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Show . 264 Theatrum ‘Botamcum. TRIBE 2 Cuar. 51. ee CREM an ko : ; one whereofftand o hidiverfe fort branches, on every two or three or fone {mal IL round heads or buttonns ohich Seine theskinne that endlofeththem, thew forthatft, of pale greenithyellow tufts or threds, which . x falling away, there come in their places fmall three cornered cods, whereinis contained fmall long and round feede, the Whole plant as wellleaves, as flowers, havea more {trong unpleafantfent than the next Spanith kinde, ; ili i Sus Uvulgare. 2, Thaliftrumlatifolium Hifpanicum, \. Thali ThaliGram majus Spanith Medow Rew. Ordinary Medow Rue. 5. . 7 Thalidivam minus. Thelefler Medow Rue. Tribe 2. The Theater ofPlantes. a i Cuar.51. 263 tt yellow and fomewhatcreeping : Thereis alfo another fort hereofdiffering little from it, but in the colour of the Flores purpureds . fower which is of a pale Violet colour with yellow tips. 5- Thalittrum minus, The {maller Medow Rue, This {mall kind is almoft in all thingslike untothe former, but fmaller both’in leaves, being ofa little frefKer greene colour, fomewhat more fhining ; and/in the {talkes being round andnotcrefted, and in the flowers being fornewhatwhiter: the rootes Ilkewife are yellow, but doe not {pread or creepe,fo mich 4s the former, ; 6, Thalittrum minimum, The leat Medow Rue. The {malleft kind of Medow Rew, hath fuch like {mall or rather fmaller, divided and notchédleaves than the fourth kind hath; but they-are ofa whitifh greerie colour;- the ftalkes rife not abovea foote high ora little more, the flowers are more yellow, and the rootes runné in the gtotund,rather more than afiy ofthe former. Yy 7. Thalitirum anguftiffime folio, Thenarrowelt leafed Medow Rue. ; : This Kinde of Medow Rue hath yellow ftringié rdotes, like unto all the former forts, from whence {ptingeth upaftalke, very much crefted or cornered,three foote high, bearing many fad greene leaves at the joynes, which are {maller and longer than anyof the former, and enditig moft commonly in three points longer than any ofthe 4 teftithe toppe ofthe ftalke is branchedbearing manyfimallpale yellowtufts of flowers,like unto the others, OF this kinde there is another whofe leaves being f{maller than of that former fort, with uncut leaves or without Minascn anydivifionin them likewife; doe not otherwifediffer either in height or colour of howers from the fourth fort? incifis fos both thefe forts with uncut leaves, [ faw ina Booke ofdried herbes, belonging to Doctor Foxe,Prefident of the lijse Phyfitians Colledge ofLondon, : 8. Thalittrum minimum fetidiffimum, Stinking Medow Rue. The ftinking Medow Ruehathhis ftalke round and greene, whichis fometimes purplith, not above a foote high with diverfe leaves thereon, divided for the moft partinto three parts, each whereof hathtwodents or notches, ofas fad a greene colour on the upper fide, and ofas pale a greene underneath, as the firft kinde herefer downe, the toppeof the ftalke is branched,and on them ftand {mall round moflye or threadie flowers, like the reft, ofa pale yellow colour: the {mall cods that follow are cornered ‘with a crooked end,fixe or feven ftanding together, whereinis inclofed {mall feede: this {melleth moft {trong and unfavoryof all the relt, in his natural place; but by tran{planting and manuring, it lofeth part of the virulencie and becommethleffe offenfive. 9. Thalittrum Americanum, The Americas Medow Rew, This ftranger isin face and outward habit folike a white Spanifh kinde, that they can hardly be knowné afunder, but that {t is fuller offtalkes and leaves ; the flowers ofthe toppes of the branchesare at the firft of a palé 0: blith colour, but being blowne open confift of five white leaves,and a numberof white threds in the middle; cipt Aer Me USUIpHs withyellow. There is afiother fmaller fort hereof whofe flowers are purple tipt with yellow, aes The Place, Thefirftas 1 faid growethin many places of onr owne Land, in the borders of moilt Medowes; and by ditch fides, The fecond was fent us outofSpaine, is found likewife in our moift Medowes and by ditch fides, but-nearer the fea, and ar A4argare onthe chalkiecliffe qn the left hand, as you goe from the townetothefeafide 3andin other countries fartherfrom thefea fide. The third and fourth were found by Clufius on thehills in the lower Avfiriaand Hungarie, The fift and fixt was found by C/ufius alfo in the lower grounds, by rherivers fides, The There is another ofthis kinde whofe leaves (tanding one againft another are not dividedat all but are whole and longer, a branch whereofI give you hereto fee, feaventhis faid to growin the fields by Wychfield in Switferland, The eighth grewin the countrie ofValefia gand the twolaft came from Virginia, j Thalittruen latifo'iun non incifis folijs. Medow Rue witH uncut leaves The Time. Theydoe all flower about July; or in the beginning of Augult, The Names, It isgenerally held by our beft moderne Writers, to be the Thalfrum of Diofcorides; called in Greeke Sadinzeo and Suatirpoy a Sdantovireo, as fome thinke,eo quod dum Lermine protrudit eleganter vireat,Some alfo have called it Pigamum quafi miyzvor, that is Ruta, for the forme orlikenefle of the leaves, and fo have entituled ir Ruta 2 Thalittrum majus album Hifpanicum. Great Spanifh white MedowRue. The leaves hereof are much larger than the former, and more divided at the edges, and folike unto Columbine leaves that they cafily deceive one not well acquainted therewith, yet are paluftris or atenfer; others fromthe yellow colour ofthe rootes, have called it P(éudo rhabarbarum Ballard Rue bard : but I thinke more truely of the purging andbinding qualitie, both joyned rogether like unto Rubarbes theyleffer and ofa fadder colour ftanding on long flalkes, a- Moft Writers now doé call all thefe kinds of herbesby the name of Thaliftyum or Thaletrum, with their feverall diftin@tions. For the firft here fet downe is called by molt Thahiftrumjus, and offome Ruta pratenfis, as Lobel doth: ofCefalpinus Ruta [ylveftris, of Lugdunenjis, itis fet forth for Pigamum qu vor» t, Rata, and of mong whichrifech up a {trong roundftalke three foote highat the leaft,branching forth into twoor three parts, with leaves at the feverall joints ofthem, at the toppes whereof ftand many and the Fifpanicuna fome as Gefner faith! Saxifraga lutea,Camerarius callethit Thalitlrum Germanicum latifol: which is here the fecond he calleth Jtalicum. The fift is Lugdunenfis his Hypecoum, inhis Booke de paluftri« {mall round yellowifh, buttons ina tuft together enclofed in a white skinne,which breaking each button fhewethtobe a {mall bus, and is the minus of Dodonens, or Ruta tenfes tennifolia of Lobel and others. The third is the firft great Afonnum of Clufius, amd the fixt of Camerariys flore albo. The fourth is Clufiws his {mall Mountaine kinde, with a flower, as the purple floured kinde is his third Mountainé fort. The fixt is Camerariys his Thali frum tz folinm and Clufius his feventhor laft.The feventh Baxhinys calleth Anguftiffime folio,as he doth the fetidiffim# as their titles declare. The two laft aré called by thofe that fent it us,as it is in'their titles. tuft ofthreadslike the formerbutgreater, and ofa white colour tipt with yellow and fomewhat purplifh at the bottome, ofa {trong fent abiding long in lowerif it grownot too open and then fall awaylike fhore threads: the feede is like the former but greater, and fo are the rootes likewife and yellowlike it, which retaine neither ftalke norleafe all the Winter, but fhoo- The Vertues, iofcorides faith that being bruifed and applied to old fores, it ‘bringeth thém to cicatrizing, that is doth tethanewinthe Spring. 3. Thal: frum montanum mains. F The greater mountaine MedowRue. ‘This Mountaine kind hathas large ftalkesas the former-great Kinde, andrifeth up as high, but arenot crefted or cornered at all, the leaves are divided like unto them, and ofa fad greene colour alfo ; the flowers are white, which fmell as {trong as they, and theleaves are rather ftronger than the firft : the rootes likewife are yellow, and {preading almoft as much. Bey 4. Thaliétrum montanum minys album, The leffer mountaine Medow Rew. _ Thisislike unto the lat in all things, bitin the fmallneffe of the plant, and inthe {mell, which is nothing fo iitong or unpleafant, for the leaves are greene as they, and the flowers white in the fame manner jand the rootes ycllow, f perfe@ly cure them ; and the diftilled water of the herbe and flowers doththe like, for as Galen faith it drieth without anyheate or fharpeneflé : The herbe is of fome ufed to be put among other pot herbes, to helpe to move enthe body, and makeit foluble : but the rootes wafhed cleane and boyledin ale and drunke, doth pro= to the ftoole more thanthe leaves, but yet very gently ¢ It is faid (according to many other fuperftitious conceits in other things ) that ifthe whole plant both herbe and roote, be hung up-in a chamber, ortied to the ecke of any perfon dothfree them fromany danger or harme, The rootes hereofboiled in water, rand the pla- noft troubled with vermine or lice,wafhed therewith while it is warme,deltroyeth themutterly: taly it isufedagain{t the Plague, and in Saxonie againft the Jaundife as Camerariys faith: Lugdunenfis in transferring the name Pigamum hereunto doth therewith fet downé a vertue proper to Rue, asifitdid belong to this, thatis, that itraifeth up himfromhis fit thathath thefalling fickneffc, if fome of the juice be put up into his noftrills, and there kept a while Aa Cuake |
