OCR Text |
Show Theatrum Botanicum. Trise 14, T &ibe 14. 4 Nymphea alba minima five Morfus rane, The finalwhite Water Lilly called Froggebir, Sx) Wy ai) x Cuap,29. i) firtne and hurd, fomewhat {weete and binding withall,which when it is boyled, orrofted ander. Embers, becom- meth 48 yellow as the yolke of an epge;which the Beypriansfamiliarly eate with broth or withour,raw alfo often- ay ZH SS Se a! ye \ 5 “Ui BS The Theater of Plants, = ee decay rifech up a final head, which prowine greater becommeththie fede velfell,not much unlike unto the othet as bipge asa good Medlat,partéd: On the infide into 'cels long wile. containing round feede like unto thofe of Coleworts, the route is hdc tabetous as the former, but firall round and almoft peere fathion, of the bigneffe of an hens Egge,blacke’on the outfide and yéllowith within,wich many {mall Gbres thereat, the inner fubltance being flefhy ‘<<Ves) iGi = ~— 3. Nymphea alba mimer. “The imall water Lilly, S35 “y252 Cwar.zg, times, as well as roafted{rhis lofth bork leaves and ftalkes after feede time,efpecially upon the decay of the wa- ter wherein it joyed,the roore abiding’ in the ground;which thereupon was called annuall.but I would racher call it reftible. 3, Nymphia alba minor, The lefler white Waser Lilly. This teffer Water Lilly differeth not from the foriner; but in the fmallneffe both of roore and leafe,: and in the fingleneffe of the flower, which confilteth but offive {mall and pointed leaves,{preadiopen and laid abroad, with yellow thredsin the middle, and fmafl heads with fall feede in them, 4. Nympbeaalba trinidad gue t (Morfus rane vocatar. Simall whice Water Lilly,called by many Froggebit. The roote of Froggebit is long arideteeping, fer full of joynts, fending downe from thence longfibres, and whereat {pting divers {inal round leaves very like the laft {mall water Lilly, bat muchfmaller,from which rife alfo othet ftalkes,beating on cach head one {mall white flower,madeof three finall andround pointed leaves with fome yellow threds in the middle: che héads'and fede are {mall, Thisisinall the parts neerer. relembling the laft white W ater Lilly,then any pond Wveede, whereof fome have made ita fpecies, and therefore I have placed it with theme 5. Nymphea lutea major, The great yellow WaterLilly. This greater yellow fort groweth muchlike the great whire, with leaves almoft as large as they, but fome- pies what ionger,and {tanding on corneredftalkessthe Howersalfo that ftand on the toppes of the crefted ftalkes,are 6. Nymphea lutea minor The lefferyellow warer Lilly. notfo thicke of leavesas the white (although Lugduxexfs doth fo defcribe it,and givetha figure an{weradle) in anythat ever I faw,but made of five latge round fhining yellow leaves, with a round greene head in the middle, compaffed with yellow threds, which head whenit is ripe,containeth within it greater fecde then thofe of the white, and morefhining s;the roote is great and very likeunto the former, yetnotblackith, but fomiewhat whitifh on the ourfide as well as within ; each of them being fomewhat {weete in caltc,and this more loofe or fpongy then ic, 6. Nymphaa-minor lutea, Thetmallér yellow WaterLilly. ‘The leaves hereof are round,but larger then chole ofthe leffer white fortyand fo are the flowers larger alfo, bue yellow: the roote hath many ftringsfattened toa bigge hhead,and talteth horter then the other. 7, Nymphaea lutea flore minore, Small yellow WaterLilly with leffer flowers. Thereis no other difference berweenethis and the laft,bur in the fmallnefieborhofleaves and flowers,the roote gtoweth withlong ftringes ftronsly-faftened into the mudde, The Placeand Time, All thefe forts except the fecoud are found growing with usin fundry places ofthe Land, fomeingréat poolés and (tanding waters,and fometimes inflow running Rivers,other in leffer ditches of water, as the Frogge bit, in many ditchesabour Loxdon,as well asin che ditches on the Banckes fide, in Saint Georges fieldes. They lower moft commonly before the end of 24ay,0r fone after,and their feede is ripe ineAuga/?, The Names, Nuygaie in Greeke, and Nympbeain Latine, qrod loca aquofu amet, be the chi¢fe appeltations ofhefe planes withtheir feverall adjunts,ofalba and /xtea,whitt and yellow; \andcalled Nenaphar inthe Apothecaries fhops, yet hath iralfo divers othernames by divers Authours : Apuleus tailing it Mater Hercalana, Alga paluftris,P apaver palufire, Clavus Vener, and Digitus Venerisjand Marcellas'an old Writer, faithit was called Clava Her chi, and Baditin in French, butthe French at this timecall it Plane weawt, and Le d'eftang, the eArabians Nila- fur,and Nisfar, the Italians Ninfea, the Spaniards Efcudettes del tipand Figos del rio,the Germanes Seeblumen, and waffer Gilgen,the Dutch Plompen, and we Water Lilly, Wert “hark beene great contfoverfies among the leamed Herbarifts,whether this Vympheabe not the Lotus Lxypsaot Daafcoridesand Theophrafius, becaule the defcriptionofthe one fo necrely refembleth the other,which made Chafiwe confident, upon e4/pimms his Allegations, in his Booke de plantas egyptijco determine them both ofwheriasthere is fheweditwo maine diff. rer cts in them,befides that Dso/corzdes de{cribeth them both in twoeverall Chaprers, the one inthe roore, that the Lotus roore was called Confewm,and was round of the bigneffe of a Quince, which was nfed.co beeaten, cither boiled orrofted under the fire, whichthe roote of Nympbea faileva in, (this ismolt prabable to beethe Lotus exgyptia of Podonevs : ) Andthen againe in the feede, which as Digfeerided heweth, is flat in the head of the Nymphea, and like Miliomhat isroandin the Lets : but thetexvés‘thd flowers m both being fo like, the other being hid under the water.caufed Alpin, ashe faith himfelfe to take no further knowledge or marke any diftts rence inthem then of a Nymphea, (and 1 am halfe perfwadedthelike neglect hath happened to the FabaeZ:gyptia, thaticis not yet foand in the waters of Evypr, becaufe the leaves thereofalfo are round like the Lotus or Nympliza) out now in his Booke of Exoricke plants,he changeth his note,aadtheweth there that thisis the true Loris Agyptia, andali the parts thereof particularly deciphered. Alt thefefortsot Water Lillyes,are {ocalled by all Writers almoft as I'doe, andtherefore neede no further explanation or amplification, WF) o/s But hereby al] men ma’ytake a good caveat notto be too forward, either to condedane the Text ofthe ancients as judging it erronious, orto be too confident of their owne judgement,withour weixenfidering all patts: For the like hereunto happened unto the Fabs ~gyptia, which formerly was confidently firppofed to be Colocaffia, ignorance being the caufe of error, which knowledgefince by induftry hath corrected. The Vertues, The leaves and flowers ofthe water Lillies are cold and moit, but the roote andfeede iscold anddry: thé icaves'doe coole all inflammations, and-beth outward and inward heates of agues, and fo the flowers alfo sither by the Syrupe or Conferve,the faid Syrupe alfo helpeth muchto procure reft, and to ferrle the es ranticke |