¶ The Description.
1 BVtter-Burre doth in like manner bring forth floures before the leaues, as doth Colts∣foot, but they are small, mossie, tending to a purple colour; which being made vp into a big eare as it were, do quickly (together with the stem, which is thicke, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of sub∣stance, and brittle) wither and fall away: the leaues are very great like to a round cap or hat, called in Latine Petasus, of such a widenesse, as that of it selfe it is big and large enough to keepe a mans head from raine, and from the heate of the Sunne: and therefore they be greater than the leaues of the Clot-burre, of colour somewhat white, yet whiter vnderneath: euery stem beareth his leafe; the stem is oftentimes a cubit long, thicke, full of substance; vpon which standeth the leafe in the centre or middlemost part of the circumference, or very neere, like to one of the greatest Mush∣roms, but that it hath a cleft that standeth about the stem, especially when they are in perishing and withering away: at the first the vpper superficiall or outside of the Mushroms standeth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and when they are in withering standeth more in; and euen so the leafe of Butter-bur hath on the outside a certaine shallow hollownesse: the root is thicke, long, blacke without, white within, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 taste somewhat bitter, and is oftentimes worme-eaten.