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Show ——— Tri Theatrum Botanicum. 496 Cu apis 1.4. Plantago anga/tifolia five quinque mervia major & ferrata, ‘ ‘ The greater Ribbewort Plantane with plaine and dented Leaves, 2, . Planta;agoangu/fifolia fousvole rofea e>ety mmultifera multiformis, Variable wr RibbeWor t. ' | The Theater ofPlants. Trips 5. Cuar.it. 497 ; : 6. Plantago Apula bulbofa. Bulbed Ribbewort of Maples, {mall a unto Jike hisroote; of part upper the for head, round and fmall long This Bulbed Ribbewort hatha Bulbe orOnion, ofthe bigneffe of an Haffell Nutof bigger; from whence fhooredowne into the ground, :many thicke and blacke long fibres: ftom thishead or bulbe {pring forth; many long and narrow leayeslike the firft Ribwort,lying upon the ground, but that each ofthem are miore haity and dented,orcut.on the edges into gafhes; which rife feparate a good diftance one from the other, fomewhat like unto Bucks horne Plaritane, fromamong rife up flender hairy roundftalkes, abouit a fcote high; bearing fuch like {piked heads, asthe firftdoth, with pale ‘ : yellow bloomings,and {mall blackifh feede after them, . Plantage montana trinervid. Small mountaine Ribbewott Plantane. ‘ This {mall motintaine Ribbewort, hath divers very {mall and long hoary white leaves, having €ach ofthem,bne three ribbes or veines a peece running through them, whereofit tooke the name: the ftalkes that rife among them: are fmall,and Ruth like,not much above foot high, whereon {tand {mall thicke and hort heads,with {mall flows ers on them, made of fonre {mall tiffe leaves, and {mall white threds hanging out of them, like the other forts of Plantane, after which come fuch feede as isin therefts. the roote hath a {mall long nécke, hairy above, and {er 1 with pale longfibres underneath. 8. Plantago trinerviafolio angustiffimo, The fmallett Ribbewort. This leaftRibbewort hath{uch like leavesas the laft lying upon the ground, but they are neither fo whitenor fo long, very narrow and fomelonger, or fhorter than others, all of them {mooth and-withoutany haitesnpon; -or buta verylittle thew ;the (mooth ftalkes are manythat rife up amongftthem,being of divers fifes, for fome whereon grow rife not above fonreinches, others halfea foote, or a foote, and fome.a foote and a halfehigh; {inall and fomewhatlong {piked heads, the rootes are many {mall white fibres, °, Eel Cee K<tre, 9. Plantago anguftifolia paniculis lagopi, Hares foote Plantaine, This Plantane hath many long ribbed roughhairy leaves, very like unto thefirlt Ribbewort, but ending in a eae ai — anguftifolia minor, ne lefler Ribbewort Plantane, {maller and harper point,it fendeth forth a number of {mall round brownifh ftalkes of divers fifes or heights, hand breadth high at the fome being not above twoor three inches high, and others halfe ahand breadth; or anfoote,fome being longer, moft ; whereonfland {mall long reddith heads,like unto the heads of Lagopys or Hares and others {maller and fhorter, hutall foft with {mall reddifh flowers at them, and {mall threds hanging from them, as in the otherforts, and {mall feede following : the roote isfomewhat long with many reddifh fibres growingthere from. This fometimesis found fo {mall, that it {earfe exceedeth three fingers inheight, being more hairy, and having {maller and rounder heads: ° by ge The Place. The fir: without dents onthe edgés, and the third grow withiusindivérs Meddowes and fieldes, and by pathwayes: in gardens alfoit is found.as.a weede:the fecond is found wilde in diversplaces of this Kingdome, and brought andcherifhed in gardensfor the rarietie : the fouveh and fift were brought us from Spaine by Gail. lanme Boel often remembred both inthis andmy former Booke where he found them: thefixth and feventh grow inthe Kingdome of Naples, Fabius Columnahaving fqund themthere and fet them forth: the eight Bags binws faith, eroweth with them about Ba/il, by the wayfide and among rubbith: the lalt in thefieldsabous ‘ @ &. Plintago Apulabulbofa. 8, Trénervia fotio angufti fine. Bulbed Ribbewort of Naples. The fmalleft Ribbewort. DRensartfinme The Time, Thefc all fowerand feede at the time, that the former doe,that is,in A4ay, Lune, and Iuly. The Names, This iscalled in Greeke m-7veupQ Pentanenros, that is, Quinguenervia ; in Latiné Plantago angiftifolia, and ; Plantago media & minor of fome, and Lanceolataand Lanceola,in Italian Lancivola, in French Lanceola, in high Dutch Spitzer Wegerich,in low Dutch Honts ribbe, in Englifs Ribbewort, and Ribbewort Plantane. The firft is generally called either P/astago anguftifolia major, or Plantago Quingwencrvia major of many, of Fu/chivs, Dodonews, Gefner and others Plantago minor ; of Matthiolus and Lugdunenfis Plantago longa s the fecond‘hath manytitles toexpreffe it, according to the formes ofthe fpikes, as Plantagotoro/a prolifera, roféa, Gc, the third is - remembred by Zhalivs in Harcyniaylva: the forth and fift. C/ufims maketh mention of. in his Cure pofferiores, but the fame Guillaume Boel,broughtthe dried plants and fhewed:them to me and others, before hee fhewed them to him ; and Thad the feedes of them, as of many other things, which hee gathered molt part npon my charge, whereof many {prang and feeded, andin their places are remembred: othersfprang but feeded not, and fo we haveloft the kindes, which wee havenot of many fhings gotten againe: the fixt Fabins Colwmna called Plantago Apulalaciniatabulbofa, and Banhinus Plantago pilofa bulbofa ; the feventh Columnaalfo calleth Plantago alteraminima trinervia montana incana, and Bauhinus Plastago trinervia montana: theeight Banhinuws cableth Plantago trinervia folio anguftiffimo : the lalt he alfocalleth Plantago anguftifolia paniculis Lagopt. The Vertues, All thefe forts of Plantane both thé greaterandtheleffer, both the broader and the narrowerléated, are ofone propertie, that is, cold and driein the fecond degree, I thought goodto {peakeoftheir vertues in the end ofall their defcriptions, to avoid prolixitie and tantologie in repeating the fame properties divers times. All the Plantanes, ( but fome hold the Ribbewort to be the ftronger and moreeffectuall ) have thefé properties hereaf= terenfuing, The jaice of Plantane depurate orclarified, and drunkefor divers dayes together, either of irfelfé, or in other drinke, prevaileth wonderfully againtt all torments and excotiationsin the gats or bowells, helpeth the diGillations ofrheume from the head, and ftayeth all manneroffluxes in manor woman, even the feminine courfes alfo, when they come downe too abundantly: it is goodto ftay the {pitting of bloud, andall other blee- dings at the mouth,byhaving a veine broken in the {tomacke,and that maketh bloudy or fonle water by aiy ulcer in the veines orbladder, as alfoto ftay the too free bleeding of wounds; icisheld alfo an efpeciall remedy, for thofethat are troubled withthe Prificke or Confumptionofthe Iungs,or have ulcers in their lungs;or have-coughs that come of heate : the decoétion or powderoftherootesor feede, is much more binding, forall, rhe purpofes afore(aid than the herbe is, Diofcorides faith, that if three rootes be boiled in wine and taken, it helpeth the tertian ague, and foure rootes the q#artane ; but I hold the number tobe fabulous, yet the decoction ofdivers of them, maybe effe@uall ; bur Tragus holdeth that the saintwater thereofdrunke beforethefit is more Po u3 ic |
