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Show The Theater of Plants. Triseé. 3 Portulaca Cr cticg Pu: flane of cesdy > 2. Portulaca fativa @ fylveftris, Garden and wilde Po rflane. 5 SV WS) IGERANTES PLANT INRETVFR BACES, RNY WS AMVes Y yi pin OgSe Si wsSS My} ) ay 4 ee iB Ww ET ZED \ \ HERBES. % Y) AOD i, ESiK Ee) SAN Y. eu WL ESSe 7 Ms COOLING ANDSVCCORY LIKE /AES UYQZLLite ry) SYrae Gf Ae SYSeS s Rep DSU cCewaes SS My IS ee;fiilllft RSear. eC) 5 Mis S SSIS WS ip oS) ey Guard CLASSIS SEXTA, ON Sy OD By SY Y oe SJ \ CAR LAP iG eo THE SIXT TRIBE. CHAP... NT O thecooling Herbesletme, I pray adjoyne the Intabacee or Cichoreacia SS tO OP ee Ow whereunto they may more fitly in my mindebe added, then toany other, not with ftanding the bitrerneffe in fome that argues fome heate. [have fer forth the Garden Purflane in my former Worke, there remaine fome o= ther to be fpoken of here, and firft of the wilde Purflane. o ) GhTr)FN) Portulaca, Purflarie: y) Le OD 7 A YY LE a oy i i 1. Portulgca [ylueftris, Wilde Purflane, The Wilde Purflane {preadéth upon the ground fappie réddith ftalkes fer with thicke fat fhining greene leaves like-in’ all things unto the garden kinde but {maller arthe joynts, with the leaves toward the end of the branches, come forth very {mall ftarre-like yellowith greene flowers {carfe to be difcerned, and'as quickly falling away as the Garden kinde, and hath fuch like hard huskes wherein thelike blacke that come = this is fomewhat feede is contained : the rootes are threedes, and perith with the firft cold nights kinde. more aftringentin stafte’ (as for the moft part all wilde herbes are) then the Garden F 2. Portulacaexigua Camerary. Camerarivs his {mall Purflane. of This {mall Pur(lane alfo is like the other, but much fmallerthen it, havingalwayes twoleaves fet together, more upright and a paler yellowifh greene colour on the thicke round flalkes and branches ‘which {tand little but the huskes bend downe to the groundagaine: the flowersare like the former, and fois the blacke feede, this hathlittle or no open themfelves before the feede is ripe, and ftand upon fmaller and longer footeftalkes, tate but waterith or-herby. 3+ PortulacaCretica, Candy Purflane. The Candy Purflane( which in my judgement mightrather be referred to the kindred of the {mall Houfeleekes, thac it was fent, for his fake as Camerarius,Columnaand Baubinws doe, but that, I would keepe the name whereby ftanding fentic ) isa very (mall lowberbe not paft two or three inches high, having many {mall heads of leaves not cloin funder and round together, fomewhat like the head of a {mall Houfeleeke, but eachleafe fet further as no fofmall yet point, fine which are very {mall at the bottome, and fodainely grow broad and roundat the leafeis bigger chan the naile ofones little finger, and ofa pale greene colour, which fo abide for the moft part the firft Winter after the {pringing up, ifthe extremitie thereof doe notutterly rot it: in the Sommerfollowupper joynts and toppes ing it fhooteth forth into branches with fomewhat longer leaves on them, and at the fet ftand divers {mall whitith fowers, and after them appeare long pods alittle crooked or bending upwards and together in forme of a (tarre, wherein is very fmall blackith fede contained ; the roote is {mall and fibrous, perifheth after feede time. The Place, places alfo where it is fo apt The firft growethin Vineyards, Orchards, Gardens, and other rockie and ftuny in berto Meto abide from it owne fowing, that it will hardly be rid outagaine : the fecond C¢ merarins faith a Hieronymm Winghe, dico, that he firft before any other found it about Lip/wicke: the laft was fent me from Canon of 1 him Tenrnay in Flanders,who it is likely,either received it himfelfe or {ome other friend that gave from Candy. The Time. The twofirlt doe abide all the Summer, from the Spring that they rife, which yet islate, untill the cold nights doe nippe them, and caufe them toperith: the third, as J faid before, abideth the firft Winterof it be not t00 viorh lent, and feedeth the next Summerafter the {pringing. The Names: 2 Diofcorides in Greeke 2vdgaxrn eAndracint, and, by 7heoph It is called byithe Arburus or Strawberry tree, which fome call Portulaca ‘yww Adrachne, and fo @ach yas theyalfo call this 7 iF a, ofthe Arabians Bakle ancha, and Bachele athanica,the Italians lacas and Baldroegus, the French Pourpier. Perct ‘ : sand Grenzel; the Dutch Porceleyne;and weinE id Banbinus Portnla tig: Gefner and Camerarivs call it Portulaca minor > Ce/alf s che fecond is calle fords upon Diofcorides faith that Cepea isno other than the wilde Pusflane bythe name ot Porturius Portulaca exigua, and by Baubinws Portu lacaarven(is : the lalt was fent me hath fec te forth by the which as I {aid { amnot willing to alter, although I knowthat Carmeraris refufing that of and Columna, by the name of Sempervivnmtertirins Diofcorids, inum, Bashinus doth thereupon callit Cotyledon ellata, The Vertues. goodto coole third decree, and moilt in the fecond as Galen faith. &is thereforé in hot agues not hing betrersit ftaiech alfo hot and coll¢ricke fiomack,and and 1¢s oud paincs &the h e a d the :; alfo obwomens courfes,the whites & gonorrbea,the diftillations from then the herbe, and is in proceeding of heate, want of fleepe, or the frenzie : the feede is more effe@tuall y luftof the body, ular good nfe to coole the heate and fharpeneffe of urine, and the ontragious the heare and vertu es and the like, in fo much that the over frequent ufe thereofextingufheth that have the wormes expc ation : the feede being brnifed and boiled in wine, and given to childrets j UICE ¢ the other : the . fome doe morecommendthe fede of wilde Purflane for the wormes then an: as effectual for all the purpafes aforefaid, as alfg toflay vomitings i ban old and drie cough, fhortneffe of breath andthe tif as the more pleafing t heate. The diftilied water of the herbeisufedby many good inthe infl uger and worketh tothe fame efie&. Thejuycealfois Gngular there ks when 7 atid he efectet parts inmanor woman, as alfa of thé bowells in the heats of the yeare; to ionsinthem. The herbe is fufficiently knowne tobe wed in fallers the falling fickthé blondand hotarid fainting ftomackes, and is goodfor theat toufe that have the herbe brnifed andapplied to thé forehead and temples, allaiethiexesflive heate therein canfing want of d temper dfleepe; and applied to: the eyes taketh awaythe redneffe and inflammations in them, and[thofe other forth, efpecially ifa little Vinecre pufhes, wheales, pimples, Saint Aathonies fire, and the like, breake keth awaythe paines r be put toit,andbeing laid to che nééke with as much of Galles &Linfe blaftings alfo is ufed withoyle of f erein, and the cricke in the necke : the juyce i. wile, asa bylightening, or planets, and for burnings by Gunpowder, or other Q4g q2 or thefat or for f 5 womens fore breaftssupen he 2733 |