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Show Liat Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 258 @ TheTime. : and wax rax greene in i Aprill, i ancd floure They fpting rein in Iuly. Tul at Thewales Crefle to beeateninfallads fhewethit felfe in March,whenitis beft, and floureth i Summer with rith the the reft. in 1 The Neils $ 2 Cuckow floures, 2 Cardamine altera. 2p Ladies-f{mocks, y The firft ofthele is Sinmmains latifolium of Tabernamontanns. a This is Sion odoratum Tragi: Sinm,of Matthiolws,D odonaus sandothers: it is taken to be Sizm, or Laner, of Diofcorides. Lobel calls italfo Paftinaca aquatica, or water Parfenep, peal 3 1 Cardamine, OftheHiftory of Planess i Thismay be called Sivm vmbellatum repens, Creeping water Parfenep. Of this thercisa rea« fonable good figure in the Hiftoria Lugdunenfis, pag.1092. vnderthe title of Sivm verum Matthioli ; butthe defeription is of that we here giue youin thefixth place. 4 This is Siwm alterum of Dedoneus: and Siumalterum olufatri facie of Lobel : : 5 Manyiudge this tobe the S ifymbrinm alterum,or Cardamine of Diofcorides : as alfo the Sion ofCratenas : and therefore Lobel termesit Sion (ratene eruce folinm, It is called by Dodoneus, and vulgarly in fhops knowneby the nameof Nafturtinm aquaticum, or water Crefles. ‘© 6 Thisiscalled Sivm vulgare by Matthiolus : Lebel alfo termes it SinmcUatthioli cItalorum This was thought by our Countrey-man DoGor Turner tobe no other than the fecond here de- {cribed : ofwhich opinion I mutt confeffe I alfowas; but vpon better confiderationofthatwhich Lobel and Banhine haue written, [haue changed my minde. @| The Temperature. + Water-Creffe is euidently hot and dry, Ny | ae Persoe Ts i hdl ™ ii lia iM : ——_ ~ q The Vertues. Water-Creffe being boyled in Wineor Milke, and drunkefor certaine dayes together,isvery good againft the Scuruy or Scorbute. : Being chopped or boyled in the broth offleth; and eaten for thirty dayes together, at morning, noone, and night,it prouokethvrine, wafts the ftone, and driueth it forth. Takenin the famem: ner, it doth cure yong maidensofthe greenfickneffe, bringeth downe the termes,and fendethinta the face their accuftomedliuely colour, loft by the topping oftheir Men/trua, — Cuarif8. Of wilde Water-Creffes, or (Cuckow Flouress + 3 Cardamine alteraflorepleno. Double floured Lady-fmocke: 4Cardamine Trifolia. Three leaned Lady-fmocke, @ The Defcripiion, _ He fir of the Cuckow floures hathleaues at his {pringi ng vp fomwhat round,and thole thatfpri ng afterward grow laggedlike the leaues of Greeke Valerian: among whichti- fethvp ftalkea foot long, fet with thelike Jeaues, but {maller,and more iagged nies fembling thofe of Rocket. The floures growat the topin fmall bundles, white of.colour, hollow in the middle, refembling the white fweet-Iohn : after which docome {mall chaffie husks or feed veffels,wherein the feed is contained. The rootis {mall and threddy. ; 2 The fecond fort of Cuckow floures hathfmall jagged leaueslike thofe of {mall water V4 <tian, agreeing with the former in ftalkes androots : the Houres be white, ouerdafht or declining toward a light carnation, + 3 The leaues and ftalks of this are like thofe of the laft i : Hei 2 floures which firft thewthemfelues much valike them ; but when geoieoo aadl rife vp heads of pretty double floures made of many leaueS, like in colour to thefe ofthe fingle. z ‘ Thefourthfort of Cuckow Floures groweth creepin g vpon the ground. with {mall threddy¢ alkes, whereon do growleaues like thofe of the field Clauer, or three leaued Graffe : among} which docome vp {mall and tender ftalke s two handfuls hich hauingfloures atthe ter a quant top in gfe e itie than. anydo.th erelt ofthe reft,, of of colou r white c o l u r and after them them follor follow cods containing a {ma cae d€ toot 1s nothing elfe butas it werewhi inga ft a bundle of thrums or threds. Milke white Lady_-(; 4 My at ie : ‘ ize : f e dda Lady-fmocke hath’ ftalkes rifing immediately fromthe root, diuiding thet elues into fundty fmall twicoy and hard b hés fer a; i floures growatthe top, madeoff dake ranches, tet with leaues like thofeeeof Serpillum. The f ZY Va LySM colour: the rooris tough and woody» ofa yellowith cot foureleautes ae Pep BES vith fom with fomefibtes thereto +” Thisi ! 1 ei per ely theréffom in thatannexed the fonres gail Als 1s No Otherthan thefirft defcribed, differing on Y h are milke white, as our Author truly inthe title of his figure mace them j ; yet forget gettin gs himfelfe in N hi eRe cursting his deferiipti ption, f 5 he makes ma them yellow 2 ifh,co i ntrarii e to ohi hi mielfé; 6 Mountaine 6 Gardunine |