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;%ecis.3lil<e Line feedflout of a blaclrilh lhining Colour.

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His wilde lcinde of Line or Flaxe hath Ieaues like thofe of garden Flaxe,but narrower; »

growing v pon round bright and fhining fprigs, a foot long, and floures like thfi Amanu‘

red Flax,but of awhire colour. The root is tough and fmall,with fome fibres annexé‘ thereto, ;t This is {omerimes found with deep blew floure s,with violet colored floures,and fome’ times with white,flrreal<ed with purple lines.

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2 The narrow and thin leafed kind ofLine is very like to the common Flax, but in all p°l“l: 1€frC’- The HOUYCS C0115“ Of flue leaues, which do foone fade and fall away hauing many flame- Procfieding from one root , ofa cubit high, befet with fmall leaues,yea leffear than thofe ofL"”“’M Pf!7'PIH'€d. _ ' i t

Our Author in the former edition game two figures vnder this onetitle ofLz'numfy1rwj/l”t:i ”””f‘7[”’”’>maki“8 them the fecond 8: third-but the defcription of the third was of the rough W03 leaned wilde Flaxe, whofe figure tlrereford we haue put in that place. Now the two whofe figmirs we;-,3 formherly here arg but varieties of one fpecies, and differ thus; the former of them (w. let: “;;i :21: 335:2: a;l':ler?t}l)1ee1ith!l:;t3)rheaIl‘Ie] 5222:; ‘*?E'§§r$E:°3£i‘i‘°§°’“ W *“""°;:2:“ra

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fer forth, hath more leaues, and thefe growing thicker together’: the flouge is gf a liglilt purplfiao flefh colour. 1 V

3 There is a kinde ofwilde flaxe which hath man y hairy branches, tiling vp from a very final! root,which doth continue many yeres without fowrng,increafing by roots into many other pl “£53 with fialks amounting to the height of one cubir, beletwith many rough and hairy broad 1eat;€_: at the top of the liallres do grow many blew floures,compa6’c offiue leahes, much greater and,” ’ rer than common Line or flexes which being paihthere fuccecd fmall fharpe pointed heads W

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4 C /mmr_e£z'2zzrm,of' fome called Lim;nzfilrucflreperpzfi/[am,and may be called. in ".ngl‘:. 2-. ' or dwarfewrlde F-lax»: for this word C}mm,2 ioyned to any Simple,d0th lignrrre, it . - . Wfarle krnde thereof 5 being fcaree an handful high,h-ath pale and yellow floures : r; i. — thmgs like vnto flargfo the iloures,leanes, fiallres, and all other parts thereof‘, fo-ure rim 2 than Lirmm. ' _

i 5 There is alfo growing wilde in this lringdome a fmallkinde ofwildc Flax, which i take To be the Lzflaaarpos defcribed by Tim/zm,and mentioned by Came2'4rz'zrs,by the name O5Lii2rr:fi;';'[r:'£--

-~”"’P’€r7z’5’m c.wdzca;2tzézzsfiorzbzrs; s,/Irma 1529, when I firfl found it, in a Iournall written of Inch

plants as I gathered, I let this by the name of Liimmfylwyfrepzifl/[um candida floriézrs 5 which my

mellil M” Jo/m Goodycr l‘eeing,he"told me he had long knowne the plant,and refer’d it to the Lines :

bllt there were fome which called it in Englifh Mil-mountain,and vfed it to purge ,and of late he 3th lent me this hiftorie ofit,which you {hall haue as I receiued it from him.

Lizmmfylrug/f;*e Czztbarticum. Mil—m0untaine

_It rifeth vp from a {mall white threddy crooked root, fometimes with one, but molt commonly “"5 fine or fix or more round fl;all<s,about a foot or nine inches high,ofa brown or reddilh color,‘ well’ fiall-: diuiding it felfe neere the top,or from the middle vpward,into many parts or branches Ola greener colour than the lower part of the fialke: the leaues are f mall,fmooth,of coiour green,

Of the bignelfe oi Lentill leaues,and haue in the middle one rib or finew,and no more that may he

Perceiued,and grow alongft the flzalke in very good order by couples one oppofit againffr the oth er: 3‘ She tops of the {mall branches grow the floures,of a white colounconfiliing of fine frnall aP‘°°€,the naileswhereof are yellow : in the infide are placed finall rhort chiues alib of a yellow 9010“ 5 after which come vp little knobs or buttons, the top whereof when the feed is ripe diuides it _lfe into flue parts - wherein is contained fmall fmooth flat flipperie yellow feedzwhen the {€661 is ‘H36 the herb periflrhth :the whole herb is of abitter talhand herby fmell. It groweth plentifuin ;y“'1 the vnmanured inclofures of I-Iampfhire,on chalky downes,and on Purfl€¢I‘- M18 511 Efilixs and

§:énS“f“[);l?ntle1r€.r places. It rifeth forth of the ground at the beginning of the fpring, and floureth all

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