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Wilde gold of pleafure. 3 Cameline five Myagruy: alterumamarim, Englifh Wormelecde, ashi Cuarad 869 The Theater of Plant- ~~ ———> che whitifhbending hard ftalke, which growethtobea yard high or more, {preading branches ‘from where they ftand, the toppes s e-are little or nothing wavedabout, but compaffing it at the joynts iar|be {tored with {mall yellowith flowers.on along branch one aboveanother, after which come round atthe toppes with three corners and a {mall middle point hardad white heads, fmallar che botrome,and broaderwhichis long and reddith whereofit tooke the names the icag up in each, whereofis contained/but one feede : is ripe. rods white, long and wooddy perifhing after the feede m, ‘grow W 6, Myagram monofpermen minus, Thelefler one grained (Myagru SZ S iS SSS e twoinches long and one broad, waved This leffer AZyagrem hath muchfimaller leaves, the loweft whereofar rife one or twoflender colour, from. whence gout the edges, ftanding upon fooreftalkes, and ofaypale greene on them, compaffing them at the joynts: the fet leaves narrow very few a with high, foote falkes abouta tuft together, where afterwards grow {mall round Jowersare finalland white; ftanding at the toppes ina round is whiteand thready but perifheth in the like manner. heades with one kernell apeece within them : the roote , : qe. Myagrofimilts filiqua rotunda, Round podded like Adyagrum into branches, whofe bottoméleaves are about This plant hath a ftallce a cubit high; hairy, brittle, and {pread and fappy, notdented atall about the edges, alittle fixe inches long, andione anda halfe broad, rongh, hairy, are fet at the joynts of the branches, and compaffe that thofe bur alfo, ffe clammine fome tharpeintafte with and narrower, the flowers ftand{pike fafhion fimaller grow, they higher the and great, nothingfo are them about l round rugged heads with a pricke at come{mal on finall branches, being ftnall and ofa white colour, after which blacke whenitis ripe, with an <oylie yelthe toppe, every one on afmall long footeftalke, grcene at the firft, and low kernell within them, The Place, and wedoe fowit in gardens for pleafuré, and The firft groweth in fomeplacesof Italy wild,bur yet both they ferveth the poore for meate, andthe rich for that oyle an preffed is whereout fake, feedes in thefieldes for the flaxe grounds, which beingin ftalke like it, their all in ufually moft Germany in frequent fecondlis their Lamps:the of {uch as will fave the feede to give to {mall birds, but not of that ufe is accounted a weedeand caft away ,except ftalke moft greedily-the third groweth in many whereon they will feede when itis ripe, and growingapon the and therefuffered to fhed the feede, it will places of our owne cotintry, and being once brought into the garden, fandy grounds about Balfill: the fift onthe Exgane« come up yearely againe of it (€lfe : thre fourth groweth in the anhills by Padoas the fixt not farre from ee : and the lat neare Lunella that is alfo hard by Mompelicre The Time, Ali thefe Hower in the Summer moneths, and their fecede is ripe about August. The Names. Diofcorides faith and fome viyecov Tris called in Greeke weyps Adyagrnm and uerepnvesr alfo Melampyrumas forts of plantsof an oily {ubftance,veer” quod impuram autfordidum fignin tt: $- Atgagram monofpetmon Pet ; The greater ons-grained gold ofpleafttre. skis "sos zk. atsAsins fiiqua votandas olana podded like By agrume MyagrinmPaulus A:gineta hath two fignificatque infidentesfive preter vo= ficat, cujufmodi eft Melampyrum,o psayess quod mufcipulam five mufcarinm fec downeto be the true A4jagr# here fort firft the take Adatthiolus) (faith implicat,Some {uo glutine mufcas lantes Péo/corides his fhould have Rocket,but of leaves the hath this becanfe be cannot it which,hefaith, ofDiofcorides, the leaves of Madder.Others againe as he faith would havethe fecond fort to beit, 'whichyethebydifalowethalfo,be= the judgement of canfethe leaves are liker W oade than Madder, and thereforecallethit?*fendomyagrum, but Banhings mifliketh of the belt is thetrue one. Some there be alfo that take them both to be but one plant: flowers, and therefore hee their judgement, becaufe they are defcribed to be fo different both in leaves and be to judgeth them to be two diftinét plantsas they are indeede. Dodonens fetreth downe this firft (Myagrum is properto the fecond, that plant which the Germans call Flach(dotreren, and Leyndotteren, which Trag faith facwleat. and TheophraDodonavs al{o taketh this to be that kinde ofgraine which both Gales in primo de aliment. both he and + day fouslib.8.1.3.6c.call Eryfimum, which Gaza tranflateth Trionwm,and is like unto Sefamum,as reade here & fay, but not the Eryfimum of Diocorides,although Pliny confoundeth them both together,as you may our Tra Wee Y ES A ofTheophraftus is little before,in the Chapter of Eryfimum, whereunto I agree,but not that the Ery/imum } 968 Pal dn, Botanicum. Theatrum —— of Theophraftus Buckwheate, as fome would have it, for thereuntoit is utterly unlike, in that the {eede Pliny, cheir Eryfimumis oily, which that ofBuckewheateisnot, nofisfit tobe uled for Lampes, as you fhall and Se/amum of true the heare further, when I cometo fpeake of Buckwheate, Tages takethit tobe, althoughnot oyle of t tobe very like it,as Pliny & Theophraftus before him did,and calleth it Se/amum Germanicwm,the therezg fteede feede is not onely like the true oyle of Se/aronm,butis of divers,and may fafely beufed in the oth for meate and medecine, and therefore fome havecalled it Se/amsm minus, Thefirlt is that A¢yagram that Matthiolus mifliked in Rwellius and others;that they fhouldfo callit,and faith his country people did call it Droda, : Lobel in Ad. Drodella, and Dorella having leaves like Rocket ashe {aith, and therefore calleth ir P/tsdomyagrum verfarijs calleth it Afyagra Germans c (ameline Gallis,and in his Icones Cameline Myagrum,the French,as Reellins it ALyagrum ati and Dodon ets fay,call it (amelie and Camelinnm ; Banbinus in his Meatthiolus and Pinax calleth : the fecondis the odonzus Camelina five Theophraffti Eryfimum ex Myagrion Diofcoridis,and {0it is indeede Diofcorides sta of Tragus, which he alfo calleth Se/ama,and of the Germans Flach{dotter. Cordut upon them, and rtinacioufly infifted that it was the true Se/amum of Diofcorides, but he there difproveth to be s people called it Schwaden ( which Ge/ner in lxs note thereupon faith, that fome did interpret in hortis Germanie toppe branches with the feederefembled the 7uba of Atilinm, Gefner r) whofe two feverall plants ) are “that neither Schwaden nor Myagrum Diofcoridis ( thereby judging them tobe his Adatthivlus olus calleth ict P/endomyagrum with the leaves of Woade, and Baubinus in Sefamum: that he hatha giveth a more exact figure of it than Tragus doth, yet in imitation of it: Bawbinus notwithftanding confoungiven thefigure ofboth, and faith, as I faid before, that they doe import ewo plants,yet in his Pa hee and oLagdunenfis as other, the and one deth them as ifthey were but one, bringing inthe authors both of the thersunder his title of Afyagrum fativam:thethird is the Cameline Myagrum alterum Thlajpi effigie of Lobel, the hereof which Bawhinus fecond Myagrum ofTabermontanus and his third Ery/imam alfo: Gerard hath twofigures /y!v¢e calleth it Violaletea noteth, the one bythe title of Camelise, and the other of Eruca angufpifolia : Tragus is the frris, for as I faid in the defeription, it is very liké to the Lencoinm/ylueftre of Clafivs, and inmyjudgementThlafpe - ’ ae Ecec 3 |