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Show Tbeatrum Botanicum. . Trine ig RIBE eter < Cuap. XXXII. Here are three or foure herbes tobe referred to thefe Lentils, whicharé differing one from another, their place of breeding beihe their chiefeft caufe of affinity. T. Lens palnfirisfive aquatica vulgar. Duckes meate, This {mall water herbe confittethof nothing but {mall round greene leaves,lying on tke toppe of ftanding waters, in ponds, pooles,and ditches, withouteither flower or feede that ever could be ob- ferved,onelyfromthe middle ofeach leafe omthe underfide, theregrow certaine. {mall threds finer than haitcs, which paffe dowmneinto the water, but aremot thoughtto defcend to the ground from thence todraw uourithmefit,Marthiolns (and froarbim-Lugdunenfis)teporteth a ftrange natration,and J may fay incredible ;\ That if it fhould-happen(asfometioes it commeth to pafle)by inundations,that thefe {mall Lentils or Duckes meate te care Tied-awayinto-tunning rivers, a8 foone’as they cleave to the fhore, they are wonderfully encteafed: for by the roores that will grow from them like threds, they faften themfelves into the grcund,and then prowing, becom. metirto be plantestike unto Si/jmbrinm water Mintes,or Ladies fmockes;and thac this thing hath bene obferved by-diligent fearchersof nature;not without much wonderof the matter - /eilicer. 2, Lens paluftris five aquatica quadrifolia. Crofie leafed water Lentils or Duckes meate, _ This other Lens hatha {malllong flenderroote fhooting forth {quare {lender weake andtrailing ftalkes, with fandry {mall leaves upon feverall long foote ftalkes, Randing together atthe joynts’ diftinétone froman other, which are parted into foure Teaves a peece,andfometimes it te beence obferved with fixleaves, each end being roiind and lying ina {quare formelike a croffe upon the water atthe joynts likewife with the leaves,come forth caverfe {mall heads-ot {cede inclufters, wherein are enclofed {mall -blackifh feede like unto the fielde Lentils, but not fo flat;being thicke and hard. Lagdunengis fetteth forth this kinde of water plant,by thename of Lemma Thee opbrafti,in-e much differing manner, 3. Lens paluftrts latifolia puntata, Broad leafed {potted water Lentils, This water Lenrill hath fundry round leaves fer by couples on long ftalkes, of an excellentgreene colour on the upperfide, prickt very full of very fine fpots, and under them many-fmallLentill like heads cleaving unto them, fome having bat one, others two three or foure at a place, covered witha rough or rugged thin huske, very full of fine fmall yellowifh feede: “at the bottome of thefe winged ftalkes of leaves grow tke rootes, which area tuftof long firings and fibers + itis onely ofa waterifh tafte. — 4, Lenticula aquatica bifolia Neapolitana, Neapolitane water Lentils, Fhe water Lentils of Naples hath very fine long flender falkes, with leaves fer together by couples,lying a= long Upon the water, having feede veffels growing hard unto them,foure ufually joyned together. : The Place and Time. athe firft onelyof thefe, is familiar in our land as] take it: the third Bawhinus faith,groweth in the watery dit- ches at Padoa,in the river Awxeris by Pifa, andin Silefia neere untoUratifiavia,the reft areall ftrangers,andare in their frefheft beauty in the beginning of theyeare, Lens palufiris five aquatica vulgaris. Duckes meate. NTT pa fepe TheTheater of Plans, The Names, Lens paluftris, five Lenticula aquatica, Water Lentils. ~h Trise 14 2, Lens paluftris quadrifolia. Croffe leafed yater Lentilsor Duckes meate: Carapijy. 1263 ee eee 3. Lenspalaftrislatifoliaipunthara > Lentictla ajuatica Neapolitana, Tris called inGreeke oaxassént ray teauers’, fome take Broad leafed {pored Warer Lentilsand that of Naples, it to bee “lgrver of Theaphrafye: in, Latine Lens paluftris, and Lenticula paluftris G aquatica, and {fo do all Authors callche firttforr : the fecondis the Lens paluflris altera of ¢Matthiolus,and Lemma Lheophrafti by-Lugdunenfis; as alfo the Lenticule alterum genus of Cefalpim, which Bauhinus callech Lenticula palaftrts quadyifolia: the third iscalled by Bawhinus in his-Pinax, Lenspalisftris latifolsa punéata, being bertet expreft in his AZetthiolea, then in his Phytopinax, and by Ce/alpinws taken to bee Stratiores aquatica Dio(coriain : The aft is mentioned by Columna by thename ofCallitriche of ey Kb, 2 546. Temervailing at Lobel for fuppofing the Cotylidon aguaticdm,as it is er« ronioufly called (being a’‘marth'Crowefoote} as the hot, fharpetalte thereof doth teltife)tobe Calitriche ot Pliny; but yet faith this of his ismonthe right, but rakech thac Pliny meant the Trichomanes) by higCaSjtriche, which I thinke cannot hold yood,neither the oneforthe other, for Pliny his words in the place before citédare thefe, Fir ex Callitriche flernitamentumFolia fant ce fimilia,can= lis juncis tenni/simis, pagice minina nofcitur in opacgs & bite midis guftatisfervens; thus much Pliny : meti is likely iy } Sie yy Wy, ‘it made Co/amna comparing his with this of Pliny, both for LH he forme and quality,not to dare to affirmeit the fame, be- i Kol Nf caufe faith Pling it is guffufervens, which neither his nor Trichomanes is. Baubinuscalleth it Lenticula paluftris bifo~ lia fruButerragono, The Arabians call ic Tabaleband 7 haleb,the Italians, Lente de palude,and Lenticilaria, the Spaniards, Lentille del lagua;the French, Lentstedeax; the Ger- oyNN manes Wafferlinfer;the Dutch, Water linfen,but more uf- ally, Enden gruen,that.is Duckes herbes”and to we in Englio, Duckes meate, and of fome,Water-Lentils : the fe- condfortis called by che Jtalians, with whom itis plentifull, Lente palustre del ferme. The Vertues. 3 Ia It iscold and moift as Galen {aithin the fecond degree,and is effe€tuallto helpe inflammations,and Saint Ant sect nies fire,as alfo the Goute,citherapplied byit felfe,or elfe in a pultis with barlie meale itis alfo good for popes in youngchildren,Somefaith Afasthiolus dohighly efteeme-of che deftilled water of the herbe.againft ail pain inflammations and peftilent feavers, as alfo to helpe the redneffe of the eyes,the {wellings of thecods, ando ne brefts before they be growen too much, for it doth nor weakely repell the humours: the frefh herbe applied to d he forehead,eafcth the paines of the headache comming of heate. Duckes do greedilie devoureit, and fo will Hens ific be giventhen mingled with branne: Cuar. XXXV. Pfendocyperi. sce.See NTIS Baftard or unfavoury Cyperus, Geet N the end ofthe firft Claffisor Tribe of this Worke,T have fhewedyou fundry forts of {weere {mel©)ling Cyperus: butthereare many otherforts that fmell nota all,called either battard orunfavoury Cyperus,fomewhat refembling the {weete forts, both the round and long rooted Cyperus, and there 6 are Grafles alfo growing in the moorifh places like unto themin rooteorleafe, and thereforecalled Cyperus Graffes. Of the former forts called Vnfavoury Cyperus,I meaneto entreate in this Chapter, and of the Graffes in the next following, , 1. Cypirs longus inodorva vulgaris, Wnfavoury Cyperus with long rootes, This long rooted Cyperus hath divers long and narrow roughthree fquare leaves rifing from the roote, enclo- fing or encompaffing.one another at thebottome, from among whichrifeth up athree fquare{talke foure or five Soe a jis Ae Hi a ; foote high,with {ome fuch leaves thereon, but{mallertothe toppe, ateach of whofe upper joynts breake forth three or fourerough and almoft round burres upon fhort footeftalkes,the roote creepethunder ground fomewhat like the true fweete long Cyperus, bur blackifh and with many morefibres thereat, and withoutany fent in them. 2. Cypirws longus inodorys fylvaticus. Mountaine or Woodunfayoury Cyperus. This other long rooted Cyperusbath lopg joynted reddifhrootes, and many long and narrow tough greene leavesrifing therefrom, compafied in thé beginning with a reddifh skinne: neither {talke nor head hach as yet beene obferved, 3. Cypirus retundus littorens inodorns Anglicus, Englifo round rooted. unfavoury Sea Cyperus. Our round rooted Sea Cyperus hath divers round rootes faftened cogether by {trings,almoft after the manner of Filipendnla rootes fhooting forth fundry heads ofleaves that arc long and narrow,three {quare and cornered, the |