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Theatrum Botanicum. faluatica’and Napofaluatico, the nbes, the Italians callit Navone Scilobrobenthe the Cretane aite omaaade D atch wilde Steckrape,and we in Englifh wilde Nayew. wildes Steckru ermans sy.po The Vertnes, : the tame, fo it is more effectualto pro= This wilde Naveweasitishotterand drier, efpecially the feede than e and torments of the bowells, and put into woke utine and womans courfes, helpeth the erudities of the ftomack the yellow jaundife : the fame effect that Diofthedeco@tion wherein Horehoundis boyled and taken it helpeth to expell venome and poyfon, not fuffecorides and others giveuntothe fede of the manured Navewe, whichis giveth to the wilde fort brought from Candy,and wherering them to doe any harme; the fame Galen it feemeth hare or Lentilles,-doth not as Marthiolus faith,that the fecdeof the garden fore taken ina decoétion of Maiden {pottedorinfectious fevers anddionely drive forth the venome and infection ofthe fanatlpockes,butofall other contagi ous and malicious vapours, infeéted with thofe feafes, andalfo defendeththe heart and {pirits from being not more forcible, fo the feede ofthis wilde fort is found to be aseffectuallif Cuar. The Theater of Plants. Tribe 7, STR Minor folie This {mall one is iri all things like the firft, but that itis lefle in every part thereof, Ald theteis alfo another inlegye, {mall one that is in all things like the fecond, having no divifion on the leaves. i 4. Burfapaftoris Alpina hirfuta, HairyMountaines Shepheards purfe, This famll Shepheards purfe hath many fmall leaves lying in a round compafle upon the grouhd foft and hoary ot hairy, of the bigneffe of Lentilles, flightly dented, and fometimes not at all, matting or {preading man heads of leaves, and from thence many flendernakedftalkes, bearing white flowers,and {mall long and yellowift pouches, greaterthan the common,with re peddits feede within them : the roote is {mall and threddy. e ate, The greater and leffer forts that have cntleaves are frequent in évery place with us, but the other two with whole, I have not feene to grow wilde, but inGe) Mompelier, and Italy, as Barhinys and halins fay. e 1mMe, Theyflowerand feedeall the Summetlong, yea fo quicke fomeof them are, that they flower ahd feede twicé : 7 The Names, inevery yeareGe[ner, It hath no Greeke name, and all'that have written héreofdo’call it in Latine Burfa or pera pater, except fecond and the lal: and 7ha/im ofthat {mall one with whole leaves : the Ira/ians call it after the Latixe name XXVIII whocalleth it Tblaspi fatuum & Caftor Darantes Herba Cancri, Bashinus maketh particularrelacion both of the Paftoria burfa, Shepheardes purfe. Borfa di paftore, the French Tabonret & bourfe de bergier, the Germanes S:ickelkyant, and Te/chelkraut, the Dutch bring ae Have yettwo kindes of hetbes to entreate of, that fomereferre to this Claffis, which I therefore that others in the end,becaufe thar in notpleafing myfelfein fo doing, I know not how fhall pleafere{thave, for the are judicious, for I doe notfinde either of them to have that acrimonyin them that them. Hereof there elfe this might be referred to the kindes of 7/46, it is in many other things fo like andof the are many more forts knowne now than formerly have beene, of which I fhall {peake inthis Chapter, A es otherin the next. i fe. 1, Burfa Paftoris major valearis, The greater common Shepheardspur cut in.on bothfides ‘into The common Shepheards purfe hath divers {mall andlong leaves, fomewhat deepely ha feverall parts ofa pale greene colour, among which rifethupa {mall round ftalke parted into fome branches, flowers one above another, ving {maller and leffe dividedleaves on them to the toppes, where grow many white broad at the heads and parted after which follow flat whitifh powchesor feede vefles, {mall at the bottomes, and h a {mall brownih yellow feede : the roote is {mall andwhite, Borfekeas,and we in Englifs Shepheards purfe or pouch, and in the North, Picke purfe and Cafeweede, The Vertues, Some doe hold. that Shepheards purfe is cold and binding,othersfinding a little heate upon the tafte of thé flowers and feede, doe judgeit not to be cold at all but drying and aftringent, and by thatonely quality worketh fo power fully in ftaying all fluxes of blond; either in inward or outwardwounds, as alfothe fluxes or laskes of the bellie, the blondyfluxe, and the abundance of womens courfes, or the piffing of blowd,the juyce or the decoétion ofthe herbe with fome Plantane being drunke, or any other way taken: fome dce hold that the greene herbe brnifed and bound to the wrefts ofthehands, and foles of the feete will helpe the yellow jaundife: the herbe brui(ed andlaid pultis wife upon inflammations, Saint Asthonies fire, or the like repreffeth them: the juyce dropped into mattering or runningeares helpeth them : it clofech thelippes of greene wounds, and is ofgreat effect being3 made into a falve for wounds inthe head. like the 7blafpi, in each fide whereofliet or feedeof this; ale perifheth after feede time, there is no fharpeneffe, andbua’ very little heate either in herbet Cuap, XXVIII. though fome attribute thereunto a little actimony,but is drying and aftringent. whole leaves. 2. Bur{apaftoris majorfolis non finuatis Great Shepheards purfe with from whence rifeth tMyagrum. Gold of pleafure? nfually bue This other great Shepheards purfe hath a fmall root with fome fibres thereat, are whole withoutdivifion, one {mall ftalke a fpan long, branched into two or three parts, whofe lowerleaves lowers are white having long footftalkes to them,and thofé upon the Ralke compaffe them at the botcomes, the é otherplant that I entendhereto fet forth, and théréin alfo not pleafing my felfe to bring them into his Claflis is AZyaerum, Gold of pleafure, whereof there are more forts come to our knowledge in hefe dayes than formerly hath beene. and the feede veffels flat like the former. 1.. Burfi paftoris major vulgaris, CommonShepheardsputfe. 367 Cwar. 28. 3. Burfa paftoris minor. Salt Shepheardspurfe, 3. Buifa pafforis minor. The fmallerShepheards purle. 1. Wyagrum fativum. Garden gold ofpleafure. This goldenfeeded plant rifeth up with one of moreuprightroundftalkes about two foote high, fet with fane dry long and fomewhat narrow leaves,of a whitifh greene colour, fomewhatdeepely dented about the edges, or dcepely waved, cOpafling them at the bottome, fpread from the middle upwards into fandry branches,bearing at their tops very{mail yellow flowers, where whenthey are fallen,come{mall flat feede veflells,with gold yellow colouredfeede within them, fomewhatlong andfmall,the roote is {mall and long,perifhingfill after feede time. 2. Myagrum fylveftrefive Pfendomyagrum. Wild goldofpleafure. i j This plait that is much found among thefieldes of flaxe, {pringeth up but with one round ftalke, almoft a yard with long-and fomewhat narrowleaves, refemblingthofe of Woade, but longer and {mailer pointtome where they compaffe the ftalkes about with point énd flicking out oneachfide; fhooe ) branches fromthe very bottome almoft, at whole toppes come forth divers whitifh flowers vefe of Flaxe, after whichrife round {mall heades, with afmall pointar the toppe, very like in fa the Myagrum with one feede therein, but thefe are full of {mall yellowith feedes like unto Crefles, ein talte witholt any actimony whenit is dry, and exceeding bitter when it is frefh as the herbe being afive Myagrum alterumamarum, EnglifoWormefeede, rmefeede growethvery like the laft, witha taller upright Malke; branching toward the'top, ong and narrowgreené leaves, fomewhat like unto thofe of the fi Vall- flowers, but it, but that the olour, and verylike unto the leaves of Clufiis his L ucomumfylveffre, thatiris leaves of this are fomewhat {maller and not of fo frefh a greene colour, atrhe es and branches come forth manyvery{mall pale yellow flowers made offoure leaves apeece, 9 thofe of th excoium, bur much {maller, even more'than halfe; which afterwards give finall ning within them very pale coloured feede, bitter intafte, theroote is {mall and wooddy, pee are after feede, but rifing againe of the fhed feede, F 4. Myasrumfetidam, Stinking gold of pleafure. es of this Afyagrum vile tobe about two foote high being rough, rourid, and greene, bearing rough ne leaves on them, fet here andthere one above another, being fotire orfive inches long,and oneand a road,very lightly waved about the edges: at the tops of the branched ftalkes {tand divers {mall pale yellow, H supon long foote {talkes in a thicketuft together, where unto‘iucceede fmall round huske containing {mail feede : the leaves and flowers hereof,nor onelybrnifed but growing, have fomewhata grievons orevillfent- i $. Myagrum monospermonmajus. The greater one grained gold of pleafure. __ Thefirft leaves hereof thatlie upon the ground are long and narrow, round pointed, and entin onthe odgés like unto Succoryleaves, witha white line inthe middleof every one, and ofa pale greenecolour, but thofe that Ecee 2 grow, |