Clowns Woundwort.
♄ Description.
IT groweth up somtimes to three or four Foot high, but usually about two Foot, with square, green, rough Stalks, but slender, joyn∣ted somwhat far asunder, and two very long, and somwhat narrow, dark green Leavs, bluntly dented about the edges thereat ending in a long point, The Flowers stand toward the tops compassing the Stalks at the Joynts with the Leavs and end likewise in a spiked ••op, having long and much open gaping hoods of a Purplish red colour, with whitish spots in them, standing in somwhat rough Husks, wherin afterwards stand blackish round Seeds. The Root is composed of many long strings, with some tuberous long Knobs gro∣wing among them, of a pale yellowish or whi∣tish colour, yet at some times of the year these knobby Roots in many places are not seen in the Plant: The whol Plant smelleth somwhat strongly.
Place.
It groweth in sundry Counties of this Land both North and West, and frequently by Path sides in the Fields neer about London, and within three or four miles distance about it, yet it usually grows in or neer Ditches.
Time.
It Flowreth in June and July, and the Seed is ripe soon after.