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Show 534 Cuar.29, Theatrum Botanicum, Tripeis fundry {mall white ftarrelike flowersin a tuft oe at the toppes, e Place, Thefirft is found in many fhadowye woodsandotherplacesof this land, The fecond in commonfields and fimmdry bogs,on the hils in Yorke/hire chiefly;in manyplaces alfo ofthe Weft Country,and “ales,and likewife ina Cuar.29 The Theater of Plants. Teepe. 5, Primuaoevis vulgaris, The ogdisary field Peimrofe, Primula verisflore parpurco Turcita, The Turkie purple Primrofe. Common, about a mile ftom Oxford, neare a village called Herixgtos, The third and the fourth as Clufins faith, grawetitin all the Avu/frian and Stirian hils inthe fhadowy places ofthem. ‘The laft came from the backe part of Virginia called Caitada} alee * ‘ The Time, : The firltand fecond Aowet not untill Juve, and their {eéde is fooné ripe after:the other twonext flower much earliegand fometimies againe in Aisne, The laft flowreth in Iu/y, The Names; Y “ Onsa UP . Thaye not found that any of thefe Sanicles were knowne to any of the ancient Greekeor Latine authors, but are as many otherwulnerary, and other herbes found out and namedby later writers, For the firft it hath his name Sanicnla a potiore (anandi munere, ic is alfo called Diaperfia, by Branfelfius, Matthiolus, and Lobel, and by Zabermontanus, Confolida qiingnefolia, for Matthiolus maketh it his fourth kindeof Quingnefolinm. F.abins Columaa, would referreit to the third Sideritis ofDiofcorides s but ofmoft writers it is generally called Sanicula, MK Ne AVA EVA Ra Rysst and fomeas I faid before call itaas, becaufe they would makethe Afirantia nigra Diofcoridis, (fet forth in the third Glaffis ofthis worke, whichis ofpurging plants, and 23. Chapter, under the title of Helleborus niger Sa nicilefolio major, the great purging Sanicle) to be thefemna. Itis called by the Italians Sanicala, by the Ge and Dutch Savikel, by the French Sanicle, and by us Sanickle, The other was firft called Pingwicula by Gefner in deferiprione montisfratti,and from hinrall others doe fo callit: fome alfo with Us Sanicnla E boracenfis becande irgrowethfo plentifully in Yorkefbire: Lngdunenfis calleth it Cuenllata, and thinketh it may be Crias Apu bi, Gelner thoughtit to be Dodecatheon F linyothers Lingula Pliny and fome, as Gefner Viola humida ant paluftris, Sanhines in putting itamong his Sanicules calleth it Saxicula montana flore calcari donatd, Wein Engl, doe call it Kye Wire A Ds e Butterwort, and Butter roote, becanfe ofthe véuo/irie ofthe leaves, or elfe.of famning as Gerard faith, but untruely, for they call ic white rot and not white roote as Gerard. faith, for the Country people doe thinke their theepe will cacchthe rot; if for hunger they fhould eate thereof, and thereforecall it the white rot, of the co- lour of the herbe, as they have another they call thered rot, which is Pedicularjsred Rattle. The third is called Sanicula montana alteraby Clufius, and Alpinayand guttata by Camerarins and others, by Lobel Gariophyllatafive Geum Alpinum recentiorumfolio bederaceo. the fourth ALatthidlus called (Cortufa having received it from Cortufus, and reckonethitamong the Avens, and thereupon Lode!calléth it Caryophylata Clofivs callethit his firlt Sanicula montana, and others Alpina:. The lait tor {omeVeronenfinmflore Sanicule urfines refemblance wascalled Cortu/a by the French, and Americana added todiftinguifh it. The Vertues, Sanicle is bitter in tafte, arid thereby is heating and drying in the fecond degrée,it fore exceeding good to heale all greerie wounds {peedily, oranyulcers, impoftumes,is aftringent alfo, and there= or bleedings inwardly ; ir doth wonderfully helpe thofe that have any tumourin their bodies in any part, diffipateth them,if the deco¢tion or juice thereof be taken, or the powder forit reprefleth the humours, and wardly ; for there is not found any herbe that can give fuch prefent helpe, in drinke, and the juice nfed ontcafe falleth uponthe Iungs or throate; and to heale up all the maligne eitherto manorbeaft, when. the difthroat, and privities,. by gargling or wafhing with the decoctionof the putride or ftinking ulcers ofthe mouth, little hony putthereto ; it helpeth to ftay womens courfes, and all otherleaves and roote made in water, anda fluxes of blood, either by the mouth, utine,or {toole, and laskes of the belly, theulceration ofthe kidneyes Sonorrhea ox running ofthe reynes, being boyled in wine or water alfo and the paines in the bowels, andthe and drunke, the fame alfo is nolefle powerfull, to helpe any ruptures or burftings ufed both inwardly and outwardly : and briefely iris as effe@uall in binding reftratning, confolidating, heating drying, and healing, as Comfrey, Bugle, or Selfeheale, cr any other of the Confounds or vulnerary herbes whatfoevers Butterwortis as one writeth great efteeme with many, as wellfor the Tupture in Children asto heale greene to me a vulnerary herbe, of that liye where it groweth; doe ufe to annoint their hands when they are chapt wounds; the Country people by the winde, or when their Kines Vddersare fwollen bythe biting ofanyvirtilent worme, or otherwife pescape orrift, the poorer fort of people in Wales makea Syrupethereof, as is of Rofes, and therewith purge themfelves and their children: theyputit likewife into their broths for the fame purpofe which purgeth flegmeeffectually : theyalfo withthe herbe and butter make an ointment fingular good againft the obftructions oftheliver , experienced by fome Phyfitions there of good account, Cuar XXIX, Primula veris pratenfis & (ylveftrise Primrofes and Cowllips, Hereis fo greata variety in thefefortsof plants, Primrofes and Cowlflips,whereunto for both in formeandquality,is to be joyned thelittle army of Auric#les Beares eares, (orlikenefle Freuch A Cowflips) as they arecalled, efpecially in the various colours of their\ flowers, that to defcribe them all againe,wonld but too much augmentthis yolgine,I will therfore here but give youfome figures of thofe, defcribed fully in my former Booke, and therelation of fach others as have fince the publifhing thereofcometo our knowledge. 1. Primula verjsTurcica Tradefcanti flore purpureo, Trade{cants Turkie parple Primrofé, The leaves of this Primrofeare fo like unto other Primrofes, that they can very hardly be diftinguifh the flowers appeare, but the chiefeft difference in the leavesis, that they are fomewhat longer,ronnd ed untill er pointed anda little reddifh at the very bottomeof theleaves : the flowers are as large as any other Primrofe or rather Jager, made offive leaves like untothem, butof a delicate violet purple colour, thebottome of them yellow, circled Primula Hesketi verfipellis. , Heskets Cameleon Primrofee Paralyfisforepleno} Double Paigl¢s, 535 |