, , This in, the forme being fo like the reft,thew- eth that: it is of the fame family, forbuc chatit groweth gréater-inthe.Cornefields, whereit , -mok delightech,and theleaves be shore and nar>* row |