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Show 1354, T rip E14, Lheatrum Botanicum. Curr.30, Tuisea4 = The Theater ofPlants. Crap. 31, feedeis fomefranticke perfons fot it wonderfully helpeth the dilemperature of the head arifing from heate : the as the roote, bur times ufedto tay fluxes of blood or humonrs,either of wounds or of the belly, yet is as effectuall at the lower joyntscome forthlong \piked heads,‘ofbluth coloured flowers upon long footeftaikes like unto thofe of Biffort,or Arfmart;whetconatter they are palt (tand chaffie huskes, containing within them blackifh ofthe White Water Lilly, which hath the blacke roote,to be the more effetuall ro coole,binde, and reftraineall Fluxes ordefuxions in man or-woman,as alfo the gonorrhea or running of the reines,and the involuntary paflage ns.: the roote of (perme in fleepe , and is fo powerfull that the frequent ufe thereof extinguifheth Veneriousactio and the decottion likewife is very goodfor thofe whofe urine is hot and (harpe, to be boiled in wine or Water, theyare faltened to the ground. Thereis another ofthis fort this lefler,not much diffeting in any thing cl{e,ner. 2, Fontalis majorlatifolia. The greater long leafed Pondweede. This other greater fort differeth little fromthe former, bucintheleaves-which are longer and natrower, and the roote is of greater ufe withus,fome taking the white roote € which is of the yellow fort)and fome the roote dranke : the blacke roore which beareth the white fowers,is more ufed: with usin thefe timesthen the other, be- caufe it is more plentifully to be had, then that with yellow flowers : but the white roote of the yellow kindeis preferreit beleffe pleafanc, and more altringent and barflvintafte,anditherefore not, withoutjuft caufe doe moft effe~ fore the otherto {tay womenscourfes,and mens {permaticall iffues.The diftilled water of the flowers is very tual for all the difeafes arorefaid,both inwardly taken and outwardly applyediit is much commended alfo torake awayfrec kles, {pots funburne,and Morphew, from the skinne,in the face or any other part of the body... Theoyle nade ofthe fowers,as oy le of Rofes is made is prohtably ufed to coole hot tumours, and the inflammations of ulcers, and wounds,and eafe the paines,and helpe to heale the fores. The Frog bit as being a Sfecies as I {aid ofthe Nymphea minorjand fo likewife thefeleffer forts, have generally a coolingquality in them,yer in a-weaker meafare then the greater forts. .Butlet no man miftake the yellow Marth Marigold, inftead of the yellow. WaterLilly,asitis likely, Serapio lib,firplisiam cap. 144+ and fome.othere-4rabian Authours did, that faid there was ano- ther kinde of Newufar,which was fharpe and hot,and of fubrill parts, and is fit to warme and give heate to cold eriefes,for aMuredly they meant hereby the Caltha paluftris,which they miftooke to be akinde of Wewsfar, asi evident bythis their relation. Crate XXX. Potamogetonfive Foutalis, Pondweede. Sts E the Pondweedes there ate divers forts, moré found out and referred to them thén was in former #9 times, which are thefe that follow. 1. Fontalis major latifolia vulgaris, The greater ordinary Pondweede, This greater Pondweederifeth up with fundry flender round ftalkes-foll of joynts and branches, and faire broad roundpointed darke greene leaves with longribs in them like’ Plantaire,fetfingly at the joynas andlying flat on the toppe of the water : at the toppes ofthe ftalkes and branches ufirally, and feldome Potammogeton five Fontalismajor (o* minor latifolia vulgaris, The greater and leffer broad leafed Pondyweede, x. Fontalis majorlongifolia. ‘The greater long leafed Pondwveede, hard tcede : the roote creepeth to and fro in the mudde, with divers jovnts and cufts of bres at them, whereby the ribbes running dcroffe in them, “and not at length as the former doth, the {piked heads of flowers hereof are ia fome more whitifh, and in Orhersas faire a bluth colour as the former,and come as well from the upper joynts as the coppesoftheftalkes and branches. Thereis another fort hereof allo, withleaves not altogether fo long of iyer2 narrows : 3. Fontalisferrdto longifolio, Dented Pondeweede: : Therdote of this is joynted and creepethlike the former,bringing very, long and narrow Iéaves at the joynts of the ftalkes, and-dented about theedges without any order on both fides, and bearéth ac the toppesfuch like ae {piked tufts of Bowers and {cede afcer them as the others doc. 4. Potamogeton graminenm ramofum, Graffelike Pondweede, 7 he flalke hereof isa foore high or more, being very flender round and whitifh, ported into ftindry branches with many{mall grafiy round darke greeneleaves mot fet together, but by {paces a good way fi funder, which end in other leaves, chat are almoftas{mall as haires, yet notwithftanding from the wing of thefirft leate, com- meth fortha Malke with thelike leaves at rheend, and,thereat a {mall fooreftalke three inches long,’ fuftaining certaine {mall Aowers,difperfedly ferin a {pike and norini clufter,and {mall rotigh graines fucceeding them, . Potamogeton minimum capillaccofolic, Smaltfine Pondweede, This fine leafed Pondweede hatha veryfine flender ftalke,with fmall long pale greene and haire-like leaves, fuftainerh a fer thereon without order,at the toppe whereof {pring forth on¢ or two finall fooreftalkes, which whereof oncis very {malland pointed head, like untothe precedent,tollowed by very {mall pale colou: edfloweérs, point.laid open and another is inclofed ina skinny huske,endingin 6. Potamogeton capillacexm capituly ad alas trifides, Triple headed Pondweede. This Pondweede hath a {talke an handbredth tong,nothicker chen an haire,yet joynted and branched, 2nd two {mall long leaves at every foynt which are fmallér then any hairé,and thereat likew1(e {tand very {mall pale colored flowers, which growing clofe;do forme a knot orhead, which being ripe appearechas made of chree femicirclilar reddifh parts ending in a fharpe poict,yet from the bofomeof the former leaves,rifech a {mall footeftalk,di- videdinto three or more tmall leaves,the like knot or head being fet in the middle, for at the top thereis no head The Place and 7 ime. arall. the The two firt forts are to be feené iit many places of the Land,no' Country almoft being without the one or other, the thied is more rare,and ene batin very few places withtis,the three laft are (trangers and doe all thew their flowers in the end of Augn/t or feldomefooner. The Names, Fontalis,. The twofirlt aré geIris called in Greeke mrty0y<irwr,guafiluminibus vicina and saxttmis,quaf [picata nerallycalled byall Writers Potamegetox,and by Lobch Fontalis c(picata, who itisvery likely intendedthis firft fort,and not a different kindefromit,althoughhis figare have more pointed leaves, for the veines goe longwife, asin the former, which-doe notin any.other fort, although itdoth expreffe many {mall round heads on 2 long lonftalke, and faith the flowers are whité,andche feede like Aphaca,and that his firft {orc is another fhecies ofthe gifolia,ifnorthe fame, for wehave {eene fome variety hereof in the Ponds and Waters of our owne Land, The The three third is called Oxylapathum agnaticum by Lugdunenfis, and by Ge/ner in hortis, Lapathi genus fylveftre. Jat are mentioned onely by Bawhinus,by the fame titles chey-here hold.The Italians eall 1 Potamoageto, The French Effidean, The Germanes Samkrant. The Darch Founteincrnit, And we in Englifh Pondweed, Water Spike, and of fome River wort, SSN pat Ht—<a The Vertues, PondWeed is cooling and drying as Galen faith, like unto Knorgra fle, butofathickér effences the decoétion of the leaves in wine,(tayeth the Laske, and griping paines of thebelly, and being bathed, is good to helpe itches ra old uleess,and corroding cankersand fores,the leaves applyed affwageth inflammations, and Saint Asiboniestire,., the freckles and heatein the face: if the leaves be boiled with oyle and vinegar, and applyed to the place pained’ with the hot Gout,it doth give prefent cafe : itis proficably alfo applyéd with honey and vinegar to hilpe thof¢ thar have foule fores intheit legges,the roote helpeth to diffolve knots and kernels. CuaPr. XXXI. Millifolinm aquaticum, NN ater Yarrow Herebe fandry forts of herbes that for their fine Fennell like leaves, and growing in the waters, fo neerely refembling Yarrow or Fennell,are called AZiflefolium, and Fanicalum aquaricum, yet diftc- C H YUU y notable part,all which I meane to comprehend in one.Chaprer, ring cach from other in fome t. Millefolium aquaticum vulgatius, Ordinary water Y arrow, This Water Yarrow which groweth moft plentifully withus about Loxdon,xifeth up with around ®@ ftalke,having divers long winged leaves at the bottome of it, cnt and divided into many fine {mall leaves th fides of the middle ribbe, likeuntothe land Yarrow, but mach tenderer and withasfine leaves al— Fennell ir felfe, at che ftalkes likewife growfiich finc leavesup tothe toppe, where f{tand on branches, tufts of fnall white flowers fet clofe together, the roote is fomewhat long white and Mlender wich divers fCs atic. 2. Millefol:nm Coriandrifelivm, Broad leafed water Yarrow. Che lower leaves of this Yarrow are fomewhat like inthe forme and divifions of chem unto the lower leaves of oF j |