¶ The Description.
THis rare and strange plant was sent to me from the French Kings Herbarist Robinus, dwelling in Paris at the signe of the blacke head, in the street called Du bout du Monde, in English, The end of the world. This herbe I planted in my garden, & in the beginning of May it came sorth of the ground, with small, hard & woodie crooked stalks: whereupon grow rough & sharpe pointed leaues, almost like Alliaria, that is to say, Sauce alone, or lacke by the hedge. Lobel and Dod. say, that the leaues are somewhat like Iuie; but in my indge∣ment they are rather like Alliaria, somewhat snipt about the edges, and turning them∣selues flat vpright, as a man turneth his hand vpwards when hee receiueth money. Vpon the same stalkes come forth small floures, consisting of soure leaues, whose outsides are purple, the edges on the inner side red, the bottomeyellow, & the middle part of a bright red colour, and the whole floure somewhat hollow. The root is smal, and creepeth almost vpon the vppermost face of the earth. It beareth his seed in ve∣ry small cods like Saracens Consound, (‡ to wit that of our Author 〈◊〉〈◊〉