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Show 424 3 Cotyledonpalustris. % The defcription. Water Pennywoort. OF PLANTS. OfSea Pennywoort. Chap.14.4.. HISTORIE THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE 3 Thereis akinde of Nauelwoort, that stow. ethin waterie places, whichis called of the hut bandman Sheepesbane, bicaufe itkilleth theepe that do eate thereof: itis not much vnlikethe 2 Androface annua fpuria. 1 Androface Mathioli, Sea Nauell woort. One fommers Nauell woort: precedent, but the round edges oftheleaues are not fo euen as the others andthis creepeth ypon the ground,andthe other vponiftone wals, % Theplace. The firftkinde of Pennywoort growethplen. tifully in Northampton vpon euery ftonewal about the towne , at Briftowe, Bathe, Wels; ¥ o, IQ). os> is Y aA and moft places ofthe weft countrie ypon ftone wals. It groweth vpon Weftminfterabbay, ouet the doore that leadeth from Chaucerhis tombe tothe oldepalace. The fecond groweth vponthe Alpes neere Piedmont, andBauier, and vponthe mountain of Germany : Ifounde the fame growing ypon Biefton caftell in Chefhire. % Thetime. They aregreeneand flourithefpeciallyinimter :they flowrein the beginning offommer, | %& Thenames. Nauelwoort is called in Greeke weir Latine /mbilicus Veneris, and Accetabalam 0 divers Herba Coxendicum: Iacobus Manis Dutch meth it Seatumceli,andScatellm:i0 Ei in French uelcruyts in Italian Cupertoiule: Horton. elles :in Spanith Capadella: of fome vis,or Venus garden, and Terre vmabilicns, orm Pennywoort,Ladies nauell,and Hipwo Navuell ofthe earth: in Englith Pennywoort, Vall palustri s : in Englifh Sheepes killing Water Pennywoort is called in Latine Coryledon is alfo Red rot, whichis Ry4™ graffe , Pennyrot, &in the north countrie White rot: for thete in Northfolke itis called Flowkwoort, se The temperature. Nauelwoortis ofa moift fubftance and fomewhatcolde, and of acertaine ob ad : eo repelleth, or driueth backe, fcowreth and confumeth, ot wafteth away; teftifieth. %& The vertues. A B_ C_ mot Theiuice of Wall Pennywoortis a fingular remedie againft all inflammations and nes eee as Eryfipelas,Saint Anthoniesfite,and firchlike: and is goodfor kibed heeles, being bance” with, and one or more ofthe leaues laid vpon the hecle. ra saint and preuaile much agai Theleaues androoteseaten dobreake the ftone , prouoke vrine, ty ; dropfie. Theignorant Apothecaries do vfe the Water Pennywoortin fteade of this of the wa" kn¢ rro to the patient: for husbandmen they cannot dowithout great error, and much danger thatitis noi{ome yntofheepe, and other cartellthat feede thereon, and for the moft partPe"s death yatothem,muchmore to men, bya ftronger reafon. . : The defiription. : T HeSea Nauelwoort hath many roundthicke leaueslike vntolittle faucers, fet vpon {mall and tender ftalkes,bright,(hining and {mooth,of two inches long, forthe moftpart growMae oe backs ofthe fhell fithcalled Chamaconcha,cuery fall ftem beating Better in ee ph oo and nomore, refemblinga nauell 5 the ftalke andleafe ie Adérinne a gs et ag Whereuponthe Herbarifts of Montpelier haue called * The leaues and ftalkes ofthis plant, whileft they are yet in the wattae ofa pale ae called Corelin or the ca: = being taken foorth, theyprefently waxe white, as o oe faluth andbitter os rmaecelt a che Itis thought to be barren of feede, andisintafte decciuedin the deleri ~ : - - ider (asTh ie done) howfar, euen the beft writers haue beene manliuing knowethall thingsand cj ee i, vO . ls plant. Butwe muft remember, thatno ftumbleth. ; ‘ 2 Thefecond ai = eee :itisa goodhorfe that neuer of a nat ittle{mooth leaues, {pred ypon the ground like vnto the leaues 'mall Chickweed e, ot Henne bit, whereof doubrleffe it isa kinde : among whichriferh vpa flenher ft . Ceritem, havin is conteinedinfoall este eee cettaine little chaffic flowers of a purplifh colour. The feede when petifheth plant whole he T tafte. abitter colour,and areddifh ithath petfeGeq hi fe eo Mathiolys by Corti i €, and mutt be fowen againe the next yeere,which plant was giuento Msthiolus more icifall, ‘ ee eed) receiued it fromSyria 5 burl thinke he faide {o to make it doth SFoweeuen as the f i ve urely I furmife he pickedit out of one olde wallor other, where Andyofices wy: mall Chickweede 5 or Nailewoort of the wall do. % Theplace. ofit about Frontignan by en growe any where butin inst great {tore thereis _*he feconde Po > where eueryfifher man doth knowe tent BAC Mathiolys rs: BApOn olde ftone and mudde wals :notwithftanding Ihaue (the more to The baflarde Stat iewell) plantedit in mygarden. % Thetime. ee ‘Androface fowrethin Tuly,andthe feede is ripe in Auguft, % The names. is of fome ca Ned Ymbilicusmarinus,or fea Nauell. And"aces |