¶ Nidus avis flore & caule 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉; an Pseudoleimodoron Clus. Hist. Rar. plant. pag. 270.
This riseth vp with a stalke about nine inches high, with a few smal narrow sharpe pointed short skinny leaues, set without order, very little or no∣thing at all wrapping or inclosing the stalke; ha∣uing a spike of floures like those of Orobanche, without tailes or leaues growing amongst them: which fallen, there succeed small seed-〈◊〉〈◊〉. The lower part of the stalke within the ground is not round like Orobanche, but slender or long, and of a yellowish white colour, with many small brittle roots growing vnderneath confusedly, wrapt or solded together like those of the common Nidus auis. The whole plant as it appeareth aboue ground, both stalkes, leaues, and floures, is of a violet or deepe purple colour. This I found wilde in the border of a field called Marborne, neere Habridge in Haliborne, a mile from a towne called 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Hampshire, being the land of one William Balden. In this place also groweth wilde the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 called Corona fratrum. Ioh. Goodyer.