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Show : 3222 CHar.g, TPheatram Botanicum, —___Trineig, ————— 3. Cacalia Americana. Strange Coltsfoote of America, This frangerrifeth np with many round ftalkes about a yard high,and two fomewhat round but pointed leaves TRI BETA, The Theater ofPlants. Els)Onpandane najanagela DDOI35>oc : The Common Burre Docks. Cwurar.9. Xa + Xanthinefive Bardanaminor. The leffer Burre, or nothing dented, ws little derited about the edges,ac each Joynt of them, the upper leaves being {maller,and little ones, madeof five diversfimall at the toppes ofthe ftalkes come forthidiyers branches with pare white flowers, long feede, flicking cachtoa little leavesapecce, rifing’out of each huske; which being palt,there fucceede {mall ftet downe, which are carryed away together witht he winde : The roote confifteth ofa buthof blackith threds or fibres, which abideth the extremity of the Winter,both ftalkes and leaves perifhing yearely, but grow brownith at theend, this hathno fentthat ¥ could perecive,ncither in roote,leafe,not flower, whatfoever.Cornutus faith The Placeand Time. ie The two firkt forts growin the vallies of mountainesin fundry places beyond Sea, andbythe Bathes, where they want not moifture,but notin our owne Landthat asyet Ican heare of, and flower and {cede in the Summer time : The lait in America,both Virginia and Canada. : ae The Names. Tr is generally taken byall our later Writers to be the wxcare five Keown of Disfcorides, which Galen calleth Cas canum and not Cancanum,as fome copieshave it, for he mentionéth not Cacalia as Diofcorideshath it, yet giveth the {ame properties to Cacanuns, that Diofeorsdes doth to Cacalia,which is not ufuall with him, unlefle he meane the famething. Thefe plants arecalled byno other name then Gacaliaby any Writer but Lagdunenfis, who calleth Exropean kinds, thefecond Txfilago Alpina Gye montana eae Bawbinus would make a third fort of thefe bat I Ande his de(eription fo anfwerableto the firftfort, that {thinke itis thevery fame, and therefore give no es: Yay ip farther defcription ofit. Thelatt Iacobis Cornutae calleth Valerlana'Vrtice folio flore albo, becaufe he hath ano- SShe arms SS ther ofthat fort witha putple flower, faying the roote {melleth like Nardws ot Valeriana, But can find no fich thinginit, have called it great and ftrange Coltsfoote,and not mountaine Coltsfoote, as fometave done, becanfe there are other herbs mote. properly tobe called Mountaine Coltsfoote which grow alwates on the dryer grounds, as fhall be fhewed in due place,and thefe in the moifter parts of the: mountaines; and becanfe the flowersare white and {tand like a Valeria; Lhave therefore as I thinkeadded i¢to thefe Cacatia’s, for by that name did Mafter Trade/cant receiveit firlt from beyond Sea, of whom ree the plane that groweth with me, TheVertues. The roote fteéped in wine and catéhis Good for the cough,atid the hoarfeneffe-of the throate,which Galen confirmethfaying the lathe of his Cacanum,that it is without fharpeng(le and good for the hoarfenefle, Diofcorides addeth that the Pearelike graines which ate found in'his Cacadia, beaten and mixed witha°cerote or ointment, doth make the skinne {mooth, and will ftay the falling of the haire as Pry faith. Cuar, 1X. Lappa five Bardana, The Burre Docké. EP E haveé'three or fouré fortsof Burres fome greater then others,and fome with mor€ woolly heads, as QF) fa alfoa ftrange American fore. ‘S} 1. Pardana major veleari. ThecommonBurteDocke. ; _ the The common Burre Docke bringeth forth many large hard greene leaves, foméwhatlike unto Butter Burre or wild Docke,but more crumpled.and of a darker gréene colour on the upperfide,and high foote three or two ftalkes, greene and fomewhat'grayith underneath, among whiclrrife up hard and rough heads with many thelike but leffer leaves on them,and-many branches alfo, bearingat their toppes diyers rough one ofthe ot burres, with ereokedpointed prickles, apt to fticke on any garment or other thing thar touchethit, after they are faded toppe of cach of them come forth many hard purplith threds, which are the flowers, w! ich and palt, turne to-downeinthe heads,and opening themfelves fhed their grayifh {eede, like to the Knapweedes, the soote growground, the which together with the winde is often carryed away,andoften fallethdowne on 21 fi ft, but fomeeth great and thicke,blacke on the outfide and whitith within,{weete and pleafant in tafteat the fort thereof » whole whatbitter after. We have had from Virginia, and thofe other Northerly parts, another Altera Virginizna. leaves are rounder and {maller, and the burre finaller,harder and with very fharpe hard.crooked points, ftrongly {ticking to whatit toucheth, 3. Bardana major rofea, The Rofe Burre. mh 4 : : which inftead of the prickely This Burre differethin little or nothing elfe from the former, but inthe head, paths, hath many{mall ereeneleaves, fet gogether likea {mall Rofe Plantane, and butlittle prickly at their ences, + Bardana major lannginofis capitula, The woolly headed Burre. This alfo differeth little from the firft but onely thar the leaves grow not alrogether fo great, and the heads being {mallet are woolly all over,and the prickles not fo fharpe orfticking. . Xanthium five Lappa minor, The {mall BurreThis {mall Burre rifeth'up with aroughcreftédftalke,about twofoote high, with many blackifh {pets upon them,breaking out intofundry branches, with two much fmaller and whiter leaves at every joynt, ftanding uponlong footeftalkes, divided into three parts nfually, fomewhatlike unto a Marfh Mallow leafe, unevenly towards the toppes of mapa dented about the edges: at the joynts of the ftalke and branches with the leaves little pointe : at ve forth fall Howers,which abide not long, aad after them twoor three {mall clofe burres, nor doe the toppe, wherein lye twoor three frail lancke feedes fomewhatliké unto an Oate which fall not ont, headesopen : the roote is {mall fomewhatlong and fibrous,perithing year¢lySe old sa : The Place and Time, is _ ie s Some of thefe grow notin our Country that I can learné,bur neere Lipfwicke in Germany, which Barre,the ordinary is plentifull cnough with us by ditches and water fides, and the high wayss likewi gente where, but the two laft aré not f frequent, yet are found in fundry placés, and thelalt intwo or three places bétweene Tidenham,and Chepftowin the toote way. The Names; Itis called in Greeke <pxsioy Arcium ( and not Ardium, tor that is Ardurnma plant with leaves like Blattaria, whereofIhave entreated in the firft Claffis of this Worke and the 22. Chapter: ) in Latine Per/onata, and Lappa, by many itis called Bardane in fhoppes, Thefirltis called Perfomara c- Lappa major by molt writers. Dodonews called it Bardanafive Lappa major, Banhinus Lappa major ArcinmDiofeoridis, Tragus putteth it inter virigherbaram, as he and others doe Lolism and the like,inter vitia frugum, thinking belikethat this isa degeneration from other good Herbes, by reafon of the burres, as Cardwi and Tribuli be alfo accounted as they thought, which isan errour intollerable for Chriftians toaverre,. who doe or may learne out of a truer Schoole then Ge/en, or the heathens could,that the finne of man catifed'Godto curfe the earth,and to canfeic to produce Cardues and Tribu. dos,as they are tranflated,asfeverall-kindesof herbes,even as Lolivmandthe reft atc,and each feedé bringeth forth itsowne kinde,according as God appointedit in the beginning, from the Creation or mansfall atthe leaft. The fecond is remembered onely by Baxhinw ,utider the title of Lappa major rofea. The third is called by AZathiolus , Perfonata five Lappa major altera, and thinkethit tobe the Perfolata Pliny, for _he maketh mention both of Per- folata & Perfonata in the fame Booke'and-Chapter, and Lobel calleth it Arétinm montavum an Perfolata Pliny, Baunhinws callech it Lappa tajar mont ate capitulis tomentofis five Artlivime Diofcoridis, a8 Lobeldoch, whereby it feemeth they confound Areivm, and Arftium of Diofcorides together, which Dodenem before his edition mifli- ked inhiavor others: for although Bayhinus applyeth Arcinm ta the former, and Arium to thistater,yet thefe two being fo like one to another,and:the defcription of Arcinm and dr &idm in Diafcorides, fo differing bothin leafe,feede and roore, I doe wondewhow he can make them to agree. Thelaftis affuredly the Xanthinm of Divs Scorides although Tragvs wags doudtfull foto call it, butrather Lappa minorandis called Phafganion, and Phrafga. non by Galen, but Matthiolus and all other Authors fince, doecall it Xasthivm, yet (ame Strumaria, and we ge- nerally callit Lappa midorahid Rardana minor. The Italians call the greater fore Lappola maggiore, and the leffer vinove, And the French Greffue Glouteron or Gleueron, and grande Bardane, and petit glouteron.. letten and klein kletten. The Dutch groote cliffen, and kleine diffen, The Germanes And wein Engl great Burre or Butre ¢,Clote Burrejand Ditch barre : and the leffer,the (mall Burre of Loufe Burre, The Vertues. urre leaves are cooling, and drying moderately,and di(cuffeth withall as Galea faith, whereby iris good ileold Vicers and fores : a dramme of the rootes taken wigh Pine kefnelsy doth helpe chem that fpit foule y and bloody flegme: The leavgs applyed on the places troubled with the fhrinking ofthe finewes orarcheafe: the juyce of the leaves,or the rootes ratHer themfelyes, given to drinke with old wing Mmmmm 2 doth |