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Show CuHar.28, 1260 Theatrum Botanicum.Ss ae roundand plaited,and the ends a little foulded backwards as Veflingius bath it, which I give you here rogether, this hath mot beenc obferved byeither of them what fialkes or flowers it beareth, the roote as Alpings {aich.isa fevall thin peece of wooll chat hangeth. downe from andenthe leaves which lye on the water like Ducks meate,but lingime faith it hath {mal threddy fibrespaffing downe to the ground,although Disfiorides faidithad no rootes, the leaves are of a drying ftipticke or aftringent tafteno leflethen Acacia, Fhe Place and Time, ‘The fir growethin Germany,and the Low Countries alfo plentifully ,and in Italy and qther Countries alfo, the o:her hath beenobferved in Egypt by A/pinus and Veflingiag and no where there but in the watery ditches, necre al? jas but Fefling ' ‘ . . Trepe 14 ne The Fheater of Plants. Cuar.2. 1251 . for although ’Clufiue would hot alter themamerthereof, wherebyit was fent, that others might know with what title it came to him. Yer Banhinwe thinking it better to agree in leafe and flowertinto the Leucoinm, rather chofe rocall it Leacoium paluftre flore fubceruleo, but I dare not herein follow him, for ichathas little correfpondence withthe Stocke Gilloflower, as with the G/adiolw or Corne Flagge,neitherleafe nor owerbeing like a Stocke gilloflower,but in that the leaves are madelike the donble huske or fecde yeflell of Leuccivm,which maketh litt'e refemblance ofa plantjbut the fowersdge more anfwer tothe forme of the fowerof Gladiols,and therefore J fo entitle it. And forthe Vertues thee ignone knowne or made to appeare,that che neighbonring people make any ue of it in medicine,or any other wayesimorethenis before faid, for the Duckesto feede on. ‘Damiata or Pelafinm, The Names. Dielcorides his =7éenu:¢¢,whereunto is added sort or eyud p@-,thatit may be knowne from his :4avbquaaG,, is Cuar, XXIX, colled by Afatthiolus Stratiotes aquaticus in Latinegand foalloby Lugdunenfis, and is my fecond fort, here expreft Nymphaea, The WaterLilly. in my judgementrather then che firlt becaufe the leaves and the poRure alfo doe more refemble Houfeleeke then che former, whichis like unto Aloes, although,it be called alfo Sedum marinum, and againe, becaufe it hath nor e obferved any where butin Egypt as I {aid by Alpinus and Veflingivs however Lobel calleth the former Strave Militaria Aizoides, and Dodonens Stratiotes poramios Gf fedum aqnatile, Banhinys placeththe former he forts of Aloes, and calleth it Aloes palu/trit, and the other he placeth among the Lenticule, and calleth palufiriseZoyptiaca five Stratiotes aquaticafolys Sedo majore lasioribws. Alpinys faith that the Egypwith them Hayhalemel maowi, that is as much tofay as Sedum aqaaticum. Itis probable that Z heophra- st this plant,whereunto he giveth no name,{peaking thereofin the end of the ninth Chapterof his fourch ke,growing in pondslike a Lilly with many leaves of a greene colour, 8c. ‘ The Vertues, Each of thefe are very cooling and drying,and altringent withall,but Galenfaith itis cold and moift,and as hé e: (ay ftayeth the fuxe ofblood thar paffethfrom the kidneys, ifit be taken in drinke, Pliny addeth ome Olibanum, it ftayeth likewile the {wellings of wounds and caufeth that they be not enflamed it inflammationscalled Saint Ansbonies fire.and {wellings in other parts, it healeth alfo all wounds ers,and is good for fiftulacs or hollowulcers, Alpinus faith that the Egyptian women afe the jnice,decoéti- or pouther ofthe herbe, a drammeevery morning to {tay their courfes,or other iffues of bloodin any other past of the body: as alfo the Country people ufc it to heale any. wound, in brnifing the leaves and laying them thereon, which wonderfully healerh them, = Heré are divers forts of Water Eillyes both great and {mall,borh white and yellow,as fhal be fhewed, 1, Nymphea alba major valgari. The great common white Water Lilly. 3} This Woter Lilly hath very large, very round and thicke darke greene leayes lying upon the water ay, (like unto thofe ofFaba egyptia as Diofcorides faith, and that very truely 4s Fhave {hewed before » in the Chapter of Arwm) fnftained bylongand thicke footeltalkes that rife froma great chicke roun and long tuberous blacke roore,{pongy orjoofe and with many knobs thercon like eyes and whiti(l) within, from the midft whereofrife other the Fike thickeand great {talkes, {ufteining one large white flower thereon greene on the onefide but exceeding white on theinfide, as pure fhow confifting of divers rowes of long and fomewhar thicke and narrowleaves,{maller and thinner,the more inward they be; encOmpafling a head within, wish many yellow threds or thrummesin the middle, where after they are paft ftand round Poppylike heads full of broad oily andbitter feede, 4 i 2. Nymphaea alba major egyptiaca five Lotus eAgyptia. The great white WaterLilly of cpt. This other great white Water Lilly,that is entituled of Egypt, fendeth up out of the Water divers faire broad leaves like the former,but fomewhatleffer,and more waved about the edges,and. with more veines in th m ly ing on the {uperficies of the water,as they doe uponfeverall fooreltalkes alfo: the Aowers alfo are faire lave and double, that is of many rowesof Icavesinthe like manner, inclofed ina huske, cenfilling of foure leaves ereene on the outiide,aud white within, the middle leaves of the lowers are often wpon the firlt opening (ome what foulded inwards at the ends,but growing elder grow fraight forth, all of them being white in the middic Cuar. XXVIII. Gladiolus lacnfpris Clufyfive Leucoinm paluffreflore (wbcaruleo Bawkini, Water Gladioll, part,and yellowifh towards the brims of a {weete fent like a Violet, in the midft of whom when they beginine te 2. 1. Nymphea alba major valgaris. The greater commonwhite Water Lilly, eA His plant that was fentto C/ufius from Groening by a worthy Apothecary there called Dortwran,found 1 yee DY him ina great pond or USA Lake of water where nooStem ther herbe did grow, befides inthe Country of Drestia, Gladiolus Lacuitris Clnfij fiveL eucoium pa'u/fre,flore fubceruleo Bauhint.. Water Gladioll, _— ae ae yy neereuntoa fmall village called Norcke and Weftervelde, is fer downe by him this defcription, The leaves doe Idome exceede the length of nine ins, being thicke and hollow fevered a partitionlike the cods of Stockeflowers, or the like, but greene and iweete in talte,being an acceptable food forthe Duckes that dive to the botrome cf che water co feede on it, which is diverselles depth uner the water : yerche fizlke that {pringeth from among thofe leave: is {eene torife above the water, furnifhed with white flowers, larger t henthofe of Steckgilloflowets, the hol} i w andloweft part, whichis next to theftalke, being of a blewith colour, fomewhat refembtine. thé*forme of a Gladiolus, or Corne Paggs, but yet not much like it confifting of five leaves, the two uppermolt whereof doe turne backeward to theftalke, the other three which are the largerhang downe: unto thefe flowers fucceede round heads or feede veflels broad below ard pointed at. the end full of red feede, This was obferved in flower in theend of Puly, The Place,Time and Nimes Arerelated inthe foregoing title and de{ctiption, as much 4s can be faid of it, Se ae S (2273754 Nymphaeaalba majorialrera fire Lotus Egyptia, The great whire,Water Lilly of Egypt, |