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Show Theatram Botanicun. 1202 _Cuar. 36, 11. Equifetum pratenle majus, : Thegreater medow Horfe taile, Tripe 13, 14. Equifetum montaaum Creticum, Mountaine Hotfe taile ofGandy, Trepe 13. geome mera Cwar.32 TheT heater of Plants. 431: Bqnifetnm fylvaticnm minus. Wood Horfetaile, : leaves This fmalt Wood Horfetaile groweth like the reft,but the joynts are farther feperate in ander, and the being few are fomewhat{mall and long withall,the rootes are likethereft., } { 144 Equifatum montanum Creticum. Mountaine Horfétaile of Candy. a Ruthie This mountaile horfetaile is fomewhat like unto the eight fort here before fet downe, having divers {mail flallses with leaves on them; branching,forth both above and below, at feyerall places wheteof come forth flowers,and after them {mall long and round réddifh huskes conteining {mall feede within them: the roote is \ i {mall and long. : ; The Place and Time, Bytheticles or defcriptions for thé molt part may the places of all thelébe knowne where they grow,and neé- deth notto be here repeated againe : they doe {pring up with their blackifh heads in Aprill,and their blooming catkins in Ie/y, feeding for the moft part in Augujt, andthen perifh downeto the grotind, rifing afrefh in the ‘ Spring. The Namés. ms : The Greekéscall ic I 77xelsand Hipperis in Latine alfo by divers, and Equifetum or Cauda equina which is the fame with Hipparis of the forme ofan Horfetaile, and with the ftalke of leaves being turned downe doth refemblesby other namesit is called as Eguinalis, and by Pliny Equifelis,and of fome Salix Equina, and Sanguinalia from the efpeciall effect ithathto ftacnh blood. The firlt is the Hippurs major of Dodonews and others,andEquifetum maja by Lobel and others, Anguilara tooke it to be Cancon Pliny, but that Ihave fhewed you before is ano= ther plant that is th ruby and liveth ; the {econd Banhinws onely maketh mention of by the fame title it beareth: the third is the Equifetwm palufire of Lobelin his Dutch booke, the fourthis taken by many to be the Polygonon fomina of Diofcorides and Pliny his third Polygonum of the many joynts it hath, as Watthielys, Gener, and fun- dry others, by Lebel Polygonum famina femine vidua, and by Cordis Sanguinalis femina and Linmopence: the fift is of our owne labd not mentioned as I take it by any auther, alchoughas I there fay Banhinus his Equifetmm te~ nsiffimis &longiffimis folys is fomewhatlike unto it:thefixt,ninth and tenth areall of Bashings his demonftration as they areentituled, yet Legdanenfis mentioneth the tenth by the name of Eqwifetsquintum genus minimum z the feaventh is the firlt Hippura of Tragus andcalled alfo by him ahd Lugdunenfis Equifetnm Iuncenm, by Cordus. Sanguinalis femina fimila and by Banhinus Equifetum felis nudum non ramofum five lunceum ianeels aquarC- :.the eight is the Equifetum of Matrhiolus and Lugdwaenfis called by Lobel and Dodoneus Hippuris minor, the eleventh isthe 4uifetsm alternm of (Matthiolw Lugdunenjis and others, the Hippuris altera of Tragus, Hippurts fanralis Of Lobel and Equifetnm pratenfe longiffimis cris by Banbines : the twelfth is the Hippert minor of Tragus, Polygon numfemina ot Fuchu, and Hippuris arvenfis major of Tabermontanus : the lalt isthe Hippuris minor altera of Tragus, and Equifetum (ylvaticum of ‘Tabermontanus and Bawhinus, The Arabianscall jt Dhen ben aleail Dhemb alchiand Dbaneb alcailthe Italians coda di cavallo,the Spaniards Coda di mulaand vabo de woslasthe French Queve dg chevaland Prelles, the Germans Schaffcbew,and Ro/s [chwautz, the Dutch Peert feert, and wee in Exglifh genes rally Horfetaile,and of fome Shavegrafle, and as I fayd in the beginning by refemabling a Rufh might becalled rough joynted Rufhes, The Vertues, 5 Horfe taile the {moother rather thén the rough, and the leaved then the bare, is both more ufed and ofbetrer to fmooth and polifh their workes of wood and bone then any other: thé roote is joynted likéwife and creepeth: 8. Equifetum Lanceum ramofum, Branched Ruth Horfetaile. ERS Sg This diftereth onely from the laft,in growing with manyftalkes from the toppe of one, that-firft rifeth outof the ground,and that many ofthofe ftalkes doc branch themfelvesforth into others,all ofthem full of joynes and withoutleaves. 9. Equifetum nudum minus variegatum, Smallparty coloured Horie taile. From a {niall blackith creeping roote {pring up fundry {mall hollow pale greene ftalkes of a foote and fomé muchleffe high,full of joynts,the lower joynts whereof are blackifh and the upper whitifh without leaves (yet is moftlikely to bee the fame Mt. Iohn/on in his Gerard faith hee found with fmall leaves, and cajleth Horfe taile Coralline, howfoever this may fometimes feemeto differ both from Ge/ner and his) atthe toppe whereof ftandeth a {mall fhort head, fomewhatlike a {mall catkin, the crowne whereof being white hatheightor tea very {mall fharpe pointed leaves under it,which being troden on will cracke and make a noyfe. . 10. Equifetum feridum[ub aquarepens, Stinking Horfetaile : The ftinking Horfe tafle groweth up bothin and out of the water, with fundry branched ftalkes, but ftriped effect in Phyficke,andis as Galen faich wichthe bitcerneffe of a binding qualitie,and dryeth without fharpeneffe, itis very powerfull to ftanch bleedings whereloever, eythet inward or outward, the juice or decoétion there- of being drunke,or the juice, decottiori at diftilied water applyed outwardly, it ftayethalfoall forts of Laskes and Fluxesin man or woman,and the pifling of blood, and healeth alfo not onely the inward Vicers and excoria+ tionsof the intralls,bladder, &c, but all other forts of foule moift and running Vicers,and foone fodereth together the toppes of greene wounds, not foffering them ¢o grow.to maturation : it cureth alfo Rupturesin, children quickly.in the elder by time, according tothe dilpofition of the partic, and the continuance : the deco¢tion here. of in wine being drunkeis faid to provoke urine, tohelpe the {trangury and the ftone, and the diftilled water. thereof drunke two orthree times in a day a {mall quantiti¢ at a time, asalfo to eafé the painesin the intralls or guts,and co bee ffetuallagainft a cough that commeth by the deftillation of rheume fromthe head: the juice or diftilled water being warmed, andhot, inflammations pultules or red wheales_ and other fuch eruptions inthe skinne,being bathed therewith doth helpe them,and dothnoleffe eafe che {wellings, heate and inflammations of the fundament and privy parts in man or woman... Countrey hufwives doe ufany of thefe rough forts that are next at hand to fcoure both their woodden, peuiter and brafle veffels , rhe young buds are drefied by fomelike Afparagus, or being boyled, are after beftrewed withflower and fryed tobe eaten, athwart, and fet with fhort leaves at every joynt, having divers {mall threds growing at {paces on them, greene while itis in the warer, bnt taken forth and dryed it becommeth grayandbrittle; eafie tobe rubbed into pouther with ones fingers,and falling alfo into pouther ofit felfe by lying,and {melling fomewhatlike unto Brimftone: it growethnotonelyin the ditches of the bathes of4ponitaneare Padon butin Luferneand Bagi alfo. And thefe he forts of Horfé taile that delight to grow in watets and wet grounds onely, and are not to be found elfehere, There are fome otherforts that are fometimes found growing althoughfeldome as well in the lower grounds aginthe aplands, which fortheir double habitations I thought goodto feperate by themfelves, and peake of them in the laft place. 11. Equifetum pratenfe majus. The great Medow Horfetaile. : For the formeand rnanner ofgrowing this differeth not from the former but in growing greater and bufhing difcerwith more ftore,and longer leaves then any at the joynts, each leafe being alfo joyated withlittle, fcarfe joynts, ; 12. Equifetumnrvenfe lonvioribas fetss. Corne Horfetaile. F nel is Corne Florfetaile groweth verylike the laft, but greatet in bulke although foméwhatfhorter in leaves, of joynted atall that ever Lcduldiobferve; yet Lave {eene it in Kent and other places growinginthe bor- the Cornefields,and often ploughed up whehthey-fallow their grounds, fo ereatsthata flalke hath beere mall path, a im si E quifetnm Cuar XXXVII. Tipha. Catstaile or Reede Mace, Sy Eing néxt to fhewyon all che forts of Reedes,I would fee this in the firft place to be Entreated of, asa. af2| meane betweenethe Rufhes and Reedes,before I come to thofe are properly called Reedes, whereof there are three forts, 1. Typha maxima. The greater Reedé Mace: at Reedé Mace fhooteth forth divers very long, foft and narrowleaves, pointed at the ends ina manner uare, becan(e the middle on the backfide is'grear; arid Micketh forth, amoneft which rifemp fundry {mooth round and taper-like (talkes, {tufted and not hollow.abovea mans keight, with joyntsand leaves on them, from the lower part npwards_a good way, bur bare and’ maked thence tothetoppe, where they have full long and rourid heads, fhewing forth at the firit fome yellowifh flowers, which being paft the rorch or (pike growetls Greater, and confiltech wholly of afocky fubflance, of a blackifh browne colour on thé outfide, fomewwhat(lid. |
