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Show ‘Tbeairim Bovanicoms Fags Caarn6. 3. PRBS aapmajor. Triset4, a. Teribabfus iaghaticus minorprior. ‘DHE predeet Waret Galéroppe. The fotmer {mall Water Caltropye, Trree14, The Theater ofPlants. Cua P. 27- 124g in many other excellent matters declare His induftry, whereby many have reaped mach profit thereby, I tyould ‘we had many more fuch worthy Merchants continually: The Iralians callit Tribolo acquatico. The French Matres'and Saligot.’ The Gerinants Waffernuf], The Dutch water noten and Minckifers, and weir Enghjh W ater Caltrops, or Waterruts Or Saligo? after the French, J Phe Vertues. ' The leaves are cooling and repreffe inflammations being made into a pultis and applyed : the juice mixed witH hony healeth the Cankers,and {ores of the monrh and throate,and the rankenefle of the gummes being gargled, P hay faith that the 7bracians that inhabit: about theriver Strimon,do fatten their horfes wich the leaves and make breadof the nut kernels to feede themfelves which doth bindethe belly. 5 ue bie eee Cuhe. XXVIL 1s Stratioves five Militaris Aizoides; Water Sduldier: He Water Souldier hath divers and fundry long narrow leaves fharpe pointed ft clofé rogerher fomewhatlike unto the. leaves of Aloes for the forme, but much leffe and fharpely toothed about the edgeslike italfo, from among which rifeup fhort ftalkes not much higherthen the Ieaves, and fometimes lower bearing one greene threeforked head onely at the toppe much likeuntoa a eS Lobftérs claw, whichis thehuske, out ofwhich commeth ‘a white fowet; confifting of three PRISSS leaves with divers yelldwith hairy thredsin the middle : under thefe leaves thereis a (mall fhor head, broadeft next unto the leaves and fmalleft, downewards, from whence doe proceede fundry long ftrings, like {mall wormes (whetewith as Dodonews faith, fome crafty men and womenleeches putting them into gia fie with water ro make them fhewthe greater,make others beleeve that they are wormes which came oxt of their bodies, to whom they have given’ medicinés for that parpofe ) which take roote in the mudde under the Water. 2, Stratiotes Aquatica vera Diofcoridis, chgyptiaca: The true Water Houfelecke ofEcypr. This Water Honfeleeké hath divers large and broad thicke, ‘hard and hairy whitith greene leaves lying onthe water, in three or fourerowes,round compaffed together, like unto thofeof the grest tree Honfelecke, butgreater, the outermoft row of them being broadeft,and the innerfmaller and fmaller, 4/pinus (hewerh them to bepointed, 1, Stratiozes five Militavis Aizoides, DNS chatelli eth tobe fixe foritiér. ad the fruite or head that fuccedeth, grow: therooteis not much anlike the* i The Place and Time. I cannot heare as yet chat the firftis found in any countty ofthis Land, asthe twovotters are: but in fundiy Lakes in Germany,as alfo in Brabant, and in; many places in Italy and neere the Sea alfo, as Matthiolws faith, bat flower there and give their fruite in Summer: f 2. Stratiotes aquatica vera Thetrue water The water Souldier, JF FI'=—WWYe _ 3» Tribulus cquaticus minor alter, The other {mall fort of water Caltrope, The Names. Itiscalledih -Greckt 7pi4or Gad yeO, and: Trsbelus,: j aquaticus in Latiney Anguillara sakethche frit to be Biutoe wos Damocritis,alother Authaurscall it Zrsbulis aquan, ticun or Lacu(ivis ds Cordus dothjand the Apothecaries of Venice andother parts beyond Sea Tribmlus marinus, and the nuts Cdfante agnatiles, _Theother two fottsart called by Olyfens Trilfielws aquatiows tnihorand diRitiguithed by him, and /by Banhinus referxed to the ,Prtamogeton, calling them Petamoyeton folys cris. five, Lmatiuon rana~ rem, andyet his next fort , is verily the formerof thefe twoforts,as by comparing his wordsimay be feehe. Lobel calléth it Fontéfapatbimpupllum, and Tragzs mmakech it his fecond Alga: Matter Fruch,a Liendon Merchant eravel - ling th the Afegbés Gouintry, anithe Eaft Indies, faw the Breater fort growing likea weede, abounding in molt tankesor ponds there, whofefritehee tdoke to be the Hermodattiledoit dras mitch thertin decéivedsthe kernel of the tut as he faith isintixch et ton by the ‘Natives and others, called -Simgerra oy them; “himielfe/ finding them very:céld in his ftomacke;thathe alwayes'afeer theeating of them defired fome Agua vite to warmeit againe, You thall find this retartonand that ofthe Fab eAigyptiaca(as it is extant before inthis worke¥olio376.)) inthe fourth Booke ot Matter Purch: his Pilgrims, the fouttlChapter and fifth Section, folio gz9. The worthy 'relations of whofe cravailes there extant doth not onely in this bat Oo000 3 , Houle idis A zyptiaca, |