OCR Text |
Show pc lsa ct 226 Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Atriplex filueftrsvulgarts. Gomnmenwilie Orach. P Lis.2. t 6A riplex (jlucftris altera. The other wilde Orach, Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. 27 iM, The Time, They floure and feed from Iune to the end of Augutt, | The Names. Garden Orachis called in Greeke, asdeaticls in Latine, Atriplex, and Aureum Olus : in Dutch 5 OCD. in French, Arrouches ou bonnes. dames :-in Englifh} Orachsand Osage in the Bohemian tongue, Leboda : Pliny hath made fome difference betiveene Atriplecatid: Chry/olachanum,as though they differed onefrom another ; for ofAtriplex he writeth in his twentieth bookexand of: chy iO tachanum in histwenty eighth booke,and eighth chapter.:wherelheewriteth thus $ Chryfolachars; faith he, groweth in Pinetumlike Lettuce : it healeth cut finewes ifit be forthwith applied, 3. Thiswilde Orachhath beene called of Lobel, Poly{bermon Calfani Bafi,or All feed, The Temperature. Orach,faith Galea, is oftetiperature moift in the fecond degrée, and cold in the firft. @ The Kertues. Diofcorides writeth, That the garden Otach is both moiftand cold sandthaticiseatenboyled 4 as otlier fallad hérbes are, and that it foftheth and loofeth the belly. ; Itconfumerh’away the fwellings of the throat, whether it be laid on raw or fodden. B The feed being drinke with meade or honied Watct, isa remedieagainft the yellow jaundicé.. C ‘Gales thinketh, that for thareaufe it hatha clenfing qualitie,andmay open the toppings ofthe D fiuer, ; mt Tit igure which wasin the fecond place wasof Per Anjerintia . Of TabersThe th place. figure'in' the fourth place was ofthe wildOrach, that I haue defgribed in the tlt Cir. 46. Atriplex olida. Stinking Orach Atriplex fylueftris anguftifolias #7 os wilde Orach, £8 Atriplex baccifera. Berry-bearing Orach Of Stinking Orach. q| The Defiription. Tinking Orach growes flat ypon the ground and is a bafeand low plant with many weak and feeble branches, whereu pon doe grow {mall leaues of a pape colour, {prinkled ouer with a certaine kindé of dufty mealineffe, in thapelike the leaues of Bafll :among{t which leaues here and there confufedly be the feeds difperfed;as it were nothing bursduft or afhes. The whole plant is of a moft loathfome fauour or {mel , vpon which plantifany fhould chanée to reftand fleepe, he might very well report to his friends, that he had repofed himfelfe among the chiefe of Scoggins heires. q The Place. Itgroweth vpon dunghills, and in the moft filthy places that may be found,as alfo about the common piffing places ofgteat princes and Noblemens houfés, Sometimeit is found in places neere bricke-kilns and old walls > which doth fomewhat alterhis fmell, whichis like to. ited cheefe: but that which growethin his natural] place fmells like Rtinking falt-fith, whereofit tooke his.name Garofmnus. @ The Time. It isan herbe for ayeare, which {ptingethvp, and when thefeedis ripeit petitheth, and recouereth it felfe againe of his owhe {eed ; fo that ifitbe gottenintoa ground , it cannot be deftroyed: Stink; ] The Names, tnking Orachis: called 9; Corasss,G arofimusp ecaufeit fmellerhilike ftinking fifh; itis Bis a calle |