Description.
THe greater common Ragwort hath many large and long dark green Leavs lying on the ground, very much rent and torn on the sides into many pieces, from among which rise up somtimes but one, and somtimes two or three square or crested blackish or brownish Stalks three or four foot high, somtimes bran∣ched bearing diverse such like Leavs upon them at several distances unto the tops, where it brancheth forth into many Stalks bearing yellow Flowers, consisting of diverse Leaves set as a Pale or Border, with a dark yellow thrum in the middle, which do abide a great while, but at last are turned into Down, and with the smal blackish gray Seed are carried away with the wind. The Root is made of many Fibres, whereby it is firmly fastned into to the ground, and abideth many yeers.
There is another sort hereof different from the former only in this, That it riseth not so ••igh; the Leavs are not so finely jagged, nor of so dark a green colour, but rather somwhat whitish, soft and woolly, and the Flowers u∣sually paler.