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Show e q The Defcription. Impernell is like vnto Chickeweed ; the ftalkes are foure fquare,trailing hereand there ypon the ground,whereupondo grow broad leaues,and fharpe pointed, fer together by couples:from the bofome whereofcome forth flender tendrells, whereupon doe grow {mall purple floures tending to redneffe: which being paft there fucceedfine roundbullets, like vnto the feed of Corianders,whercinis conteined fima]l duftie feed. Theroot confiftethofflender ! ftrings. 2 The female Pimpernell differeth hor from the male in any one point,butin the colout of the floures; forlike as the former hath reddifh floures,this plant bringeth forth flouresofa mo perfect blew colour, whereinis the difference. ¢ 3 Ofthis there is another variety fet forth by Clufius by the name of Anagallistenuifolia Mo. nelli,becaufe he receiued the figure and Hiftory thereof from Johm Mouell of Lournay in France ; it differs thus fromthe laft mentioned,the leaues are longer and narrower,fomewhat like thofeof Gratiola,and they now and thengrowthree at a joint, and out of the bofomes ofthe leauescome commonly as manylittle foorftalkes as there are leaues,which carryfloures of a blewcolourwith the middie purplifh,and thefe are fomewhatlarger than themof the former,otherwifelike, ¢ 4 Anagallis lutea. $ 3 Anagallis tenuifolia. Narrow leaued Pimpernell. 6i9 OftheHiftory of ao Plants. 12 Lams e eeeett e Lis. 2 ~ Of the Hiftory of Plants. Yellow Pimpernell. ; q The Names. reporteth) Corchorus, Iriscalledit Greeke xeéne: in Latine alfo Anagallis : of diuers, (as Pitty word is extant in Diofiarides among, the babut vntruly sof Marcellus an old Writer, Macias the male, is named Phanicion, and Corallion sof the , being floure imfon the¢r fardnames, Thatwith whieh allion, that is vfed againft the gont; this is made the compofition or receit called Diacor th booke. Among the baftard names it compofition Paulus Agintta fetreth downe in his feuen Saurites : in Englith,Red Pimpernel, aud blew Pimpernel. hath beenecalled Aétitis, Aigitis, and The Temperature. ut biting, and fomewhat hot, witha Roththe forts of Pimpernel! are ofa drying facultie witho ers and thingsfixed in the fleth, fplint rth drawfo h doth it thar fomuc ty,in ng quali certaine drawi as Galenwriteth. q The Vertues. mmationsorhotfwelDiofcorides writes, That they are of power to mitigate paine, to cure infla and to helpe the lings, todraw‘oatofthe body andflefh thomes, {plinters , or fhiuers of wood, a Kings Euill. the toothTheiuyce purgeth the head by oargarifing or wafhing the throat therewith; it cures ache being {niftypinto the pofethrils, efpeciallyinto the contrary nofethrill. cers ofthe eye Ithelpeth thofe that be dim fighted :the iuyce mixed with honeycleaafes thevl calledin Latine Argema, Morcouet he affirmeth, That it is good againft thedtinging of Vipers, and other venomous beats. Irpreuaileth againft the infirmities ofthe liver and kidneyes,if the inyce be drunk withwine, Héaddeth further, howit is reported, That Pimpernel with the blew floure ielpeth vp the fundamentthatis fallen downe , andthat red Pimpernel applied, contrariwife bringeth icdowne, Cuar. 195. Of Brooke-lime, or water Pimpernel. @| The Defeription. Rooke-lime or Brooklem hath fat thicke ftalkes,roundjand parted into divers branches: the leaues be thicke, fmooth, broad, and of a deepe greene colour. The floures sow vpon {mall tender foot-ftalkes, which thruft forth of the bofome ofthe leaues,of a perfect blew colour,not vnlike co the floures of land Pimpernell : the tootis white,lowcreeping, with fine firings faftned thereto : out of the root {pring many other ftalkes,whereby it greatly en- creafeth. Thereisaleffervarietie of this, which our Authorfet forth’ in the fourthplace,differing ¢ not from this butonely in that iris leffe in all the parts thereof , wherefore I haue omitted the hift rie and figure, to make roomefor more con{picuous differences. + 2 The great water Pimpernell is like vnto the precedent, fauing that this planthath {harper pointedor larger leaues, and floures are ofa more whitith ora paler blew colour, wherein confifteth the difference. Th ] ! ars rie aa c ; ~ Caescts ; the out AuthourTy gaue in and defcription whofefigure ofthis, er varictie lef There : is alfa i ecaufe the differenceis in nothing but the magnitude I haue made bold toomit The yellow Pimpernel] hath many weake and feeble branches trailing vponthe grown ie5Baeannk ae oA the great Chickweed, notvnlike to Namgo fie ee which and the ftalkes, come forth two fingle and final] cenit dy. seach bearing at their top one yellowfioure andno more, The rootis {mall and thread} Piha ston i bi vd fields gq z Place. ; .'s <a Now that I hauebriefely given youthe hiftory of the foure formerly defcribed by our Au- thor, Twill ow Ieaues round, greene, and fhining, ftanding not by Couples, but-one aboue anosof the ftalkes. The leaues that lie on the ground are longer than the reft, and are omewhat like thofe of the commonDaifie, but that they are not {nipped about the edfloures are white,confi fting ofone leafe diuidedinto fiue parts ; and they grow at the fir ex 2 Of M*. r tohao Wright Wv5 * brother. + The yellow Pimpernel! aye is ae. a his growes 10 the> woos gh-gate and Hampftead, andin many other woods; the roa®™ :as for example,if the next day: after evpr keneth that rainefhall follow c ae Siaty Ve Pw thut GeterU Ps eber raine and foule weather ; contrariwife, if theySis be fpread a weather, oth aquatica tertia; andtherefore I haue thought firto giue’youit in the Ithath awhite andfibrous root ; fromwhicharifetha round fmoothftalke a gh, (yet I haue fometimes foundit not aboue threeor foure inches high :) vpon Tfound See isalem : ad path waies, in gardens and vineyardes, almottci Seb hole of Seah Ace ith blew floures ina chalkie cornefield in the wayfrom M‘. Wile . uthtieet to Longfield downs, but neuer any where elfe. + I alfobeing in Efex! ig ohesbridg : : ind tr; Pray conip: beibeth & oy ane friend M'. Nathaniel Wright found this among the corne at Ws} g . ehandm i eee . @ The Time : mmier2 floure They ; itea ner,and efpecially inthemoneth of Auguft,atwhat time the busbaas er ne, cae go vnto their harueft worke, will fir behold the floures of Pimpemn@s” nit youwith two orthree moreplants whichmay fitly be here inferted : The firft dilnagallis VW bert. an vmbel, but afterwards more {pike fafhioned It floures in Iune and Iuly,and grow-" a terie places, as in the marifhes of Dartford in Kent, alfo betweene Sandwich and Ownecaftle, andin the ditches onthis fide Sandwich. Bawhine faith,That Guillandinus callec uetimes Alif1,and otherwhiles Cochlearia : and others would haueit tobe Samalum ofPliny, *+25-€4p.11. Bashine himfelfe fitly calls it Anagallis aquatica folio rotundo non crenato. Eff 2 4 I cons |