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Show Cu AP. 7° Theatrum Botanicum. 2. Soldanella uulg. Co major mariting, Tris k,2, 3. Soldanella Alpina majoh. The greater Sea Bindweede, = The greater Mouncaine Soldanella. iZEN\ yy) Ew oo ASS A Cuar. IX, Hereare diverfe forts of Bindeweedes or Bellflowers, fome greater, others leffer, of the greater in this Chapter, whereof {ome of them have beene made mention by former anthors, butothers not AY ea RI by any before. g y : “ipa Da Azsrens fivecerulens major, The greater blew Bindeweedeor Bell flower. This geater Bindeweederifeth up with many winding branches, climing and {preading on what= foeverit cantake hold on,that {tandethneereit, windingit felfealwayes contrary tothe courfe of the Sunne, on thefe branches grow manyfaire, great, round leaves, pointed at the end; ofa fad greene pera at - joynt, wherethe leaves are {et come forth flowers on pretty long foote ftalkes, two or three.fet together, = ich at the firft are long and pointed, almoft like finger, but being blowen openare like great bells ce : 908 open mouthes orbrimmes, made ofoné whole leafe, endingin five corners and foulded or plaited fo voati sw) at the bottome,ftanding in {mall greene huskes : thefe flowers are of apale blac colour being oe udde : =bsg ing open are ofa verydeepe azure colour,or blue,tending toa purple,thefoulds orplaites — ape or - er, which openfor the moft part in the evening, abiding foallnight and the next morning, untill t oe pete clofeth them, never opening againe:after thefe Aowers are pat,the ftalkes of them bend downewards, and beare within the huskethree or foure blacke feedes: the rootes are {tringy,. and perifh every yeare. iad 2, Convoluulus major purpureusfive trifolius. The greater purple Bell fower with cornere “a es 4 The growingofthis Bellfloweris all one with the former,the chiefeft difference confifting in the leafe ep is three cornered, and in the flower whichis deeper, tending toa deepepurple violet colour, and more reddith in the plai ttome, aie Ree 3. Convoluulus trifolius Virgineus, Blew Bell flower of Virginia. tte ear SS \ qSy ‘This Bell flowér or Bindeweedeclimeth and fpreadeth onpales; &cs like unto the former; having leaves very, 1. 2. 3. Convolvulus caruleys majorfolio returido five Nil Avicenne,trifolio vulgaris ¢9 Pirgineus. each ofthém endingin alongpoint, which maketh the head inthe middle, with a pricke or point at the end flower feemé to havefive leavés, having a round greene thereof’: the flower is of faire blew colour, in fome per or paler, or white as nature lilteth, without any{me ll at all: the middle head after the flowerjs fallen,r deetobealong round pod,bearing that pointell it had at the end thereof, whereinis contained {mall greenifh ifeth the roote hath manyfibres, fhooting from a long round head or roote. There isaleffer fort hereof as feedes faith, little differing in {ander one from the other Clufins but in the greatneffe or {malneffe. The Place: Thefirft growethon our owneSea coalts,in manyplaces plentifully, as well as in other srowethas well wilde in defert places,as in gatdens in Syriaas Rauwo fis faith,as alfo Countryes, The other dome of Naples, as Imperazus faith: the laft growethon the {nowychillsin Hungary ason the coafts of the king(lufius faith, P The two former flowe The Time, r toward the end of Summer, and ¢! heir fedeis ripe in 4uguft: the laftin turall places flowreth notuntill July or Anguf thé nat, asthe frow melteth fooner orlater, but in Aprill in Gardens, The Names, The firft is taken of all writers forth e moft part, to be the Kecutn Garacsta Braffica marina of Diafcorides, all the markes and notes thereof agrec ing with this: yetit hathno refem blance unto any kinde of Colew as the name fhould import, yet many ort, autho rs doe call it Braffica marina, as Matthiol rarins,D odonaus, and others, us Cordus, Gefner, Camea and Tabermo ntanus,and others, Bashi {ome of them alfo éall it Soldana and Soldanella, as well as Lobel, Cafalpinns nuscalleth it, Soldanella marit ina minor > wein Englith doe naines, as fome call has oa e call it by diverfe t Ros Latine name, others us marinus, Sea Withwina more prope rly in my judgement Convolvn= or Sea Bindweede, becay{m > wind like the finall kinde of Bindweede, felvec C and he ie f ne ie . he§ coafts y neereth nefle of the flowers. and fome alfo callit Tufila d ,asalfa o Seas Bellsa for thestke, co marina Sea Fole-fe Seae likeTheiother Rewwolfins calleth Braff : a » 5¢a Fole-fo ote, for the refemblance of the leaves, ica Marine ens, as it is extant in th Appendi nenfis; and Jmperatus calleth g it, dite major,and hath fet forth the Convoluulus marinus nofters BS cabinaeniece figure thereof in his CMarthjo neal Pode lus : the laft is called by moft fome Lunaria minor Ceeru lea, in Englifh Mountain Sold anella Alpina,and by e Soldanella, (but not ALou cante itis no ntai Bindeweede ) or elle Blew Lunary or ALoone wort, The Vertues, ed ee ne Biedowceds as iberbd arh berae 3 se Cverypattthereof as Dis/ corides faith, isan enemyto eet pe “i ‘yverypowerfu the ftomacké, being fharp lly, and violently,and there fore notfit to be given,but unto {tro ein tafte, and rest mae foun - inthe ng and robuftuous broth offa ubarbe, iscommended byt n to hinder the violence of its wor king: the decoction fome tohelpe the Dropfie and Rubarbe, anda few Cubebes drunke Timp inwine, is of thelike operation: anie, and the powderof the the juyce alfo not prefled, bur 5 The Convolvuulus red Bell penndtus ower ofAmexicanus. Amesiex: Thegreat blew, Bindweede, with a. roundand tripareed leafe vulgar, and that of Virginia, AWNUD: LALHD ah €s with buttiffuingforth irene meter ceillin ofitows whenicrketh it is broken, and dryed, and afterwards relented, and layde aes gathered, that difeafe (che Dropfie I meane) mightily, drawing Convoluuli five Volubiles majores, The great Bindewéedes or Bellflowers. ¢| eet = (Cuar. 9. forthithole watery humors : diverfe alfo doeufe to eate the greene herbe fafting, to. purge them, even asothers doe Scurvie graffe : the powderof dryed hearbeis of very good ufe, to bring or raileup flefh in deepe woe hollow Vicers, helping alfo to healethe them. The Mountaine Soldanella, is ofa drying or binding property, g00 to confolidate woundsand helpe the Sciatica and Goute. MA AA Tr IBE.2. 169 |