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Show "334 E THE SECOND BOOKE OF ‘TH HISTORIE OF PLANTS. sxe Thenames. bicaulei Ivisteported by menof great fameandlearning, that this plant was called Tripolinm, doth importfo turbith Alexandrinumofficinarum, Tarperumnsor Turbithofthe fhops. dothchange the colour of his fowersthrice ina day. Indeede the wordTripolwm things ofaS pteat much.This rumor we may beleeue,anditmay be true,for that we fee and perceiue his that it may receiue the vaporsthat rife from the {ea,but twoor three miles diftant, aridthat invntilled grounds rather moift thendrie. It is founde i Cambaya,Surrates,in the Ile Dion,Bazai places hard adioining; alfo in Guzarates, w growethplentifully,from whence great abundance of itis brought into Perfia, Arabia, little Afia, and fo into Europe:but thatis preferred which groweth in Cambaya. % The names. It is called of the Arabians, Perfians, and Turks Tarbith:andin Guzarata Barcaman : in the prouince Canara, inwhichis the citieGoa, Tieuar: likewife in Europe the learned call it by fundri names, according to their feuerall fancies, hath bred fundrie controuerfies as it hath fall out betweene the Hermodaétyles; and Turbith; the vfe and pofleffion of which , we cannot feeme towant: butwhich plant is the true Turbith, we haue great caufé to doubt. Some haue thought our gatden,whither(in and greater wonder,to proceede out ofthe earth,This herbe I planted inmy feafon)I did repaire to finde out thetruth hereof, butl couldnotefpie any firch variablenelfehere the colourof diuers fow. ins yet thusmuch I may fay, thatas the heate of the funne doth change pale orwanco. ers: fit fell out withthis, whichin the morning was very faire, but afterwarde ofa Jour. Which prooueth thattobe but a fablewhich Diofcorides writeth, thavin onedayitchangeth white, atnoone purple, the colour ofhis flowers thrice: that is to fay,in the morningit is andinthe the flowers evening 9etnty,or crimfon.But itis not vntrue,that there maybe found three coloursof touched.) bit in oneday,by reafon that the Gowersarenotall perfected togither (as before I partly in them, which oneafter another by little and litle.And there mayeafily be obferued three colours thofe tha is to be vnderftood ofthem that are beginningto flower, that are perfectly fowred, andpurplithico. & pertedct, are ofa ate falling away. For they thatare blowing,and be not wide open away,haue lourjand thofe thatareperfect and wide open,of a whitifh blew; andftich as are falling called of awhite downe: which changing happencth vnto fundry other plants. This herbeis' Serapias Turbith : womenthat dwellby the fea fide, call itin Englifhblew Daifies, orblew Cano. mill ; and about Harwichit is called Hogs beanes, for that the {wine doe greatly delight tofeede Itis thereon: as al(o for that the knobs about theroores do fomwhat refemble the GardenBeane, Marinws calledin Greeke spetaor,and ofdiuers Lu,itmaybefitly called Aster Adarinus,ot A msellus in Englith Sea Starwort,Serapias Turbith,offome Blew Daifies. The ArabianSerapio,dothcal Sea Starwort, Turbith, and after him Auicen : yet Adwarins the Grecian doth thinke thatTubitt is theroote of Afpum : Mefues iudged it to be the roote of an herbelike Fennell. The hiftoriea Turbithofthe fhopsfhallbe difcourfed vpon in his properplace. Tripolim marinum, defcribed in the former chap ter tobe Turbith: others haue fuppofed itto bee oneofthe Tythimales,butwhich kinde they knowe not : Guilandinus faith , that the roote of 7° d mmalus mirfinittsis the true Turbiths which % The nature. Tripolinmishovin thethird degree, as Galenfaith, %% The vertues. A. Therooteof Tpolinm takenin wine by the quantitie oftwo drams, driveth forthby fiege wat rifh and groffe humors.for whichcaufe itis often giuen to them that haue the dropifie. B__ tis anexcellentherbe againft poifon,and comparable with Pyrola, ifnorof greater efficacies healing ofwoundseither outward or inward. ; % Theplace. Ie groweth by the feafide, -but(yet not fo neere L LObelius and Pena.to plucke vpby the rootesall thekindes of Tythimales,and drie themvery cutiouflie ;which whentheyhad beheld,and throughly tried,they founde it nothing fo,The Arabians and halfe Moores that dwell inthe eaft parts,hau giuen diners names vnto this plant: and as their wordes are diuers, fohaue they diuers fignificatiae ee Turbith they feeme to interpret to be any milkie root which dothftrongly purge mi — oe So that'as men haue thought good pleafing, themfelues , they haue ee us a conftruétions which haue troubled many excellent learned men, to knowe Of Turbith ofAntioch. Mosc, the tric Turbith. Butbriefly to fet downe mine opinion , not varying from the Chap.89. dene. i which are of great experiences I thinke affuredly thatthe roote of Scammonie fotki Men. oe vndoubted Turbith: one reafon efpeciallythatmooueth me foto thinkeis, aken vpthe rootes of Scammonic which grewe in my garden, and compared them withthe tootes of Turbith, betweene whichI foundelitele or no.difference atall; t j ; % The temperature and verties. Thelndian phiffi;. % The defiription. gerotherwiie em tions dovie it topurge flegme.,,to which if shere, beno ague they doadde gin- A Arcia a Lufitanian or Portingale phifition faith that Turbith is a plant having rootenb isneither great nor long : the ftalk is ofafpan long, fomtimeslonger, a finger thickest cteepeth in the groundelike Inie,, and bringeth foorth leaues like thofe of themarithl™ lowe. The flowers be alfolike thofe of the Mallowe, ofa reddifh white colour: the ourwardin’ of whofe rootes isthat whichisprofitable inmedicine and is the fame thatis vfedin {hops™ Aiieanoe without itin the broth ofa chicken, and fometimes in faire water. fe Meoutof the x that Turbithishos in the thirde degree ;,and,thatit yoideth thicke,tough B ashe ith) eis a omacks sche; finewes’, and our of the furthermioft:parts.of thebodie: but _ QE; mafticke nae ihe working, and troubleth andoverturneth the ftomacke :.and-therfore ginfelues . ~ or ist {pices are to be mixed with its, alfojoile offweete almondes, or alayon des choofe that forthe beft whichis hollowe, & round like awede brittle, and witha {mooth bass* alfothat whereunto doth cleatiea congealed'gum, whichis Gide to ™ gunmo|ui, or gure Others Kean titwith ee = eaft the bodie with the yfe heercoffhoulde pine and fall away, theabotheenia? weete almonds, and certaine other things, making thereof a compofition ( thac aes;re! ae our marchants note the beft Turbith by the gummineffe, are pi they g hefame , citherto writhe orelf lightly tobrufe them, thatthe fappeor nt NS €Xpert phifitions, the moft:but in the de- C ¢ Bin or the at ae time ofthis Turbith one dram(moreor leffe)tivoat Fin the infufion three or fower: eet white, But, as Garcfaefaith,itis not alwaies gummie ofhis own natures butthelt iffout; which toote being once hatdned ; they picke out from thereft to fell at a great Tris likewife made white, as the faide author fheweth being dried in the fanne: for ifit be ant the fhadowe,it waxeth blacke. : #1 aries call an Eleétuarie)which is named Aepovxty: commornin {bops', and.in; continuall Of |