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Show 508 Cx arid, Theatrum Botanicum, Tris B.5> AR! legitimum, the true Mayden haire; all late writers doe call it Lanaria minor, afolys lune cre{centis modo faleatis, & botrytis five ramo[a, aut racemofa, acapitibus racemi in modumformatit, Gefner in libro de tunarys, calleth it Ewnariapetrea, and 7aura, ashe faith the Heardfmen and Shepherds doe, becaufe if the Kine feede, where this herbe groweth, they will {peedily gocto the Bull. Tabermontanus calleth it Rata Lunaria vel jecoraria, The Italians call it Lun aria del‘grappolo, The French Tauré and Petite Lunaire. The Germanes Monranten and Monkrant, The Dutchmen Maencrnyt. Wein Englifo Mooonewort, but there are fo many herbes called by TheTheater ofPlants. TRIBE 53. Pyrolatenerior. Slender Wintergresne. CHAP.12, 4, Pyrola Europea Alfinesflore. The Winter geeene of Ewyope with Chickewveede § owers, AAW, , thename of Lawaria, that it would make any man wonder how fo many fhould be fo called, Ge/ner hath collected them all or the moft part, and fetthem forth together, inatr actateby it felfe, whereunto if any be defirous to underftand them, I muftreferre them to him; for it were too tedious to repeate them all here, 7 2 The Vertues, Bri fi Moonewortis cold and drying more then Adders tongue, and is therefore held to be more availeable,@for all wounds, both inward and outward, the leaves boyled inred wine and drunke, ftayeth the aboandanceof Wo- menis ordinary courfes, and the whites alfo ; itftayeth bleeding, alfo vomitings and fluxes; it helpethall bruifingsand beatings; it helpeth to confolidate all fra@tures or diflocations; it is good forruptures; bucitis chiefly ufed ofmoft, with other herbes to make oyles or balfames, to heale frefh or greene wounds, either inward or outward as Tfaid, for which itis excellent good, -Ithath beene formerly related by impoftors andfalfe krraves, and is yet beleeved by many, thatit will loofen lockes, fetters, and fhooes from thofe horfes feete, that goe in the places where it groweth ; and have beene{0 andations to conteft with thofe have contradi&ted them, that they have both knowne andfeeneit todoe fo ; but-what obfervation foever fuch perfons doe make, it is all but falfe fuggeltions and meere lyes: Somme Alhymifts alfo in former times have wonderfullextolled it to condenfate or convert Quickfilver into purefilver, butall thefetales were but the breath of idle headed perfons, which diversto their coft and loffe oftime and labour have found true, andnow are vanifhed away with them, like the aire or {moake therein, Cuar. XVITI, Pyrola, Winter greene, pay Lthough there were formérly but oné fort of Pyrola knowne, yet Clufins and fome others have found out otherforts thereof, which fhall be handled together'in this Chapter. 1. Pyrola noftras vulgaris, Our ordinary Winter greene. This ordinary (for fo I call it inregard itnot onely growethin our Country, and few or none of the reft, but becanfeit is belt knowneand of moft fe,)Winter greene fendeth forth feavenor eight ornine feaves, froma {mall brownith creeping roote, every S {tile with them, whichin time groweth to be the {eede veffel, which whenitis ripe is formedfive {quare, witha {mall point at it, wherein is contained as {mall feede asthe duit it felfé, 2, Pyrola minor five minima, Theleaft ‘Winter greene, This little Pyrola hath the roote creeping in the famé manner that the former doth, and rifing upin divers places whence rife updivers ftalkes, about two or thtée inches; from high, bare for.a {pace, in the middle whereof are fet at feverall joints twoorthree leaves a peece, each being fmaller, rounder,and thinner then the former, a little {nipt about the edges, the toppes ftandeth only one flower a peece, made offiveand at round white leaves, fomewhat greater then the firft, very the flowerof Parnaflus grafle, having divers yellow like unto the middle; compaffing a greenchead, which hath threds in a pointell thereat, parted at the toppeinto five threds: the head growethin time to be five fquare,with firch like feede therein as are in the former. . 3+ Pyrola tenerior. Slender Winter Thistenderor flender Wintergreene, rifethgreene. roote like Couchgraflescreeping divers waies up from a {mall underthe round with divers more weake and flender flalkes then the ormer, from whence grow fomewhat longer pointedileaves, and dented abont the edges, nothing fo hardin hand ling, elfe very like the former, the ftalkes have divers white flowers, ftanding at the toppes ofthem, like untoithe former but {maller, as the wey TESS es as {weete as thofe of Lilly convally, laid open like a ftarre,con fifting offive round pointed leaves, with many yellowifh threds ftanding in the middle, about a greene head, anda lon by = kex57 Le. LDr. ‘ ERR, {mall leaves ofwild Beetes,which is not fo proper in my mind, from whencearifetha flender weake flalke, yet ftanding upright, bearing at the toppe many {mall white flowers,fmelling mich ~~ cltts x, Pyrola nofiras vulgaris. Our ordinary Winter greene. We one {tanding on a long footeftalke, which are almoft as broad aslong, round pointed, ofa fad greene colour, hard in handling, andlike unto the leafe of the Peare tree, fromwhenceit tooke the name, but others compare them to be like unto the tom, SY ) Mh} “tr: GSS ‘5. Pyrola Brafitana Alfines flove major ( minor. Winter greene ofAmeri¢a with Chickevveed flowers. 6. Pyrola fruticans. Shrubby Winter greene. WN ues G i il INS ig \ Q SS IWS) 2 : } \ZZEN | \ ff He i zeroes \ Sf Z |