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Show 582 enh ee Plants. Of che Hiltorie ofaie te : “Lisn.n ‘rs colour, {potted on the infide with white,aad of a brighter purple than the reft of the floure fathithere fiiccetd littl onedlike the fmallett Antirrbinum, or iea@S napdr 1gON 5M hich be ing paft. feed veffels. fafhionedlike the nut of a croffebow, which containe fmall yellowith feed, extreame bitteroftafte. The wholeplant is likewife bitter, as the common orwell knowneGratiola, The root is compact of a great number of whitith {trings, entangled one within another, which migh. 5 and{preadeth abroad, tily encreafeth ¢ This plant is onelyaleffer kinde of the Lyfmachia galericulata of Lobell, which fome have called Gratzola latifolia our Authors figure was veryill,wherefore I have endeauoured by the helpe of ome dried plants and my memoryto prefent youwicha better expreffion thereof, + Of the Hiftory ofPlants: a —_— Cuar.izg. Of Lanander Spike. q The Defcription. Auander Spike hath many ftiffebranches of a wooddie fubftance, growingvp in the manner ofa fhrubbe, fet with many long hoarie Ieaues, by couples for the moft part, @ The Place. The fir groweth in low and moift places naturally, which I haue planted in my Garden, + The fecond was found growing by myoft mentioned friend M*. Bowles at Dorchetter in Ox fordthire, at the backe fide of the enclofed grounds on the left handof the rowne, if youyould ride from thence to Oxford in the graffie places of the Championcorne' fields. + The third growethlikewife in moift places. I found it growing vpon the bogor marrifh ground atthelur- therend of Hampftead heath, and vponthe fameheath towards London, neere vnto the headof thefprings that were digged for water to be conueied to London, 1590, attempted by thatcatt full citizen lobe Hart Knight, Lord Major of the City of London: at whichtimemy felfe wasin his Lordfhips company, and viewing for mypleafure the fame goodly fprings, I found the fai plant, not heretofore remembred. g The Time. Thefir foureth in May:the fecondin une andIuly:the third in Auguft. of a ftrong fmell, and yet pleafant cnongh tofuch as doe loueftrong fauours. The floures growat the top of the branches {pike fafhion, ofa blew colour, Theroote is hard and wooddie, 2 -Thefecond differcth. not from the precedent, but in the colour of the floures ; For this Plant bringeth milke white floures; and the other blew, wherein efpecially confifteth the difference. Wee hauein our Englith gardens a {mall kinde of Lauander,whichis altogether leffer than the other, + and the floures are ofamore purple colour and growin muchleffe and fhorter heads, yethauethey a farre more gratefull {mell; the leaues aré alfo leffe and whiter than thofe of the ordinatie fort. This did,and I thinke yet doth growin great plentie,in his Maiefties priuate Garden at White-hall. And this is called Spike, without addition,and fometimes Lauander Spike: and ofthis by diftillation is made that vulgarly known andv{ed oile whichis termed Olewm(pice, oroile of Spike. a The Names in generall, Hedge Hyflope is called in Latine Gratiola,and Gratia Dei,or the Grace of God , notwithflar. ding there is a kind of Geranium,or Storkes bill,called bythe later name. OfCordus,Limne fumacd Centanroides:of Anguillaria itis thought to be Diofcorides his Papaner[pumeum,ot Spatling Poppy: 2 Lavandula flore albo. VVhite floured Lauander. x Lavandula flore ceruleo. Commén Lauander, but fome think Papauerfpumeumto be thatwhich we'call Behen album:in Dutchit iscalled Govts geatie : in Italian, Stanca cawallo,becaufe that horfes when they haue eaten thereofdowaxleans andlanguith thereupon: and in Englifh, Gratia Dei, and Hedge Hyflope. The teed hereofis called Gelbenech, which name the Arabians retaine vnto this day. t a Names in particular, , $ 1 Matthioius, Dedoneus and others haue called this Gratiola; Anguillara,Gratia Det; Cordis, Limnefinm,Centanroides ; he alfo thought itbut vnfitlyto be the Eupatoreum ofMefue : Geofncrthinks it may be Polemoninm paluftre amarum ofHippocrates,that write ofthe difeafes ofcattell. + 2 Cordus called this Graffe Poley, Gefner,Gratiola minor: Camerarius Hyfopoides :and Bashi Hyffpifilia re 3 This is not fet forth by any but our Author, andit may fitly be named Lofimachia gait ; ee lataminor,as I haue formerly noted. The Temperature. Hedge Hyflopeis hot and dry ofbakose, thn the firftis onely vfed in medicine. ce y The Vertues. a CaS but onetee pe of Gratiola brufed,fhall perceiue evidently his ca ud Ried vertue,in purging mig, ately, andthat in great abundance, waterifh, grofle, ani iony! sss S. Conradus Gefnerus experimented this,and foundit to be true, and fo haue I my felfeam many others, ladeeaed:ee Be decoai on dru nke or eaten withany kinde of meate, in mannet of _ geth grote as € belly,an caufethnotable loofenes and to {coure freely,and by that meant p C me and cholericke humors, Gratiola or Hedge Hyflope boiled. inwine and giuen to drinke, helpeth feuers ofwhat fort focneegee is moft excellent in dropfies, and fuch like difeafes proceeding of cold and wate) The extration giuen with the powderofcinamonanda little of the juice of Calamint,pict ‘ leth againgt terti, anand quotidiay feucrs, fetdownefor moft certaine by the learned Toachinons MerAarvius. Cua?, q The Place. 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