¶ The Description.
1 THis wilde Hempe, called Canna∣bis Spuria; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Bastard Hempe, hath smal slender hoary and hai∣rie stalkes a foot high, beset at euery ioynt with two leaues, smally indented about the edges somewhat like a Nettle. The floures grow in rundles about the stalkes, of a pur∣ple colour, and sometimes also white: the root is little and threddy.
2 There is likewise another kind of wild Hempe which hath 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stalkes and leaues like the former, but the floures are greater, gaping wide open like the floures of Lamium, or dead Nettle, whereof this hath been taken for a kinde: but hee that knoweth any thing may easily discerne the sauor of hempe from the smell of dead Nettle. The floures are of a cleare and light carnation colour, declining to purple.
3 There is also another kinde of wilde Hempe like vnto the last before mentioned, sauing that it is smaller in each respect, and not so hairy. The lease is somewhat rounder: the root small and threddy: the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is lar∣ger, being purple or white, with a yellow spot in the inside.