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Show TheatrumBotanicum. woe Thegreater Sea Knotgrafle. Se Polygonum MAT RUM Malus. ‘The greater Sea Knotgrafle,runneth out into many and much ° Trips Aa 5+ 6. Polygonum marinum majut minus, Thegreater and leer Sea Knotgeaffe, eri Cuar.i5. AS the ftomackeorbelly or other parts that arife fromthe heate, fharpeneffe and corrups Bi ud ee¥a= diftilled water hereoftaken by it felfe, or with the powderof the herbeor feede, is tion of blouc : d: the faid water oFthe juycenes : tisaccountedas c of the herbe, ane one of C or theST ¢ effed to all the purpofes aforefai very7 effe&uall y other brdaking larger branches then the firft, lying onthe ground, yet full of joynts, fet very clofetogether, with leaves thereon, fomewhat like the commonkind,but thicker, fomewhatfhorter and broader, and of a darke greene colour above,and whiter underneath: the flowersftand at the joynts in the fame manner, having {mall white skinnes that cover the joynts, which in fomealfo are of a white, and in others ofa purplifh colour; after which com- 7 ev manner of inflammations, all empoftumations,.all cooleand gangrenous, that is eating and fretting or burnirie fores molt foveraine remedies to ings for all forts of ulaayecard wi being applied or put into them, but efpecially a ings Se and _a aa in the privypartsiof men or women, reltraining the humeurs from falling tothem, ard cooling eh Oe : che hot and moiftinflammations, that are apt to follow {uch fores in fuch places + it nolefle se a = teeth and greene wounds, by reftraining the bl wud, and quickly confolidating the lippes of them + the matterith running have andthe are foule,for theyoperative wonderfully, jayce dropped d in ; to be {0although cooling and griefes aforefaid, it them hought into the eares helpeth ae meth {mall feede,enclofed in whitifhthining skinnes ; the tafte of the whole plant and every partthereofis altringent,but {omewhat {alt withall : the roote is fomewhatgreat, thicke,blacke, long, and fomewhat wooddy. 6, The Theater of Plants. + em : the (ea kindes of Knotgrafle, are not th to b : ? , cae: they have gotten more heatebytheir falt habitation ; yet effeGtuall in many of the other properties, the § ae i falt qualitie caufing {omewhat the more penetration. Polygonum marinum minus, The leffer Sea Knotgraffe: This leffer kind hath longer ftalkes thenthe laft,covered with areddifh barke, and more dividedinto {maller branches, having Cuar fewer joynts onthe greater ftalkes, but the branchesare thicke, fee with fmaller leaves then the former, and are fomewhat fat and thicke, long and narrowlike thecommonkinde: the flowets are {mall and whitifh, and the feede is not much unlike the laft, the roote is fomewhatlong blacke and wooddy,witha few Polygona minora, Divers ferts.of{mall Knotgraffe. F thefe fmaller kindes, there aremany more than of the former,differing the one fiom thé othét, ag fhall be declared hereafter: and firft Iwill fhew you thofe that come ncareft in outward face and <4 forme unto the other, next going before, andthe fmalleft afterward, eS fibres {et thereat. Wayes thataregreene, for in fome it overfpreadeth them, and bythe fides ofold walls. The third groweth uponthe higher grounds, and uponhils and mountaines,° The fourth in the fame places alfo,among theftones inthe rougher parts, The twolaft growbythe Seafide in divers places. leaves, lying a The Names, Itiscalledin Greeke mavzoe Polygontim,quod multis genubus crefcit,which nameis tfuall toit in Latine,yeti¢ is alfo called Seminalis, Sanguinalis,Sanguinarta and Projerpinaca ofthe feverall propertiesit hath ro flanch blood r to creepeonthe ground: in the Apothecaries fhopsin Italy and many other places Corrigiola, and Continndiag for the feverall refpec untothe qualities to correét the heate of the {tomacke and body or forthe joynts and Knots that every branch hath. The Arabians call it Bafia trahagi, the Italians Poligono Corregiola, and {ome Lengua Pafferina, The Spaniards Corriola, The Frenche Renovee, Corrigiole, and of the Walloones Marjolene The Germanes Weggralfe, de Cure. and Wegdrit,. The Dutchmen weghgras oft duyfent knoop, In Englifo Knorgraffe, and Swines graffe, and in the North Country of divers, Birdstongue, from oneof the Italian names. The firft threeforts are uftally of al authors called Polygontam mas or mafculam,tor they are al alike differing only thae the oneis biggeror leffer then another(for the Polygonumfemina ox feminenm diftereth in forme very much from this, and fhall be entreated of among the Equi(eta, Sheregrafles; or Horfetailes, as being likeft unto them, al- 2, Polygonum montanum VU ermiculate folis. Mountaine Knotgrafle with Stonecropleaves. _ This {mall herbe{or Knotgraffe for unto this family Banhinus doth referre it) groweth not much more an hand breadth high fending forth many flender vhitifh round ftalkes full of joynts which doea little bend themfelves downe againeto the ground’; at the joyntsare fet {mall long round fat leaves like unto ofe ends, of Stanecrop pointed but not pricking at the and with the leaves ; at the faid joynts, towards though not rough:) fomealfocall the firlt vulgare or majus for diftinétions fake from the fecond and third,which the toppes rife fingle flowers, that is one at a joynt Sfraticofium ofThalius, in the defcription of Harcynia/ylva, (which Camerarins hath fet forth andjoyned imeohis pen likea Scar, with divers whitifh {mall are bothcalled minus; yet the third is thought by Bauhinys inhis Pinax, both to be the Polyconum maftulum Hortus Medicus,) and alfo the Sedum minimum erbore/cens vermicwlatum of Lobel, forhe feemeth doubrfull unto which Thalivs his Polygonum {houldbe referred. The fourth Bauhinus calleth Polygonum Saxatile, and no other beforehim that I know hath made mentionof it. The fifth is called Polygonum marinum by Lobel in his Ob fervations, and Pelygonum marinum maximumin his Adverfaria,and of Lugdunenfis Polygonum marinum primum Dalechampiy, as he calleth the lalt Polygonum marinnm alterum Dalechampy ; which Baxhinus calleth Polygonuna wmaritimum anguftifolinm,calling the former Latifolium, : ; The Vertues, ee i pa forts of Knotgraffe are cooling drying,and binding, in fo much that the See S ay any bleeding atthe mouth, Leing drunkein fteeled or red wine, andthejuice of them is molt ef: bleeding at the nofe to pplyed to the forehead and temples, or to be {quirted upinto the noftrils ; it is alfo no lefle effe@uall to coole and temperthe heat of blood, or ofthe ftomacke, and to ftay any Aux ofthe blood h ither of thebelly, asall laskes or bloody hat comeby come by chollericke cholleri ai oiuersante ik Eethe oody Oe that abuititianlowing of and fharpe humours, or the abundantflowing o doth come" oe : e Te oe Feines alfo,the juice given before the fir of an aguesbeit tertian or quartane ao wheaikbart e expeliitand drive it away, itis alfo fingular good to proyoke urine whenit is (topped, as €n it paficth awayby droppes, and with paine, whichis the Strangury,as alfo the heate and fharpneffe therein ; and to expell powerfully by the urine, the gravellcalled or the ftone in the reines or bladder, to takea — me hdthe powderof the herbe in wine for manydaies together ; which effects as Diofeorides doth affirme 0 Galen feemeth not to deny,but onely faith that Diofcorides hath not fufficiently exprefled himfelfe in the man. nerofthedifeafe and how,itfhould be given : being boyled in wine and drunke,itis profitableto thofe that are {tung or bitten by venemous creatures, and the fameis very effe€tuall to {tay all defluxions of rheumaticke hu,mguts upon the ftomacke, and killeth likewife the wormesin the belly or ttomacke, and quietech all the inward paines ‘ se that it doth feeme many, of a greenifh dle {carfe to be difcerned,after which mineth a fmall roundfeed ‘veffell'and {mall feede the roote is {mall whice and thteddy5 this her talte nor fent much to be perceived therelittle harfhand drying and fomewhat in, onely bitter withall : ‘icfeemethto partake in face with the SS) untill Winter,when all theit branches perifh. . pee, the toppes when theyare growne old, they willbe of a thining filver colour, and esc skinnes and ie nu alfo come of the flalkes and branches being thicke fet, with {mall white Sean the like feede, but fmaller ; forth vety {mall white flowers feat fe a where alfo after ward thereis a he rooteis {mall long and white, not perilhing nel1Peeae ean branches northe leaves in the Winter in his 2 t natural place, but will not endure our cold blaftes and nights, and therefore perifheth unleffe it have more efpeciall care and provifion to preferve it, OA Nass The Time. Theyfpring up late in the Spring, and abideall the Sommer 7 ; This Mountaine Knotgrafle is fofine a white filverlikeplant,efpecially in the hotter countries, and muchdelight to the beholders of it : for it fpreadeth many weake trayling thatit growne old, when itisuponthe branches ground, ingiveth fome places not paft an hands breadth, in others afoote long, as full or filler of ranches upon , ofthe former, and thicke fet alfo with fmaller branches ; whereon are placed very {mall joynts than aloftlike {cales upon the whitithhard ftalkes, thefé leaves are greene at the firkt and tender,long bug almoft, both bythe footewaies infields,and onthefides of high- _ 1, Polygonum montapim mucum, Ww hite Mountaine Knotgraffe, : The Place, The firft two forts grow every where, and in every Country XV. Stonecroppes, andin tafte, with Knotgraffe, and the title rifeth fromboth. lalentinum five Anthyllis Va- entina Clufij. Spanifh Knotgraffe. This fmall plant which C/afies found in Spaine, and thought might be referred.to the Anthyllides; is by divers the belt Herbarifts fince, accounted a kinde of Khorerdffe, or more neerely refembling them, for forth many fmall weake reddifh hay? , iaS d not able to ftan pon the'gro Se iad Be ined into manyother {maller brariches, whercori grow at fevérall joynts and {pafmall leaves together, like un“o thofeof Time {purge ; whereon, as well as onthe ftalke there growc eth a fhewof mealineffe, as many {ea plants have ; with the leaves come forth{mall purplifh batesdai confiltingof foure leaves apeece ; the feedhath not beene obferyed : the roore is {mall long and blackifh on the outfide. Qq 4. Polygonuné |