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Show ’ 378 Tbeatrum Botanicum. Crar.$7 T ripe 2 « Pfytium vulgare. The ordinary Fleawort. Tripe.2. The Theater ofPlants. ~~jadementand diferetion,whom, 279 ke isa good when toapply it : and this Ithinkeisagdod pply -afe, if there want judgment and difcretion, how, to whom,and w pee for wore lochs and impudentbold prattifers of Phificke and Surgery. ther, and intime bowing downeéwards and fomewhat hard : the bloomings or flowers are white, and the feede that flowrethis fhining,and like the other, but fmaller : the roote is {mall and white with divers Fibres thereat. Guap, LVIII. Kali, Glaflewort or Saltwort. The Place. and other things, Si Here are diverfe forts of Kali, with the afhes whereof they ufe to make glaffe, onely by the later Ara- The firft growethin the fields and untilled places in of Spaine and Italy, but with.as no wherebut in | which were none of them knowneto theancient authors, but remembred becanfe dibian Philofophers and Chymickes, of which I meane to entreate in this Chapter, andfor the likeof Diofcorides, | verte doe thinke, that fome ofthefeisthe Anthyllisalvera Ajuga foliis neffe they have with them; I will in the next chapter, thew youall thofe herbes called Anthyllides, rdeng:: The fecond groweth moreplentifilly fheelds that are neare the fea.The third is thoughe €o come out ofthe Zndies,asche fatie imporreth,but weareriot firethereof, Thelalt isnaturallyof Zgypror Arabia, and grew inthe moft noble Signior name e4nthylls is falfely impofed, whereofI that ate moft worthy of that name; for unto fome herbes the ‘ Ca : Lar ey y‘eeali majus cochleatum. Great Glaffewort with Sechae: high or Kali vifeth up witha bigge round reddifh flefhy ftalke, very likeunto Purflaine, two foote long, round flefhy leaves, pointed thicke, many grow doe whereon behtes} coewad diced dockew, more often,more ftanding ata placeshere and Berwhe, hisgardertat Padoa, The Time. Allthefe Fleaworts flower in 7#/y or therea- at the ends, growing without order, fometimes but one or two,and {mall brownith heads; there alfo difperfed upon the branches,come forth {mall yellowifh flowers,and after them is fomewhat long, with manyfibres thereroote the ; feede round {mall e whereinly fnailes, like turned round this hath an evill tafte bur fl. at, and perifheth every yeare, after it hath given feede for the moft part: bout with us, but in thefrnaturall places, all the Summerlong,yet the Jaft, is the lateft with us. é Cuars8. AMES» , It iscalled in Greck@yarroy, in Latine P/ylium Pulicaris berba, G& Pufiearia, becaufe the feede is like unto Fleas,and not becaufeit driveth away ah 2, Kali minus album, Small whiteGlaffewort. ; : the reote; nothing fo high as the for. This lefler white Kal, hath diverfe whitith greene branches rifingfrom other {maller branches, full of joyntss into felfe it fpreading ground, the downeto leaning or mer, and bending and pointed leaves, nothing fo flefhie as the for-, whereon grow more ftore of fmaller and fhorter, round ftand fingly on the Fleas; being broughtgreeneinto the houfe, for that is falfe:there is alfo another P#licaria called Couyza, which we have fhewed before ; The Arabianscall it Bazara Chatama, and Bexercothune, The Itali- the flowers are white, and mer,.andof the fame pale greene colour with. the falkes : blacke and after which come fimall huskes, wherein lyeth the feede, whichis {mall ans P{yllio, the Spaniards Zargatona, the French t Herbe aux Poulx. The Germans Pfilenraut; and wee'in Englifh Fleawort, and not Fleabane, for that. is Conyza,asis (hewed before : The firltis ge~ roppes of thebranches: and wooddy,and perifheth after it hath fhining,like unto Sorrell {eede : the roote hereoflikewife is {mall white nerally called P/yinmofall writers. Ge/ner in hore 11s Germanie callethit Cynops of Theophrajtis. The fecondis called by Afatthiolus P/yllinm alterum, Gefner and Gamerarins call it P/yllinm perenues Lobelinhis Adverfariacalleth it P/yllinm Pliniank 2 ‘ forte majus radicé perenne ; the third is Anguillara his firft P/yllivm and thought by Bawhinus to be the true P/j/Lisem of Diofcorides and by him called indicum, bes cattfe the teede came to him under that name; The laftas Baxhinus faith he had from the moft noble Bembzr his Garden at Padoa,under the name ofGottne rabram,as he had anothercalled album, whichis a kind of Holostium, Baubinus mentioneth Profper Alpinus to call it Gottne rubrum, but i canfindeno other then Gottne mfegiar Go/fipinm arborenmin his Egyptian plants : he faith alfo that it was {ent him ftom Heidelberg,by Sprengerus, with the name Botriorubro. The Vertues, All Authors doe confirmethat the feede of P/y/lium is cold which A4e/nes attributeth to the barke, or outfide, faying that the inward pulpe thereof, ishot fharpe and drying, butdivers doeutterly miflike and refufe that opinion’: the muccilage of the {eed made (but indeed the feede is feldome buifed by any Artift, but alwayes fteeped whole), with barly water,and fome fyrupe of Rofes or Violets put thereto and drunke,doth purge downewards erofie flegme and burnt choller ; but the feede being fryed and fo taken, {tayeth the flux or laske ofthe belly, and the corrofions that comeby reafonof hot; chollericke, {harpe and malignant humors, or by the fuperpurgation of any violent medicine, fuch as‘Scamony or the like worketh : the muccilage of the {eede made with Rofe- water and little Sugar Candyputthereto, is very goodin all hot agues, and burning feavers, and other. inflam- mations, both tocoole the thirft,and to lenifie the drineffe and roughneffe of the tongue and throate: it helpeth alfo the hoarfeneffe of the voyce, and difeafes ofthe breft and lungs caufed by heat, .or fharpe falt humors; and the Pleurifie alfo s the muccilage ofthe fede. made in. Plantaine. water, whereunto the yolke of an egge of two,and alittle Populeon is put, isa molt {afe and fureremedy to eafe the tharpeneffe, prickings,, and paines of thehemorrhoides or piles, ifit bee laid ona cloth and, bound thereto ithhelpeth alfo.all inflammations in any partofthebody, andthe paines thatcomethereby,) asthe headachand meagrime, and all hot impoftumes ot {wellings,or breakings out in the'skin, as blaines, wheales,pufhes,purples and the like, asalfo the paines of the joynts,and ofthofeplaces that are out. of joynt, the paines of the Goute.and- Sciatica, the burfting of young children,and the {wellingout ofthe navell, applyed with oyle of Rofesand Vinegar;, the fame al Gata very often and with good fucceffe applyed to heale the Nipples, and the fore breafts of women laying it often thereon * the juice ofthe herbe withalittle hony patinto the eares,helpeth the running ofthem,, and the wormesbreeding Axungia, and applyedto foule corruptand filthy Vicers and fores, clenfeth inthem: the fame alfo mixed with the heate and repreffing the fharpeneffe of the humors, flowing unto them: and healeth them, by cooling Whereas divers have written that the frequent ufe of the {eede inwardly takenis very dangerous, it isnootherwifetrue, then asitfalleth out in all other great cooling herbes, as Nightfhade; Honfeleeke, Henbane,. and the like,which areall fafe herbes, being wifely and convenientlyapplyed ; but ignorance, tafhneffe and indiferetions inthe applying of remedies, hath alwayés done more harmeand brought moredifcredit untothem,.then. any danger in themcanthreaten it : and. therefore it is not fufficient to know that a medicine is good for fuch a'difeafe, d j 3, Kali -Aigyptiacum. Glaffewort of Egypt. — branching forth at and downewards, felfe bendingit e, flenderftalk one with growethup The Evyptiae Kali upright, and at every of the joynts, two vethe joyntsinto other{mall ones, which for the moft part ftand more becaufe of the length of them ; the {mall downewards, themfelves bowing leaves, hayrie ry long and fomewhat grow many {mall and long branches are bare without leaves unto the toppes or ends of them, where there whitifh purple flowers, {mall grow which aiong from folong: nothing but former, the leaves,hayrie like <liudfos res differing eae i is { i i the middle of them ;s Ofthisi fort there is fome other with fhorter leaves differing with many {mall threds inn in little elfe; tum majuss ji , Kalicochlea Kali : Grex Glaffewrorte album, album minus ali minus 2. Kali S$malt white Glflewort. oribuss |
