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Show g60 Cuar.42, Theatrum Botanicum. Tries. Cwar. XLII. Androfaces altera Matthioli. ~Matthielus his Navelwort. ax Lthoughthefe plants conteined in this Chapter, be referred tothe Chickwéedes,bydivers authors, | and might therefore have beene placed among them,yet in regard I finde them notonely to vary, from all- the forts of Chickweedes, as‘well in the outward forme, as in the inward qualities, as | by the tafte may plainely be difcerned, I have therefore thought goodto feparate them, and {peake ofthefe in this Claffis, and of them in another. 1, Androfaces major Matthioli, ‘Matthiolus his Andreface called the greater Navel-wort, The greater hath diverfe fomewhat broade frefh greene leaves,a little hayrie, lying upon the ground, fomewhatrefembling a Plantaine leafe, with {ome ribbes inthem, but much fmaller,and little unevenly dented about the edges ; from among whichrife up divers round ftalkes, foure or five inches high, fomewhathayrie alfo, bare or naked withouta leafe up to the toppes, whereftand foure 1. Androface altera major Matthioli. or five leaves, like thofe that grow below bur lefMatthiolus his Androfae called Navel- wort, fer, and among them ftart forth divers flender foote- ftalkes, bearing every one of them a {mall white fow- er, confifting of five fmall notched leaves, ftanding in a greene huske, divided alfo at the toppes into five parts, wherein after the floweris paft, ftandeth a {mall round head, containing {mall blackifh feede: the rooteis fmall and fibrous, perifhing as ffooneas it hath borne feede: and rifeth often of it owne fowing againe, whichif it {pring before winter, or that it dothnot ranne up for flower, the firft yeere of the fowing, will abide the firft winter, and flower the fommerfollowing. 2. Androfaces minor. Thé lefler Androface, or Matthiolus Navel-wort. The leffer Navel-wort growethlike the former, with manyleaves lying on the ground, but they are {maller and narrower by much, yet fomewhat hayrie, and dented about the Trips 's. who faith that Antoniv, ufa,° and Ericius Cordus were of the fame minde beforehim; which is not without fome probability, in that i¢carryeth no leavesbut heads of flowersand feede, upon a number. of fmall threds, but that this is not ofa $ea plant, as Diafcorides bis Androfaces is, noris white.as fome. copies have it, or with flender rufhy ftalkes, as other copies have, and therefore I thinke we may eafily conclude, that Cu/cuta is not Diofcorides his Androfaces but the Uva marina Sea Grape,may be thought & is by many,to come neerer therunto, and E fhould with Be//oniw thinke fo alfo ofit, ifit were an herbe; and. not afhrnbbe, and if ithad white and flenderftalkes, as it hath wooddy, and climting, bearing red.berries, which it is likely Diofcorides, would not have omitted; ifhehad meant that plant, and forthat firlt Sea plant of AZatthiolys, for any thing we can per- ceive itis but an exctefcence of the Sea, not bearing. any heads. with feede, but {mall round Navell-like leaves, and therefore at Mompelier, called Vmbilicus marinus, which grow hard.and white, being out of the water, although tender underneath it, as Corall,Coralline, andfome other Sea plants doe, whereof. you fhall heare morein the proper place, which is ofSeaplants; the other eAndroface that Matthiolyg fetteth forth and calleth altera was {ent him as he {aith, by Cortafs, for Androface, whichalthoughit agree net unto that of Diofcorides, yet all other writers fince, have fo calledit, but both C/ufizs and Lobel denyit to be any Sea plant however (orsnfus faith, it came from the places, nearé the Sea in Syria, The fislt heredeferibed is generally called Androfam ces altera Maithili, who as it fhould feeme,held thereading of Diofcorides histext, to be tenues Sargens juucos cumfolijs, {preading fmall tufh like ftalkes with leaves, for fo hath this plant, and as I faid before is referred tothe kindes ofAlfize, Chickweede; but for the reafons before aledged, Idocasye fee diftinguifh them, but Bauhinus calleth it Alfine affinis Androfaces difta major, The{econd ts called by Bawhinus in his Pinax and Pro dromus, Alfine affinis Androface diétaminor. And the laftis called alfo by him, in the places before named, A/fine verna Androfaces capitulis, Uhave calledit in Englif, (not imply Navel-wort, for Lee noreafon why fucha namefhould bégivenit) as others doe, bur Adatthialus his Androface , or Navel-wort, as a diftin¢tion betweeneit andthe Cotyledon altera, called alfo Navel-wort, : The Vertues, 3+ eAndrofaces mimma. The leaft Androfuce or Matthiolus Navel=wort. The leaft Navel-wort isalfo very like the former, with many hayrie leaves, lying ina round compaffe upon the ground, very like unto the leaves of the {malleft Sheap- heards purfe, with more pointed and deeper dented edges, than either of the former : the ftalkes that rife from among themare much fmaller than the former, foare they fhorter alfo, but not leffe hayrie, having five {mall greene leaves, fetin a round compaffe at the joynt, which js about the middle height, from whencearife asin the firft fort, three or foure {mall white flowers, which afterwards beare feede in {mall heads like the former: the roote isalfoa few threds asthe reft, and anfwerable to the plant, ‘ The Place. Thefeall grow in divers places of Germanys the firt in Auffriainthe cornefields about Baden, and Viennaas Clafiu writeth, although «Matthiolms his friend that fent it him, fayd it was brought out of Syria: the fecond Dottor Burferus gathered neere a village called Adarker/on, about foure miles ftom Herbipolis,as Banhinus inhis an fettethit downe, The laft he faith likewife Dottor Fererws told him, growethin the plaines of Nore un fa, : The Time. They doe flowerin May, and their feedeis ripe in Iune and Inly, yet the laft is thé earlieft of thereft, both for flower and feede. The Names. _Avdpsounes in Greeke,is called alfo in Latine Androfaces, ut quisforte putare poffit Setomes ab srina ee hydro picorum aquis educendy, yer this is not the right Androfaces of Diofcorides and Galen, becaufe hefaith it growerh withoutleaves, asitis extant in fome copies, yet in othersitis faidtohave leaves, having onely a head with feede, Matthiolus firlt exhibited two plants under the name of Androfaces, the oné which is a Sea plant, fent unto him, as he faith from Lucas Ghinus of Pifa, who foundit about the Sea coafts in Hetruria, Taskany, of Florence, which doth not anfwerunto the Text of Piofcorides, whofaith foliculum is capite habet in quofemen, ithatha huske at the toppe, wherein is the feede, and therefore BeMleniys called the Polygonnms quartwns Pini, PUY CALGC : Shick 3 ‘ This Navel-wort, being fomewhatfharpein tate,isaccounted hot and dry in the fecond degree, and doth bothclenfe old foresand ulcers, and ftayeth thofe that are corroding or fretting from their malignity, and after- wards dryeth up the fuperflnoushumidity, which hindereth their healing,and clenfeth alfo the skinne outward- ly from roughneffe, Sunbutningorthe like difcolouring, the juice clarified and dropt into the. eyes, clenfeth them from thofe filmes or skinnes, that by growing overthe fight,caufe blindeneffe. edges; from whence ‘rife alfo many {mall naked hayrie every yeere, after feede time, Cuar.43. 561 whichisthe lefler Uva marina, or SeaGrape, by the mameiot Axdra/ace, asit is.declared. before. inthe Chapter ofPolygona baccifera, Berry bearing Knotgraffes, Anguillaraaccounteth the Cufeutato be the Axdraface of Diofcorides, which is without leaves, according to thofe copies that have itfo, and as Tragws betore himdoth, Cuar, XLIIL ftalkes, three or foure inches high, not having any leaves at the toppes like the former, but an umbelor tuft, of many {mall fowers, like the former but whiter; after which come forth fuch like {mall round heads with feede: the roote is likewife {mall and fibrous, but more reddifh, and perifheth The Theater of Plants. Sagina Spergula; Francking Spurry or Spurréwort, pAHele plants alfo as the former, I might as others doe, referreuntothe kindes of Chickeweedes, but & their qualities being not alike, northe forme ofthem,but verylittle conformable, 1 mnft likewifé P<) Ee forthis worke disjoyne them, howfoeverfor another they may be joyned. — me 1, Sagina Spergula major. The greater Franck Spurry,or Francking Sparrewort. ; The greater Spurry or Sputrewort, fendeth forth divers {mall round and upright ftalkes, fearfe SS" halfe a foote high, whereonat feverall diftances or joynts, grow many {mall and narrow leaves, fet together in the mannerofa ftarre, or the rowell ofa {purre, whereupon came the name, the flowers are many, {mall, and white, ftanding at the toppesof the {talkes, which turne into fmall round heads, containing therein blacke feede,the roote is {mall and threddy,perifhing every yeare after {ede time, 2, Sagina Spergula minor, The leffer or Sea Spurry. This Sea Sputry isnot much differing from the former, but that ithath nor fo many long and narrow leaves fet together at the joynts of the ftalkes, which doe not rife fully fo high, and doe fomewhat moreleane downewards to the ground, which together with the leavesare more white, and of a faltifh or brackith tafte, if ir growneerethe Seafide, as moft Sea plantsare, otherwife nothing fo hoaty white,or brackifh at all,the flowers Tikewife are fever, but ofa white colour, and the feede blackelike the other, therooteislikewife, {mall,long and fomewhat hard, with {mall fibres thereat. 2. Sagina Sperenlaminima, Thelealt Franck Spurty, ; The {mallet Spurry hath likewife divers weake ftalkes,but fomewhat bowing downe to the ground,feldome above an handbredth high, fullofjoynts, and atevery of them, two {mall fhort leaves, compaffing them at thebottome, frombetweene the{talkes and the leaves comeforth other fmall leaves without number, towards the toppesoftheftalkes from the {aid yoynts comeforth the flowers, every one upona {mall footeltalke, which are ofa pale blewcolour, and fometimes more blew, or tending toa purple, after which come fuchlike round heads with blacke feedes inthem, as are in the former, th¢ rooteis {mall and long, with fome fibres, or threds at it, . 4, Afteriafive §tellaria Monfpelienfinms. French Spurry,or Spurrewort. The French Spurry, islikewife not much differing from the laft fort, but that the fmall fhort and narrow leaves, that ftand at the joynts ofthe {mall low ftalkes, are allof an equall length, and beingftiffer and harder ftand (traight oucrightin anequall diftance, one from anotherlike a ftarre, the flowers hereof are finall, having five narrow pointed leaves laid open abroadlike a ftarre alfo, but of a reddith colour, fo that whether you re- {pe the leaves or the fower,they both refemble aftarre, and from thence tooke the name, and yet we know, there are many other herbes fo called,muchdiffering one from another. The Place. Thefedoeall grow indry fandy grounds as well among the Corné in divers Countries, as in aedad |