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Show cinestionsl Cu ar. Theatrum Botanicu a , D, vonticun ceruinnmofficinarum. sic Rhabarbarum (@ Ponticum The ie Rubarbe and Rhapantuck of China,and the thors, ’ um, cee awily Tr I B Ee Fe Ze ‘Rhasive Ponticam Enule folio latiore, rh cameneleardwee TRIBE.2. The Theater of Plants. Cuar.4. upperfide, and grayith or white and Wool ftanding onhis owneftalke, broadeft ly underneath, like therein untothe leaves of Elecampane, everyone at from among whichrifeth up,areafonable the bottome, and pointed atthe end, and dented about the edges; bigge round ftalke, about halfe a yard or 2 foote high, bearing at the toppe thereof onegreat {calye head, confi fting ofvery broad and loofe or open brow reprefenting a {mall Artichoke head ne feales; at the firlt Shews , but that the {cales doe not ftand clofé together, but are much more open and loofe,efpecially after the floweris palt; which ftandeth in the middle, compofed of many blewifh red or 6. Rhaponticum anguftifolium. The *~ Biecampane leated Rubarbe, Narrow purple threades ee thrumes, beh delicate £0 behold : after whic h comeblackith rotind and long feede, very like unto the feede of a Jacea or great Cenro rie, bur alittle longer and not altogether fo thicke : the root is fomewhat long and thicke, blackifh onthe outfide, and ofa infide, more loofé and {pongye than eithedeadithcolour on the r any Docke or great Centory, which hath in former times beene tifed amon g thé Apothecaries for Rha Ponticum, 6. Rha Ponticumaherum anguf tifolium, The narrower AA ‘ae Elecampane leafed Rubarbe, There is {mall difference betweene bed, but onely inthe leaves, which this and the lat deferjare longer then it, being as hoary whit alittle narrower and e undernéth and greene i above as the other; anda little uneve nly waved on thé édges = the head and flowersare alike bata littl roote, fo thatitis verylikely, the riatiralle larger, and {0 is thé place of their grow ings, caufeth the chiefeft difference bétw eene them. The Place, The firtt groweth about Lanfanna in onlyin gardens with us: the {econd Savoy as Tragas faith, but naturally uponthehils not far from Caria in Germany, as alfo nere wee bare ofi ! unto Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt, Damafco,and Tripoli in Syria, and from thence(as from theStore- ey oe to other Countries ¢ but now fince the paflage into the Eaft-Indies by Sea hath beene knowne, and tl o ne beene brought unto us that way, there hathlittle or none beene brought bythe Caravans over land, as in the a mertimes, “The forme of the roote, asall know that have feene and long withall for the moft part, yet there are fmaller and fhorter peeces,obferved it, is fomewhat great, round, an 1 aswellas the greaterthat cometogether « whofecolour on the outfide is not all alike, no more than the {ubftance within, for {till {ome is better coloured and founder than other : thebeft is firme and fomewhat heavy, not {pungyand light, fomewhat browne,but frefh on the outfide, without manyblackith (whichare fafpitious places,wher eoftentimes being brokenit is rotten, cor‘Tupted and naught, I fay many, for thebeft peeces have fometimes fome) {pots, which doe not runne farre inward, and if theydoe yer notwithttanding, the reft isexcellent good,and not to be refufed fora little bad, which mutt bee cutaway as notfit, or at lealt not fo fitto be ufed asthe better, which is very much difcolonred with ficfh-colo ured veines running thorowit, bitter in ta(te, and fomewhat aromatica ll in {mell, efpecially ifit bee freth, and caufing the fpitrle to be yellow, beinga litcle chewed in the mouth. fo manifeftly co befeene and difcerned in the rootes ofthe Thefe properties belonging to the tr neRubarbe,being former kinde, (excepting onelythofe things which the natute ofthe Climate produceth) mayfo reafonably perfwade anyofreafonable ingenuity, that the former fametrue Rubarbe withthis, anda very Dock proper tothe Country of China, and peradventure. to fome is the Countries befidesalf, And if tryall were other made thereof in fome hotrer and dryer Countries, of our forraine Plantations abroad (as I have oflate to divers ofthem put it in prattife) I verily beleeve, it would come mich nearer. to the other qualities ofthe true China Rubarbe than it doth, matethereof, wherein it is planted, This! thought good and is Wanting in ours, according to the heate and cli- tointimate here, both to fhewthe cor re{pondenc Rubarbe ofour Eneligh groweth, withcha eofthis thatianyfach plant as Afarehio/us ferteth t of the Indies, which is more probable tobe a Docket’ that: Country, it out for,both by figureand defcription: and befides further to excite more ofour Nation, if therebe anyinge fome nuity in them, to make the tryall by plantingit in {undry other the hotter Countries, what efectsit Will procure,and howmu chit will better our Englifh breeding’: The trne Rhapontic which hath formerly come tous with ke Rubarbe (and not that:falfe kind of the great Centory rootes) is-onely lefler and longer peeces ofthe Frootes the of the true Rubarbe, whofe figures fet forth with the other, 5. Rhaphonticum Exulie folio latiore. The broader Elecampari¢ leafed Rubarb, Thavéadjoyned this and Rext plant, for the names fake onely(as I faid before) and referred them: but to the becaufe Lobel hath fo named another place they might be more truely referred in myjudgement, ,and the Iaceus Knapweeds, or Centauriim majus oreat Centory, that is unto {cales ofthe head be different; bothfor the likeneffe of Howerand feede, although the ‘yet at ting fromthe roote, fomewhat large this time take the de(eri ion of theminthis place: It hathdiverfe leaves riand long, yet nothingfo largeas the leaves of Elecampane, greenifh onthe upper z Friburg in Switferland, and on the mountaines in Aufiria.. The grewin Thratia, and fromthence broug thirds it is reported ht to Pro/per Alpinus, at Padoa, froti whence fome A pothecarye s in Venice hadit « and Mafter Do@torMatthew Lifterjone being in Venice, obtained 3 or 4 feede of the Kings Phyfitions fomeother feedes that he procured; s, whichhe fent me with thefirft in this Land) they {pring upand with mé (as Ithinte grewand feeded within twoor three yeares,and from them,both friends,as well in England as beyond SeaI,and many other m The fourth groweth chiefely as I fayd in have bin farnifhed China they are held to be but one Coun tery) as Mdatt ,ot Cataya (for hielus his Perfian Merchant {aith,and in the Monntain es of Perfia, if ye will bee IZ leeve Trinc avel his Apothecary, turned:merchant, as is Se before declared: Thefift sroweth both on Moun tBaldas I ath enfor= med,neere Verona in Italy,and alfo upon the hils in Switferland, and in fome craggie places in Savoy; ftede thereof, was firft brought ont of Turkie though Lobe/ faith rhe , and that the laft was brought ont of zity, The Time, All thefe forts of Rabarbe doe grow Inne, and the feedeis ripe in Iuly. Thewith usin our gardens and doe flower, abou the beginning or middlé taken up, before the ftalkeand leaves rootes that are tobe dryed and keptall the yeare following, are not to of be October; for if they be taken cither be quite withered or gone, and that is notuntill about the middle or end of alittle before the leaves doe {pring, or when tt ¢y are {prung up,the willnot have halfe fo good colour in rootés them. Hor SSDN and all other mannét of druggesand {picés there tobe had, wherewith they is all eve neh The Names, The Greekes doe call the Docke s adzeSap Lapathum, from ran! HY, Or AxmiCey, excinanire, quod folior otkum aluum emolliat, lenit & exinani um dea thantothofe are wilde, and chiefel at, in Latine Rumex, which is rather attributed to thofe Dockes are fowen, y unto Sorrell, becanfe the leaves are ufed to be eaten or fucked, heate and quench the thirft, even.as to coole the Galen in 2 Alimentor, faith Laparh children doe fiackea teate, which wascalled among thé old Romans Rumem, um might becalled a wilde Beete, itis folike caufe the Beste is more pleafant than the Docke, noman but will more willing unto the garden Kinde, but beis called of molt men Lapathums ly eate the Beete. The firft here, fativum, Patientia & Rhabarbarums ted upon Mefues : The fecond Monachorum, meaning thofe that Hippolapathum rotundi folium, commento put a difference betweene it, den Docke, which is alfo called aud the former garEippolapathum, itis alfo called of of Clufius and (amerarius, Lobel and others Pleads Rha recentiorsim, Lapathum rotundifolium, and of Cordis Lnglifh ereat round leafed Dock, in hiffor, Plantar lib.4:foj.201 m, or baftard Rubarb, Thethird Alpin#s callet as Isaforefaid, it was brought h Rhaponticum Th acitum,becaule him out ofthat Country of Thracia, and in his tractate thereup meanes bee perfwaded that it is on he true footes while they were young as his Rubarbe, bur fo éntituleth it, and the rather becaufe he onelywill by no faw the figure fhewet Rhabarbaricu h, but not fo great as the trueRubarbe, neither do I think he pared awaytheou fuch as [have exprefled: ter agreat manywithus alfo have done,dryed barke orskin of the rootes tomake the infide appeare the fairer,but as the roots as they tooke them out ofthe gtound both blacke and {mall Mafter Dogtor ,and then they fhewed Ly/fer alfo fentit me by the namie of Footeis fo like,both in colour; forme,and Rhaponticnm vernm, but. becanfe the ERE. Rubarbe ofPontus, accountit quality unto the true Rubarb,and the {mal long roots unto the Rha PonRubarbe and Anguilara faith they are “ing chietelyin the greater or le(fer longtrue both one, the difference confipeeces, and tothe climate,which giveth the trne Rubarbe, of soe P ° |