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Show Theatrum Botanicum, Cuar.t5. Trriseiy TheTheater of Planis. Cwatt XY. aquatica major. Curar.i6, esata a. 2. Genantoc aquatica minor. cacer Water Dropwort. The lefler warer Dropwort, Conyza palnfirss major. The greater Marfh or water Fleabane? 5} He roore heréofis thicke and diverfly {préad,fending forth hollow and crefted ftalkes thrée foore high with fandry joynts and branches, Conyza paluftris, Marth Fleabane; bearing two long leaves at cach joynt; which are dented about the edges,oreene There is another {maller and lowerthen this,growing 4. in the like watery places, the leaves will be fometimes much leffe dented or jagged on thé edges then in othets, the flowers likewife ftand not but one on a ftalke for the moft part and yellow. < SSS S on the upper fidé, and gray or woolly un=Z& derneath, ai the coppes of the ftalkes and tranches ftand many fmall yellow flowers togethef, like unto thofe of Ragwort, which when they are ripe the feede flyeth away with the winde, The Place and Time, The place is declared bythe titles and de{cription, and’ their time of flowring and feeding, is the end of Soi- mer. The Names. The former istheConyzs aquatica of Gefer in hortis, Conyza maxima ferrati folia of Thalius : Lingua major Dalechampy of Lugdunenfis, called Confolida paluftris by Tabermontanus, and Solidago Sar[aenica by Gerard, ace cording tohis figure, but notdefcription. The other is called Conyza aquatica both by Thalius and Bamhinys, and that which hath ntore jagged leaves may be alfo theConpxa Helenitisfolijs laciniatis of Lobel. t utd’ fforethin the toppe, whichis at the roppeof the faike, the The Vertues, This is as effe@uall a wound herbe asany is ufed, and is alfo as availeable to all the purpofes that the other Cojza's arcapplyed, whereunto I referre you’ for brevitieg. tuft being largerand the feede’bigger, The Flace and Time, Both the former growin wet groundsnecre brookesfides wich Us In many places,yee will they both endure in Gardens, but are not there {o great and large,as in their naturall places: the lefler | th and feedeth earlierthen the other, uiually the leffer is fore the greater bein flower, which is not untill Augnft. The Lit was gathered @boue Sapphi in Barbary by Boel atorefaid, The Names, he greater isthe Oenauthe guarta of Matthielus, exhibited y him and Lobel, feparately in the figure, which may bee ly difcerned,not to beall one withthe other,and as my felfe ferved them in mine owne Garden, Bawhinus who as it ¢ knewit not,was deceived by Lobelhis c onfounding Ocnanthe aquatica, Watér Dropwort. sand titles. Here are twoforts ofthis Water Dropwort, a greater and a leffer,both whicharé exhibited 4 Lobel in bis Ieones, under onetitleas one would thinke, butdiftingnifhed the one by Oewantie gy 2q#atica,which isthe leffer, the other whichis the greater, by Oenantke quarta AZatibiols, but |, confounded in his Obtervations, both titles being referred to one} which confafion 1 woulda- g , void,and fhew youthem both diftinély: The greater hath divers large’ {pread Jeaves next co ==" ercund, andlying thercon cut into many divifions, fomewhat referbling Par fey, but touch {maller,among which rife crefted thicke hollow ftalkes, with eaves on them,cut into longer andfiner divifions, nat ring white flowers at the toppe,which turne into clofe umbels. of {mall lar grayifh’ feedey: fomewhat leffer then Fennell {cede,theroote hath fundry {mall white knobs growing among the (trings. 2, Ocnanthe aquaticaminor, The leffer Water Dropwort.”’” : “hth ‘The leffer hath very finely cut {mall leaves lying on the ground,before the ftalke beginnéth to rife, ‘which then being catryed up withit fcarfe feeme to be leavesbut rather likerthe ribbes ofleavessof a darke and:fhining greene colonr,asthe {talkeis slfo,which refembleth a Ruth very niearely, andbelow the roppé thereof, whichis ae ted like a Ruth, (and not atthe roppe as the figure expreffethic .) breaketh forth {mall umtell of {mall whic h {weere flowers, which turne afterwardinto as {mnall fede as Smailage Lut blacker; the goote hath many {ma kernels amongthe fibres, which are as fmnall as haires or finer. 3 Ocnanthe altera minor Africana, -The ftaall Water Dropwortof Barbary, ci This other leffer fort being brought us by Beefrom Barbary doth moft hecrly refemble the laft {mall fertin=. Lnydwnesfis callech ic Sifer paluftre,and nd Gerard Fitipendula aquatica, The lefleris re» ws toboth thefe forts to'guarra Matthioli, and to + aqwatice,which isthis of LoZel,although exprefied in the ¢ withoucany kKernellsto rhe roares, ifit doe not reprefent plant,which both Dedomews aad Lonicerys, referreto Si« aver,D odonens callethit Iuncus odaratus aquatilis, lknow toy what reafon, bur onely chat theftalke is in colour and fa‘hton not much anlike a Ruth, butnothing elfe is like ir, a The Vertues, Theyare béth of them good toprovoke urine whenitis ftopped, and to kelpe the Strangury when thie wrine pafleth away by Groppes, 3. Oewauthe a'tera minor Africanae The fmall water Dropwort of Barbary 1233 es |