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Show 420 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 4 Plantago Rofea fpicata. Spiked Rofe Plantaine, ee ~OFthe Hiftory ofPlans. L138;2. Li B. 2. q The Place. The greater Plantaines do growalmoft cuery where; The leffér Plantaine is found on thefea coafts and bankes ofgreat riuers, which are fometimes wafhed with brackith water. 5 Plantago Rofea exotica, Strange Rofe Plantaine, + TheRofe Plantaines grow with vs in gardens ; and the fixthwith {pokie tyifts groweth in fome places in the Ifle of Tenet, whereI firft foundit, being in company with M*. Thomas Hickes; M'.Lconard Buckner, and other London Apothecaries, dan0'1632. $ & The ¢ They are to be feene from Aprill vnto September. q The Names, ie is called in Latine Plamtago, and in Greekedrriyrase, and Arnzogloffa . that is to fay; ngue: the Apothecaries keepethe Latine name: in Italian, Piantagine, and Plantacine : 1 Spanith, Lhantem : the Germanes, MBegrich ¢in Low-Dutch, ndechbee sin Englith,Plancain; and Weybred: in French, Plantain, | The Temperature. Plantaine(as Galen faith) is ofa mixt temperature; for it hath in it a certaine waterie cold- neffe, with a little harfhneffe, earthy, dry, and cold: therefore they are cold and dry inthe fecond degree. To be briefe, they are dry without biting, and cold without benumming.. The root is of like temperature, but drier,and not focold. Thefeedis of fubtill parts, and of temperatuteleffe cold, $ 6 Plantago panniculis (parfis. Plantaine withfpokytufts, ‘ « The Vertues. Plantaine is good forvicers that are of hardcuration, for fluxes, iffues,rheumes,and rottennefle, andforthe bloudyflix it ftayeth bleeding,it heales vp hollowfores and vlcers,as well old as new. Ofall the Plantaines thegreateft is the beft, and excelleth thereft in faculeie andvertue. Theiuyce or decotion of Plantaine drunken ftoppeth the bloudyflix andall other fltixes of the belly, Roppeth the pifiing of bloud, {pitting of bloud, andal! other iffties of blondin man or woman, and the defire to vomit. Plantaineleaues ftamped and made intoa Tanfie, with the yelkes ofegges, ftayeth the inordi- nateflux ofthe termes, although it haue continued manyyeares, 5 Thefifth kinde ofPlantaine hath beene a ftranger in Englandand elfewhere, vntill the impreffion hereof. The caufewhy I fay fois the want ofconfideration of the beauty which is inthis plant, whereinit excelleth all ti other. Moreouer, becaufe that it hath notbia written of or recorded before this! pre time, though plants: of jeffer moment haue beene very curiouflyfet forth. This plant hath leaues like vnto themof the former, and moe orderly{pred vpon the groundlike a Role:* mong whichrife vp manyfmall ftalks liketie other plantaines , hauing at the top of eu) The root of Plantaine with the feed boyled in white Wineand drunke, openeth the conduits ot paflages of the liuer and kidnies,cures thejaundice, andvicerations ofthe kidnies and bladder, Che juyce dropped in the eyes doth coole the heat and inflammation thereof. I finde in ancjent Writers many good-morrowes, which I thinke not meet to bring into your memorie againe ; as that three roots will cure one griefe, foure anotherdifeafe, fix hanged about the necke are good foranother maladie, &c. all which are but ridiculous toyes. > leaues are fingular goodto make a water to wath afore throat or mouth,orthe priuy parts oman. lantaine {tampedand put into Oyle Oliue,and fet in the hot Sun fora moneth yled in a kettle offeething water (which we doecall Balneum Marre) and ainft the paines in theeares, the y ard, or matrix, (being dropped into nge into the other parts before rehéarfed) or thepaines ofthe funda1ed Gentleman M*. William Godowrus Sergeant Surgeon to the Queenes COS AP, 98. Of Rib-wort. Onea fine double Rofe altogether vnlike former, ofan hoaryorrufty greene colour f ‘ Ttake this fet forth by our Author “ : f the fame with that which Ctufias Tece’” fromTames Garret the yonger, from London, and therefore J giue youthe figure thereo! in this lace, together wi < ns os CoonGee ea this addition tothe hiftorie out OfClufivs : That fome oftheheads are Lake : : ner Rofe Plantaine . other fome are {pike fathion. and fome hauea pike g! ” as it were out of the midi f a ES i a N, and 1ome hauc ¢ , 5) ie Chemie’ ofthe Rofe, and fomeheads are otherwifefhaped: alfo the wholep ; eT} ate nan the common Rofe Plantaine 6 us plantain mutt ; ia : 5 . a norhere be forg $ - fond «fis leauless roots, andftalkes are like th steebe forgot,thoughitbe foniwhat hard to be found: ee ditided éafter the the here ordinarie, but inftead ofa compact hathone oe mann Mannct asvoleof youfeeit expreffed in the figure, and the{pike colourit thercof is nifh, + Line hath manyleaues flat {pred vpon the ground,narrow,fharp the moft part with fiue neruesor finewes,and therefore itwas he middle o ch leaues rifeth vp acrefted or ribbed cy knap, fet w fewfuch whitefloures as are the floures like the otherPlantaines. vort, which differs not from thelaft mentioned in es of a darke greene colour, fharpe pointed, nRib-wort; amongft which rife vp nake ted with certaine fharpe edges : at the top whereof growetha lofe are that grow next the ground, making one entire tuft 5 é |