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Show 958 Capel. TRIBE. 5 Theatrum Botanicum, Sintieeietnees The Theater of Plants. Cuar.4%, 589 ararer 4+ Anagallisflore carneo, Pimpernel with bluthcolouredflowers. Of the fame kindealfo is this other, not differing in any thip, g, but inthe colour of the flower,” which is of a faire blufh or incarnate colour. r i 5. Anagallis flore fareo, 142. 3.46 Andgallis flovibus pheniceis,caruleis, ob/olere purpareis Carncis, Pimpernell of foure forts of colours in the fowers. Pimpernell with yellow flowers. thatis,red, blevy,fullen red,and bluth colour. The yellowPimpernell growethin the like manner; that the former doe, with many {preading branches uponthe ground, burthey are fomewhar greater, and fo are the leaves alfo, larger then the former forts, but fet atifing of it felfe; the fecond is nothing fo common,yet is found growing neere Bartle by Oxford, and plentifully in Ramney Marth, at Higham Ferrers, Artilborraw, and Rauades in Northamptonfhire, and at Beconsfield in Buckinghamfhire, The third as Clufims faith,fir grew with him, in his Garden at Franckford, and continually by the fhedding of the feede, preferved it owne kinde,as well there, asin Holland ar Leyden, The fourth grew ofit felfe, in my owne Gardenhere in London, and commethup every yeere, of it owne fowing. The fift grow- eth in the fhady places of Hampjted wood, and in manyplaces of Kent, and about Ajpford, ata place called thé Parke, The lalt C/#/ius faith he had fromthe noble and learned John Monnet of Tornay, who received it from Cadis, ot Calis, where it grew; and grewlikewife in his garden at Tornay, The Time, * They doe all flower from 4247, unto Augest, and the feede ripeneth in the meane time, and falleth. by couples at the joynts, where the flowers comeforth The Names. Ttiscalledin Greeke A’ya,ur1, Anagaliis, and folikewife in Latine. Pesathinketh itmight take thename Tarts, quod Grace dicebatur Hyacinth unde acolore Hyacintheo, Anagallis nuncupari potmit s vel forte dixit antiz quitas Anagallidem, quia[uperbula floribus venuftis vias pasfim ornet,colore oculis grato Ge amico. Lacobis Manlius: and A4Zarthiolws after him, callit Worf Galline, and Morgetina, but thar name is more truely the name of tnipon long footeltalkes, likeunto the other, but larger orgreater, and ofa faire yellow colour, with pointed leaves fomewhat like unto Numsnlaria ,withround heads alfo containing the feede, and {mall fibrous rootes not perithing every yeare, as the reft doe; for withthe plant tn flower, which I have gathered, there hath remained the dry ftalke, with the heads offeede, ofthe former yeares growing, Alfine Chickeweede, whereof this may be accounted a Species. Some havecalled it Azricula 2 therein the Pandetlarum author, Diofcorides {aith, that in his time it had divers names,among w Macia, which Marcellus Virgilim alfo remembreth, and Corchorys, and Halicacabw, wheret be the (orchorus of Theophraftus, which in his feventh booke, and feventh chapter, 6. Anagattistenuifolia floreceruleo, mong the pot herbes,. or fallet herbess and for the bitternefle became a Proverbe xienopG- é» a Narrowleafed Pimpernell with blew flowers, This blew fowred P.mpernell, groweth in the fame mannerthat the reft doc, with {preading branches upon the ground, and leaves fet at the feverall joynts thereof, ¢, Corchorus inter olora; whichis underltood of thofe men, thar would be efteemed of fome worth and account among others; when they are the vileft of others, for fo P/inye, in his twenty fift booke, and thirteeath chapter, doth fay thar this Anagallis Pimpernel, was called Corchorus, or Corcorus in the fame manner : but not that Corchorus he men- all along up to thetoppes; but they are longer and nar- tioneth, in his t5. booke, and.32. chap. which as I fayd before,is more truely taken to be Azelechia, Olus Iudaicum, the ewes Mallow. Pavlus e£ginetaufedthe male Pimpernell in the compofition. Diacorallion, becaufe it was called Corallion, wheteofhe. fpeaketh in his feventh booke, which is ufed again{t the difeafes of the Arteries and joynts, and was tobe made withthis herbe, which fome doe rather thinke fhould be called, diacollarion, and the herbe Co//arion, which may feeme to take the name of glewing, whichis proper to Pimpernell. Some allo rower, {omewhat refembling the leaves of Gratia/a, or hedge Hyffope, and not alwaiestwoata joynt, butofmes three;or peradventure more, yet very feldome: at the joynts likewife with the leaves, ftand’ feverall flowersasin the other! forts, upon fmall long footeftalkes, made of five fmall round pointed: leayés, yet fomewhat greater then thofe of the. former-blew: fore; having a fhewor circle of a purple colour inthemiddle, or bottome: whichafterwards yeeld -fichlike round heads and feedes, and having {mall threddyrooteslike unto the other, perifhing in the fame manner every take this to be the ALelochiaof Serapio, but Serapio calleth the Avagallflore pheniceo, which is generallycalled Aas, In the -4rabian tongue Xantala,and the other flore caerulea, whichisthe FeminaCardabella , as Tragus faith, The Izalians call it Avagallo, and ~Mor/o di galhna, The Spaniards Muraces. The Frexch (Mauron and Morgeline, The Germanes Gauch heiil, quaft falus fatuorum, or coccygis five , for fo they call Gauchbrot Panis caculi,and Gauch blum flos cuculs, from a {uperititious conceit as itis thought, that it being hung over the threfhould of the porch or dore;. will fruftrate or expell all witchcraft or forceries. The Durch, Guichel heil : yeare, and we in Ezglife Pimpernell.. The fitht here fet downe is generally of all writers called, Avagallis mas & flore phaniceo, as the other, or fecond; Anagallisfamina floreceruleo, The third C/ufvs maketh mention of im his hi- The Place. Thefirkt groweth every wherealmoft, as well in thé medowes and corne fields,as by the wayes,orin gardens led Anagallis lutea, but of Ge/ner ia hortis Germania Numulariafylvatica & mas, and of Lugdunenfis Alfine lutea, Thelah Clufiuscalleth Anagallis tenwifolia Monelii, and Bauhinas Anagallis cartleafolsis binis ternifve, exadverfo 5. Anagallis florel nteo. Pimpernel! with yellow flowers {tory of plants, The fourth isnot remembred orfpoken of by any other but myfelfe : thefift is generally calnafcentibus. 6, Anagatis tenuifolia flore ceruleo, The Vertues, Blew flowred Pimpernel, Pimpernelas Galen faith, in his fixth booke, of the faculties of fimples, of both forts with red or blue flowers, are of aclenfing faculty, they havealfo an attractive heate, whereby they drawforththornesor{plinters, or other fuch like things faltnedinthe flefh, and therefore the juyce put upinto the noftrils, purgeth the head; briefely alfo they havea drying faculty without {harpeneffe, whereby theyare good to foder the lippes of wounds, and toclenfe foule ulcers; thus faith Galen; whereby itis plaine, tharthey erre greatly, that make Pimpernell, to be cold and moyft, when as they aréquite contrary hot and dry, and of fach aclenfing quality, that the diftilled water or juyce, are by the’ French Dames accounted mervaileus goodto clenfe the skinne from any roughnefle, deformity or difcolouring thereof, and'to make it {mooth néate and clecre: being boyled in wine and givento drink, it isa good remedy againft the Plague, and other Peftelentiall Fevers,and contagious difeafes, foas after the taking thereof warme, they lye intheir beds, and {weate for two houres after, and herebythe venome of the difeafe would bee expelled, yet foas that it bee ufed rwice at the leaft: the fame alfo helpeth all ftingingsand bitings of any venemous beafts, be they of Serpents, asthe Viper, Adder, or Scorpion, or madde dogges,or any other, ufed inwardly, and applyed outwardly : the fame alfo opéneth the obftrnctions of the Liver, and is very availeable againtt the infirmities of the raines, provoketh urine, and helpeth to expell the ftone - and. gravelliout of the Kidniesand Bladder, and conduceth much iin all inward wounds, and ulcers. The decotti- on orthe diftilled water, is no leffe effectual, robe onewardly applyed to al wounds, be they fréfh, to confolidaté them, or old filthy or fretting and running ulcers, venemousalfo; of infected; by clenfing their corruption, by reftraining their malignant corroding, and infeGtious qualitiesy’by. drying ap their fluxe of humours, which hindreth their cure, and quickly bringing them to healing + a little honey mixed with the juyce, and'dropped into the eyes, clenfeth them from cloudy miftes, or filmes growing ovérthem, which hinder and take away the fight: .it helpeththe toothach being: droppedinto the eare, on the contrary fide of the paine it iseffectuall alfo to eafe the paines of the hemorrhoides,or piles: the male Pimpernell is faydto drive forth the fimdament, and the female to repell it, and drive itinto his place againe, whereby itis foundthat thé malé is more powerfull in expelling, andthe female.in repelling, arifing |