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Ater Crow-foot hath flender branches trailing far abroad, whereupon grow leaues Vndcr V the wategmolt finely cut and jagged like thofe of Carnmomill : thofe aboue the Wat“ are fomwhat round,indented about the edges,in forme not vnlike the fmal tender leaues of the Mallow,but lefler : among which doe grow the floures, fmall,and white ofcolollltmadc 0 fine little leaues,with fome yellowneffc in the middle like the floures of the Strawberrysand 0 3 fweet iinell : after which there come round rough and prickly knaps like thofe of the field Cf°W' foot. The roots be very {mall hairy firings. _ c :l". There is fomtimes to be found avarietie of this,with the leaues lefl'e,and diuided rnt0 ‘hf? parts after the maner of an Iuy 1ea‘fe,and the floures alfo are much lefTer,but white of colour,W1 I " a yellow bottom. I queftion whether this be not the Rammculws hederaeeur D4lefe/aampy,]’4_<;'- ‘°-7? ' of the HijZ‘.Lzzgd, ;t _ e ; A , ‘~ 2 There is another plant growing in the water,of fmal moment,yet notamiffe to be remfiglfl: brcdrcalled f1edeml.aeaqeatz‘e4,or water luy 5 the which is very rare to finde, . neuetthelefle I folln .6 once in a ditch by Bermondfey houfe neere London, and neuer elfewhere: it both fmall thred :6. firings in {read of roots and flalks, rifing from the bottome ofthe water to the top, wh_€r€U1“‘}aO mined {mall leaues fwimming or floting vpon the water§tria'n‘gled or three cornered like tho 6 . barren Iuy,or rather noble Liuerwornbarren of floures and feeds.

:1: 3 Stellaria dquatim: Water Stareworn

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3 There is likewife another herb of {mall reckoning that fl ria zzqzmtim or water Starworgwhich hath many fmall gm fly bottom of the water,vnto the vpper face of the fameswhereu nifh or herby colour. 1 I take this Ste//aria to be nggzlmg “U103 in every ditch,with long narrow leaues at each joigt,and halfe a dozen or more 1Y“‘3 C10 6 together at the top of the water,in fafhion of a Pear : in which {hape it may be teen in the end Of ' Pm! and b°g"““.“z‘5 ~°f_M3Y- I l1auenOtY€F‘qbfe[u€d either the iflonre or feed‘ thefC0f- i q W95

Owhvpon the water’, called 5“’!'/'4" items like threds cornming from C 6, P0“ grow fmal double flours 0” Eff’; elfe buta water C hickewC€dg§‘OW1

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The Place. » ‘ V Water Crowfoot growes by ditches and fhallow fpringgafld in 03135 mam 39d'P1“fl‘Y Place” ‘ _ The Time. I‘fl0ureth in Aprill and May,and fomtimes in Iune. _ 11 The N mm. - _ _“ , _ Water Crow-foot is called in Latine Rammculus aqmztilis, and Polyambmum faqm:tzle:rn~En_glr(h, Water C1-ow.foo; and white, water Crow-foot. Molt Apothecaries and Herberrfis doe_errop1oufly name if H epatiea elqtt/4t1'C4 and Hepatica 4154 - and with greater error they mix it in medicines rn_ftead Qfficperica 4164 or graffelof Parnaffus. 1: Iltnow none that commit this great error here mentronedg err er haue Ikqowne gigher the one or the other euer vfed or appointed in medicine with vs in n “E1-‘ind 5 though 1;,,,1’,,,,,w,. (from whom our Author had this and molt elfe) blame hrs _cO1lntfYy- leflfor this mifiake and error. _ ~ ‘ * e ‘ ‘ or The Temperature and Vemm. Water Crow.foot is hot,and.like to common Grow—foot. -

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