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luces [here hath been little or nothing at all left in writing concer-i

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Rench Corne-flagge hath (mall ftiffe

leaues ribbed or chamferediwith long 4 nerues or ﬁnues running through the famc,in lhape like thofe ofthe {mall P-loure den lucc, or the blade of a fword, {harpe pointed, of an ouerworne green colour, among» which rifeth vp a ftif brittlle {talk two cubits high,w.rerupon do grow in comly order many faire purple flours gaping like thofe of Snapdragon , or not rnuelr differing from the Fox-gloue cal led in Latine Dzgiralir. After them come round knobby feed- veffels full of ch-aflie feed;/ery light, of a brown reddifh colour. The root conﬁﬂs of two bulbes one fet vpon the other 5 the vppermofl: whereof in the beginning of the {pring is leﬂ'er,and more full of juice ; the lower greater, but more loofe and lithie,which fhortly after perifheth.

2 Italian Corn-ﬂag hath long narrow leaues with many ribs or nerues running through the fame: the [talk is lliffe and brittle,wherupon do grow ﬂoures ‘orderly placed vpon one {ide of the fcallgwhereas the precedent hath his ﬂoures pla—. ced on both {ides of the Ptallgin fhape 8: colour‘ like the former, as are alfo the roots, but {eldom

- feen one aboue another,as in the former.

3 There is a third fort ofCorne-ﬂag,agreeing with the lalt defcribed in euery point, fame that the ﬂoures of this are of a pale colounas it were

‘ _ _ ' betweene white and that which we call Maidens blulh. ' 10 1 4_ This water Sword—ﬂag, defcribed by Clufiw in his Cur.Poﬁ. hath Ieaues about a fpanne “§.thiclte and hollow,with a partition in their middles,like as we fee in the cods of {lock Gilly- Whﬁliand the like: their colour is green,and talle fweet,l'o that they are an acceptable food to the — 6 uclts ducking to the bottom of the water 5 for they fometimes lie fome ells vndet water ; Ilotwithllanding is ouer-topt bythe llallce, which fprings vp from among thefe leaues,__an‘d is ﬂoures of colour-white,larger than thofe of S rock-Gillouers:but in that hollow part which next the ftalke they are of a blewifh colounalmoil in fhape refembling the ﬂoures of the C om agayet not abfolutely like them.They conlilt ofﬁue leaues,whereof the two vppermolt are reﬂe— ° toward the ﬂalke : the three other being broad er hang downward. After the ﬂoures there fol. W T0l1nd pointed velfels ﬁlled with red feed. It ﬂoures at the end of Iuly. in t was found in fome places OfVVCpE—Fl'lfCi3ﬂd,by lab» Dortmm a learned A pothecarie of Gro-J ﬁd:c’»S- It growes in waters which haue pure grauell at the bottom,and that bring forth no plant be‘-

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P aces ef indes of Co_rne-ﬂags grow in medowes and in earable grounds among come, 1!] many ti ° I‘31.Va?f$31_f01n the parts of Franeebordering thereunto. Neither are the ﬁelds of Au-

g “and oraura without them as Cordmxvriteth VVe haue teat lent of them in ourLo'ndOﬂ ‘"dens,ef‘ i ’ ' g P y

pecially for the garnifhing and decking them vp with their feemlyﬂoures.

T5 '1'" .’ Their’ ﬂoure from May to the end of.Iuhre. 6 We

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