Description.
THis hath many reddish slender weak Branches rising from the Root, lying up∣on the ground, or rather leaning than standing upright, with many short Leaves that stand closer to the Stalks than Cinkfoyl doth (which this is very like) with the Footstalk encompas∣sing the Branches in several places, but those that grow next to the ground are set upon long Footstalks, each whereof are like the Leaves of Cinkfoyl, but somwhat longer and lesser, and dented about the edges, many of them devided but into five Leaves, but most of them into sevens whence it is also called Setfoyl; yet some may have six and some eight, according to the fertility of the Soyl: At the tops of the Branches stand diverse smal yellow Flowers consisting of five Leaves, like those of Cinkfoyl, but smaller. The Root is smaller than Bistort, somwhat thick, but blac∣ker without, and not so red within, yet som∣times a little crooked, having many blackish fibres thereat.