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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. _ z ——_— cheeseseee L 1 B.2, Lis, 2. a woort, butalrogether leffer, and not fo hairy: from the bofome of which leaues fhoot beautifull floures bell fathion, ofa bright putple colour, with a fmall peftle or clapperi forth very D themid. dle,andin other refpeas is like the precedent. Cuar.117. : $5 This from a wooddyand wrinkled root ofa pale purple colour fends forth many rough crefted ftalkes of fome cubit high, which are vnorderly fer with Jeaues, longs rough, and fhipt lightly about their edges, being ofa darkecolour on the vpper fide,and ofa whitifh on theirynder part. Atthe tops ofthe ftalkes grow the floures,being many,and thicke thruft together, white of co'our, and diuided into fiue or feuen partsjeach Aoure hauing yellowith threds,and a pointal in their middles. It floures in Auguft,andwas firft fer forth and defcribed by Pona in his defer. tionof Mount Baldus. + q ThePlace. The firftdefcribed and fometimes the fecond growes very plentifully inthe low woads and hedge-rowes of Kent, about Canterbury, Sittingborne, Grauefend, Southfleet, and Greenehyth, efpecially vnder CobhamParke- pale in the way leading from South fleet to Rochetter, at Eltham about the parke there not farre from Greenwich ; in moft ofthe paftures about Watford and Bu. they,fifteene miles from London. # 3 The thirdwas kept by our Authorin his Garden,as it is alfo at this day preferued inthe garden of M'.Parkinfon.: yet inthe yeere 1626 I foundit in great plentygrowing wilde vpon the bankes of the River Oufe in Yorkthire, as Iwent fromYorke to vifite Selby the place whereas I Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Of Peach-bells and Steeple-bells. q] The Defiription. I He Peach-leaued Bell-floure hatha great numberof {mall and long Ie a great buth out ofthe ground, like the leaues of the Peach tree :among , fifing ina which riferh vp aftalke two cubits high :along{t the ftalke grow manyfloures like bells,fomtime white, and for the moft part ofa faire blewcolour ; but the bells are nothing fodcepe as they of the other kindes , and thefe alo are moredilatedor {pred abroad than any of thereft. The {eed is {mall like Rampions, and the root a tuftoflaces or {mall ftrings. 2 The fecond kindeof Bell-floure hath a great numberoffaire blewith or Watchet floures; like: the other laft two cubits and a hal fehigh, : before mentioned,aegrowing vpon goodly tall ftemis ‘ leaues like i Beets, ots. diforder!y diforder ‘which are garnifhedfromthetop of the plant vnto the ground with placed. This wholeplantis exceedingfull of milke, infomuch as if you do but breake one leate of the plant, manydrops ofa milkyiuycewill fall vpoa the ground. Therootis very great,and full ofmilk alfo: likewife the knops whereinthefeedfhould be are empty and voidof feed,{o that the wholeplant is altogetherbarren, and muft beincreafed with flipping of his root. 1 Campanulaperficifolia, was borne,being ten miles from thence: + 2 Campanula lattefcens pyramidalis; Steeple milkyBell-floute. Peach-leaued Bell-floure, The fourth growethin the medownext vnto Dittonferrie as you goe to Windfore,vpontte chalky hills about Greenehithe in Kent,andinafield bythe high way as you go from thence Dartford , in Henninghamparke in Effex , and in Sion'medownetre to Brandford, eight miles from London. ; The fifth growes on MountBaldusin Italy. @ The Time. All the kindes ofbell flouresdo floure and flourithfrom Mayvntill che beginningof Augut, except the laft, which is the plant that hath been taken generally for the Calathian volt, which floureth in the later end of September ; notwithftandirig the Calarhianviolet ot Attumne violet isofa moft bright andpleafant blew orazure colour,as thofe are ofthis kind,al tose this plant fometimes changethhis colourfrom blew to whiteneffe b y fome one accident or other, G The Names; r. 2 Throtewoott is called in Latine Ceruicaria, and Ceruicaria major : in Greckeyresin of molt, /wularia : of Fuchfins, Campanula - in Dutch,Pal{erupt ¢ in Enelith, Canterbutie bells, Haskewoorte, Throtewoort, or “w/a woort, of the vertue ithath again{t the paineand fivelling thereof. + 3. Thisisthe Trachelinm majus Belearum of Lobel, and the fame(as I before noted) thit our Author formerly fer forth by the name of Trachelinm Giganteum, fo that I haue putthems you may fec,togetherin thetitle ofthe plant. 4 This isthe Trachelivm maius of Dodoneus, Lobelland others : the Ceruicaria minor of Taberm2 montanus.and Vuularia exigua of Tragus : Our Author gauethis alfo anotherfigure and deferipti®n by the name of 7io/a Calathiana, not knowing that itwas the laft faue one whichhe had defcribed by the name of Trachelinmminus. + {| The Temperature. Thefe plants are cold and dry,as are moft ofthe Bell floures, G The Vertues. ie The Antients for any thing that we knowhaue not mentioned, and therefore not fet donne any thing concerning the vertues of thefe Bell floures : notwithftanding we haue found in the ter writets,as alfo ofour owne experience, that they are excellent good againft the inflamma of thethrote and 7uula or almonds, and all manner of cankers and vicerations in the mouth, it f mouthand throtebe Satgarized and wafhed with the deco@ion of them:and they are ofallo — herbes the chiefe and Ptincipall tobe put into lotions, or wafhing waters, to inieé into cheprt parts of manor womanbeing boiled with hony and Allom in water, with fome white wine. Cuat 4 1¢ fmal! Bell-floure hath manyroundleaues very like thofe of the commonfield Violet, ipred vpon the ground , among whichrife vp {mall flender ftems,diforderly fer with many gtaffie : >thofe of flax. Thefmall ftemis diuided at the top into fundrylittle branches, ndo growprettyblewflouresbell-fathion. Therootis {mall and threddy. The yellow Bell-floure is a very beautifull plant ofan handfull high, bearing at the top of tender ftalkes moft pleafant floures bel- fathion,of afaire and bright yellowcolou r. d roots are like the precedent, fauing that the leaues that grow next to the ground tare not foround as the former.tCertainly our Authorin this place meant tofet forth ? ila lutea linifolia flore volubilis, dcfcribedin the Aduerf. pag. 177.and therefore I hauegi“en you the figure thereof, + Ppz 4 The |
