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Show Of the Hiftor y biPlate: Lip, Lis.2. q The Time. It fourifheth in Sommer, as the former Fernes : the leaues decay in Winter: theroot continy. eth frefh and long lafting ; which being brought into the garden prof{perethas in his natine foile, as my felfe haue proued. : : G The Names. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, t 3 PolypodinmIndicum. Indian Polypody. I He leaues of Polypodie might be thought to be like thofe ofmale Ferne, but that theyare far lefler, and not nic. kedat all in the edges:thefe do prefently. {pring vp from the roots,being cut on. both the ed ges with many deepe gathes,euen hard to the mid dle rib ; on the vpper fide they are fmooth, on the nether fide they are lightly powdredas it werewith dufty markes : the rootis long. nota finger thick,creeping aflope,on which are fen certaine little buttons like to thofe pits. and dents that appearein the tailes ofcuttle A es; this hathin itacertaine fweetnefle,witha tafte fomething harh: this kinde of Ferne likewif e wanteth not only floures‘and feed, but ftalkes alfo, 2 Polypodie of the Oke is muchlikeynto that of the wall, yet the leaues ofit are more finely cut, fmoothon the vpperfide, of a pale green color,together withthe ftalkes and middle ribs ; on the nether fide rough like thofe of Ferne : this Fernealfo lineth without a ftalke it groweth without feed : the root hath many: firings faftned toit,one folded within another , ofa meane bigneffe, andfieerin tafte: it fendeth forth heere and there new dodkins or {prings, whereby it increafeth. Iris called in Latine ofmunda: it is more truly named Filixpaluftris, Or aquatilis : fome termeit ; jlicaftram by the nameofFilic : moft of the Alchimifts call it Lamaria r L maior : V alerins Cords nameth it Filéx latifolia : itis namedin high-Dutch, Grols Farn: in low-Dutch,@raot Waren.toit ya: ret in Englith, Water-Ferne, Ofmund the Water-man: of fome, Saint Chriftophers herbe,and Ofmund. "| The Temperature. Thesoot of this alfo is hot and dry,but leffe than they of the former ones, A @ The Vertues. : { The root, and efpecially the heart or middle part thereof,boiled orelfe ftamipe d,and taken with fome kinde of liquor, is thought to be good for thofe that are wounded, dry-beaten, and bruifed that hauefallen from fome highplace : andfor the fame caufé the Empericks do putit in decodi- ons, which the Jater Phyfitians do call wound-dtinks :fometake it tobe foeffedtuall, and of fo great avertue,as that itcan diffolue cluttered bloud Temaining in any inwardpart ofthe body,and that it alfocan expell or driue it out by the wound, The tender fprigs thereofattheir firft comming forth are excellent good vnto the punpofes ; forefaid, and are good to be put into balmes,oyles, and confolidatiues, or healing plailters, an intovnguents appropriate vnto wounds,punutres, andfuchlike, Cuar.467: OfPolypodie or wall-Ferne. t Polype dinen. Wall Ferne, or Polypod ie ofthe wall. , 33 . AS. G The Defiriptio. 2 Polypodinm quercinum. Polypodie ofthe Oke, 4 3. Clufius in his Exatickes, lib. 4, cap. 17. iues vs the Hiftory ofan Indian Ferneor Polypody found among ft the papers ofone D*, Nicholas Coli¢ca Dutch Phyfitian, who died in Mumefrom the Baft-Indies. The rootof it was fix inches long,and almoft one thicke,ofthe his fame 7*Peand colour as the ordinarie one is:fromthis camevp = than the other two; the two larger wete eleuen inches three leaues,ofwhich the thirdwas leflong, and their breadth fromthe mid+110(which was very large) was oneach fide almoft fiue inches; the edges were diuided almoft ean Oken cafe : from the middle rib’came other veines wa detiveene that ran to the ends of thé diuificns, thefe be fmaller veines varioufly divaricated and netted, which made theleafe thew, phetly. Thecolo ur ofit was like that ofa dry okenleafe. Where D', Cole gathere Meettaines for he hadle d this it was ftnothing in writing. Ff 1 gq The Place. : i isp orometh on the bodies ofold rotten trees, and alfo vpon old walls, and the tops ofhoufes ~tKewife found among rubbifh neere : it the borders of fields,efpecially vnder trees and thornes,and Wand then inwoods : and in fome places it groweth ranke and witha broader leafe, in others - make, and with a narrowerleafe, 3 i "ich sroweth on the bodies of old Okes is preferr ed before the reft;in ftead of this mok Methat which is found "Dodie of the Oke, vnder the Okes, which for all that is not to be termed Quercinum,or Mica... Po- | The Time, ; Aran i ues i | “Y's stecne all theyeere long,and maybe gatheredat any time ; itbring ethforth new the firft {pring, @| The Names. The Greej Ans call it seize; of the holes ae ofthe fithes Polypi, appearing inthe roots:it is gals liner podium;after the ‘Greeke name, and many times Fi/icula , as though ney8 en hich 2.0" little Ferne : the Iralians nameit Polipodie : the Spaniards, Filipodio, an et eee eee i; . 5 ‘Afine, py iri ts, saunéaen, Dvopffoourts: in low Dutch, Boom pci vie: Swalland tha,Cngelfu ot England Polypo die : that which gtowet h vpon the wallwe ca Ypocr sie thar on the Oke;Polypodie of the Oke. Toy... ;YPoWdie doth dry, bur yet withou The Temperature. t biting as euea writeth, Cecccc a The |
