The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 HErbe Two pence hath a small and tender root, spreding and dispersing it selfe farre within the ground; from which rise vp many little, tender, flexible stalkes trailing vpon the ground, set by couples at certaine spaces, with smooth greene leaues some∣what round, whereof it tooke his name: from the bosome of which leaues shoote forth small ten∣der foot-stalkes, whereon do grow little yellow floures, like those of Cinkefoile or Tormentill.

2 There is a kinde of Money woort or herbe Two pence, like the other of his kinde in each re∣spect, sauing it is altogether lesser, wherein they differ.

‡ 3 There is another kinde of Money-woort which hath many very slender creeping bran∣ches which here and there put forth fibres, and take root againe: the leaues are small and round, standing by couples one against another; and out of the bosomes come slender foote-stalkes

bearing prety little whitish purple floures consisting of fiue little leaues standing together in man∣ner of a little bell-floure, and seldome otherwise: the seed is small, and conteined in round heads. This growes in many wet rotten grounds and vpon bogges: I first found it Anno 1626, in the Bisho∣pricke of Durham, and in two or three places of Yorkshire, and not thinking any had taken notice thereof, I drew a figure of it & called it Nummularia pusilla flore ex albo purpurascente; but since I haue found that Bauhine had formerly set it forth in his Prodromus by the name of Nummularia flore purpurascente. It growes also on the bogges vpon the heath, neare Burnt wood in Essex: it floures in Iuly and August. ‡

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1 Nummularia. Herbe Two pence.

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‡ 3 Nummularia flore purpurascente. Purple floured Money-woort.