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Show Tripe14, Botanicum. CHar.24, ieincesTheatrum ss ms Tee een ee eee pares e-4rxm Wake Robin’ which when irgoweth toward ripenefie,becommeth clufter fafhionlike the feede head of fe d pierss greene at thefirft and red whenit ts ripe,containing divers hnskes, with {mall and long= brownith feede therein 1h hot, the talte of the leaves and {talkes, are very fharpe, 1_ Dracunculus nofler aquiticus, bur and burning the throate: like Arum or Wake Robin, Our Water Dragons, is not fo felt arthe firft chawing. 2, Dyacwnctlys five Serpentaria Brafiliana triphyllac ‘The three leafed Dragons ofBrafid, oe Mee aEem Teise 14 ssf ahd psa cade BS a Tbe Theater of Plants, im Cuar,24. As) “i The falk only of this Dragons with the leafe and flows er onit,as Banhines {aith was brought unto him,and there - tore we can deferibé unto you no more, then that from a feallce thar is reddifh and cretted, rifech the ftalke of the leafe whichis of an handbredth long,and {mooth,atthe top wherof growetha thin leafe of a whitifh green colour, full of veines, and fomewhat round, divided into three parts, ending in a fharpe point,the lower parts having each of themanhollowneffe at the bortome of them, of two in- ches and a halfe wide apeece, and above foure inches long,the flower that ftood ona threeinch ftalke was alfo like unto rhe greater Dragons,bcing five inches long, and an inch anda halfe broad,of a darke reddifh colour, and firiped with many white veines running through the middle,efpecially on the outlide, having alfo a blackith long peftlein themiddle,and rwyforked at the end. a The Place and Time. The firft groweth in ponds, and lakes of ftanding wasearnever outofit, and not in any place that I can here of in our Land, flowring in 1#/y, the berries being ripe in the beginning of September. The Names, It iscalled by almoft all Writers of hérbes, Dracuncu. (ws pa luftris, or aquatics, yet Lobel Anguina aquatica, and Fuchfius Hydropiperi rubeum, Gefner in hort Aron joyn~ paluffre, and is Péiny his third Dracontium, witha ted Reede like roote, having as many leaves growing thereon asit is yeares old, and thereon Banhinva calleth it Dracuaculus paluftris five arundinacea radice. Theo ther is named of Bawbinus Serpentaria triphylla Brafiliana The Germanes callit Walfer (chlangenkraut,and the Datch Water flangen cruit,and We Water Dragons. The Vertues. Iristhonght to have the {ame property that Ar#m hath,but yet leffe ¢ffe@uall co any purpofe: Cuar. XXIV. Planwago aquatica,. Water Plantaine, .SBS Here arc three orfoure forts of Water Plantaine to be declared, fome greater and others leffer. Pi 1. Plantago aquatica major, The greater Water Plantaine. The greater Water Plantaine fhooteth forth{undry long thicke greene hollow ftalkes, with large 3) \Gax much greaSen long greene leaves on them with fome fhew of ribbesin them, like onto Plantane,but are ter.{tifferjand longer,and with fharper ends from among which rife up divers tall three {quare fponey ftalkes,parted intodivers branches at the toppes, whereonfan danumber of white fowers,compoled of three leaves apeece,after which follow three fquare imall greene heads,containing the feede : the roote confifteth of 2 great bufh of manylongfibres fer together, 2, Plantago minor aquatica, Thelefier Water Plantane. "The le(fer Water Plantane hath fundrylong leavesrifing from the roote,fixe times fmaller and narrowerthen the former, from among whichrife divers bare {talkes a foote high,bearing a tuft of many bluth coloured flowers, made uf three leaves peece like the former, each ftanding ona longfooteftalke,and all rifing from oneheadlike of many{mall Ul, after which follow rough heads like unto thofe of the Crowfoote : the roote confifteth whitefibres, . Plantago aquatica minor muricata, The lefler ftarre Water Plantane. Plantane, bur much The Rtarre Water Plantane,liath divers {mall and long leaves,like thofe of the Ribbewort halfea foote high or more, foraller, and turning themfelves backewards : the flender naked {talkes which are out beare at their toppes {parfed {mall tufts of white three leafed flowers,and after them prickly heads, ftanding with endslike unto a {tarre,wherein lye the fede :, the roote isa bufh of long white fibres. 4. Plantagoaquatica minima Clufij. The leaft Water Plantane. Il long and narrow This lealt Plantane {preadeth it felfe wholly upon the ground, bringing forth fundry {ma cn theground, leaves,{tanding on veryflenderfooteftalkes,among which come manyflender ftalkes lying downe fibres gompishendeth being not much above an inch long,and ending ina {mall head, which fending forth {mall an 1245 18, oN Sere een 3, Plantago aquatica minor muricata, The leffer ftarre waver Plantae. iy AW andtakéth rooté inI thé §groundid againe, againe, fhooti fhooting forth other {maller leaves, among which i {pring i five or fix —_ ee buttones, (for no flowers were obferved )Randing on very fine Mathes opethig bods cureite Bea. cee ee : Men among thofe round buttons grow alfo ocher rowesor courfes of finall : : : s : ae ging orth other fmaller leaves and Suttons then the former, therootes are nothing el{¢ bur very fine aes : ' The Place and Time. ed ue growin watery ditches,plafhes and ponds of water. The firfkalmoft every where through the ite — — are oo with us,for Lobelfaith, Dottor Penny fhewed it untohim. The ¢ + nave gathered in the ditches,on the left hand of Highy ¢ no ce:taine place named whereit grew. ahiwitshati erndcaa Molt ofour le : The Names. ian he, a ater Herbariftes doe callit Plantago aquatica, Fiftula paftoris & Barba Silvana, although Tragus sand divers others foundit little to agree to, or refemble any Plahtane, Cordue oni Diafcorides afluredly Ooo00 meant |