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¶ The Description.
1 EArth-nut or Kipper-nut, called after Lobelius, Nucula terrestris, hath small euen crested stalkes a foot or somewhat more high: whereon do grow next the ground leaues like those of Parsley, and those that doe grow higher like vnto those of Dill; the white floures doe stand on the top of the stalkes in spokie rundles, like the tops of Dill, which turne into small seed, growing together by couples, of a very good smell, not vnlike to those of Fennell, but much smaller: the root is round, knobbed, with certaine eminences or bunchings out; browne without, white within, of a firme and sollid substance, and of a taste like the Chesse-nut or Chest∣nut, whereof it tooke his name.
2 There is also another Earth-nut that hath stalkes a foot high, whereon doe grow iagged leaues like those of English Saxifrage, of a bright greene colour: the floures grow at the top of the branches, in small spokie tufts consisting of little white floures: the root is like the other, bul∣bous fashion, with some few strings hanging at the bottome, of a good and pleasant taste. ‡ This differs from the former, in that the leaues are larger and greener: the root also is not so far within the ground, and it also sends forth some leaues from the bulbe it selfe; whereas our common kind hath only the end of a small root that carries the stem and leaues vpon it, fastned vnto it as you see it exprest in the former figure. ‡