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The Vertues, The Polonians with whom the firft groweth, doe ufe the the fame manner that the Germans doe their Knawel, that is to expell urine and to breake the ftone : theherbein {econd is not knowne, whetherthe people where it groweth doc ufe it asthe twolaft forts are, which may well perf{wade us,is in the outward face and forme for the Sea-grapesare both ofone qualitie, ofthe fame operation, being fo like and ferve for the fame difeates that the Knotgraffes are uled by the Spaniards where they grow, as C/afius faith, but efpecially to cure the ulcers of theprivy parts in men or women : they are alfo very efe@uall to provoke urine plentfully, and are exceeding aftringentanddrying, fo that they powerfilly ftay all fluxes ofthebell y, or of womens courfes, reftraine vomitings of the ftomacke, and the definxions{of!thinne rheume to foder together the lippes ofgreene wounds, ortoknitbrokenfrom the head : they arealfovery confolidative have beeneoutofjoint : it isheld tobe fo powerfull to knit bones, and to fettle and {trengthen thofe that fiefh, or with other things, it will caufe themtobe fo glueddiffevered parts, that being boyled with peeces of funder againe ; in all forts of ruptures al{o,it is mot effeduall, or fodered together, that one cannot pull them in Cuap. io, The Theater of Plants. TRIBE 4 Abfirsi, The French call it Rayfius de mer,from whence came the name of Vva marina, The Uertues, 7 ae onan! cor i ded of any efpeciall cure this hathperformed, or thatitis applied to thofe that are fic eo all owe that itis of a drying, glutinons and aftringent tafte, and might nodaubst anyWiens dllea for laskes and fluxes of bloud and humours in men and women, and to perforgie whatfoe= — ; eat net drying propertie might, as in Polygonum promife to performe, yet there is nothing deter- picieee I dare not play the Phificion tainventnew receipts, forthe cure of old difeafes + itis {affi« ined, a and therefo' mined, he re temperatti : orapproin re and whatothers have ufed . ted, when I have 7 no new ew thing thi to thew. .. cient to declare t Cuap. XIX. 1. Afperula repens Gefneri, five Saxifraga alteraCefalpini, Breakeftone W oodroofe, ae ets inde of Saxifrage in fom® places of Jraly, refernbline in the $5) His srs plant aeiabe sn ee Gullines,and Garlsollién like herbes, doth canfe'me Cuar, YP fas) oucwwarl Ayah aber as being a congener of one tribe and family ; how therefore to Know this | ang as eiatagenbeods XVIII, Caffia Poetica Monspelienfium, The réd bertied Shrubbe Caffia: ~@ Have been bold to infert this plant in this place,becaufe fome have made it a kind of Po/ygonum,and ; although we cannotfind ittobea Saxifrage or breakeftone, yet it hath the other drying &altri ngent Walities of Polygo num,This thr up } -many {lender twiggie greene branches, whereoton the height oftwofoote or there abouts, fpreading or fomewhatrefembling thofe of Lavander, butgrow finall long leaves like unto Line orFlaxe, thinnely fet ail along uponthe branches ; the flowers are moffie or thteddy,andofa pale yellowith gerene : coluor, like unto thofe of the Olivetree, or of the Male Cor- nell tree;where afterwards come {mall round berries,greene atthefirlt, butred as Corral, or like the berries of Afpara- Caffia poetica Monjpelienfium, {preadeth upon the ground for the moft part (and yet in fome places ae upright) divers {mall tender ftalkes, feparated into other ee a a foote high, full ofjoynts, at which come forth three , foure, or. more fometimes, {mall and narrow {mooth leaves? the 9225 8 hstge : {tand at thetoppes of the branches, many fet toAl ui ae jecod:Cintaseas es : cate whieh are long {mall and reddifh, and and brownifhon the outfide, 2 2, Rubia Cynanchicafaxatilis. Stone W oodroofe. This other {mall W oodroofe,is very like unto the fore mer, but that ic is {maller and lower, not pait an hand breadth high, and the eaves much {maller; the flowers alfo of a pale red colour, many tufting together, and ee The red betried fkrubbe Caffia, gus whentheyare ripe, of anaftringent glutinoustafte,with fome fharpeneffe joyned therewhith, wherein is contained an hard ftone, having a white {weete kernell withinit : the ry one ftanding upon fhortfoote ftalke : the feedes.an rootes are like the others Foote is hard and wooddy, ‘ The Place, Tt groweth by the high wayes, in many places of Spaine, : 3. Luncaria §.almaticenfis. Small {tone Woodroote of Spaine, This {maif plant is likewife verylike unto the firtts growing more uprieht with fquare, rough ruthlike oth in the countries ofGranadoand Valentia, and Sivill, as alfo in divers places ofProvence in France, about the hedges branches, {preading forth into many fmall {prayes,al- and bordres of the Olive yeards: by the bankes.alfo of the river Lanus, and about the village Peraué, not farre from Mompelier,asalfoin a {mall Wood or Coppife neare unto the Priory of Egremont, neere there adjoyning, The Time, white flowers fet in fpikes, and foureor five ftanding untill September, upon a fhort foote falke together, which ftand in i huskes, wherein commeth the feede, which is moft like unto an Horfetaile graffe full of joints, with twoleaves and fometimes with moreat a joint, fomewhat long & narrow like unto Lineor Flaxe,but rough: at the toppes of the branches come forth many {mall Te flowreth about Inne and Iuly, and the berries ripennot The Names. e-and {mall ; the roote is white and threddy like Clagiu: faith that it was accounted for Ofyris of Pliny, while helived at Mompelier, whereunto hee faith, it doth the other. The Places agreein many things, but afterward they called ir Caffia, but by whatreafon or ‘cauleit is not knowne,forit neither agreeth with that Cafia of Dioftorides and Galen, which is The firt growethin fhady Woodsin many places of Ttaly, and Germany ; the fecond about Valentia in Davlze in Frazee: the lat about Salamanca in Spaine as aith ; but I found it on the right hand of Bradford like Cinamon, and is ofa {picie tafte, called in Apothecaries fhoppes Caffia lignea, whereas this is nothing fo: norcanit be the Cueoron of Theophrastus, which as Pliny faith called Caffia, neither is it he fweete fmelling CaffiaHyginus of Virg'l,whereofhe fpeaketh both in his Bucolicks and Geargic kss yetas faid they of Mompelier did call it Cafa; Cafia Pottica Morshelien{ium > Clufus calleth and “Lobel it Cafa Gtt0= randum,and faith that Placa Phifition and profeffor in Vzlentia, called it bridge at the lower end of Grayes Inne-Lane by London, neare rhe water courfe that pafleth along thereby, The Time. The Names; firft is cal 1 Gefner z in libella de colleftione SS fi ftir= ‘ y : , val S yes me aa a fecond Saxifrage of Cefalpinus ; Baubinwt referreth it to the Synaichyca of Ala WevTvA rubra, becanfe the ftalkes and the leaves gtow ted towards the end of Summer: and will fometimes Bavhinus Ofyri Senate ioe humbringit among the Linarias , becan{e of the leaves; and that he would makeit to bé the a Pliny, ib.27 cap.t 2, as they of AZompelier pliant branches, with blacke leaves thereon like at the firkt did, which hee there faith, hath {mall gentle or Lin, and a feede blacke at the firft, and becommine mee and citing Galenin his cigh Booke of Simples red after, that faith, of O/yris is made xopizarm for women, which tea ete Smegmata, but Scopes, r \ They doe all flower and. feede in the end of Som- Polygonum Plini ; and fo doth Dalechampius upon Pliny call ir Polygonum 4. Plinij : Lagdunenfis calleth it Cafialignea maritima s Cafalpinus Cafia lignea, and Genifha = the wordsof' f after theyare palt.groweth, rough,crooked feede, which is {mall and blackifh ; the roote is {mall and threddie, alif visun See # erro mune? but in my mind Pliny hath not true- id Galen, whoboth fay thar the leavesof O/yris are firtt black which he inverteth totheberries, which and then red, make a great alteration of fenfe 3 and Bashinus, to make this plant his Ofpris, takethhim thus corrupted, which yetis not found, that theberries fhould be blacke before they be red. The BS, th v és, and to the Gallium mont anum latifolinm cruciatum of Columna, and calleth it himfelfe Rubia reanes F ae dhe fetteth forth in his Prodromus, under the title I have here exprefied it ; the laf is called vy fpeciesof Lugdunenfis, by Tabermontanus Inncaria, but by Bashinus aticenfis, na is, and Synanchice as Ueatcih DETa, j The Vertues. The Izalians as 1 {aid in divers places of their counttie doeufe thefirlt kinde to helpe tie ie are peed orah the {tone or gravell in their kidneyes, by provoking urine,whichwafbing m8 failing yt aE ricth withie fmatl oravell, andfretting the {tone into gravel, fendeth it forth ii tl el i c wri ae wife much helpe to thofe that are troubled with the Quinfie, ‘which is an a ee o aerate ee throat, whichbythe extreme paine thereof is ready to {toppe. apoe “ : Hi esse ee fo indeede : it is adifeafethat Dogges and Wolves, are much fubje@_unto, fo! i ¢! Ife thatthe difeafe word 47708 aquens, in that we ufually hang up fach Doggesthat are troubled therewith,or 453 |