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Show Pbeatrum Botanicum, ee TBE JA, ane {preading on the ground, the ftalkes are manyofa fpanne high, withcut any leaves on them, but at the tops a {mallround tuft of blufh coloured flowers. The Place and 7 ime, The three frit forts,the fixtand the laft, have beene obferved on ourSea coafts, efpecially in Kent, the fourth andthe eighth,about CMompelier and Narbone,and the fifth both on the Venetian, Ancomitane and French (hoares, alfo about Afompelier che eleventh as well onthe hils,as neere the Sea, and hathbeene often {tne us from Ports. gall,the reft are found neere the Seacoaftsin manyplaces, and areinflower and feede inthe end of Summer,” The Names. Thefirt and third forts are mentioned by Lobel,the fecondfixth and eight have not beene remembred byany other Author before, the fourth and fifth are mentioned by Banbinus, by the names of Gramen (aninum mariti. mum [picatum,end Gramen Canisim mavitimum afperam, the feventhis fo called by Lugdunerfis as ic is inthe title, the ninth and tenthare mentioried by Lobel, The cleventh Cls(ixsfirlt called Gramen murinum majus, and {fo doth Tabermontanus alfoybut afterwardsin his hiftory of Plants,he callethiic Armerins montansus tennifolius major, Lobel Caryepl: montanvs, Lugdunenfis faithit is called Statice by fome fromthe.prefent helpin ftanching blood in the body wher ver, and {c lamerarivs al{o,but differeth from the Statice of Pliny, andas divers fromhis Cay. tabrica although Camera’ ins takethit to be the Cantabrica of e4agaillara, yer farelyiC is called Statsce bydivers nowadayes,and as Lwedu faith, divers herbarifts of Pars called it Caranances alterumgenus, but by tnany alfo Caryophyllus mortanus alter or majoras Bauhinus alfo doth adding thereto flore gle bofo, and others Gramen maintummajus,as they doe the lalt Gramen marinum minus ,andothers Caryoph «marinus minimus, but Clupus Ar. mer montanis tennifolins minor :Dodoneus calleth themboth Gramen palyanthemum majus e& minus, and thelefler Pfendimoly in his French Herball,as Gefner in bortis doth alfo,the twelfth sftiled Statice eAmericana by Cornntys. i The Vertnes. Tris generally held thatthe rodtes of the Sea Quichgraffe is as effeQuall\as the ordinary of common fort, and therefore forthe qualities, I muft referre youto been d there where L{peake of ir, that fo 1 may avoidea Gouble repetition of the fame things, the reft ere nor putt pufe in Phyficke that know. [his difference be- Trese i4 Alfine marina, Sea Chickweede. Here are fome forts of Chick weede that are refers ¢ out of the familyof the former Chickeweedes to be entreated o! in this place, I ifine | minima. Veapolitana to Coronopus tennifol'us Ne veed of Naples,and {mallScea Bockes horne Cuar.44. é 1. Alfine marina. Sea Chickweede. This Sea Chickweede growethfor the moft part with the branches lying on the ground, very like untothe middle fort of Chickweede,but that the ftalkes are fhorter and thicker, and clofer joynted with fuch like leaves at them yet thicker and whirer,the fowers are compofed of many {mall leaves ftanding likeaftarre : the feede veffells that follow, arenotlong and roundlike the other,but flac and fomewhatbroad, wherein are contained three or fouite greater feedes):| therooteis threddy, Anotherlike hereuntois chat Sea Chickweede that Clufius faith he found withthicke leaves,like unto Purflane,gtowing on the fandy hils, ncere che fhore in Holland, but ’ ; ; that the flowersas he faith were greenifh. ; 22 eifine maritima Neapolitaneflore rubente. Bluth Chickweedeof Naples, The ftalkes ofthis Chick weede are exceeding {mall, lying on the ground, rouind aboutthe rootes, with as fine and {mall leaves almoft thereon, twoalwayes or morefet croflewife at the joynres; beingofa fingers length almoft: the flowers {tand at the toppes,, sin the former Sea Chickweede, but of a bluthor pale purple colour, whofe feede is containedin the like long heads as others:the rooteis threddy asthereft.. With the figure hereof youhavein the fame tablethat {mall Sea Buckes horne of Naples fer‘forth by Columna, the defcription whereof you fhall finde beforein pag sox. and might very well have beene brought hither;amongthefe other Sea plants. The Place and Time. The titles of thefe declare their places of breeding,andtheir time is withtheothers. The Names. Thefirtt is called Aline marina of Dedoneus and Tabermontanus, but Lobel callethic Alfinefive Hippia majorand Ce/alpinns Gentunclys che other kinde whereof C/#fins calleth Adfines genus pelagicum, The fecond. iscalled by Colamna; Alfine maritima Neapolitana, ‘ The Vertues. Thereis little ufe made ofthefe Chickweedes in Phyficke, and yertheircalte as. wellastheir forme, declare them of the fame temperature with the other forts. tweenethefe and thofe of the Land hath beene obferved that cattle will not feede oni the leaves of rheic by reafon of their hardneffe,roughneffe,and fharpenc fie,whenas theyrefufe not the other. Cuap. XLIIL TheTheater of Planis. Cuar, XLIV.2 Lenticula marina villgatis,c> fervarisfolifs, Ordiaary Sea Lentils: Lenticula marinavulgaris, Ordinary Sea Lentils, x 5 SING ra SANS Aturall to the Tyrrhene and Adriaticke Sea, betweeéne the Florentine and Pesetian Dominions, there groweth, (aith Lobel, chis plant, which Tz hath the long and narrow leaves of Scoparia or Broome Fiax,verythicke fet on weak bendingftalks, halfea foote long and full ofempty round skinny berries, likeunto Lentils, from whenceit came to be fo called. There is another fort hereof called Lenticula marina (er- ratis folys verylike it differing onclyinthat it hath breader and fhorter leaves,derited about the edges. The Place,Time, Ndmes and Vertues, Their Place is declared and Time tg be underftood the Sommer. Lobel calleth it Lesticulamarina Serapionis,and fodoc Tahermontanutand Lagdunenfis after him, who alfo faithit ts called by fome Vva marina,“ Rauhinus calleth char-with plaine leaves Facws folliculaceys Linaria folie, and faith chat Imperatus calléd’it Acinarie marine altera(pecies but the other with jagged leayes,/he calleth Fuca foliacensferratofolic,and of Imperatis Acinarie marine tettia. (pecies, butito. what ufe it may ferve In Phyficke hath not yet beene obferved, -CMfiwsin his! Scholia on the laft Chapter of »Acofte his Booké of fimples putteth it eqthe queftion whether thar with dented/leaves, fhould not. bé that herbe, char is called Sargwafos but Ban Fiwus in his Pinax feccech it downeas ikie were certaine. Thefe have been often {ten ¢overitic the Sea,in fayling to the Ealt Indies; betweene eighteene and thirty foure degreesof Northerly Latitade,; which by hindering the thips paflage,fomeof the Saylefs in clecring the fides of the thip,brought it into the fhiip, andavhile it was frefh did care thereof both raw.and boyled, burgréw hard and brittle when it was dry, and was ofa clénfing. property for urine, as oneof the Saylets troubled. withfonle humours and the ftopping of thofe paffage, foundtohis eafe chat did eaté thereof. Acoffa his defcription thereof is in this mauner, This plant groweth ina large fmo@th Sea covered therewith,asfarre as the eye could difcerne, whofe bottomecould not be reached untoby our plumme line,yet very likely to rife from the botcome, as might be difcermed by the berries wrapped together thereon onthe branches, and being pulled up was of an hands length,withleaves halfe an inch long,dented about the edges, and ofareddith colour, without talte but what ic had from the Séa water: at everyleafe it borea berry likea Pepper corne,buthollow full offalt water, and ofa whit am, or mixtof white and red: being frefh and new takenupit istender, but brittle and hard whenit is Cryed. Rrree Cuars |