¶ The Description.
1 THe greatest of the Goats stones bringeth forth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 leaues, ribbed in some sort like vnto the broad leaued Plantaine, but larger: the stalke groweth to the height of a cu∣bit, set with such great leaues euen to the top of the stalke by equall distances. The tuft or bush of floures is small and flat open, with many tender strings or laces comming from the middle part of those small floures, crookedly tangling one with another, like to the small tendrels of the Vine, or rather the laces or strings that grow vpon the herbe Sauorie. The whole floure consisteth of a purple colour. The roots are like the rest of the Orchides, but greater.
2 The male Goats stones haue leaues like to those of the garden Lilly, with a stalke a foot long, wrapped about euen to the tuft of the floure with those his leaues. The floures which grow in this bush or tuft be very small, in forme like vnto a Lizard, because of the twisted or writhen tailes, and spotted heads. Euery of these small floures is at the first like a round close huske, of the bignesse of a pease, which when it openeth there commeth out of it a little long and tender spurre or taile, white toward the setting of it to the floure, the rest spotted with red dashes, hauing vpon each side a small thing adioyning vnto it, like to a little leg or foot; the rest of the said taile is twisted crookedly about, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 downward. The whole plant hath a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or stinking smel or sauour like the smell of a Goat, whereof it tooke his name.
3 The female Goats stones haue leaues like the male kinde, sauing that they be much smal∣ler, hauing many floures on the tuft resembling the flies that feed vpon flesh, or rather ricks. The stones or roots, as also the sinell are like the former.