GOLDEN MAIDEN HAIR
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Culpeper, Nicholas
To the former give me leave to add this, and I shall say no more but only describe it to you, and for the virtues refer you to the former, since whatever is said of them, may be also said of this.
Descript.] It has many small, brownish, red hairs, to make up the form of leaves growing about the ground from the root; and in the middle of them, in Summer, rise small stalks of the same colour, set with very fine yellowish green hairs on them, and bearing a small gold, yellow head, less than a wheat corn, standing in a great husk. The root is very small and thready.
Place.] It grows in bogs and moorish places, and also on dry shady places, as Hampstead Heath, and elsewhere.