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Show OF theHiftory of iar Plants, . Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lise which being paft there appearetriangle huskes or buttons wherein is the feed, ‘TI Ne LOO IS asi were a great tuft of threds or thrums, ¢ 2 Thisplantinhis roots and Icaues is like the laft defcribed,as alfoin the ftalke but mith leffe in each of them,the ftalke being about fome foot high; ar the top whereofft and many prety ftarre-like skinnyfeed-veflels, containing a yellowith feed. + 3. Thefecond kinde hath long,little, and narrowleaues, much likethe Plantainecalled Rib woort : among which rifev p fmallandfeebleftalks branchedat the top, whereonare placed whit floures, confifting of three {lender leaues ; which being fallen, there come to your view toe knobs, or rough burs : the root is threddy. | The Place, t This herbe growes about the brinkes of riuets, ponds and ditches almoft euery where, ¢ 2 3 Thefearemorerare. I foundthe fecondalittle beyondIlford, in the wayto Rum ford, and M*. Goodyer found it alfo growing vpon Hounflow heath, I found the thirdinthe Companyof M'. williamBroad,and M', Leonard Buckner, ina ditchonthis fide Ma reate in the Ifle of Tenet. ¢ : 419 G The Vertues. , ; Theleaues ofwater Plantaine,as fome Authors report are goodto belaid vpon thelegs of fuch as are troubled with the Dropfie, and haththe fame propettie that the land Plantaine hath. + Diofcorides and Galen commendthefeed hereofgiuen in Wine,againft Fluxes, Dyfenteries, the {pitting of bloud, and ouermuchflowing ofwomenstermes, Pliny faith, the leaues are good againft burnes. ¢ Cuar.97: Of Land Plantaine. 1 Plantacolatifolia. Broad leaued Plantaine. 2 Plantagoincana. Hoarie Plantaine: qj The Time, Theyfloute from Tunetill Auguft. q|The Names. he firft kinde is called Plastago aquatica, that is, water Plantaine. + The fecond Lobelledls ifima a pufillum Anguftifolivm muricatum,and inthe Hift.Lugd. itis called Damafoninmffellaumt The third is named Plastago aquatica humilis that is, the low water Plantaine. £ Ithinke it fir here to reftore this plant to his antient dienitie.that is, his namesand tits wherewith hewas anciently dignified by Diofcorides and Pliny,The former whereof calls it by fundry names, and all very -fignificant and PYOper, as Aqwo'ner, worevoyelmw, veveseds,reyoans: thus manyae Greek, and therefore ought not to be reiected, asthey haue been by {ome withoureithertealon orauthoritie. For the barbarous names we can fay nothing , nowir is faid tobe called Limonimn, becaufle & aquée every:it growes in wet or ouerflowen medowes : it is called Neuroides,becaule the Ieafe is compofed ofdiuers ftrings or fibres running fromthe one end thereof tothe other,asin Plantain,whichtherfore by Déofcoridesis termedby thefamereafon wave. : Alfo it may beas filly termed Lonchitis for the fimilitude whichthe leafe hath to the topor head ofalance whith anproperly fignifies, as that otherplant defcribed by Diof. lib. 3. cap. 161. for that theleedla leffe eminentpart) refembles the fame thing. And for Potamogeiton which fignifies aneighbout to the Riuer or water, I thinke it loues the water afwell,and is as neere a neighbour to itas thet whichtakesit’s name fromthence,andis defcribed by Diofcorides, lib. 4. cap. 1 o1. Now to come to Pliny, lib. 20. cap. 8.hecalls it, Beta fitveftris, Limonionand Nexroides : the two later names out of Diofcorides, andI thall thew you wherealfo youfhall finde the former in him, Thusmite I thinke might ferue for the vindication of myaffertion,for I dare boldly affirmethat nolatelll! ter can fitall thefe names to any other plant, and that makes me more to wonderthat all outlate Herbarifts as Matthiolus, Dodoneus, Fuch{ius, Cafalpinus, Dale(champius, but aboueall Pengaod Lobell, who Aduerf: pag. 126. call it to queftion, fhould not allowthis plant tobe Limonmum pe ciallyfeing that Amguillara had beforeor in their time afferted it fo tobe - but whetherhe anyreafons or no for his affertion,I cannortell, becaufe I could neuer by any meanesget his nions, but onlyfinde by Bawhine his Pézaxthat {uch was his opinionhereof. “Buc to retusme fom whence I digreft, I will giue you Diofcorides his defcription,and a briefe explanation thereofand fo defitt ;itis thus: It hath leaues like a Beet,thinner and larger, 10. or more; a ftalke flenget, ftraightandastall as that ofa Lilly, andfull offeedsofan aftringent tafte. The leaues of peanPee of 4oe id .in,and as pe y told youin the poe“hi atid oe ‘ k ee y gathered by Diofiorides his words in the defcription 7 ° Hellebore,whofe leaues he comparestothe leaues of Plantaine and thewilde Beet : now thet ] The Defcription, S the Greekes haue called fome kindes of Herbes Serpents tongue, Dogs tongue,and Oxe tongue , fo haue theytermeda kind of Plantaine _47nog/offon.which is as if you {I umbes tongue,very well knowne vntoall, by reafon ofthe great commo: euery where ; andtherefore it is needleffe to fpend time about 10f the leaues hath been rhe caufe of the varieties and diuerfities no wild Beet mentioned by any ofthe Antients, but only this byP/izy intheplace formerly qe nde. and differeth in that, that this kinde of Plantaine hath bisa rah oi fit to pee nol of white Hellebore to, than thofe ofwaterPU and the leayes are of an hoarie or oucrworne greene colour: confidering ; ee cue om eae aliogiei —4 sesbe oe howdthveehal ae raig tan as high aste thatales ofa Lilly,w ithe© . of ‘. es eed ; fo that no one note is wanting in this, nor {carfe an) found in the otherplants that many haue of late fet forth for Litroninde @ The Nature, iny tender Ieaues ribbed like vnto the great Plantaineyandis that it is alrogether leffer. ew leaues, narrower than the Jeaues of the fecond ing one from another. It beareth avery i colour tending toyellownefle. Thefeed psa ariht natisOnt eases Water Plantaine cold and dry of temperature, é; d The ne |