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Show Cra P.49 ee Theatrum Botanicum, sof Firse 14. The Theater ofPlants. bleatum,but why cochleatnm, | fee no caufe, for it isnot Lobel his Kali cochleato femine, for that hee t ¢ of his Ka/ies in the foregoing Paragraph, and Ithinkethereis no other Kali cochleato (emine bes fides, the other he calieth Kali /pino/o affings, referring isto the Tragam of Aarthiolws, as all Authours fince hi havecalled itjand faith withall that becaufe D iefeoridés gave no leaves to his Tragam, therefore Adasthiol aa Tabermentanusdid expreti¢ their Traguim Without leavés : bur Lobel fer leaves,to his Tragum,ashe himielfe (ith rowerleaves, much more divided,and' fharpelypricking at the ends; tlie afkesare more fappyandof a frefher preen colour, brealting into three or fourebranches towards the toppes where ftand largeumbelsof white flowers, and af- leavesin the fame Mand, The feeorid Coltwiva calleth Kali floridumrepent Aizoides Neapolitanum, and Bawhj. nus KaliCre[[ule minorg folio, Théthitd isthe third Kali of Alpinis inthis Booke of Egyptian plants. Thelaft ie moredivided into parts,and is of a good rellifh fomewhat he foundit on the Venetians Matd called Lio: but Donaex as 1 faid before,faith he found thatfort alfo withour called by Raxwolfiue Kalt Arable primesgenvewhich ashe faithris called U/new by the Arabians, but by the Natives where it growetht Schixany The Vertes, The afhesof all thefe forts;as well as of Ehe forthet forts\ar€ both ufed tomake Sope and Glaffe, and co purge the belly allo,froma dultcholler as ipijus {aith, {pecially of hie fort; either the juice ofthe leavesor thepou. ther of them taken if Wine. : - hinBk : yar. KLIX. Crithnhis matitino Sampiré. would not make many of them, t. Crithinin marinam valgaris. Rocke Sampire. _ The Rocke Satipite gtoweth up with a tender greene flalke, about halfe'a yatd or two foore A high atthe moft, branchingforth almoft from the very bottomeand ftored with fundry thicke and : almoft round, fomewhat longleaves of a deepe greene colour, fometimes three together, and fometimes more ona f{talke,andare fappy, and of a pleafant hot or {picy tafté: at the eoppes ofthe. ftalke and branches ftand umbels of white fowers,and after chem come large feede bigger chen Fennel,yet fomewhatalike: the rooteis great, white and long continuing manyyeares,andis of a hot {picytafte likewile, ; : _. 2+ Crithmnm marinmajus, The greater Recke Sampire, This greater fort differethlittle in forme from the precedent,butinthe largenefic, and in not beingof fo good arcllith or {picy tafte as it,but melling formewhat(trongly of Smiallage,and tafting morebitter. : 3. Crithmuns maritimum fpinofwmfivePaftinach mariva. Sea Parfneppe. This Sea Patineppeis verylike the former Sampire,bucit groweth greater and higher with fhorcér and nar2 Rocke Samipite, » ‘AS: terwards Pennell like feede in prickely huskes: the roote is long and white, fomewhat like unto-a Parfneppe,. but refembling a Parfneppe, 4. Crithraum Chryfanthemum, Golden flowred' Sampire. The Golden Sampire hach fundry hard round {talkes, ri- fing fromthe roote, thickely flored with very narrow long arid fomewhat thicke leaves cue in atthe endes> ac the roppesof the ftalkes ftandfingle flowers,like unto 4/fer or Crjfambersnm, wholly yellow, both the border and the thrumme inthe middle, wherein lye the feede when they are ripe and are blowne away withthe winde: the roore is divided into manyftrings, The Place andTime, N this Chaprer I muft joyne, for the naméandplaces fake, thrée or foure othér plants, becanfe I 1. Crithsitim mayihuia vilfativs. 4. Critimum Cryfanthemum, Golden flowred Sampire. Crithmum warithnum fpinofim frve Paftinaca marina. The Sea Patfneppe. ? : All thefe plants grow in or neerethe Sea, The twofirft onthe Rockesthat areoften moiftened atthe leaf, ifnot overflowne with the Sea water, the other in grounds not farre fromthe (hore: and doc all lower and feede inthe end of Infyand Angeff. The Names. The Greekes xeSoror xefSapov,or Galens xp ‘Ivor, and the Latines Crithmum, is generally not onely given to the two firft forts here fer forth, but to the two latter forts alfo, of which errour AZatrhioles is the firft Authour as I takeit, and from hie al! others have deduced the titles but Lobel and Lugdunenfés firtt put in the doubt, and expofed another herbe,thardid more rightly ashe faith, agree to Dio/cors- des hisdefcription of Crithmum then this, namely the Portalaca marina,for as he faith,this hath rio refemblance with the (rithmum of Diofcorides, which he wriceth hath whiter and broader leavesthenPurflane,andfach faith he haththe Portulaca mayina, but uch hath not this Crithmara, but very zreenc,and nothing fo large as Purflane,and may morefitly be called, evenas the very commonfort of people doe Faniculum marinum,Sea Fennell, for {o in the umbels and wholeface trereof it doth affimilate a Fen- neli: buif I may be fo boldto feanne Dottor Lebelhis Crithmum, | beleeve it will be found as defective infome. other part asthe former: for although Portwlaca marina agreeth with Dio/corides his Crithmuminthe leaves,yer it doth not foin the feede, wherein it muft alfoagree if it be theright : butthe feed of Portulaca marina, is flat like an Arrach, and hath notin ita kernell like wheate, as Dio/corides defcription doth enforce it, and therefore we may conclude that neither this nor that doth an{wer Dio(corides his Text in all points s this is therefore mor € properly tobe called Fewsiculum marinum, untill it can be betcer determined whereunto it may be appropriate : Some would alfo make it to be Empetron Diofcoridjs, but A4atthiolvs hath diflolved thofe errors, fhewing that this Sea Fennell hath no purging quality therein atall,and that it was never feene naturally growing as well onhils,as ncere the Sea fide. Ce/alpinus onely,and Baxhinus from him maketh mention of the firlt Crithmum here, calling it Bticute alternm genus ex Sicilia, ashedoththe fecond Baticula qual parva Batis, for it is thought robee that which Pliny called Batis, as Ge/ner in bortis doth,and Crithmum marinum alfo: Iristhe firlt Crithmum ot Afatthiolys,whomalmoft albother Authours doe follow, who alfo faith the Zealians his Countrymenca'led it herba de Petre,and fome from thence Sampetro, and the Frenchthereafter, San Pierre,and we from them, being our San majus & neererneighbours,Sampier, Bawhinus calleth both thefc firlt forts Crishmsum fine Faniculam marinum aminus, Thethird isthe fecond (rithmum of Mattbiolus called Crithmum fhino(um by Dodoneus and Tabermont quos nus but Paftinaca marina by Lobel, Lugduner fis and others,and as Bawbinus thinketh, 1s the Tribulus marinus rundam of Dalechampins alfo. Anguilaratooke it to be Secacwl, and Camerariuscalleth tt Cachry marinum, The latt is Afatthiolus his thitd fort of Crithmum whom Lugdunenfis and Camevarins doe follow, D doneus calleth it Crithmam Chry[anthemum and Lobel ( ryfanthermum littorenm,Cefalpinus Axthyliin prima Diofcoridy, Cordus in ob, Servatfylua Anthyllis major and BanhinusCrithmum maritimnm flore Afteris eAttici, and by fome Afer Atticus c& Hinoie marinss, The Italians befides the former name call it Finocchio marino ,the Spaniards Perrexildelamar marino, tac French Fenovil marin and Baeilleand Cretemarine,as the Apothecaries in their thops beyond Sea Cre., ta marina this from them, orthey fromit: the Germanes Meerfenckell,the Dutch ZeeVenckell, andWe asl faid Sampier and Sea Fennell, ‘Petrus Ge(centine calleth it Crechmum c Rincwm marinum, The Vertues. To thew you the Vertnes of D is/corider his Crichnmm,is but to put you to try whether they anfwer unto our Sampire: whichare thefe, The rootes and theleaves boyled in wine and drunke helpeth thedifficulty in making water,and the yellow janndice: the fame alfo provokerh womens'courfes,it is eaten both raw and boyled as other herbes ahd pickled up tobe kepr, Galen faith it is fale and alitelé bircer withall, whereby irhath aneffectuall, property todryand to elenfe, but yeteach of chefe properties are weakerin it, then it is in thofe things thar are biter. Our Sampier isa fafe herbe, very pleafant both to the tafte and {tomacke,notonely bythe faltnefle, but by che {picine ffi init likewife in helping digeltion; openinig in fore fort the obftrudtions ofthe Liver and Spleene, j provoking |