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Show 540 Cu ar.32 Theatrum Botanicum, Trips, T aipe. 5. nr fae 547 ‘2. HerbaDoria minor Americana, . 1. Herba Borid vulgarh» are fo weake by reafon of the length and weightof leaves,thereon,that they cannot ftandupright,but fall downe upontheground, bearing many darke greene leaves thereon, long and narrow like the firlt, witha white tibbe Cuar.o2 3 Plants. The Theater of abt emia ve ee ‘i ; Dorias Woundwart of America, The ordinary Dorias Woundwort. in the middle, {nipt or dented about the edges,and many {maller yellowith flowers at the toppes of them,which turneinto very {mall and long round darke pods, as {mall and long as thofe of Sophia or Flixeweede, and {mall brownithfeedes within them, ofan hot and quicke, fharpe andunpleafant'tafte withal 1, asthe herbe it, felfe is, but much more, the roote in time, groweth to be very great, even of the bignefle of a mans arme, and verydeepe alfo (for fuch I have digged up in my owne Garden)ofa ftrong.anpleafant favour and talte, {harper then Creffes, and very like unto thatof Flixeweede, abiding many yeares+ ‘but the ftalkes perifhing downe ro the ground, and fhooting forth anew inthe Spring. 4+ Solidago Saracenicaaltera five tertia Tragi, Tragus his Germane Confound, This other Germsane Confound,is fomewhat like bothin {talkes and leaves unto the middle kinde of Neppe; with long leaves, being white as they are, the Nowers {tand at. the toppes of the ftalkes, many together upon imall round greene heads ,very like unto the firft fort, being fmalland yellow,which after they are paftjand the heads with feed areripe, openthemfelves, and with the downeinthem,, is catryed away by the wind, in the fame manner: the roote creepethin the ground, and fhooteth up branches round about; the tafte of the herbe isbitter, wherebyitis foundto be drying,and ofa piercing quality, The Place, All thefe doe grow in moift and wet grounds, by woods fides, and fometimes inthe moift places of the’ thas dowygroves, asalfo by water fides, The Time. They flower in Iz/y, and the feede of thé two firlt, is foone ripe, and carryed away withthe windeafter ; the third hath not his pods and feede ripe untill the end of Auguft, or beginning ofSeptember, The Names, None of thefe herbesare of ancient, but later invention and appellation; itis called Solidago and Con/olidz from the old Latine word Con/olidare, whichin the barbarous Latine agedidfignifie, to foder, clofe, or glue up rhe lips of wounds, and Saracenica, becaufe the Terkes and Sarafens hada great opinion thereof, in healing the hurts and woundsof their people, and were accounted great Chirurgions.and of wonderfullskill therein,whom the Chriltians followed andcalled it thereafter, others called it heréa fortés fromthe {trong fent and tafte as itis thought. Zragus after he had deferibed the Solidago Saracenicavera, addeth twoforts more, the one whichis, his fecond,is the Lyfimachiaceruleafpicata, andthe third whichisthe laft here, Banbinus calleth it Conize affisis Germanica, referring itto the Conyza’s or Fleabanés," but I have thoughtitfitter to place ithere. Yragus calleth the firlt Solidago Saracenica prima,and faith that Brunfelfius wrote verylatgely thereof,and yet Bawhixis not Brenfelfiue toliaye called it fo, burthathe called the Bellis yluestris minor, t0 be Sclidago Confolidequoteth |pecies, divers have thought the Virga avreatobeit, and fo-doth Bawhinns alfo, and therefore faiththat Tagus hisfirlt Solidago is the Virga anrea angififoliafer rata, Tabermontanus calleth it Con(olida aurea, The {econd is called by Lugdunenfis, Solidago Saracenica major, Thethird I prefumeis the fame that Lode! giveth us the defcription of inhis Adverfaria, and the figure in his Obfervations, yet maketh the heads with feed to fiye away with the windas the others doe, butfurely the figure hereof, doth fo truely reprefent this plant, chat! doe here fer forth unto you, as no othencan comeneerer unto it, and thereforeI am perfwaded thathe was miftaken inthe heads of fecde, which as 1 fhew youinthis, give {mall long pods with {mall brownefeed therein ; or elfe there is another {0 like this ascanbe, whofe feed withthe downeis catryed away with the winde. The laftis as I faid Tragubhisthird Solidago Saracenica, which he calleth Herbaviulneraria adfluviumde Pfrim, The Germanes. asit is thonghtfirlt called it Heiani/ch rrundtkrant,chat is Valneraria Turcica Heathenifh W oundwort,from whence came the name Solidago Saracenica, and the French thereafter Confoulde Sarazine,and {0 all other nations in their feverall tongues, The Vertnes, Among the Germanes this Wound herbe, is not onely of efpeciall account, but even preferred beforeall other ofthe fame quality, be it Bugle or Sanicle,or whatfoever elfe, forit is horand dry almoft in the third degree,and binding withall : being boyled in wine and giventodrinke, it helpeth the indifpofition of the Liver, and freeth the gall from obftru@ions, wherebyit is goodfor the yellow jaundife,and for the dropfie the beginning thereof, asalfo all inward.ulcers ofthe reines, or elfewhere; and inward wounds orbruifes 3. inand being fteeped in wine, and thendiftilled, the water thereof drunke is fingular good to eafe all gnawing in the ftomacke, orany otherpaines or torments in the body, as alfothe paines of the mother ; and being boyled in water, helpeth‘con- tinuall agnes ; and this faid waterorthe imple water of the herbediltilled, or the juice or deco¢tion are all very effe@tuall to heale any greene wound, orold fore or ulcer whatfoever, both clenfing themfrom any corruption is bredin them, and healing themup quickely afterwards; the famealfois nolefle effeCuall, for the ulcers in the month or throate, be they neverfo foule or ftinking, by wafhing and gargling the mouthand throate therewith, and likewife for {uch foresas happen in the privy parts of man or woman, briefely whatfoever hath been faid of Bugle or Sanicle,may be fotnd herein, The other forts of Confounds doe runne the fame courfe withthis, andareas effe@tuall ina manner asi, TZ LAL AIR PS SEN if KYPy Ai. points fmaller at the lower ends of them, and bfoas j ee agé ae ; as Docke leaves,but thicker, almolt-as long bich rifethup,but one great eat for the — , deft inthe middle, fomewhat harfhor hard in handling t very {paringly ,{carfe twoD or three {uch leaves, but {paringly ,fear{ whereonare fet véry Panga part, but exceeding high, 10 eT Qanda few yellow flowers, in greenefcaly. heads,away saber with t {maller as growbelaw, at the toppes 5 f che aaney ich when they are ripe, are blowne former C ‘ cer ng afrefh every yeareScar PstOrit a WwW ogundwort ‘ = ; S, ‘a rh eAme: TiCAthe vort of America. Re Tay oria a3 aySopatly ‘. aade se ie z 2. } fe = in minor fhew’, that it cannot better be referred then unto " hid cane ; mp non b oes This setae s fo Mikes 5 eee are thicke fomewhat long and narrow, bys no page ° os erie grecnealle vinter, ot them =m:+ theftalkes the gee 4 sen awhoit1 hr, élfe fot forme‘ very lite w; hich are m:! ny, oi rae notbeing able, bythe mn vis . one downe, leane part, mot ‘the ndf "4 chat heiehese halfe halfe that height arens round, .and for the mac 2 on reene: {ca eads then and leaves daeracacs to (and upright, which cia ern Ty Sealclone natrow cane which * themfely elyes ilaalfo greater, and more laide.open, .! by the rooteis ‘ compofed of manyblackifh theforme former, andare lacki “tis carryed away with the winde, turne Into a whité mofliedowne;, ands carry fibres. safolida Theg alden Confonnd. I ; Je. Pa ‘di anrta nemorum. + Thiseoldenbherbe bash gee OM and natrowfharpe pointed leaves, inde tee senceseateree - es yetthickelike them, and: ofa . er eroen ee fogreat, ike untooD Doria v £ 5 viasWoundw. oO ee Batic like F, long}eaves on them, the rife not much above foote hich having here and there narrowerae i leaves.there- that{tand at the roppes ofthem, are largerthenof the former, having PayOMENSTS Be tiee Gece oh aie of — like a ftarre flower, with divers thrammes in he ey : ty aaent oF bandon withall. lik the tafte thereof is fomewhat fharpe, and aromaticall,and altring ik hto unt theDailiess,thet lace. — u would make {thew it.fbould be, having pany fibres - em rena nie peene wi ieate 2 theo oy 2a aeed zfie ground,and dyeth not, nor the leaves lofe their verdure in the winter; ner, which take ftrong hela or g} aie : nyeeofRivers, in Provence and Narbone ofFragce. The fecond. The firkt as Lobel faith, groweth neare th came from the Freach Colony in America,1 nto France, for from Vefpafan Rabin ot Par \ adit, The laft im the thicke woods neere Or/eance, as Lobelal fo faith, they docall well abide in Gardens, Cuarp XXXII, Herba Doria five Aurea, Doriashis Woundwott: The T.me, g Ecaufe this herbe doth notably differ, both from the former Confonnds, and the Golden roddesthat fhall follow, Thave thought good tofet it betweene them, whereof thereare more forts then one, as they may beftbereferred. 1. Herba Doria valgaris. The ordinary Dorias Woundwort, This W oundwort hath many great thicke flefhy long deepe greene leaves rifing from the soot, almo! The firft and the laft doe forthe moft part, flowera monethbe! fore the fecond, whichis not in flowér before Augn fF atthe fooneft. The Names. A 2 French General of thé Emperonr, and the Frenc The firlt is thought to havebeene found out by Azdreas Dorsa,the £-~ the reliefe hi iers and Marriners,al- Kingsfleete, or at leaft commended or commandedto a for the peliéfe ofhis Soukdier chongle |