The Description.

1. There is often found among the Mushrooms a certain kind of excrescence consisting of a jelly or soft substance, like that of the Mushrooms, and therefore it may the more fitly be here inserted: it riseth forth of the ground in form like unto Orobanche, or the Broomrape, and also in substance, having a tender, thick, tuberous, or mis-shapen body, consisting as it were of scales like teeth (whereof it took his name) of a dusty shining colour tending to purple. The stalk riseth up in the middle, garnished with little gaping hollow flowers like those of Satyrion; on the outside of an overworn whitish colour: the whole plant resembleth a rude form of that jelly, or slimy matter, found in the fields, which we call the falling of stars: the root is small and tender.

2. There is also another sort hereof found, not differing from the precedent: the chief difference consisteth in that, that this plant is altogether lesser; and hath a root diversely divaricated like Coral, white of colour, full of juice, and without any fibres annexed thereto; in other respects like.

The Place.

These plants do grow at the bottom of Elm trees, and such like, in shadowy places: I found it growing in a lane called East-Lane, upon the right hand as ye go from Maidstone in Kent unto Cock's Heath, half a mile from the town; and in other places thereabout: it doth also grow in the fields about Croydon, especially about a place called Groutes, being the land of a worshipful gentleman called Mr Garth: and also in a wood in Kent near Crayford, called Rowhill, or Rough-hill: it groweth likewise near Harwood in Lancashire, a mile from Whalley, in a wood called Talbot Bank.

The Time.

They flower in May and June.

The Names.

There is not any other name extant, more than is set forth in the description.

The Temperature and Virtues.

There is nothing extant of the faculties hereof; either of the ancient or later writers: neither have we anything of our own experience; only our country women do call it Lungwort, and do use it against the cough, and all other imperfections of the lungs: but what benefit they reap thereby I know not; neither can any of judgement give me further instruction thereof.