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2 THe great Hawke-weed hath large and long leaues spred vpon the ground, in shape like those of the Sow-thistle: the stalk groweth to the height of two cubits, branched into sundry armes or diuisions, hollow within as the yong Kexe, reddish of colour; whereupon do grow yellow floures thicke and double, which turne into Downe that flieth away with the winde when the seed is ripe. The root is thicke, tough and threddy.
2 The small Hawke-weed, which of most writers hath been taken for yellow Diuels-bit, hath long leaues 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cut about the edges, with some sharpe roughnesse thereon like vnto Sow-thi∣stle. The stalkes and floures are like the former: the root is compact of many small strings, with a small knob, or as it were the stumpe of an old root in the middle of those strings, cut or bitten off; whereupon it tooke his name Diuels bit.
3 Blacke Hawke-weed hath very many long iagged leaues, not much vnlike to those of Bucks horne, spred flat and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 abroad vpon the ground, which the picture cannot expresse as is requi∣site, in so little roome: among which rise vp many stalkes slender and weake, the floures growing at the top yellow and very double: it hath also a threddy root.
‡ Our Author formerly gaue three figures, and so many descriptions of this small 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which I haue contracted into two; for the onelydifference that I can finde is, that the one hath the root as it were bitten off, with the leaues lesse cut in; the other hath a root 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and fibrous as the former; the leaues also in this are much more finely and deepe cut in: in other re∣spects there is no difference. ‡
4 Succory Hawke-weed hath many long and large leaues spred vpon the ground, deepely cut on both sides almost to the middle rib; from which rise vp small stalkes and floures like those of the lesse Dandelion, but lesser. The root consisteth of many small threddy strings.
5 Endiue Hawke-weed hath many broad leaues, indented about the edges very like vnto Gar∣den Endiue, but narrower; among which rise vp stalkes a foot or more high, slender, hairy, and brit∣tle: the floures are yellow, and grow at the top double, and thick set in a scaly huske like the Knap∣weed or Iacea, hauing great thicke and threddy roots. ‡ This hath a stalke sometimes more, and otherwhiles lesse rough, with the leaues somtimes more cut in, more long and narrow, and againe otherwhiles more short and broad. ‡
6 Long rooted Hawk-weed hath many broad leaues spread vpon the ground, sleightly & con∣fusedly indented about the edges, with somewhat a bluntish point; among which leaues spring vp strong and tough stalks a foot and halfe high, set on the top with faire double yellow floures much like vnto a Pisse-abed. The root is very long, white and tough.
7 Sharpe Hawk-weed hath leaues like those of Languebeefe or Ox-tongue, but much narro∣wer, sharpe about the edges, and rough in the middle: the stalks be long and slender; set with the like leaues, butlesser: the floures grow at the top, double and yellow: the root is tough & threddy.
† 8 Crooked or falked Hawkeweed hath leaues like vnto the garden Succory, yet much smaller, and lesse diuided, slightly indented on both sides, with tender, weake, and crooked stalkes; whereupon doe grow floures like those of Lampsana, of a blacke, or pale yellow colour, and the roote small and threddy. The seedes are long, and falcated, or crooked, so that they somewhat resemble the foot or clawes of a bird, and from these seeds the plant hath this Epithite, Falcatum, or croo∣ked in maner of a Sicle or Sithe.
‡ 9 This in leaues is not much vnlike the last described, but that they are somewhat broa∣der, and lesse cut in, hauing little or no bitternesse nor milkinesse, the stalkes are some foot high commonly bending, or falling vpon the ground; the floures are small and yellow, and seeme to grow out of the middest of the seed, whenas indeed they grow at the top of them, the rest being but an empty huske which is falcated like that of the last described. This figure we giue you was taken before the floures were blowne, so that by that meanes the falcated or crooked seed vessels are not exprest in this, but you may see there manner of growing by the former. ‡
10 The broad leaued 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hawkeweed hath broad, long, smooth leaues, deepely 〈◊〉〈◊〉 toward the stalke, resembling the leaues of the greatest Sowthistle. The stalke is 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and spungious, full of a milkie iuice, as is the rest of the plant, as also all the other of his 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the floures grow at the top of the stalkes, double and yellow.
11 The narrow leaued mountaine Hawkeweed hath leaues like those of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 described, but narrower. The stalkes be fat, hollow, and full of milke: the floures grow at the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 double, and yellow of colour. The root is small and threddy.
There is a small mountaine Hawkeweed hauing leaues like vnto the former, but more deepely cut about the edges, and sharper pointed; the stalkes are tender and weake; the floures be double and yellow like those of Pilosella, or great Mouse-care; the root is small and threddy.