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CHAP. IX - Of a plant like unto Periwinkle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2011

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This agreeth in its leaves with the strawberry, for it hath three cut leaves on the end of the stalks, and its flower hath commonly five leaves (seldom but four) and is like a strawberry flower; the stalks are round and rough, and so are the leaves.

On the stalk you see two leaves one against the other, of a differing figure and bigness, for one looketh like a hand and the other like a finger; the size also is different, for some have but three fingers, and others have more.

The flower is yellow, the leaves of the flower are roundish, how many I observed not: the root is woody, somewhat thick, with small fibers, a little scaly at the top; it tastes dry and astringent like tormentil.

In the herbals I could find none liker it than that which Lobelius calleth Fragaria Sylvestris minime Vesca sive sterilis, and in the universal Iferdumish Herbal, in the 70th chapter of the 17th book, by the name of Fragaria non fragisera vel non Vesca; yet it differs in the flower and leaf, for the leaf in my flowers is cut deeper, and the flower of his is white.

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A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland
Comprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de La Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland, and God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men
, pp. 52 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1855

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