- BISHOP TANNER.)
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Thorowax beares a pretty little yellow flower, not much unlike the
blowing of a furze that growes so common on the downes, close to the
ground: the bees love it extremely. (There is a mistake in thorowax,
or perfoliata; for that rises to a good stature, and hath no such
flower. I suppose the plant you mean is trifolium corniculatum, or
bird's-foot trefoil.-J. RAY.)
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The right honorable James, Earle of Abingdon, tells me that there are
plenty of morillons about Lavingtons, which he eates, and sends to
London. Methinkes 'tis a kind of ugly mushroom. Morillons we have from
Germany and other places beyond sea, which are sold here at a deare
rate; the outer side is like a honeycombe. I have seen them of nine
inches about They grow near the rootes of elmes.
Poppy (papaver) is common in the corn fields; but the hill above
Harnham, by Salisbury, appeares a most glorious scarlet, it is so
thick there.
"Ilia soporiferum, parvas initura penates,
Colligit agresti lene papaver humo.
Dum legit oblito fertur gust?sse palato,
Longamq{ue} imprudens exsoluisse famem". - OVID. FAST. lib. iv.
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In a ground of mine called Swices (which is a neck of land at the
upper end of the field called Shatcomb) growes abundantly a plant
called by the people hereabout crow-bells, which I never saw any where
but there.
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