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Cuav.103, Taree. 5 branched about a foote ot halfe ayard high, butnotof fo fad a ereene colournot difcouloured underneath) bur at the very toppe of the ftalke many being fectogether, which oe whiter and {maller, and nothing 0i= . me pendalous, ending in fine{mall pointedleaves : and laftly inthe beries which in this are {mallet thenin any of th former, and ofa moft orient red or fcarlet colour, (which made theiat the firft to bee taken for Chermes Scarletberries where they are naturall, and thoughtfit to dye withall, «bar found unprefitable) which while ey até white, and before they becomeripe have fix blacke ftrakes on every of them equally diltanr, bur are bie Worneout being ripe, within which are contained white, hard, ftony grainesior feedes like the other : fake Cornutits of Parts in his Canadenfium plantarum hiftoria maketh hereoftwo forts, he calleth Fertile, then the othe oo beare berries apt:to oe as ren.7 both but onefort ; however happening one may be moreone : on¢ ral s . mH:=oe Garden tharnever bore berries, rofefrom the feede of thofe berries that were i 8. Polygonatnm racemofims Americannm, Clafter like Salomons Sea meric This plant thooterhup a roundbrownifh fingle ftalke, and fomerimes parted or — a two orth foote high,{et with many very faire broad leaves, fomeribbes being of areddith others of i. fad greene i on harder thenothers,and compaffed aboutthe edges witha rougherand darker lilt : at the toppes ee the ‘his bie ftand in open clufters many {mall pale culoured threds like unto fureceede fundry {mall berries; compofed likea clutter of Gra the Vine Bloffomes, w hich paflite aw eae es, and each of the bieneffe ofaTumi Der been eek lowith before they be ripe, and finely {potted with blood redfreckl es » which after they have ‘ety fo db iden are~worne out by the ripening ofthem,and changered likea Chetry, d Hi taine within them{mall white rounidifh feede:the roote is thicke,whi -whofe pulpe or juice is fweere te;tuberous, long and joynted j shabby diftances, with fundryfibres thereon, 2 ipicteskncte 9. Polygonatum perfoliatum BraGlianun 2 The Salomons Seale of Brassil hath ‘ : os sry ielkedal an c beaicsita a neare fet leavesoné ab cubit high, whereon another, very large, about foure inches long and twoinches broad,of a pale greene colour; full of fibbes. sey and not hard, ‘which compaffe the ftalke at the lower end, wher iti i i ke sto ftalke feemeth ro goe thoroughthem + the flowers allo Svtuahrdusticaeae like unto ee that the ee a 4 he fame manner that the ordi doe) are muchlarger then any of the former, confifting of five narrow white leas parohakcele a Shee —_ ding atthe ends of very {mall and long footeltalkes : the berries and root wheat 10, Polyconatumramofam perfelidtsiim flore dake isaten hot . forth by mine anthor. The greater and lefler thoroughleafed yellow Sal 7 aes as This S#lomons Seale hath a {lender arene {mooth ftalke or two, halfefe afi f heii a) aac ; a branches,and ¢achof them againeinto others, the gteater fore havingBeene—pote ~ ominaine i od ~ if Mi CY mints Americanum, bed leaves, compaffing the {talke wholly atthe bottome ,the {maller fort much narrowerand {mallet 10, Polygonatum ramofum perfoliatum flore luteo majus ct minus Ameri¢anay: The greater and leffe thorowleafed yellow Sakmoxs Seale of America, $ at each of 11. Polygonatum Angu/tifolium, Narrowleafed Satomons Seale, TR 1BE.5; Lhe Theater ofPlants. Cwar.103. 69g the joynts with the leaves,and at the toppesalfoftand the flowers fingly ineach, fort, compofed of fix long and natrow yellow leaves hanging downewatds, inthe tniddle whereofisa crooked’ head or hortie;compaffed with fix yellowthreds or chives; when the flower is paft, ‘the footeftalke’thereof rifeth up, bearing ‘that crooked ‘or horned three f{qiiare_thicke skinny:cod:on the end, ‘having whitifhfeede within’ it: the route isi nothing ‘fo thicke or white as the éi sht; but faltned by manyftringsin the gronnd, 6° : 11. Polygonatum anguftifolium, Narrow-leafed Salowons Seale ’ The narrow leafed Salomons Seale fhootethforty divers uprighe ftalkes;-aboura°foore high, bending downes wards at the toppes without any branchesat allupoh them; -whereonftand at feverall joynts anid-{pacesy foure orfive and fometites fix lone and narrower greehe leaves thenthey of the former; being {mooth and tibbiedof fullofveines vat the faid joynts with the leaves come forth two orthree{hort ftalkes; wich whith greene fowe ers attheendsofthem likeunro'the firlt, after which come round berries ‘red when ‘they até’ ripe, more piilpie orjuicie theithe laft, conteining hard white kerneils within theilike thereft: the roote is tuberous like'the' for= i ion mer ordinaty(orts branching forth at the fides like them. 12~ Poly gonatumangu|tifolinms ramofnm. Branched {mall Salorsons Seale, This {mall Salomons Seale is inmott things like thelalt, asinsrootes, leaves, flowers and berries, the chiefeldifference confiftethinthis; ‘that ic brancheth forthat every joyhton'the: maine ftalke on’ both fides thereof, and hath the leaves fomewhat fimallér and narrower, syetfet in the fame manner; and the fowers fomewhat{maller alfo,tanding on fhort fooreftalkes, TheP lace, © Thefiris frequent indivers places of ouri Land; ds’befide thofe that Gerard hath named, it growéthin 2 wood two miles from Canterbury by Fifhpoote hill; «as alfoin a bufhie Clofe belonging to the Perfonage of Al derberry neare Clarindon,two miles from Sali/bary,the next Clofe thereuntois called Spe/res and in Cheffon Wood; on Cheffonhill,becweene Newington and Sittingburnein Kent ; the other fix following it,and the two laft grow in Germany, Auftria, and the parts thereabout : the feventh.was brought both out of Virginia and New-England, by fome Marriners that had thought they had beéne she Scarlet or Kermes berries as I faydbefore, from whofe fede {prang with mefirlt, as Ithinke in this kingdome; and broughtfich plants as I haveexpreffed in the defcription s the eighth and tenth were brought from Caaida by the French: the ninth groweth in Braffid, and from thence brought and communicated to Bauhivius by D'. Baxferus, The Time, Theyflowet about Afayiandthe Virginia, Braffilliand: American fortsnot untill Juneand July, the berries of the Exropean fortsare ripe in September ,and continue on'the {talkes untill the tro!ts rot the ftalkes,and theyfall downe, and:perifh with all above ground, the roote abiding fafe, and fhooting a new-every yeare: the Virginian fore hath {uchred berries asareexpreffed inthe defcription,’ but’ it never bore berries in our Land that I know of butthe other Americans beare berries about September, 7 The Names, Its called in Greéke mrvysvarv Polygonatunr, and {o in Latinealfo, 4 radicisigeniculorum frequentibus nodis, of the manynodes and knotsin the roote it is uftially called Sigillum Salamonis, for the caufes fer downe in the defcripti on of the firft, and of fome acoli. Loannes Monardus tooke it to bee Secacul of the Arabians, but hout all fhew ofreafon almolt : che Ztalians in fome places call it Polygondto, and Ginochietto in others, andin raria or Florence Fraffinella, but for what re{pect I knownot,not havingany likeneffe or affinitie with Frax» from whence the name fhouldbederived, the French Genicoliere of (omz, and Sean, or Signet de Salomon of others: the Germans Weiffwurtz,id eff, radixalba, of the Dutch Salomons Segheland wee in Englih Salomans Seale moft ufually, but in fome countries the people call it Ladder to Heaven, according to the Latine name eli, which wasanciently Knowne in the Apothecaries fhoppes, fromthe formeof the {talke of leaves, eing fet above another. The firftis called Po/ygonatnm generally byall writers almoft, fome ¢alling it Lari. 7, fome » aj#s and {ome vuleare, and fomeSigillam Salomonis. Anguilara Cefalpinus and Caftor Durantes lowing their owne conntry nam:, call ic Frafinela, confounding ic withthe Dsftamnm albus, whichis called Fraxineha : the fecondis the f lygonatum latifolinm of Clufius, whichCamerarivs in horto calleth Poly go= zatum Pannonicum, che thirdis his fecond Polygonatum latiore folio, which (ordusin his Biltory of plants calleth Palygonatum angule/ his thethird Polygonatum Latiore folio of Clafiu, which Bauhinys calleth onatim latifoliumEllebori sthe fift Bawhinus in his Pinax'and Prodromuys calleth Polygonath larifolix 116 flore majore, The fixt is div called ; ALatchiolws {ercerhie-forth for Lavrus Alexandrina, whom Camerarivs citeth andG/afius repro at ic an{wereth not thereuntoj<as-you (hall heare more amply yin the next Chapter, both by the defcription a: plication. Johannes Molliyans that fet forch the great Herball of Dalem champivs generallycalled, Lugdunenfis,cakethitto be Hippogloffum of Diofcorides; whom Olufivs allo taxeth for it, thewing that hawfoever the Text of Dis/corides (it corrupted) béeatnendeds yer this cannot be it, because ic wanreth thofe /igu/z {mall tongues,that are growing uponthe leaves of Hypogl ffum,as you thallMeare by and by, and that this is not perpetually greene as the Hypog/offum, but dyeth downe.to the rooteevery”ycare, fho oting ooth new ftalkes in the Spring, and therefore C/u/iws faith charit cannot be better geferred then unto the kinds of Polygonatum, unlefie as he faith it might be the [42a radixof Diofcorides, wheréin ashe faith becaufe he is {o briefé nothi g canbe affirmed for certaine; yet. I certainely thinke ir anfwereth:very fitly eunto, both in Lobel calleth it in his obfervations Polygonato Affinis planta, and Gefalpinu 0 affinis tertia, ures hereof,and .wodefcriptions, as if they were two feverallplants, which are his fourth and of Polygonatum ramo(um,and acutum, the one being the figure of (Matthiolus his Lauria Alex« ver of Clafius, fort expreffe but one plant, no other diverfitie thereof to bee foundthat £ catleth it Poly um Latifolinmramofum: the feyenthis as I fayd of mine owne nurfing Cornutus as they are inthe titles:the ninth Bashinus inhis Pinax calleth Polygonatum d eenerally Poly tenuifeliam majut, ashe d ifolinm ramofnm, latifolinm perfoliatam Brafilianum : the eleventh is called Polygonatum minus tt f » and tenuifolium by all others, Thaliws calleth this Polygona- m minus, which Clufins and Bashinus call Polygonatum ang The |