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Show Trine 6. eg Re fpeake fingular (not beBoel I muftDottor refemble the rootes then unto Houfelecke, but from Liftbone aI greater *¢ajorLag at although T would more nearely my minde) herein follow others, Ofthis kinde wee have received fitavicus, Lambeth, at keepeth nt l, which Mr. Tradefca The Timez fort, with paler greene leaves very beautiful > 2, Cotyledon five Sedum montanum latifolinm ferratum guttato flores Spotted Kidnywort,or the Princes feathers The Names; it his feventh Sedum Alpinum The firft is mentioned by C/#/i#s whoin his Pannonicke obfervations maketh the other Baxhinus fetceth forth Ajuge folie, andin his Hittoryof Plants fetteth it for his Sedum decimum tertinm: of Sedum Alpinum tertinm of other fort bythe name of Sedum tridattylites Alpinnm minus and referreth it to the faith that that fort hath not leaves com- in my former booke, wheré This pretty kind of Houfeleeke,or Kidnywort call it which youwill is defcribedalthongh I give youthe figure Teall itthe Princes feather, and therefore needethnot to be here againe repeated . ; ofitamong the reft : you fhallfinde the Figure hereof in folio738. Gregorius de Reggio, remembred by Co/wmna, butfo it cannot be; for he Cotyledon alter minorfoliofubrotando. pact together as the other Seda but difperfed. The Vertnes. ofthefe herbes, for I have no Youhave heard before of the talte,and thercforé you may judgé of the qualities for thofe canfes that the laft {mall forts of Houfeeffe@tuall as more to fay of them,but that it is likely they be ; leekes are, Cwar. TX, or UWall Pennywort. Veneris, Kidneywort Cotyledon y ¥ 3 P primus five Umbilicus J family is of the Fle Jatt kinds of Honfélecke whereof I am to entreate, fo to accomplifh the whole frft fpeake Kidneyworts, whereof the firlt fort of Diofcerides being different from the other Iwill of, and then of thereft that Ihave not mentioned in my former booke, Pennywart. i, Umbilicus Veneris vulgarit, Our otdinaty Kidneywort or Wall flat and round The great Kidneywort or Wall Penny wort that groweth with us hath many thicke abcut the middle thereof, leaves growing fromthe roote,evety one having along footeftalke faftned underneath hollow onthe and little unevenly waved fometimes about the edges, of a pale greene colour, and fomewhat hollcwfalkes halfe a upper fide likea fpoone or fawcer, from'among which rife one or moretender {mocth long and difoote high, with two or three fmall leaves thereon ufually not reund asthofe below but fomewhat bearinga number of pendulous flowers, vided atthe edges ; the topsare fometimes divided into long branches greene cowhitifh like a littlebell, ofa fet round aboura long {pike one above another; which are hollow and which fallirg on the eround will lour,. after which come {mall heads conteining very {mall brownifh feede, the full roote of an plentifully {pring up before winterif ic have moyfture :the roote is round fomewhat like ) Z 5 ee med 3. Cotzleden alterawinor folio fubrotundo, ‘ ad . Small Kidnywort with roundith leaves. 2. then the former, not fo bigge This other fall Kidnywort hath much rounder and {maller leaves inthe heads dented at the edges inthe fame of as thé nayle ones finger, ofas pale a greene colour as it, or more white and of the heads yearely rife up manner, ofanaftringenttalte like the other Houfeleekes, from the middle of fome rand longer leaves thereon, flender but hard and roughftalkes about an handlength high, fer with a few{malle s of fix leaves long footeltalkes, confifting of five and fometime at the toppes whereof appeare {mall flowers upon fpots, and fometimes having three purple a peece, fometimes wholly white, and fometimes {potted with red their places purplifh, in lines running downe the backe of every leafe, fo thatit maketh the whole leafe fecme fetting of heads of the like leaves follow {mall heads with fmall {eede : the roote is {mall and fibrous like thereft, ‘ flowers,3 i party coloured dhe : , Small Kidneywort Pets with round about4.it, Cotyledon alter verficoloribusfloribus like unto the laft Kidniwore This {mall Kidnywort groweth with many heads of {mall leaves circlewife greatelt; each whereof (whereof it is a peculiar fort) greater then the finalleft and {maller then the rather fet with isformewhat long and narrow ofa whitith greene colour dented asit were about the edges, or them to the filver filver white {pots about the edges making them feemelike white teeth(or as Ge/#er compareth reththis and the laft (and like fins of Fifhes) very pleafant to behold, forin the W inter whenno flowerappea as much delight as when it the firlt that I have expreffed in my former booke, being allof one genus) giveth white and part purple, is in Hower,which are many ftanding on feverall footeftalkes, each leafe whereofis part variably diverfified in every one of them. The Place, inall the welt parts of this Thé firft groweth very plentifully in many placés of thiskingdome, but éfpecially in {tony places upon the ground, at the bottome of old alfo,and land, uponftone and mud walls, upon rockes the otherofthat fort in Pertugall asis trees, and fometimes on the bodies of them that are decayed and. rotten : the very flones fayd ; the fecond on the Pyrenianhills, the other two grow uponthe rockes and among or Switzers, and upon the wherethere is {carfe any earth for the rootes to abide, on the Alpes of the Helvetians hill called Hortus Dei neare Afompelier, The Time. and the fede ripening quickly The firft doth ufually flower fooner then the other, as atthe beginning of May, withered’dry and gone untill and {talks are after fheddethit felfe,(o that about the end of AZay ufually the leaves about the middle of A4ay,the other Septeraber that the leaves {pring up againe and fo abide all Winter : the fecond e heads that bare ftalks ufually, two fornetime flower not untill Zane and.Jaly,and their feede is ripe in Anguf?,thof perifhing together,and the other that bare not abiding all the extremity of the Winter. The Names. figura, and. therefore the Latinescall The firltis called in Greeke xowandiv Cotyledon ab acetabulifive umbilici other mas Well as Cotyledon or Veobilicus Veneria: it hath alfo divers i -¢ Vnbilicus, Hortus Venerisand Herba Coxendicum : the Italians names as Seatum cali, Scutellum, call it Ombilico di Venere, and {ome C“par- 1d Nombrill da Venm, the French the , that is por covers, the Spaniards Scudetes, that is Shields, velwort, or great ant and Navelkrant, the Dutch Naveleruyt, and we in Fzglifh of tc of The other is l and} avell ofthe earth. ‘lwort, Wall Pennywort, Hipwort, Kidneywort, Venus-Navel but they Scjtalinm, cuir sand led of fome in Greeke xowand av érep@-Coryledon alter wy. wrioy Cymb are ratherreferred to the former great Houfeleeke, whichI have fhewed alter of Diofcorides by the judgement of Glu/ivs and others, the fec you is before, ar is the true Cotyledon ulually called Sedum ferratum with that moft Herbarilts : I have as you fee joynedithere asfitteft [thinke, butthe othe twolaft forts haveobtained with many, yet name of Cotyledon from Matthiolus who firlt called themfo, and is ftill keprand held currant DodoCamerarins, Gefoer, confounded alfo with manyothers forthe likeneffe unto Sedumminus,as with Gordus, . can fo d Banbinns,who often call themSeda, and very properly, for there is no herbe 2 rly be called the Corythat which hath the leavesplaced circle wife, one within another astheyhave, butbecaufe chat fafhionit is I faid juflly termed a Sedum. The Vertues, allringent anda The Wall Pennywort as Galen faith is of mixt qualities, that is, of moift and cold, fomewhat NelSS SSNS by? - little bitter withall, wherebyic \\ ie Vanbilicus vencris vulgaris, Our ordinary Kidneywort or Wall Pennywyort. nn i re the fhowis diffolved, but in the end of The firlt howreth in Ancn/f faithC/4/us, within a while after that in the naturall places, and the other much Apriiland beginning of Way with us, although fomewhatlater thereabouts. a FOee ltm yifh without and white withOrchis or Doggeftone, moft ufually {mooth yet fometimes rugged or knobbed,gra like an Orchis whereunto altogether in, having {mall fibres at the head of the roote and bottome of the ftalke, Mount Lupus and Calcar nesre Gtem_ taines of Lancajbiere with us as Mt. Hosket told us, the otherboth upon pelieryand onthe Pyrienear hills likewife. Cuan. 9. 742 The Theater ofPlants, cooleth,repelleth clenfeth and difenffeth, andis very effectuall for all inflamma- tions and unnatural heates, cither inwardly tocoole a fainting hot ftomacke or an hor Liver, or the bowels or a dly for pimples, .redneffe, Saint mother,to drinke the juice or the diftilled water,- or elfe.o the juice or vies fire and the like heates and inhammations,to applythe bruifed herbe'orto bathe the place with the fore kidneys, torne or fretted bythe {tone heal the diftilled water : the faid juice or water helpeth much alfo to or exulcerated within and eafeth the paines; it provoketh Vrinc li! ewife, and is availeable for the dropfie :it of eth alfo to brealce the ftone,and to coole the inflamed parts bythe paines thereof,and other wringing paines and tem= bowels and the bloodyfluxsit is fingular good for the painefull piles or hemorroidall veines, to coole the per their héate and the fharpeneffe ofblood in them,andto cafe their paines,to tfe the juice asa bathe unto them, or made intoan oyntmentby it felfe or with Myrrhe or other things conducible thereunto: itis no lefle effetu- the oe and allto give eafe of paines to the hot goute, “the Sciatica and the inflammations and {wellings in ringeth |