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Show Trise7 Theatrum Botanicum, Trise7. TheT beater of Plants. x, Naftartium bortenfe latifoliam Hifpanicny, Great Spanifh Grefles. Crap: 7. 825 ij 2» Nafturtiam horten/é crifpum latifolium @ angu/tifolium. Curl'd Crefles with broadcrand narrowet leaves. — Cuap, VI. Naftertium, aja Creffes; xek Crefits there are divers kkindes, and divers forts of evéry kinde, fome are ofthe Gardens, fome of the Biclds or Medowes,fome of the Water, fome of the Hills or Mountaines. J fhall forbeare to {peake inthis place of thofe that grow in the Water, having a Glaffis of water herbes among fubject whomthey fhall beexpreffed : I will beginne with thofe of the Garden, and make them the @ of thisChapter, yet havein my former Booke given you the knowledge of that which is moft common and belt knowne, whofe figure notwithftanding I thinke not amiffe to exhibite here againe to beare his fellowes company, and that thereunder the properties of the reft may be comprehended, Noffurtium hortenfe. 1, Naffartinm horten[elatifolinm Hifpanicum, Great Spaxifh Garden Creffes, Crefles. The great Spavif> Crefles hath the firft leaves {mall like Bafill, among which rifeth upa flalke about a foote and a halfe high, fet with larger leaves thereon withoutdivifion, but fmal- 4 ly dented about the edges and pointed at the ends, every one {tanding upona long foote ftalke, branched from the middle to the toppe with lefler and narrower leaves, like to the toppe leaves of Garden*Crefles, from whence breake forth many white flowers {erin {pikes one above another, after which come de in pouches like the other Creffes, but much more bitter, and not fo fiery fharpe: the roote is {mall erifhing every yeare, and therefore, muft be fowen 2 n it will {pring up quickly from the yet it will not abide the cold of our Winters. - Nafturtinm bortenfe ci isfum latifolinm & anguftifolinm: Curl'd Cr ger and leffer leaves. Curl’d Creffes eroweth like the ordinary GardenCreffes, and differeth there fromonelyin the leaves which are of two forts, the one with broad leavs cut and roundly dented and i dges, every-onebyit felfe ona long ftalke: the other co! ¢ of many {maller leaves fet one againft anotherupona middie ribbe each part whereof is in the {ainé manner cut in and curl'd as the other : the flowers are white like the commongarden kinde, and fo is the reddith feedelikewife, andperifhethyearely after feede time as the others. The Pi rootheach : the léaves bruied and applied take awayall {pots and marks of the body, helpéth theitch,and eaferh thepaines ofthe Sciatica, and ofthe loynes,drawethforth bones, fplinters and thornes, ftayeth the corroding and cteepingulcers : the feede chewed in the mouth helpeth the palfiein the tongue provoketh fneeling, raifethlevithargicke perfons and fich as are droufic and heavie by qiickning theirbloudandfpirits : being boyled with tasthe title fheweth came frft out of Spaine, but the others are not knowne from whence theiroriginals are. and fores of negerand applied to the kernells ofthe throate healeth the Kings evill, and healech alfo the {cabbes the head if they be anointed with itand Goole. greafe mixed together : itripeneth alfo plague fores, and brea- he Time. They doe néare followthe time that the other garden kinde doth, thatis in June and Fuly, and fomecimes later, keththem,and taketh awaythe deformities of the nayles. The Nan The Greekes call it ‘aciat vel u Ses Cardamon quod cor fincope cardiaca plurimum xuoy quali recidevor quod : ; Ae de. Sabie tentat, and thereupon the Greekes had this proverbe ofr xesdxmcr, €4 ue caput animi Vi~ emignavum, C& liebetem-dicebatur, propterca quod Najturtio inelfe credebant J that is, Eate Creffes to ftirre up the {pirits of thofe that are dull and heavie: the Latines callie um tormento, as Pliay {aith, fome after the Italians call it Creffio hortenfis the Arabianscallit Naf alchef or Ni the Italians Creffione, Naftartio, and Aigretto : the Spaniards Masinercos and Malpica : the French Creffowde jardin, Crelfon alemois and Nafttort:the Germans Ker{fand Krefficke : the Dutch Keren sand Creffes. The firlt is fet forth by Tabermontanus and Gerard who deicribethit untowardly enough, Naffur= ‘inys morefullyand plainelygiving a truer figure thereof likewife ; it is ufually called with us um z the other Bauhins hath fet forth and the figures of both forts, which are not extant eate it either al Cuap. VII. 4 cor fovea The Uertues. i (in declaring the vertues whereof thefe other here fpecified are included, being the for feede, the ie or very neare thereunto) is hot and dry in the fourth degree, efpecially n of the humiditie therein is more qualified, and therefore the people in many countries doe ¢ with butter or with Lettice and Purflanein fallets or otherwife, bur thedried herbe cc mmeth neare to the force ofthe feede, as Galen faith, who makethit of thelike faculitie and operation with Muftard, other the properties of Rocket bothfor the headand fungs to cut groffe flegme and to expedtorateit, as alfo intaallprocure womens couries, and to and Multard, both to provoskeurine and to clenfe the rainesand the bladder, kill the birthand to ftirreup Venery ;yerPliny faith it hindereth,but he wastherein either much miftaken,or the bookesare much falfified that fo relate ir, Itisan enemy to the ftomacke and troubleth the belly ; fome fayit loofeneth the belly and purgeth ic from vifcous humours ; it helpeth the obftructions of the liver and fplene, and healeth all inward wounds, it driveth forth venome and poifon ; being taken with oyleitis beneficial for bee the the coughand fhortnefie of windeand the painesof the breaft or cheft : being chewed in the mouthit ‘ tooth-ac Noafturtia pratenfiafive Cardamines. Ladies {mockes: or CuckowflowersdS fy-2-23Nito the kindes of Creffes mult of neceffitie. thefe herbes appertainecalled Ladies Smockes, or fome i @YO)f) Cuckow flowers, bothfor the neareneffe in name in forme and qualitie whereof there are forthir P\ oA 2) varieties as fhall be fhewedhere, yet that fart which beareth double flowers, Thavefet If my former booke, which fhall not be farther entreated of here more than he figure, nor thofe of e ‘ (SF the water, whichare referved for another place. } 1. Nafturtium pratenfe majus five Cardaminelatifolia, Great Ladies Smockes. The great Cardamine or Lady Smocks fhooteth forth divers long {talks of winged leave hat is many together, fomewhat broad and roundtender darke greene leaves.fet one againft another upon a middle ribbe, the greateft being at the ends, among whichrife up divers tender weake round grecne {talkes fomewhat Araked,with muc fmaller and longer leaves thereon,very like the {malleft divided leaves of Garden Creffes, at the toppes whereof ftand divers howers made of foure leaves apeece, fomewhatlarge, and almolt.like a Stocke-gilloflower, bue rounder andnot fo long neither, whitifh or fomewhat dafht over with blufh,.and many times but atthe edges onely, each of chem ftanding ina greene huske, after which come fmall powches containing reddifh feede fomewhat fharpe andbiting in tafte as the herbe it felfe isalfo, comming neareto Crefles : the roote is compofed of many white threadsorfibres. ; 2. Cardamine altera minor, Small Ladies Smockes- This isinall things like the former but fmaller in every part not bufhing with fo many leaves or ftalkes, the poddes of feede being fomiewhat longer, than in the formers 3. Cardamine altera parvo flore, Small flowred Ladies Smockes, . va ht in Theleaves of this Cardamine ar€ moft ufually {maller and longer, and yer round fometimes alfo, growingthe |