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Show ~ FbeattiieBotanicum, , The Place and Time. ‘ R1BE 14, RIBEIA, Lhe Theater of Plants, The firft as it is thotight eroWerh dt With tis unleffe che greatneffe make thE difference,bur in’ Germany. For the Cuap. XXII. {econd whichis yery like it groweth in Kentin divers pooles, andwatery ditches. The third neere Antwerpe as Mentha aquatica, Water Mintés, Lobel faith buchath beene found in our Landalto. 1 helait likewife in our 6wne Land. They all doe flower in the end of Summer,andfeede before the end of Angu/t. y2ep Aving (hewedyouall the forts of (weete Mintes,that grow in the dryer or Vpland grounds, there The Nemes. shes G remaine yet two other forts, chargrow in Marfhes, and wet places, which (hall bec fhew- Ir iscalled in Greeke,(0 called Sw 78 cts17, aconcutiende quia quatitur vacillanded, perpetsto [uccutitur preter ci Igbentrbue unde atg, femper allucntibus,unde etiam laverjx nomen latinis, naff guess malit ab vrinis calculi[g, ciendis G excutiendys diam: it isalfo called Sivmin Latine,and Lavers The firlk is called by Tabermontanws, Gerard,and Banbinus, Sinw majus and Lat:fotinn : the fecond is the Siwm verum Diofcoridis of Matthiolus Thalius and Luge dunexfis and isthe fame thac Mafter Zohan in his Gerard called Sinmmajus angaftifolinm, Ic is the Sivm odortum of Thalius, and Ge/ner in hortis: Fuchfius called -it Sy primum gents quod Laver, and fetreth the figure of Apinm paluftre (following bis country name of afer Eppich,whichis the fame .) to it,thinking they did agree, but was miftaken, Axguitlara called it Sifanm FPbint) ,Cordus and D odonets, Sim & Laver, and fo doth Lobel, and addeth Olufatri folio five aquatica Pyftinaca, The {maller of this fort Camerarses calleth Siam verumin his Epitome. The third is called by Lobel Sivan alterum Olufatri facie : but Lugdanenfit and Bawhinus Sinm eruce folio, Tabermontenus calleth this Sinm oajus angeftifolinm.and not the former as Matter Tohnfon doth, The lalt was firft remembred by Prefper Alpinus, in his Booke de plants exoticts by the name of Sittin msniqynm, bur with ugasic isin the title, The Arabians call it Recathalms and labameb anella, or Hamehanella, Tne Tealians ag Cz{alpinus faith, calt the Sivm Crefeione,and Matthielus {aith,theycall it Sie,and Gorgolestre, The Spaniards Rabacat, as fome fay, and geen fe ed here, I. Mentha aquatica rnbra, The Red Water Mint. This. Water Mintrifethiup from a creeping roote, runningorfpreading in the Muddy or wate- < . ry places, wich many brownith {quareftalkes, branched almoft from every joynt, with a couple of f{omewhat broad; yet pointed and dented leaves, many 1. Mentha aquat:ca rubra. times brownifh or reddifh,and ofa {trong fent : the {mall Red Water Mintes, flowers that are purplifh,{tand at the toppesof the ftalkes and branches, in loofe round tufts one above another, 2. Mentha aquatica five paluftris minor, or Agririe as others {ays Tragusfaith the Germanes call it Branen peterlin, “And weasnecter co the likeneffe as thinke,Water Parfheppe. = _ The lefler Water Mint, This other Water Mint fhooteth fottha {quare reddifh hairy (talke,and fometime a little hoary,about a foote high, whereabouts are fet fofthairy round and fomewhat long leayestwo alwaies ata joynt,denced aboutthe edges, of a darke greene colout on the upperfide, and grayifh or hoary coridis, or Apinm paluffre,and thetcfore attribute-all the properties theréofunto this planteither bave on or any long branched ftalkes with purplifh flowers at the toppes of them, ftanding in round heads: the whole herbe is ofa {trong fent. The Vertues. ; HAJ DiofTragus and others, fromtheit Countries erronious appellations of thié. plant,tooke it ro bethe E bicker other ofour Moderine Writers left in record, anyother particular knewne@quality in st, more then Diofcorides and Galen have left us of it,which fayitis of fe much more heating faculty,as it is fweete in talte, it alfo digelteth dead and provoketh urine and womeris-coutfes, and breaketh and expelleth bth the {tome in the kidneies,andthe birth. - ee Cuar,22. 1243 ; underneath: from the joynts with the leaves come forth The Place and Time. Theyboth gt »w by ditches and warer fides, in theplafhy grounds, where they joy belt, and flower late inthe Summer, The Names, — CH ap. X ¥en Ericeaquatica. Water Rocket. PS iistirtleherbé which isfomewhiatlike the F eng formet Impatient Crefle, lyeth or rather f@ creepeth om the ground, with long bran¢ ches offfmall winged leaves, fomewhatlike © thereto,but not fo much dented on the ed- ges,having bur two or three dents for the moft part, and ycllowifh flowersat their toppes, fand flender pods fol- lowing them. The Place and Tyme: ; Tegrowéth oftentimes neere ditches and water cour= fes,and ofteralfo further from thém, The Names. , Tr hath no,orher namethen is in che titlé, for any thing I know, not finding ic mentioned by any other Authour, The Vertues. Wee have not heard or found for what griefe this is conducib le, Eructapuatica, Water Rocket. The Greeke name Sine, which Diofcorides menti- cnethi,and manydoecall thishy, doth more properly be- long to the wild Minte AZentaftrum, then unto this how ever Lobel and otherscall it Si/ymbrie Mentha, for Diof corides hath but one Si/ymbrinm, that is {weete andlike Mintes, and that he faith groweth in wafte grounds, the other Sifymbrinm called Siem, and Cardamine, and like XKaffurtsum, as he faith growethin watery places as Ihave fhewed before, fothat as I{aid his Sifymbria Mentha, is mo watery or Marfh plant: it hath beene andyet is beyond Sea called by fome Apothecaries, Bal/amina,as Tragus {aith and by others Balfamita as Befler in horto Exftetenf faith, Ont firft fort here fetdowne, isthac which Lobel callech Aquatica Sifymbria*Mentha,and Gefner in hortis Sifymbrium agre she aquaticum, and Calamentha aquatica, CMatthio- dws and Lugdunenfis Sifymbriam{ylveftre, and Sifymbrium by many others. The other Baubinus onely remembreth by thename of Afentha rotundifolia paluftris minor. a i The Vertues, here is Litele fer downe concerning thefe W ater Mints,of anyother {peciall properties, they hold from the other Mints being feldomeufed,becante there are fo many of the hi foes be had slimott at naka Pee ry where, yet their (trong {weete fents and quicke taltes,doe argue them toofbeStee: eff Guall for many of the purpotes whereunto the other Mints doe ferve, efpecially to kill the wormes, ro warme and firengthen the ftomacke toexpell winde and helpe thofe tharare {pleneticke. if Cuar. XXITI. Dracunculus aquaticm, Water Dragons, IR fides that Water Dragons that many Authours havé written of, Bawhinw hath given as the knowledge of another from Braffil, which for the likeneffe he referrech unto the greacer Dragons, but I have thought good t » make mentionoftin this place. te 1, Dracunculys nofter aquaticw, Our Water Dracons, : This hath a creeping foote full of joynes and fibres at every one (hooting forth fandry long fheathes ot skins,and with them fmooth long hollow flalkes five orfixe inches high, with broad round leaves pointed at the ends,bigger chen Ivy leaves by much,agd of a thinining greene colour, from, amorig feron them them alforifes diverfe ocher {moorh hollowftal kes of the fame height with the leaves or not much higher, beating at the toppé of tveryone,a {mall long head encompafied with many fhort white threds, whicharé as the lowers, and with ‘ the head {ucha like leafe as che reft are,but leffe and white on theinfide,en clofing'the head before it breake open,, which |
