Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART THE FIRST VOYAGE INTO SPITZBERGEN AND GREENLAND
- PART THE SECOND CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION OF SPITZBERGEN
- PART THE THIRD
- CHAP. I Of the Plants of Spitzbergen
- CHAP. II Of a Plant with Aloe-Leaves
- CHAP. III Of small House-Leek
- CHAPTER IV Of Crow's-Foot
- CHAP. V Of Scurvy-grass
- CHAP. VI Of an Herb like Stone-Crap
- CHAPTER VII Of a Snake-weed
- CHAP. VIII Of an Herb like unto Mouse-ear
- CHAP. IX Of a plant like unto Periwinkle
- CHAP. X Of an Herb like a Strawberry
- CHAP. XI Of the Rock Plant
- PART THE FOURTH OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- LIST OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAP. VIII - Of an Herb like unto Mouse-ear
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART THE FIRST VOYAGE INTO SPITZBERGEN AND GREENLAND
- PART THE SECOND CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION OF SPITZBERGEN
- PART THE THIRD
- CHAP. I Of the Plants of Spitzbergen
- CHAP. II Of a Plant with Aloe-Leaves
- CHAP. III Of small House-Leek
- CHAPTER IV Of Crow's-Foot
- CHAP. V Of Scurvy-grass
- CHAP. VI Of an Herb like Stone-Crap
- CHAPTER VII Of a Snake-weed
- CHAP. VIII Of an Herb like unto Mouse-ear
- CHAP. IX Of a plant like unto Periwinkle
- CHAP. X Of an Herb like a Strawberry
- CHAP. XI Of the Rock Plant
- PART THE FOURTH OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- LIST OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
This herb bringeth forth smooth-edged leaves by pares, they are rough and like mouse-ear. The stalks are smooth at their first putting out, but they afterwards grow rough, where the uppermost leaves grow: they are roundish at the bottom. At the end of the stalk groweth a white flower out of its perianthium, the number of its leaves I did not tell, nor had I time enough to observe the seed. The root is round and slender, with small and tender fibers.
It seemeth this plant should belong unto the hairy or rough Alsine, and perhaps it may be the third or fourth kind of the hairy Alsine of Dodoneus, in the fifth book and tenth chapter of his first Latin Herbal, if the leaves of his were not cut, as these are not. I gathered this plant in the South Haven, on the 17th of July.
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- A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and GreenlandComprising 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 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010