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Show Of the Hivtorie of Plants, 1 Polyzonur Mountaine Knot-gt LABur% { Of the Hiftory of Plants: to deferibe PolygonumSerpiltifolio of Pena; as maybe gathered by the defeription hauefood, but that I opportunely recciueda better frommy oft mentioned friend M whichtherefore I thought good toimpart vnto you. Polygonum alterum pufillo vermiculato Serpilli foliolo Pene, This hath many{mall round fmmooth wooddy branches, fomewhat reddifh, trailing vpon gtound, nine inches or a foot long ; whereon by {mall diftances on fhort ioynts rowtults of very {mall 1} it toppedfniooth greene leaires, ina maner round, like thofe ofthe fmalleft Time, but miuch fmaller, and without fmell, diniding themfelues at the bofomes ofthofe leaties inta {mall bran ,at the tops of which branches grow{mall floures, onefloure on a branch, and na -on(iftingoffourelittle round toppedleaues apiece ofa faintor pale purplith colour: I obferued nu feed, Theroot is wooddy, blackifh withou y bitter,with fometafte ofheate, and groweth deepeito the ground. Theledués are nothing fo full of iuyee as Aizoon.! foundit floyringthethird day of Seprember, 1621, onthe ditch bankes at Burfeldon ferrey bythe fea fide in Hampfhire. lo. Goodyer. + i / ~ 4 ~ : ~ 4 Among the Knot-grafies may well be futed this fimall plant, bat lately written of and not fo commonly knowne as growing in England,being about anhandfull ndputting out from a fibrous toot fundryflenderftalkes full of little branches and ioy bout which growconfufedly manynatrowleaues, for the moft part ofan vnequall quantitie, yet here andthere two than thereft, and muchalike in greatneffe :at the outmoft parts of the branches and flalks (where it hath thickeft tufts) appeare out of the middeft of theleaues little floures of anherbycolour, whichare fticceeded byfeed-veflels ending in fiue fharpe points: the whole plant is of a whitith colour. If my memorie faile me not, Pewa means this herbewhere he {peaketh ofSaxifr. Angel, in his Aduer. p. 103. and alforeporteth thathe foundthis plant by thewayfide as he rode from LondontoBriftow, omalittle fill not far from Chipnam:: his pi@uredothvery well refemble the kinde of Knot-graffe called among the Germanes Stratoels andcalling it Sa Axelicana canfeth me tothinke, that fome in the VVeft parts where he foundit do call it Saxiftage,as we do call fundry otherherbes, efpecially ifthey ferue for the ftone. Myfriend M*. Stephen Bredwel, PraGitioner of phyfickein thofeparts, heard ofa fimple man wha did much goodwith a,medicine that he made withParfleyPiert againft the ftone, whichhe miniftredvntoall forts of people. This my friend requeftedthe poore manto fhewhimthe herbe calledParfley Piert ; who frankly promifed ithim, and thenext morning brought himan handfull of the herbe,and told him the compofiti. onofhis medicine withall, which youfhall finde fet downein the vertues , and proued by fundry ofgoodaccount to bea fingular remedie for rhe fame, £ 3 Polygonumferpi Small round leauec £ 6 Saxifraga paluftres abfinefolia, Small water Saxifrage. |
