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Show Theatrum Botanicum. gop Gv ar.25- Trise.3 Trise ~ The Theater of Plants. Small hoarycreeping C inketoile, The moft common Cinkefoiles roote is {mall, long hard and threddy, abiding diverfe yeares, and butheth thereat fo thicke, thatitdath {preade g leale of ground. : a lg 7. Pentaphyllumfragiferum Clufij, Strawberry Cinkefoile, This Cinkefoile hath divers long hairy ftalkes ofleaves, rifing fromtheroote, not. fet clofe together as other Cua rp. 25. 4» Pentaphy lum minus repens Lanuginofum. x, Pentaphyllum vulgatifsimun, Cinkefoiles are, but parted or. divided morelike unto a winged leafe, fometimes into five, and fometimes into feaven leaves, tough and hairyalfo, dented about theedges, greene above and gray underneath, two fet one aeainit another, with a little {pace betweene, but thofe three at the ends, ftanding fomewhat clofer together: the ftalke that rifeth up among thefe leaves, is about a foote high or more, reddifh and hairy, and divideth it felfe at the toppeinto leffer branches,with divers leaves thereon, dividedintothree parts, on the toppes whereof ftand large white flowers, very likeunto Strawberry flowers, but fomewhat lefle, with manyyellow threds in the middle ; which beingfallen there fucceede {mall round heads, very like unto Strawberryes, but fmaller and withoutanyjuice therein, having {mall reddith feeds within them : the roote is fomewhat thicke,long,hard,and wooddy, reddifh within and blackifh without, with divers {mall long fibres thereat, 5 The Place, The firlt Bawhings faith, was found on the walls of walltat, a City of the Switzers. The fecond as Clufins faith, groweth in manyof the woods, upon the mountaines in Au/fria, extending to the Alper, as alfo in". ravia, Hungarygin Italy allo, and divers other places: the other fort of that kindeP'Tragus faith, he found not farre from Letha, aCity of the Empire; the third was brought out of Egypt, or out of Arabia, as the title declareth. The fourth grewin ftonyplaces, about Curia of the Switzers, ‘The fifth grew faith C/w/iwe, in the {tony and rockyplacesof the Alpes in Auftriaand Stiria, The fixth isaPlantraifed from the feede that came amongotherforts of feedes, fent me from beyond {ea ; the laft growethindivers places of Hwngaria, and Ave frria. The Time, Theydoeall hower inthe Sommer monethsofIuneandIuly, and the third in Augult. L The Names, It is called in Greek Merracunnovsand in Latine Pentaphyllum and Quinguefolinm,anumero foliorum, Ga ting Theophraftus calleth it Quingne petxm, Tragus {heweth his mind’ and opinion concerning the Pentaphyllum ot Diofcorides, and Theophrajtia, that our Tormentill is their be{t and moft noble Pestaphyl/um,-and is thereunto led as hefaith, by the te xt of Theophraftus, in his tenth booke and fourth Chapter, (which yet contrarieth his judgementin my mind) for he there faith, that all the leaves are five parted, and his roote reddifh when it is frefh, and blackifh and fquare when it is dryed; but Tormentill hath more leaves of feaven divifions, thenfive, and hath alwayes yellow flowers, whenas Diofcorides faith his hath whitifh. Thefirlt Baubinus calleth Quin- guefolinm albun is eas, The fecondis his Quingue folinm album majws alterum, and by all other Au- Quinguefolinm album, the other of that kind Tragus calleth his owne, that is,Pentaphyllum thors, Pentaphyll Tragi & «obile Vnto the third’ have given the name as A/pinus doth, from the forme of his leavesand fruite,and fromthe place of his natural abiding, but Penainhis Italian Baldws calleth it, Lupinss Arabicus five Pentaphyllum peregrinum, The fourth Bawhinus calleth Quinguefolinm album minus. The fifthis Clufize his fecond, whichhecalleth Quingucfolinm minus flore albo, and as he faith is the fame that Lobel calleth Pestaphyllumminimum & petreum, but that as Clef: faith, his kinde hath as large fowers as the Strawberry, which Lobels hath not, but Clufius is therein much deceived, for Lobels Pentaphyllum petreum ox petrofum,is declared before to be the Stellaria argentea of Camerarivs,and with Bauhinus, Quinguefolinm album minus alterum. The fixth came tome by the name of Pentaphylium argenteum, and becanfe it is none of the great ones, Ihave added thereto minus, The lat Clefus calleth, ‘Pentaphyliumfragiferum, and is the Fragaria quartaTragi, The Ttalians callit Cinquefolio, the Spaniards CincoYramas, the French Quintefueille, the Germanes Funfffinger kraut,the Dutch men Viifvinger exuyt, wein Englifs Cinkefoile and Cinkelield, and five finger graffe, orfive leafed graffe, Pentaphyllum vulgatiffimum. thers have, but a little whitifh hoary underneath, this fcarfe beareth any ftalke, with {mall pale yellow flowers, having a purplifh head fn the middle, which growing ripe is hard,and likea {mallStrawberry head asall the re(t have, Pentaphyllum [upinum Potentillefacie, LowCinkefvile with wild Tanfy leaves. This {mall Cinkefoile creepeth not, nor yer ftandeth up- The moft common Cinkefoile. right, but leaneth downe with his weake ftalkes to the ., This fmall Cinkefoile, creepeth and {preadeth upon theground likethe la(t, and isin falkés and flowers 4eee downe on them, andthe flowersare not offo gold a yellow:colour, in other things not much diffe- like alfo, faving that the leaves are fomewhat larger and nothing hoaryor fhining, but greene,and havea lieele 4. Pentaphyllum minus repens lannginofum, This finalleft Cinkefoile, is lefle creeping then any of the former,having many {mall leaves offive parts, as o- 6. T Hecotamon {mall Cinkefoile {preadeth and creepeth farre upon thé ground, with long {lender ftringeslike Strawberries which takerooteagaine, and fhooteth forth many leaves, made offive parts, and fometimes of feven, dented about the edges, and fomewhat hard, the ftalkes are flender, leaning downewards, and beare many {mall yellowflowers thereon,with fomeyellowthredsin the middle,{tanding about a {mooth green head, which whenitis ripe,is a little rough, and containeth {mall brownith feede : the fOote is of a blackith browne colour,feldomefo biggeas oneslittle finger, but growing long with fome threds or fibres thereat, and by the {mall firings it quickly {preadeth over the ground. _ 2. Pentaphyllum incanum repens Alpinum, Creeping Moantaine Cinkefoile. The creeping Mountaine Cinkefoile, fhooteth forth manyleaves from the rootelike unto the former, and dented about theedges, but {ofter in handling: and fomewhat ofa grayith greene orhairy fhining colour : the ftalkes are flenderandtraylealmoft upon the ground, withfomelefler and lefler divided leaves on them, then below, bearing many goldyellow large flowers, with yellow thrédsin the middle, and fich like feede s the tooteis {maller and morefibrous then the former,but {preadeth in thelike manner, ; «ns, 3° Rentaphyllum repens minus. Small creeping Cinkefoile, : Pentaphy lum minimum repens. Thefmallelt creeping Cinkefoile. the roote is fmall, bur {omewhat fharper in tafte then the others, but yet aftringent withall. Secundus Ordo. The fecond Ranke, 1, alittle flender,not greene but réddifh, the leaves aré moré woolly, and the edges deepelier dented in, the fowers alfo are of a deepergold yellow colourthen thelaft, Small woolly creeping Cinkefoile: e This woolly Cinkefoilc is very like the latt for growing, both offtalkes, foes and flowers,bucthe falkesue a litt gtound ward, having verylong ftalkes of leaves on them, divided into many parts next the ground, fet oneachfide thereof twoata fpace one againtt another, and an odde one at the end, all of them dented about the edges, very like unto wild Tanfy leaves,but not hoaryorfilverlike as they, but greene: the flowers comeat the joynts with the leaves towards the toppes of the ftalkes, whichare there,’ leffer and leffe divided then thofe below, every onebyit felfe, whichare {mall and ofa pale yellow colour, with 2 head inthe middJe, which afteritisripe, islikeunto the other Cinkefoile heads of feede, that is,like unto a {mall hard dry Strawberry: the roote is {mall long and blackifh, like the ordinary Cinkefoile. 7. Alterum cidem fimile Enneaphyllon. Another {mall one like thereunto. _ There is another low oneofthis kind, that Banhinus hath fet forth in his Prodromss, whofe {mall flenderftalkes,three or foureinches long are many, lying round aboutthe roote "pon the ground,divided into many branches, whereon are Mm 2 6. _Pentaphyllumfupiaum Potentille facie. Lov Cinkefoile with wild Tanficleayes, |