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Show 646 Char. 80. Theatrum Botanicum. Trips) like the ordinary, ending in five points, but of a pale every one ftandethreafonable large flo wer in fafhion a deeper blewith purple colour in others: after — oe paft tof bu fome, in r afhcolou almott blewith = Hl whitith feede lyeth, turne downewards when they are ripe, and are three fquare i heads atthe toppe thereof, where = — :ce — he aicanon of the plant, having tdivers ll fomewha whitifh uponit, and giveth milkeasa : sal thoote forth : thewhole plant hath a {oft doune ! to. Trachelium foliis Echit. Wild Bugloffe leafed Throatewort. Bentslisdor: and narrow,lying ae the Thelower leave sof this Throatewortor Bell-flower, are many,long,very rough broader and fhorter, whofe ftalke that rifeth up eneet them, : a om a Bugloffe bur unto Vipers likeround ground, = hich, and roughalfo, fet with fewleaves but fmaller, at the roppe whereof ftand five orfixe blue a =. “il fafhion, upon fhort footeltatkes hanging downetheir heads, whofe brimmesasal fo the huskes _ oo elie hedtase fome hayrie douninefie upon them, Thereis a leffer of this fort as Bavshinus hayrie fhorter leaves and leffer flowers, found on the hilsamong the S7it/ers, ; hich b w fi faith, i hath Trachelinmferotinum, five Viola Calathianaforte Gerardi. The late flowring Throatewott. the Cempanula Eyramidalis oF This late HWE Throatewort hath the lower leaves very like for forme unto feeple Bell-flowerbut fofter in handling ,the ftalkes rife a yard high being foft or almoft woolly like the leaves, & ~ ided into fome branchesat the tops,bearing manyBell fafhioned flowers like the ordinary greater fort,but {maller and of a pale blewifhorpurplifh afh colour, whichbyreafon of their late howring gave me nofeede any Fe is ee thi nd bufhie. ‘ yeare, the roote > Scabiofe capitle ceruleo, Rampions with Scabiouslike heads. Twas long in fafpence with my felfeand unrefolved, whether I fhould fer this plant in this place or nO; for finding good authorsto fet it forth as a Scabious, and Co/umna onely and Banbinws that followeth him, to diffene from themand makeita Re puntinm, firlt, becaufeit giveth milke which no Scabious doth, and then the feede being altogether Rampionlike,wherein Twould judge ofa plant moft materially, 1 could notupon thefe reafons fitly cone it withthe reft of the Scabious, but place ithere according to the title with this defcription. It hathvery eke erefted (talkes, brownifh at the bottome,rifing up to be a foote high, froma long white living roote, giving site with many {mall narrow, and fomewhat long leaves, whofe edges are fomewhatdented,or rather waved and writhed, than cut in,{tanding thick thereon,without order onall fides,and covered witha fmall foft doune or hayrineffe, unto the topes almolt,yet leaving a goodfpace bare:the flowers fland ina round head, madeof five narrow thort blue leaves, the middle part formed into white ftarres. and ftanding in greene huskescutintofixe or feven points, anda long pointell in the middle, which flowers are long at the firft, and rife by degrees, fome the falling away when others are beginning to open themfelves ; all of themwhen they are paft,and fallengleave greene haske ftanding like a ftarre, in the middle whereof groweth a fmall head, conteining fuchlike {mall i ers have. browne fevde #2 oe Campanzla Drabe minoris folijs. Bellfowers with {mall dented leayes. The léaves of this Bellflower are roughorhairy, greene and {mall, about.an inch long,and halfe an inch broad, fnipt abourthe edges,and pointed at the ends, ftandingon eachfide of the hairy ftalkes that are {carfe a foote high, without footeftalkes : the fowers are but few,of a meane fife, formed like Bellflowers, but ending in fix corners or points,of a blewifh colour fet uponlong footeftalkes ; the roote is white and long like the Rampions, 14. Viola Mariana peregrina, The Syrian Coventry Bells, Vnto thefe kind of Plants may very wellfort the Coventry Bells, as being neareft unto them, and therefore I thought it not amiffe ro joyne this unto them, inthis Chaprer, fet forth by divers, after Ranwolfius had firlt declared it,ashe found itatthe foote of Mount / sbanin Syria, inthe fhadowy woods. It hath faith he many long and natrow leaves, rfing from theroote which is fomewhat great and long, very like thofe of the {mail Ribbewort Plantaine, but morecut in uneven ly on the edges, and hairy alfo,but upon the flalkes thofe leaves are fmaller,and notcut in at all, bearing the flowers at the joyntswith them up tothe toppes, which arelarger and more openthenthe ordinary {ort,and partedinto feaven oreight corners of a pale purplithcolour the feede he could not obferve,being not the time of ripening: — 15. Lrachelinms fubrotundis folijs, Round leafed Throatwort. ; Froma {mall creeping roote.a ftalke of halfea foote highbeing a lictle hairy rifethup, with a few fomewhat roundleaves fet thereon, hairyot roughalfo,of abourtwo inches broad, andas long, and little dented aboutthe edges, at the roppe whercof ftand a few {mall blew pepciions flowerslike untothe others. e Farme.5, The Theater of ‘Plants. Cuap, 81. whereof Bawhinys calleth, Campanwla Alpina[pheroc ephatos and the lefler Rapanculus Alpinus corniculatus, which in his Phytopinasx, and A4atthiolys he called Rapzncalos Alpinus (picato fimilis; but having obtained a more ex= act knowledge thereof from Pona, he altered thetitle and gave both the defcription and figure more plainely : the fonrthis called Trachehum montanum ofLugdunenfis, which Bawhinys callech Campanula folijs Anchufe flo ribus oblonges: the fifth (olumna calleth Trachelinm montanum, and Clufins Trachelinm Tragopogs folijs ; but Bax= biaus varning all the Trachelinms almolt to Campanulas calleth it Campanula eAlpina Tragopogsfalijs + the fixt Cl fits Lerreth torch in his Curepofteriores, having received it ftom Gregorius de Reggio a Chapuchine Fryer of Fla= centia in Italy, bythe name of Pyramidal villofa faxatilis latifolia, and Clufivs upon comparing it with others ofthe fan e Kind, faith irmay be called either Kepuncnlus faxatilis montanus. Doronici foliis, ox Rapinculus mona zanus Pulmonarie Galorumfolio, and Trachelii flore, Bauhbinys diverGifieth itto Trathelinmfaxatile folizs Pulmo- Gallorum : the feaventh Clufivs calleth Trachelinm yo0eSis, and Thalive in Harcynia fyloa Cervicaria major tennifolia, Lagdunenfis fetreth it torthby the name of Echinm montanum Dalechampit, and faith fomecalled it Alopecuros montana, butas Clufiys there faith, thatthough the leaves bee like unto Echinm, yet fo are not the flowers, feede, nor feede veflells, and therefore cannot {o properly be referred unto. Echiwm as to Trachelium. Bashinus calleth it Campanula alia foliis Echii, in the Chapter of Trachclium, and in the Chapter of Echium hee calleth it Echivim Alpinum luteum, andreferrethit likewile to this Trachelium Thyrfoides, of Clufius, Lugdunena fisfigure ofEchizms montanum Clufins alloweth ofto be his Trachelinm Thyrfoides, but it cannot bee Echinm lun teum alfo,as any one mayeafily finde and know ; bat this mult be accounsed bur oneof his flippes of memory (for his firlt Campanula Echit folis, is likely to be the figure of Lugdunenfis his Trachelinm montanum indeede ) and yet he faith ic is not the fame, but faith in his Prodromu he giveth thefigure thereof becaule Clufi gave none, andyet his toppe offlowers doth notcarry that fhew ofa rhir/is or bufh as Clufius iaith his hath, The eighth Ponda onely in his Italian defcription of Mount Ba/dys, maketh mention ofby the fame nameisin the title, having received it from Signor Contarini, a Maginfico of Venice, broughtto him fromCandy, as it is thought; which Baubinus calleth Cervicaria Valerianoides carulea : the ninth C/ufius callerh Trachelivm pumilum Alpinum, and Bauhinus Campanula Alpina pumila lanuginofa : the tenth is called by Banhinus Campanula foliis Echii foribus vitofis:the eleventh Gerard calleth Viola (alathiana, the true Calathian Violet, upon what good ground f know not; for all Authors that have written ofit fince P/iay his time,who firlt gave the name have referred it toone ofthe AutumneGentians (and himfelfe doth folikewife among the Gentians) except Dalechampins who tooke the Digitalis lutea tobeit ; yet maketh the fame Gentian or Gentiancla effiva to be it alfo, calling ic Thylacitis minor, but I thinke he would not fo have written, feeing himfelfe. both knewand fet ic downe for a Throarwott, had he not herein beene led by his owneor fomeothers willfull judgement,as it is molt probable, I have as youfee given it anothertitle, moft anfwerable in my judgement thereunto, andthe defeription moft propet as itgrew with me, the colour of whofe flower I never faw, other thena pale: blewith or purplith afhcolour, and never anybright purpleas hefaith it is: the twelfth as I fayd,divers did take tobeafmallor fheepes Sca- bions,as @e/ner, Dodoneus Camerarius,and Lobel, but Columna contefting there againft fheweth by thofe proper= ties before {poken of, that itcannot be any fort of Scabious but a Rapuntinns, and callethit Repuatinm montanum capitatumsleptophyllon, and Banbinws as itis inthe title : the thirteenth Bawhieus oncly méntioneth in his. Pinar and Prodromus by the fame namethat I dosthe 14,Ras#wolfius in his journallremembreth,& calleth UVedinm Dion Scoridis, and Mindinm Rhafs, and from him Laugdusenfis and Camerarivs upon A4atthiolus fo call it. Ban binwscalleth it Viola Mariana laciniatafoliis peregrina, The laft Bawhinus onely mentioneth in his Prodromys and Pinax, The Vertues, Although the rootés of many of thefe be fweetéin tafte, and therefore eaten in Sallets, eyther raw or ftéwed as both the greater and {maller ordinary forts of Rampions,fet forth inthe next Chapter, yét fome of them here defcribed as well as the greaterforts, fet forth in my former. booke, are not fo pleafanc but rather more aftrin- gent ; by which qualitiechey are found tobe effetuall, not onely inall Vicers of the mouth orthroat, to gargle and waththem, orfor the Vvw/a or the palate ofthe mouth, when it is fwollen and fallen: downe; bat forall other fores, whether in the fecret parts of manor woman, to be ufed in decoction with honey, wineandallome, or in anyother part ofthe body; for by the faculty of drying and binding, theyare very profitable forold fores,to reltraine the moy(t and (harpe humours which fret the place,and keepe them from healingyand for greene wounds and cuts,to clofe up the lippes of chem fpeedily, ‘ace, Thefe grow naturally in divers places, as fome in Candy,fomeupon Mount Baldus, and others of the Alpes,in Germany,in Italy alfoand in Naples, as Clufiws and Columna hath fet it downe; onely the laft {ave one in Syria as is aforefayd,and the laft was fent Bawhinws trom Helmftade, The Time, They all fower in the Summer Monethsof Ive and Iu/y, but yet fome of them flower not untill all the reft are paft,and fcarfe perfect their feede,but are encreafed by their roore. The Names, Tris called teas», Trachelivm both in Greeke and Latin, or Cervicaria,forthat it heipeth the fores of thé neck and throate, either inward or outward ; itisalfo called Vewlaria, becanfe it helpeth the Vv«da the palate of the mouth (which hath the diminitive from Uva) for the likeneffe unto a erape,whenitis {wollen and fallen downe, others call them Campanxle of thelikenefie of the flowers unto Bells, and therefore called Bellflowers 3 b which general namenotonely thefe but the others in the next Chapter, and many other plants are alfo called, Some alfo call them, Rapé /ylveffris genus, butunproperly, and Rapuncelus or Rapnatium, Rampions, becaufe they are likeunto Rampions, and many of themedille as they are... Ce/alpinus onely as 1 take it, thought the great ordinry fort tobe Archangelica : the Frenchcall them Gantelettes and Gans de noffre Dame, the Gevmisnes and Dutch Halzkenit,and we in Englifs Canterbnry Bells, and Throatwort, of fome Haskewort:the firlt here fet forth is that fort that Lobel calleth Trachelinsm majus Belgarum, and Bauhinus to vary the name Campanula maxi- twa folijs lariffimis : the fecond and third is fer forth by Pena, in the defcription of Mount Baldus ; the greater whereof CHap. LXXXT, Rapunculifive Campannteglabre. Rampions of wild Bellflowers. HIS in the former ChapterI fhewed you thofeforts of Bell-flowers, that had hoary, rough, or hayric leaves, which asI fayd are ufually called Trachelia, and Cervicarie : fothe other whole leaves | are {mooth and not hayrie or very little, are either: called Rapencnli Rampions, fore being of old nurfed up in Gardens, for dayly nfe and tobe neere at hand, or growing wilde, and onely ufed asthey maybee found, or Campannle Bell-flowers, being like unto them in fome things,althowigh that quality of bitterneffe and heating’ bee wanting, yet not tobe dif 1) Rapuaculus cfcwlenrus vulgaris, Garden Rampions. ’ The Rampionsthat aré ufitally kept in gardens, are accounted a lefler kindé than manyof the others that gtowwildé,and lying upon the ground, with divers fmall and long round pointed pale greene leaves, beforeit runne up to ftalkes, which {ptead divers fich leaves thereon, but {maller to the toppe, where breake forth, fundry {mall pale purplith flowers, endingin five points like unto the former Throateworts,‘bat much fmaller, having alfo fach like foods, with fmall brownith feede therein's ‘the rooteisfmall and white, and giveth milke being broken, as all che reft of the plant doth; fhooting two or three branches almoft of an equall bignefle;which is |