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Show “Ofthe Hiftoryof Plants. : 1 the Low-countreyae men, MPuev" wepper : the f : : Stone-crop, Pricket, Moufe-taile, Wall-P } +} exuleerateth. Seat ts length Theiuye vomit, and | ingeth vp gt tentimes cure he Quarta itis aremedy ainit poy { 2: Is, and the Ki rawne f rot per, Countrey Pepper,and Iacke of the Bue it be layd vnto them,as Diofcorides writes, iwith vineger or other liquor, procureth ly taken, OfOrpyne. yne fendeth forth 1 id ftalkes, thicke, flipperie, hauingasit wee t red noy id then about the root; the leaues in like mannerbe times fleizhtlynicked in the edges, broader lea. {lane ; oth poii againtt ar other vpon ¢ uery jOINt, cou in the round tuftsare ofa paleyellow : not much vnlike ; which bycouples arefet op he ftz groweth full of bum; Waxing tharpe towardthe point : thefe ketnels be white, and haue ftrings 1 Craffi: la major Hifpanica. Spanith Orpyne. 1 oe alf6 cholericke ; and doththerebyof other Agues of longcontinuance : and giuenin this manner legmaticke Ht Cuap, 14.6. fed, crop, and Stonehore . hot. Being outwardlyappli ed it raifeth blittey This little herbeis tharpe and biting, an ‘Lis.OftheHiftory of Plants: Dae lith men, Stonc and twosthe floures ike vnto long kernels, ct »wing forth ofthe, fim t ie and oftentimes fomewhatnickedinthe edges,leffer than thofe of the former, placed out of order. Thefloures be either redor yellow,orelfe whitith: the root is white, well bodied, and full of kernels. This plant is very full oflife: the ftalkes fet onely in clay continue greenea long time 3; and ifthey be now andthen watered they alfo grow. We hauea wilde kinde of Orpyne growing in comefields and fhadowy woods in moft places of England,in eachrefpedt like that ofthe garden, fauing that itis alrogetherleffer. @ The Places They profper beft in fhadowieandftony places, in old walls made of lome or fone. Oribafius faith, That they growin Vineyards andtilled places, The firkt growethin gardens; the other eueriewhere the firft is much foundin Spaine and Hungarie ; neither is Germanie without it ; for it groweth vponthe bankes oftheriuer of Rhene neere the Vineyards, in rough and ftony places, nothing at all differing tromthat whichis found in Spaine, The fecond sroweth plentifully both in Germany, France, Bohemia, England,an din other countries amongvines, in old lomie daubed and ftony walls. | The Time. The Orpynes floureabout Auguft or before. q The Names. The firft is that whichis called of the Grecians raguand edgawdn : of the Latines , Telephinm, and Sempervivum fylueftre, and WMecebra : but Ilecebra by reafon ofhis fharpe and biting qualitie doth muchdiffer fromit,aswe haue declared in the former Chapter. Some there be that nameit eidpéenOt Portulaca(ylueftris : yet there is another Portulaca [ylueftris, or wilde Purflane, like to that which growethin gardens,but leffer: we may call this in Englith, Spanith Orpyne, Orpyne of Hungarie, or ioynted Orpyne. The fecond kinde of Orpyneis called in thops Craffula, and Craffula Fabaria,an d that it may differ ftom that whichis defcribed in the chapterof little Houfleeke Craffila maior, : it is named alfo 2 Craffula fine faba inuer[a. Fabaria : in high-Dutch, Qpundkraut, Snauenbraut, Fortswang , and Fotstoepn sin Italian, Faba graffa : in French, loubarbe des vignes, Fene efpeffe : in low-Dutch , Sey tooatele, and Hemel SPluetel sin Englith, Orpyne; alfo Liblong,or Liue-long, @ The Temperature. The Orpyns becoldand dry, andofthin or fubtill parts. q The Vertues. : Diofcorides faith, That beinglaid onwith Vineger it taketh away the white morphew: Gales faith the blacke alfo ; which thing itdothby reafon of the {couring or cleanfing qualitie that ir hath. WhereuponGalea attributethvnto it an hot facultie, thoughth e tafte fheweth the contrarie: which aforefaid {couring facultie declareth, That the other twoalfobe likewife cold. But a things mayaswell cleanfe,if drineffe of temperature and thinnefle ofeffencebe ioyned together in them, Cuasr.ig7, Of thefmaller Orpyns. "| The Defcription, He Orpyn with purple floures is lower andleffer than the common Orpyn : the ftalkes be flenderer,andfor the moft part lie along vponthe ground. Theleaue sare alfo thinnger,andof a moreblewgreene, yet well bodied, ftanding thicker below than aboue, ty fet together without order: the flouresinthe tufts at the tops ofthe ftalks be ofa pale § to purple, Theroots be notfet with lumpes or knobbed. kernels, but witha multi« yfirings, cond Orpyn, as it is knowne to few, fo hath it found no name, but that fome Herba- empervivumOt virens : for the ftalkes of the other do wither in winter, the 2 fecond Thhe e fe cond ; but the ftalkes and leaues of this endure alfo the tharpeneffe of Winter; €maycall it in Englith, Orpyn euerlafting, or Neuer-dying Orpyn. This hath which; , whichis our common O rpyn I ikewi ; i ftalkes thatare {mooth, but not ioyni Pyne, doth likewife rife vp with ted at all: very round very many te. proad4 the leaues are groffe or corpulent, thick, we leaues than any oftheformer: the floures are red, anid the root fibrous. receiuedrhe feeds of this from Ferrasto Imverato of Naples, vnder the name of ‘ Telephinm |
