As an instance of his manner we may cite his account of the butterbur, of which his wood-cut is shown in Text-fig.
So, too, the butterbur of the river flowers before its great leaf comes.
The flower of butterbur, he writes, is the first to appear, before the plant or leaves.
Its chief haunts, among the butterbur (Petasites), are in the northern counties from Cheshire to Durham.