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Show 296 Cuar.64, Tbeatrum Botanicum. ante oe : oa TRIBE 2. Trips, : ’ eraeine2ee rece The Sirostereniatees , Eras s : “Cuar. 640 ~The Theater ofPlantes. . Phylum marificum &feminificum, Childing Mercury male and female. Childing iSiters alia is. divided into two kindes, asthe former Mercuries are; whereunto itis fo like in all the parts thereof, chacmany have beene ofopinion; that itis but plaine Mercury, growing ina hotter Country : Ithath a branched {quare ftalke (Igive you one defcription for them both;,as I did in the former; although others give them {everall) full of joynts and branches,in the male lower and more upright, inthe female higher and morebufhie: atthe joynts {tandalwayes two foft woolly leaves; fomewhat narrower and longer, than in ee PN Ae : \ : : (for it doth not give any flowers) which are ofanahh colour before they are perfec ripe, but then they turne to \ ‘SS ey P be more blew;’ in the female the ftalkes are longer, and beare many fmall pale moffie lowers, which feldome / VA a bearethany feede, which when it doth itis {mall and roundlike the other; fometimes two and:fometimes more growing together : the roote is white, hard and wooddy; of the bigneffe and length ofa finger, perifhing eves fy yeare, and rayfingit felfe againe from it owne {éede, inthe naturall places: this hath a ftronger fentand tafte, i) SUC thanany of the former Mercuries 1 Diofcorides his de{cription ofthis Pym is inverted, for unto the male he ; giveth fpiked or bufhie heads, and unto the female feedes like poppie: butas hee faith himfelfe Cratevm wag \ awqi 5. Aercurialis{ylveftris nobi me tangere ditta five Perficaria filiquofa, called Quicke in hand; N, a Tp i A Wie GONG i i ¥ , WT yy Se = oe his author, and not his owne knowledge. Ney HRN the former, and not dentedor but feldomeaboutthe edges,of an acide and faltith tafte : atthe joyntsin the male come forth (hort ftalkes, bearing two {mall round feedes together at the toppe,like unto the male Mercury, WV ilde Mercuri¢é ‘This kindé of wilde Mercury (whichfor the vatietie of the forme hath beeneé diverfely named of writers’) rifeth up witha round joynted ftalke, rwofoote high fometimes, branching from thence in many places, where= at continually {tandeth but one leafe upon veryflender rough foote ftalke, moft like unto thofe of French Mer cuty, but longer pointed, and fomewhatfmaller at the fralke, notfo finely, but as it were groffely indented aboue the edges, being thinner,fofter, and of blewith greene colour; fromevery joynt with the leafe from the middle upwards,and at the toppes of the branches alfo commethforth one long brownefoote ftalke, as{mall andfine as any haire, bearing one flower thereon, and-fometime twoor three,fomewhatclofe together, hanging downes wards,compofedof fixe leayesa peece, fomewhatlike untothofe of the Hollow roote, but greater ) of a faire old yellow colour, Baubinus faith it is found alfo ofa paler colour: twoof them that ftand like wingesat the on are larger than the other two that ftand under them, whichare {mall andround, the loweft is longer'than bethe other two fmall ones, and broade at'the end. the uppermoft endeth in a fhortcrooked horne or heele hinde ; the bottome onthe infide is whiter than the reft, which have fometimes fome red {pots in them: after ag thefe flowersare paft, there come up in their places, {mall long joynted pods, hanging downewards, ftriped it were all the length of them,whereinis conteined {mall long and fomewhat flat feede,of:aduskie colour;which is fo hardly gathered, in regard that even before it be thorough-tipe, if irbe butvery lightly handled, the pods will breake, and twine themfelves a litle, as the pods of fome certaine pulfes will dee, and the feed will leape “a 4. Phylum marific Childes Miskicratt ferie ee forth, yea for the moft part, the very fhaking ofthe branches by the w inde, caufeth the pods to breake open; and fhed their feede onthe ground, wherethe ripeft may beft be gathered if they be taken in times therooreig blackith and threddie,perifhing every yeare 5 the tafte hereof is {mall and waterith, as Colwmna faith in the greene hearbe as myfelfe can teftifie,and little otherwife in the dryed,and whichgave him no offence nor mealJo,eitherin the talting or handling, but whether there were any further danger in taking a greater quantity, be= caufe Lobel faith it was venemous, was I doubt but onely an heare-fay by tradition, yet neither henor I would makeanyfurther experience therein. The Place, ‘ z 5 Mertuvialisfjluefiris Noli me tangere dia foe Perficaris fiiquof. Wilde Mercury called Quicke in hand. The two firft Mercuries are found wildein diverfe places of our owne Cotintty, as very plentifully byavil- lage called Brookeland in Rumney Marifh in Kent; the other called Dogge Mercuryis found in fundry places of Kent alfo, and elfewhere, the temale kindeis more feldome found than the male: the true Dogges Mercuryis not found wild with us, neither the childs or childing Mercuries, but grow about “Mompelier in France, and in Spaine and Italy : the laft growethinthe fhadowie woods of Italy, France, and Germany: it hathbeene found likewife bythe fhadie woodsfides, ofthe mountaines and their vallyesin Wales, by an induftrious Gentlemany and Herbarift, M'. George Bowles; and willabide in our Gardens, every yearé fowingit felfe being fet ina fhae dowie place. The Time, Theyall flourifh inthe Sommer Moneths, and thereingive their feede; but the Childs Merctry flowreth fo late with us, that it hardly beareth ripe feede. The quicke in hand flowreth and prefently after feedeth, in his > KI EN YW HS. -=SS 1 Le oom SY S > Ro Y 17 | Agen a Aan . Som COREA YE naturall place about the middle and end of Augw/, butin gardensin June and /w/y, _ The Names. a French Mercurie is called in Greeke awi7 ass Linofoftis & feueod Biredrov cue ma, Mercuris herba, mecgfertoy Parthenium; in Lavine Mercurialis, becaufe as Pliny faith it was found by Afercury : Dogges Mercury is called nuvia & uweneduén, Cyneaand Cynocrambe which ts Canina Braffica, but becanfe it hath no agreement with any Cabbage (unleffe you would fay ic were meate, or aCabbage for adogge) others have called it in Latine AZercurialis ( anina, propter ignobilitatem, others Mercurialjs fylveftris: The childs or childing Mercury is éalled in Greek guarrdy & taaoguarcy Phyllum G Elaophyllum,quafi Oleefolinm,Tbeophraftvs in his ninth booke and 19.chap. faith that theycalled one herbe Phylum Arrhenogonon,and another Thelyganon Mariparit,& F&miniparum, which diverfe doe thinké is but the former French Mercury, becanfe he faith they have leaves like Baffill, whereunto the French avd not the Childs or childing Mercury is moft like, and the rather for that Dioftorides appropria- teth to his Mercuries thofe effects of bearing male and female children, thatthe Phylum of Theophraftus and Diofcorides hath. The French Mercury is generally of all writers almoft, called Aercurialis mas & feminn; Cordus upon Diofcorides thinketh them to be the Phylum Arrhenogonon, and Thelygonon of Theophrafius; and Bashinus callech them Mercarialis tefticulata Gfpicata: the Italians call it Mercorella; the Spamards Merc viale: the French Mercuriale & Vignoble ; the Germanes Bengelkrant, and the Dutch men Bingelorayte & Mera ewrial.The fecondis called Adercurials {ylueftris,by Tragus Lonicerus,Cordus &- Thalins :& Cynotvambeby Mat= thiols, Fuchfise, Dodonews, Gamerarins and Lobel, whoin one figure reprefenteth both the male anda WGA |
