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Show 634 Cuar. 76, Theatrum Botanicum, TRriss5, Taine. : Lhe Theater of Plants. Cuar.97- 635 branchesjhavinglong leaves fet oppofite at the joynts, being broad at the bottome, and compafs — ehurecenuenig almoft like unto Tieeelubaxc Anding ina fmall point ofa pale greene colour: at s, made of foure leavesa peece, of a pale red colour, after which the.toppes; of the branches {tand d fundry fundry fi flowers, made skinnie fot huskes Gy is long and fomewhat come finall round and hard blacke feede, conteined in : the reoteis ong white on wooddy ; this plant forthe beauty ofthe flowersis received among others into onr gardens,and wasbut forgotten outof my former booke. oho, Cuap, LXXVII, Lychnis vifcolafive Mufcipula, Catchflie. jHe next ranke or order of wild Campions,is as I before fayd of thofe whofe ftalkes are glutinons and clammy, which now are tobe entreatedof inthis Chapter : one of them have already fet forth inmy former booke galled Mu/cipula Lobely,and therefore ncede not defcribeit here againe, I will onely give you thefigure thereof here. i 1, Lychnis [ylveftris vifcofa latifoliaClufi,five MufcipulaCretica Abricule urfifacie, , Clufius his Catchflie of Candy, The three firft forts grow commonly through our Countrybyfields,hedgfides,and atoetee! fortshave beene found fome by Clufus, and fomebyothers, both in Spaine and Germanys the tenth in Candy; Cockle is too plentifull in our Cornefields: and the laft in the borders of the cornefields in Germany, The Time, a All thefe forts flower inthe Sommer; fome comming earlier than others, and fome abiding longer than oh The Names. Thavé fhewed you in the former Chapter, the Etymologie of thename Zychnis, and therefore neede notto repeate ithere againe. Allthefe are called Lychnides (y/veffres: the firft is thought by C/u/ius more fitly to agree unto Melandriumof Pliny, inhis 26: booke and 7. chap, then the Papaver [pumenm, which Lobel would referre thereunto, and therefore entitaleth ic A¢elandrinm Plinii quorsndam, Matthiolys calieth ir Ocimaftrum, and Ocimoides,and {0 doth Ge/ner, Durantesjand Dalechampiws. Camerarius and Dedoneus doe expteffe both thefe former ferts, by the name of Lychnis /ylveftris alba ¢ rubra or parpures, and Lobel Lychnis(ylveftris flore rubela fo by the fecond, which Bauhinus calleth Lychnts S[ylvcftris (ive aquatica purpurea Simplexs but why aquatica I knownot,for in our Land I have not {ene it growin any watry grounds,other than ditch banks, &field fides, &ce (lujiue calleth the third here exprefied his Lychnis /yl.tertia inhis hiftory, which Barhinescalleth Lychnis Lylvefiris vifcofarnbra altere,and thinketh that to be the AZu/cipula of Lobel : but Camerariusin borte faith,that the figure is not well cut, and that he meant the 44x/cipula that is common, which he there calleth 7i/cago minorandisthe firlt of C/afius.in his hiftory, very truely fet forth. Bashinws likewife maketh the Mufcipula altera of Lobel, tobe the Armeriys flos quartus of Dodonaus, whichis the fame firft Lychris of Clufius, in his hiftory of plants, but is quite contrary, for Lobel in his Adver/aria faith that that Mujcipula, hatha yellowith greene flower, which all knowthe Ben rubrum Mon/pelienfinmor firlt A4ufcipx/ahath not, but a red flower 3 Lugdanenfis calleth ic Aifine purpureay Banhinus likewife maketh a doubt whether that MufcipulaLobelii called by othets Benrubrum MonspeLienfim, or firlt Lychnis (ylveftris of Clafiusbe not the Flos Conftantinopolitants minor of Gefner (1 doenotfinde him to name Con/Pantinopolitanus, but Flos ab Hierofolymis major & minor) which otherwife he called Ocimoides peregrinum ; the greater J verily thinke is the Lychwis Chalcedonica fimplexas we call it; bu tthe leffer fort fires ly cannot be the Ben rabrumor Adufcipula,for Gefner there faith that they both endure the Winter after the bea~ ring of feede which this Afu/cipala doth nor; and againe he faith his leffer fort hath Roriores flores buta few flowers, and that hath many; but Ithinke as If fiydbefore, that it may be the Flos Ceccineus of Lugdunenfis. Thefourth is C/ufivs his fecond Lychnis, or caliculis ftriatis; the fifth is the ninth Lychnis of Clufius in his hiftory, This wilde Campion hath many leaves lying upon the ground, whichare thicke. fat and hoary, white fomewhatlike unto the leaves of the yellow Avriculaurfi, Beares cares or French Cowflips f{moothon the edgés, alittle pointed, which doefo abide the firft yeare of the {pringing : theftalke rifeth up the next: yeare-to and the height of two or three cubits, with rwoleives ar the joynts, and {preading on bothfides into branches from the ground, whichare glutinous or clammy, caufing everylightor {mall thirig to cleave thereunto, asflies, firawes downeor the like : at che coppes whereof and the joynts next below them come forth many flowers ftanding in clufters but very {mall, whofe {mall huskes containe every one ofthem, a fmall greenithtogether, yellow flower parted in two at the broad end the feede is {mall andblackifh inthe hfiskes, the rootes are {mall and 2, Vifcaria maximaCretica Alpini, Great Gandy Catchflie, The rote ofthis Catchflicis white, long, and growing {mall downewards of a fingets thickneffe, bearing abont ita number of long threddy. leaves which are {mall at the lower end, gtowing broader to beyond the middle, and ending ina point, fromamong which rife up divers ftalkes a foote high, with few joynts, and two fmall long leaves at each of them,bearing fundry white fowersat their toppes as it were in umbells,and our of them fometimesotherfurch like fmall flowers will flare, all of them like the ordinary Catchflie ; the feede veffells chat followare {mall and round pointed atthe end, with {mall blacke (eede within them;the wholeplantis very clammycaufing everything to fticke thereunto that toucheth it, This is not that former Lychnis latifolia of Clufita, as A/pinws {aith, yet they atefo like that any that {hall judicioufly view the figures without fight of the plants will furely account them both one, and therefore I give you their feverall de{criptions and figuresalfo. 3. Mufcipulaatteraflore aloo, The white flowred Catchflie, The other Catchflie fhooteth forth divers branched falkes, with fmall darke greene leaves fet thereon by Atfcipula Lobelsj Gve Ben rubrum Mon/pelienfins ‘The Freach Catch fic, which Lugdunenfis calleth Ocimoides minus five album, and Camerarins Odontis quorundam flore candido, being of the fame kinde, [havefer forth inmyformer booke, under the name of Lychnis plumaria [ylueftris fimplesc, whereof itis likely Tabermontanys maketh mention, and Banhinws: putteth agquid uponit, as beinga plant hee neverfaw or heard of before,and (whereof ‘there is a fort that beareth double flowers) which Ithere fayis called’ Avmoraria pratenfis, &flosCuculi, Clufises {etteth them bothforth bythe nameof Odoutitss Plinii fimplicé fore &pleno lore, the fixt isthe eight Lychnis of Clufius in his hiftory of plants, whichhe made the firft in his Spanife obfervations, Banhinus calleth it Lychnii (ylveftris pluribus folis fimul junds; the {eventh is called by Camerarivs in horto.Ocimoides nottifiorum, and Lychnis nottiflora annua, Befler inthe great garden booke of Eyfen tenfis calleth it Ocimaftrumnotiflorum flore albo ; the eighthis C/ufius his Lychnis (ylucftris quinta,and with Bana hinus Lychnis fyl, lanuginofa major > the leffer of this {ort is the Gxt Lychnis[ylveftris of (lufius, asitisfecdowne inthe next chapter fave one ; the ninth is called by divers diverfely, fome Lychnis fegetum, Lychnoides Segetum, Fraguscalleth it Githago, andishis Rofe mariane 6. genus. Dodoneus, Nigellaftrum, and Anthemon, as Ruellins beforehim called ir Asthemonfoliofum, Brunfelfiws, and Lacuna Nigella vulgaris, but very erronioufly(forifit have any re(emblance to Wigellz,it is more in the blacke feede than in the fower or any thing elfe) and therefore Matthiolus calleth it P/eudomelanthium, as divers others fince him; Fuchfivs and Cordus tooke it to be Lolium but as erronioufly, Bazhiaue-calleth it Lychnis fegetnm majorbecaufe he maketh the A/fine sorniculata,of Clufius and all others tobehis Lychnis /egetum minor, the tenth is the feventh Lychnjs (yl. of Clufius, which healfo calleth Cre~ tica,for that he had che feede from Candy the eleventh Lobelfo calleth as itis in theritle, 8 Lugdunenfis from him; the lalt is called I/atis [ylveftris by Lobel, and Uacaria rubra, asit isalfo by Ge/ner, Dodoneus and others 3 Glaftum by Angnillara, Thamecnemon by Cordys, Condurdam Plinii by fome, and Perfoliata rubra by others; as Gefuer in hortis faith, whereupon Bashinws callethit Lychnis fegetumfolijs Perfoliate ; the Italians call all thefe forts of wild Campions Ocimoide, and Bafilico falvatice,the French and Dutch names are exprefied in the Chapterbefore, The Vertues, Some have ufed the white flowers of thefe herbes,to ftay the whites in women, as they doe the red flowers for their red courfes, bur with what good fucceffe 1 knownot; an old tradition being potent with many, thatall red flowers or white flowers, are effectuall in thofe difeafes: but it is found true by experience, that the decoétion ofthe herbe being drunk,doth ftay inward bleedings, and applyed outwardly doththe likes the fan ealfobeing drunk,doth helpe to expell urine thatis {topped,and gravel or the {tone in thereines Wine, to the weight of twodrams, purgeth the bodyof chollericke humors, as or kidnies:the feede drunk = Dioftorides faith, and that it helpeth thofe that are ftung by Scorpions, or other venemous beafts, and mayas I fayd before, be as effe@uall for the Plague; ir is fayd to be fo effetuall againft the Scorpion, that this herbe doth make him of no force toenvenome any; itisof very good ufe in old caft Upon, oF put untoa Scorpion, fores, like, to clenfe themand heale them,which it worketh by the confuming of moyft ulcers, cankers, fiftulaes and thé humours falling into them: and y correcting the putrefaction of humors offending them;but the Cockleis of efpecial propertic in all the difeafes afore fayd, and befides doth heale theitch, {cabbes, and running fores, Cuar, mip 3, Lychnis/jlve/tris latifolia Cluffj, ive Muftipula Cretica Auricali weffacie, Clufius his Catchflie of Candy. |