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Show 7 Alteram minus mde 7% denta- gis folijs. Alterum Cw ara, Theatrum Botanicum. Tris 6. upon longer ftalkes that chruft outfrom the roote : from the middle of the greateft and eldeft head, fhooteth np manner, but aftalke {carce a foote High, thicke fet with {mall leaveslike the other, bearing flowers in the fame larger, and confifting of fixeleaves, onely ofawhite colour, after which comefixe cornered heads, containing fmallblackith fede :, the roote is {mall and like the other, yet a little thicker. C/#fivs maketh mention of another fore hereof, with leffer leaves and more dented in onthe edgesin little elfe differing. Thereis of this fiore pur= an other alike inall things, faving the flowers whichare ofa brighter red colour than the commonfort. pareo odo- kinde : 5. Sedism rubrum tomentofums, Netied or Woolly Honfeleeke. ( tate. This rare Honfeleeke in the Attume and. Winter hath the hoary or afi coloured heads of leayes, imooth, plaine, and open, likeunto the ordinary fort, bur when the Spring commethon, it groweth over{pread witha number of hoary or woolly threades like unto a net, that it draweth the leaves together, and fheweth divers formes, as triangles,qua drangles,quinquangles, & fexangles,the leaves themfelves being fmaller and longer than the ordinary fort but thicke and flefhie : in Summer when the ftalke rifeth to be halfeafoote high, they grow pointed up Pyramisfafhion, thicke covered with that woollinefle: upon the ftalke are fet many fmaller and narrower leaves up tothe toppe, which parteth intotwo, bearing on each fundry large {pread flowers, ofa deepe red Rofe colour, ending in tennepoints, as ifthey were fo many leaves; but before they open to be like a ftarre,are plaited into ten plaites, eachplait or fould being of a deeper colour, having twenty threadsin the mide dle tipt with yellow, ftanding about the middle umbone which becommeth the feede veffell, and each flower fer ina paler hairy huske pointed alfo : the roote is very {mall and thready, yet thrufteth it felfe into the chinkes of thereckie and ftony places, where fcarce any earth isto be found. 6. Sedum majus anguftifolium, Great narrow leafed Houfeleeke, This kinde of Houfeleeke hath fundry circles of leaves fomewhat like the former fort, but the leaves are nar- rowerand longer, anda little rough or hairy withall ; the ftalke that rifeth from fome of the heads is brownifh, and abonta cubit high, fet thicke with narrower and red pointed, fat thicke undented leaves ap to the toppe, where it brancheth forth into fome few, bearing each a flower of tenne or twelve long and narrow leaves, laid openlike a ftarre, ofa reddifh purple colour ; the feede that followethin fo many {mall heads, as there were leaves in the fowers, is as fmall almoft asdult: theroote is reafohable thicke, with diversfirings faftened thereto, The Theater ofPlants. Trise 6, covered with an afh coloured barke, as limber and pliantas it, the leaves hereof are fomewhat greaterand larger thantheother, of a more faltith tafte, and ofa darker greene colour : the flowers at the toppes of the bran- chesare larger, but fewer, and-of a yellowifhcolour, the roote is hard and wooddy. The Place, Thefirft groweth in Greece, Italy, Portugall, Spaine, Ilyria or Slaveny, and fome of the Ifles in the Wediterranian fea, as Scicily, Sardinia, Corfica, &c. where itgroweth naturally, but indivers places of Italy, Portu- gall and Spaine,itis kept, as C/ufins faith,in pots,and carefully preferved in the Winter, & in Li/bbone,as he {aith, nponthe honfes as our common Houfeleeke, but will not endure the cold of thefe more Northren countries of Europe, with all the care that may be withonta {tove,fuch as they ufe in Germany and other places more Nor- therly ; yet Lobed faith, he found itin the Nand of Holmes by Briftow : the {écond groweth by thefea fide in many placesof this Land, and in the Ile of Holmes not farre from Briftow : the third groweth naturally ondivers hills in Gerzrazy, but withus onely where it is planted upon houfe fides, &c.and that in clay efpecially, for there= in it will belt thrive. The fourth, C/w/imfaith, he found yery common onthe hills neare Viexna in Auftria : the fift Columna found in Naples : the fixt C/xfis faith, he found on the Alpes neare Salzburg in Germany, the two laft groweth bythe fea fide,and further off likewife view the aft will tafte brackifh as well as neare the fea fide. The Time, The firlt Cowrethin Portugal, as Clufive faith, in Nevember and December, but never withus: the fecond flowrethby the fea fide in Angas : the third, fourth, and fixth, in Ixy; the fiftin AZsy ; and the rwo laft forts very late alfo. The Names, Te is called in Greeke A ei@oov 70 uy; Aizoon magnumor majus, ofthe everlivingand greeneneffe thereof, and therefore Gaza tranflateth it out of Theophraftus Sempervivum,whichisthe fame in fignilication ; ithathlikewife divers other names, for as Péiny faith, it was called Buphthalmum Zoophthalmum, and Steigethrow, and Hypogefon; fome called italfo,as he faith, Ocu/ss and Digitelivs : it is called by Apuleius, Vitalis and ovés tarba, but ufually, Sedum majus ; the Arabians callit Bejabalalemand Haialhalex; the Italians Sempervivo maggiore;the Spaniards Semprevivaherba pustera; the French Grande Ioubarbe; the Germans Hanfwurts and Donderbaer ; the Dutch Donderbaert and Huiflook; we in Englifs generally Houfeleeke ; yet fomecall ic Sengreene, Aigreene, ‘ and fomeIupiters Eye, Bullocks eye, and Impiters beard. Clufins and others doe certainelyaffirme, that our or= dinary great Houfeleckeis the Coty/edon altera of Diofcorides, and no one can difprove their judgements therein. Thefirlt is the trae Aizoon magnum of Diofcoridestand others, and there is no doubt made thereof byany. (Matthiolys and others call it Sempervivum arbore/cens, and Sedum arborefcensand Aixoon arborefcens; (lupus. calleth it Sedum majus legitimum: thefecond Lobe! maketh a kinde thereof, and calleth it Sedwm Portlandicum + the third is moft common with us, and is generally called Sedwm majus, and Sempervi- vim majus vulgare, whichas I faid, C/afivs calleth €etyledon altra Diofcorides ; {ome alfo call it — 18 733 a, Vmbilici venerts fpecies altera, + Vi pbeadventtite is tore proper to the firlt fort; and Anguilar of Pliny, Lobel ee it may be j ro be the Se/ago Cee sae fmily fratex tertius, whoalfo thought it called Camphorata by the learned of AZempelier trom Chamepewce ofPlinythat is, Picea humilis ; but Selago was therefore I thinke bruifed give, buc thishath no fuck fmell, and the {mell of Camfyre, which the leaves being re, butit is procannot be the Se/ago of Pliny, which isa different plant from this whereof I have fpokenbefo Lobel calleth Sedum montanum Ericoides as he faith himfelfe ; the laft bable that this plant isthat which Basbinus maketh fome donbt whetherit might not be the Pocalleth Sedum minimum arbore[cens vermiculatum, Bauhinns Poligonral lygenum mafculum fruticofum of Thalivs whofaith he never faw the flowers,but faith it-isnot the Adver/aria was serum Serpikifolinm Anglorwm, meaning Lobeland Pena, for fo hee calleth them,becanfe theit printéd in England. i The Vertues. ‘nary Houfeleeke is cold in the third degree, moderately drying and binding, and is goodfor allin= : a Poffit made with the juice of Honfeee 7 ellat outward, aridin the eyes or other parts of the body quencheth the and temperateth thé bloodand {pirits, ‘and leekeis fingular good in all hot agues, forit cooleth good toftayall hot defluxions of fharpe and falt rheumeintotlic eyes, the juice being dropped thirft, andis alfo the bowells, and the imjatothem, or into the eares helpe them, it helpeth alfo all other fluxes of humorsinto remedy the biting of the. PhalanginmSpimoderate courfes of women sit is fayd alfo to kill the wormes,and to all other hot eruptions der : it cooleth and reftrayneth alfo allother hotinflammations, Saint Anthomes fire, and inthe eth, {caldingsalfo and burnings, the fhingles, fretting ulcers, cankers; tetters, ringwormes and the like, warts and cornes and eafeth much the paine ofthe goute,proceeding ofan hotcanfe : the-juice alfo taketh away = inthe handsorfeete being oftenbathed therewith, and the skinne ofthe leaves Being layd on themafterwards appliit eafeth alfo the headach,and diftempered heate of the braine in frénfyes or through want. offleepebeing blees ed.to the temples and forehead : the leaves brnifed and layd uponthe crowne ot feame of the head tlayeth : the ding at the nofe very quickly. The diftilled water of the herbeis profitable for all the purpofes aforefaid Icaves being gently tubbed on any place {tung with Nettles or Bees,or bitten with any venemous creature doth prefently take away the paine. 7. Vermicularis arborefeens. Tree Houfeleeke with {mall leavés, This kinde of Houfeleeke or Prickemadam, rifeth up tobe five orfixe foote high, as Ihave obfervédit whenit etowethin Gardens, plentifully ftored with branches fromthe bottome to the toppe, andfet thicke with {mall long and roundgreene leaves withoutany tafte, very like to thofe of the {mall Houfelecke called Stonecroppe, or Prickemadame, (although Zobel, asIthinke faith ithath a faltifh tafte ) but leffer and greener, the flowers growatthe toppes of the branches, {maller than in the next that followeth, andofa pale yellowith colour: the rootes are long wooddyand fpreading in the ground: the branches hereof flipped and put into the groundwill: quickly take rooteand grow. 8. Uermicularisfruticofaaltera, Shrubby Prickemadam. This other fhrubby plant groweth nothing fo high as the former, not being abovea foote high full of branches Cuap, 7: Cuap. VI. Aizoon Sedum five Sempervivam minus, Small Houfelecke. OSs He nextranke of Houfeleeks that lam to éntreate of;are of thofé fmaller forts that grow with usélfe wheréoffome are of a @ where upon muddeand ftone walls, or on dry {andy bankes or places,&c, one other thatgrowcontrary qualitie, being hot,fharpe and exulcerating, whereunto I muft adjoyne : eth in moytt medowes,becaufe it is fo likethemin the outward face. major. [lecebra five valearis 1. Vermicularis & Ciaffula minor f ; ‘ The ordinary Prickmadam or Stonecrop, many thicke, fat, The common Stonécrop gtoweth uponthe ground with divers trayling branches, fet with flowers ftand at the and fomewhat round whitith or yellowifh greene leaves, little pointed at the edges: the ©rtoppes of the branches, many fettogether, yet fomewhat loofely and not ina thicke tuft or clufter as the pines, of ayellowifh colour, therootesare very finall creeping in the ground.and fend forth ftalkes with leaves here and thereall abouts. E : 2. Vermicularis Scorpioides; Stonécrop withturning heads. This other Stonecropot Prickmadam hath {uchlike ftaikes with leaves thereon as the former, that iris hard to diftinguith them untill they come to flower, which then maybe defcernedtodiffer onely in the turning toppes, : thé of yellow flowers bending or turning like the taile of a Scorpion,or thofe herbes that are refembled untoit rootesinlike manner creepe and fhooteforthin divers places. Of this fort there is another whofe head of flowers turneth not,which Lobel calleth Hematodes. 3. Vermicularis minor. Small Stonecrop. The mall Stonecrophath {mall and lang leaves like the other, fet upon fhort falkes, not paft an handbreadth flat, and ofa moreftipticke tafte, the flowersareof a paler yellow colour more but thicke long whichare not fo and greater thenthe firft, elfe ftanding in tufts in the fame manner: the rooteis like it alfo creeping about : this loofeth bothftalke and leafe in the Winter. 4. Vermicularisflore albo, white flowred Stonecrop with round poirited leaves. The white flowredStonecrop creepeth upon the ground inthe fame manner that the others doe, with flender diong round leavestpon them, of ablewifh greene colour, not fharpe but round pointed, feeming tal like wheate cornes or pine apple-kernels, being {parfedly fet thereon : at the toppes whereof {tand fmall white ftarrelike flowers in {mall tufts or {parfed umbells:the roote creepethlike the reft,and the leaves perifh with the ftalkes every yeare like laft. 5. Vermicularisdafyphyllon. A fmaller white flowred Stonecrop. This other Stonecrop groweth lower and hath more {toreof fach {mall round {eaves like wheaté cornés, thic- ker (et thereon then the other ; the flowers are whitealfo like the laft, and in no other thing differeth fromit. 6. Sedum arvenfe five paluftre flore rubente, Mar{h or Field Stonécrop. This Field Stonecrophath divers reddifh ftalkes fet with {mall fat long leaves, fomewhat hairy, and much grecner then anyof the former : the Sowers are mall ftanding like flarres, many ina tuft together, of a pale red or carnation colour: the rooteis like the reft, fending forth divers fhoots : this abideth greene allthe Winter, and hathas little tafte as the former. ; i 7. Ilecebra minorfive Sedum tertinm Diofcorids. W all Pepper. This wall Pepper is almoft the {mallett ofall thefe,and groweth like the former with very many and flen- der ftalkes,and {mall round leaves thicke fet upon them, at che toppes whereof grow {mall pale yellow flowers; Rre 2 a todes. |