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Show 552 . inall fon Theatrum Botanicum, Tripe:s h ds,afterwhichcomethefede veffels,being greater then any of the reft, flatter alfo and broader; Cuap, XXXVIAII.- oct feede fed being flat, yellowith, and fmall, the roote is long and wooddy, with many fibres thereat. 8. Veronica Alpina minor, Small mountaine Speedewell. sia This {mall Speedewell from a {mall hard and threddy roote, fhooteth forth fundry flalkes with fmall leayes thereon by couples, fomewhatlarger then Mother of Time leaves, feldomedented about the edges, and of a darke greene colour, the flowersare {mall and of a pale blewcolonr, landing without order at the roppes of them, fometimes confilting of foure, and fometimesoffive orfixe leaves apecce, the feede that followeth, is fimall round and blacke, and abideth with greene leaves thereonall the Winter. 9. Veronica Teucry facie, Germanderlike aa sa i dewell hath fquare rough ftalkes about a foote high, with long narrow dented leaves, fet by couples atin the baliges cada ni long {piked head of foure leafed blew flowers and feede fucceeding likerhe 2 ; As. greater Specdewe! , Bet ; Thefir growethin all Countries of this land,upon dry bankés and wood fides,and other wafte fandy grounds, efpecially. The fecond groweth in Ax/fria and other parts of Germany, The third and fourth grow, as well on the motintaines of Hungary, as in the vallies at the foote of the e4/pesin Anfiria, Stiria, ec, Thefifth eroweth in fome places of this Land, as wellas beyond the Sea, The fixth Clufins faith he found onthehill in Stiria,called Sneberg, whereon Snowlyeth almoft all the yeare through. The feventh was found on the Pyrenianhils, by Dottor Burferus, who brought itto Bashinus, 2 eighth , and the laft on Mount Baédus, The Time, Theyflower in I#me and Inly,andtheir feedeis ripe in Anguft, The Names, Ithath no Greeke name that I know, being not knowne to the ancient writers, Dedoness onely taketh itto be the other Betonica Pani e£ginete, which hefaith is like unto Penniroyall,but notthat is called Kécesy,wher= bythe Greekes call the true and right Betony, and thereuponthis is very ordinarily called of many, Betonica Pauli, ot Veronica mas, and fupina,to diftinguithit from the other. Tragus in his time tooke itto be Tencrinm, and manylearned men doelikewifereferre moft of the other forts thereonto, The fecond ordinaryupright fore, is called by Ce/alpings' Auricula muristertia, as the fpicata ishis fourth, and the fifth here; his grimer which i ‘Dodonem calleth pratenfis, Tragus Tencrium alterum, and Branfelfius Exfragia nobiles, but Lobelin his Advera {aria Veronica minorferpiliifolia, Dodonew inhis French Herball calleth thisfemina, and fo did 7:abermontanus, but by the judgement ofthe beft Herbarifts ofour times, all thefe forts are fpecies of the male kind,the female being another herbe of a differing forte, as you fhall prefently underftand, Gerard hath foully erred not onely in the figure, but in the defctiption alfo ofhis fecond Veronica, whichis called creepeth contraryto the very title, but in the flowersalfo, faying theyare reéfa, not onely in faying that it yellow. All have their names in theirtitles, ‘as proper to them by moft other authours, and therefore I {hall not needethereft them, The Italians a further explanation of call it Veronica ma{chio, ‘The Germanes Grundheyl, and Ebtenpreiff. i.e. daudata nobilium, that isto fay, honour and praife, and fo the Dutch as Lobel faith call it. In Exgiifs Speedewell, and Paules Betony, andoffome Flvellen, whichbeing a 7elch name, is more proper Ithinke tothe female kinde, whereof theygive admirable praifes. The Vertues., The male Speedwell is temperately hot and dry,the bitterneffe thereof fhewin git, and is held a fingular good remedyfor the Plague, andall Peftilentiall Fevers, and infe@tious difeafes, to expell the venome and poyfon fromthe heart, and afterwards to corroborate and ftrengthenit, from hearbe tothe quantity of adramme ortwo, be given with adramme noyfome vapours, if the ponder of the wine, and they be layd to fweate: the decoétion of the herbe in wine, of good Treacle, in a {mall draught of or thediftilled water thereof, given in fome wine, performeth the famething itis reported that a French King troubled withthe Leprofie, was cured thereof by this hearbe,one of his huntimen advifing him thereunto; it dorh/alfo wonderfully helpe the memory, and to eafeall turnings and fwimmings, and other paines of the head, asit is fayd helpeth women to become fruitfull, that were barren: iit clenfeth the blood from corruption: th eand powderthereofdryed, and givenin it owne diftilled water,is fingular decoction of the hearbe in water, or the fesof the breftand lunges,by the warming and drying quality; whichgoodforall mannerof conghes and difeathing the Shepheards have fufficiently tryed, who give their fheepe that are troubled with the cough, or the like, fome of this hearbe, and little fair with itt it openeth the obftructions of the liver, andis therefore good for the yellow Tanndife: it openeth alfo the obltrnétions of the fpleene, being taken for fometime together inwardly, or the herbe bruifed and applyed with fome Vinegarto the region of the {pleene outwardly; it clenfeth der, or of the mother alfo, or any other inward wounds offores : it the exnlcerations of the reinesand bladprovoketh Vrine, and helpeth thereby to breake the ftone, and as Parlus cAgineta faith, is of much ufe in all medecines for the backe andreines: ig itis fingular good to heale all treth wolinds, and cutsinthegood flefh, {peedily clofing the lippes of them together, and not fuffering them togather corruption: itisnolefle effectuall old frettings, or running fores or ulcers, that are of hard curation, alfo for fpreading tetters, and for fouleor or are of long continuance: it fayeth the bleedings of wounds. or other fluxes ofblood in any otherpart , and diffolveth all tumors and {wellings efpecie ally thofein the necke. The diftilled water of the herbe, either fimple ofit felfe, or the hearte firlt {teeped in wine for twelve honres at the leaft, and then diftilled in an ordinary hotwater, as others are after that manner, doth wonderfilly helpe, ftill, but not in any Limbecke, to make itan the purpofes aforefayd, cither for the the Plague, the Cough, Confismptions, &c. and all the other difeafesforall before mentioned, as alfo to wafh wounds and {ores therewith; little coperas alfo diffolved in the fayd diftilled water, doth wonder fully helpeall Icabbes and feurfe, tetters alfo and the morphew itches, , and all difcolourings of the skinne, as freckles, {pots, and markes whatfoever, either rifen from the infection of the blood, and from hot and fharpe falt humours, or the carres that remaine after hurts or bruifes, if they be bathed therewith : alittle alomediffolyed in the fayd diftilfed water, and {prinkled upon Sarments, keepeth them from moths that{poylethem, CuaP, Cuar.38, 553 Lhe Theater of Plants. TRIBE 5- ; Veronica feminafive Elatine, seis eeeiee. oe Flwellen or, the female Speedwell, TRGEAE this Elatine there ate fome varieties, obferved bydiverfe, namely twoforts, bur we mult thereunto & adde a third as mae: Elatine folio fabrotundo, Round leafed ae Peal ‘ di groune and part ftanlying upon the ground, i i ‘ly lying many long branches,partly lien fhooteth forth, ight. Ranislenok round leaves, vera linle pointed at the ende; and baerped more long than scudewenisiie order thereon, being fomewhathoary, and of- an evillgreenifh white ray : ees oo all fa Shofallces and with the leaves'comeforth fmall flowers,one at a place,upona very pe? ie cote ce ei fomewhit like thofe of Snapdragon, or rather LinariaTodeflaxe,whote eet awe ° . re! Se ‘i adhe lower ofa purplifh, with a fall heele, or fpurre behinde, as the sara at : —_ which come1 ct ou heads, that containe {mall blacke feede, the roote is f{mallandthreddy, dying every yeere, afaePaifeth it fe gai of‘iit own ¢ fowing. 7 Se felfe againe 2. Elatine folio acuminato, Fluellen — ee : detteaes tgs i B hlonger branches, wholly trayling us0n the ground, vo ot three ‘cote long, { 8Sapeagtenpraia chinaely fet with ee thereon, upon {mall foote {talkes, which as = larger, andfoinewhatconnd and cut’in or cornered fometimes in fomeplaces he edges, but S — fa of them, being the broadeft hath on eachfide, a {mall reaes: d of abetter greene colour than the former:: t 1 4 : ie rie as : a — ~~ ;oe oh fhe é ner : ers Ee ion Biikeisenety onebyit felfe, one above another, . oa x oesoaeae the colours therein are oe than yews = oa anisea - ei Series e ees meet are the {eede and feede veffels : the rooteis {mal a SBlociten with Weare 5 flore ceruleo foliogue acumimato. Cornere , Elatine This third Finellen ance little da ie Jaft;but that the leaves thereon are not = ae Saat the edges, and lefit pointed alo,at the foote or lowelt part of them, and the flower is almoft all tittle whitith colour mien The Place. blew, with avery es di Sekar Mohindra dete ive cornefields, j and in ‘ borders about 4 them, and in ice: t all grovy in divérs oe3 11 efe doé ee.Kor sbodadencly 3 at Buckyvorth alfo, Hamerton and Richwerfworth in Huntington fhire, and divers other places, both there and elfe where. : st June and Zuly, oyae lant isis dry dry and withered They.all likewife are in Aower about andthe whole plant vithe before Angu/E bedone, 14 Elatine foliofubrozindo, Round leafed Fluellen. 2. Elatine folio acuminate. Fluellen with cornered leaves, |
