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Show Cuap.54. Theatrum Botanicum. Tre B.5s 1. Perfoliata vulgaris. 3.Perfoliata montanalatifolia. Common Throughwaxe, Broad leafed mo untaine Throughwaxe, Be broad, with cornersialfo about them almoft like {vie leaves, which compaffe the ftalkes about the bottomé' of i} Wee = i See, I : \e Iw them, feldome more than one ata joynt; atthe toppe whereof come. forth five broad leaves ftanding round from the midft whereofarifefixe or feven {mallftalkes, fome longer and: fhortet than others, bearing thereon Z Qa Cuar.5 4. This greater Mountaine kinde of narrow leafed Thronghwaxe, hath divers very long, and narrow, whi tith greene {mooth leaves, {pread on the ground , about a-foote long, of an inch, or inch and halfe cf AY Lhe Theater ofPlants. {mall whereout from betweenetwo leaves, come forth fuchlike pale yellow ‘flowers, ftanding in tufts, with : t feede followinglike italfo : the rooteis fimall and reddith, perifhing as it doth. $0: Perfoliata Alpina anguftifolia major. The greater narrow leafed Mountaine Thoronghwaxe, Ko ’ 1)Ay) G Wy {mall reddifh yellowflowers,in the middle of {mall round leaves: the roote is long and thicke; covered with ablackith barke, and endnreth. 6. Perfoliata Alpinaangeftifolia minor. The leffer narrow leafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe. This Thoroughwaxehathbut one: {talke,abouc a foore high, without any branches bearing thereon at feverall diftances, long and narrowleaves like the daft, but fhorter and leffer, compaffing the ftalkeatthe bottome, and atthe toppes fomefew reddithflowers; ftanding in tufts likethe common kinde, and feede accordingly; the 3 hy rooteis {mall and reddifh. 7. Perfoliata Alpina anguftifolia mininta, The leaft narrowleafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe. This leatt kinde is a {mallplant, not paft an hand breadth high, with areddifh running orcreeping roote,fhoo- ‘ ting forth in divers places very natrow, long, {mooth, green¢ leaves: from among whicharifeth a flalke, parted intotwo branches and each of them againe into otherimaller ones, with one or twoleaves under them,compa{= fing them ar the b ottome,whereit is broadeftithe flowersare fimall,and yellow,{tanding together in tufts like the other, , é : : 8. Perfoliata minor rams inflexis, Small Thoroughwaxe with bending branches, This {mall Thoroughwaxe hath divers leaves, arifing from the roote; which are:fomewhat long, but fhorter SZ} SOS ( a than thofe of the Girft Mountaine Thoroughwaxe'the italkeis{mall, andlyeth as it were upon the ground, bea~ S Cs Ore ring fach likeleavesas that Mountaine kinde doth, and compafling the ftalke: in the fame manner: the flowers are yellow like the cammonkinde : the rooteperifheth every yeere like untoit, and therein differeth from moft of the other mountaine kindes. 9. Perfeliata liquofa vulgaris, Common codded ¥ hroughwaxe. . ©The ordinary codded Thoroughwaxe, hath weakeftalkes,branching forth atevery joynt, ~with leavesfet ar \ 2D g << Dieu4? LS Lae them, compaffing thém at the bottome, very like uato the firft Common Thoroughwaxe,but thicker, fatter, and y Ny ct 4. Perfoliata latifolia tinor. The leffer broad Mountaine leafed Ihroughwaze, (Bet foliata filiquo/acuteari = Z eee CeeeenIgearer: ; more pointed, and of a whiter greene colour, moft like unto Cabbage or Colewort leaves, and with fquare unevenneffeon the edgesufually, :. the toppés of the branches are farnifhed. with many {mall white flowers, ftanding one above another, confiftingoffoureleavesa peese,which afterwards turneinto fmall long and (quaré. coddes, whereinis conteined round brownifhfeede: the roote is {mall and wooddy,perifhingafter feede time, 10, -Perfoliatafiliquofa flore purpureo, Codded Thoroughwaxe with purplt flowers. This other codded Throughwaxe, is very, like the, laft, having ftraighter, and more uprightftalkes, and lar not gerflowers thereon, of a pale purplithcolour, like unto thofe of the white Sattin: in all the reft it differeth from the laft. The Place; : : e The firlt, and the laft fave one aré'found oftentimes in our owne Land in many: ¢ofne fields, and pafture grounds: the fecond,as I fayd, is but a degenerate kinde ofthe firft, andis often found in gardens, where the Alpes of the Swit/ers, and firftisfowen: the3.4.5.6.7.8- grow all upon hills, {ome in. Germany, andthe foie upon the Apenins towatds Spaine and France: the laft alfo afwell asthe ninth Claw faith, he found ina Province of Spaine. ) The Time, Theydoé all flower about Ivy, and their feede isripe in Auguft, ; The Names, Yt tooké the name of Perfoliata (forthere. isnio ancient Greeke, or Latine author, hath writtén of it) from of Diofcorides, and the growing ofthe {talkes through the leaves, yet fome have thoughtitto be the Cacalia taketh itto be his Se/el fome would makeir his firlt Cotyledon, but neither of themagreeth with it. C4/alpiaus it, Perfoliata, and Perfoliae eAchiopicum, whichdiffereth much fromthis:all the later writers doe generally call and fothe Dutch tum: the Italians call it Perfoliata: the French Perfefueille, and the Gexemanes Durch wach{sin horto, as alfo the alo: in Exglifs Thorotighwaxe or Thoroughleafe ; the (econd is exprefied by Camerarivs third from Gefer, whofirft fer out the exact figure thereof, being the ficlk Motintaine kinde here, andis the the fourth Perfoliata longifolia D alechampi in Lugdunen is,although it may feeme much to differ fromit in fhew: maketh mention in horto, Itake tobe the Perfoliata altera of Lugdunenfis, whereof it is likely alfo Camerarius the. fift under the name of Perfoliata minor,and ic may be Bashinws remembrethit, under his Latifolia minor; Banhinas maketh his Perfoliata Alpina anguftifolia major, and hemaketh anotherlike unto it, which heealléth Media, md thereunto referreth the Perfoliata longifolia Datlechamphii of Lugdunenfis, when as I can finde no other his major Perfoliata inhim; whereunto the montana is tobe referred, but thereis fo little difference betweene and media, that I take thembothfor one;’ the greatneffe of the one from the other, being likely to be caufed oneBanly by the climate, andfo his ~ajor mayas well agree unto that.of Dalichampius, as his media > the fixth alfo anguftifolium fet forthin hinws calleth Perfoliata Alpina anguftifolia minor,and is very like the Baplearum Alpinum the former chapter, yet he giveth acaution, that they (hould not make them both one: the’ feventh hee calleth Columna, whichhefaith alfo is Odoxnminima, but diltinguifheth it fromthe Perfoliata minima Buplenri folio of titis lutea of Lugdunenfis: but I canmotothérwife think then that his minima is Columna his minima,al{o and likely tobe the Se/elie Ethiopicum parvum of Cxfalpinus-the eighth isremembred onely by Bawbinus in his Pinax & Prodorays: the ninthis called Perfoliata fitiquofa,or Napifolia Anglorum filiquofd, by Lobel in-his Adverfaria and Obfervations, and as Tragus, Ge/ver, Camerarius, Tabermontanus, and all or‘moft ofthe Herbarifts at this time doe: although divers other, from the colour ofthe leaves, and forme ofthe flowers and feede, would referre filiquofaor ders ae igtoshe wilde Coleworts,and thereuponcall it Braffia peea & agreftis) 3 . ene |