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Show 1332 Theatrum Botanicum. Cuar.5, Trip 1. but becau(eit ulually groweth in Cornefields, and that fomehavecalled it a Violet, I have thonghtit fitteft to terme ita Corne Violet,whichif anylift to alter chey may,at their pleafure. The Vertues. We have notunderftood thatany hath made triall what vertuesiciseridued withall, and therefore I can fay no more thercof, CuareV- fz F this Milkewortbefides that theré is a greater and aleffer kinde, and each ofmuch variety in the co- jour of the howers, there are fome other-plantsfomewhat refembling them, which mutt be entrea1. Polygalamajor. The greater Milkewort. . This greater kinde fhooteth from the roore five or fixe hard, flender, and flexible flalkes, a foote high or more, thicke fet with fomewhat long and narrow leaveslike thofe of Diers weede: the flowers grow at the roppesin a long {pike thicke together, fomewhatlike tothofeof Fumiterry, but larger and of.fine de- layed réddifh purple colour.and fhining. withall, after which follow flat pouches, with two feedesin them ufuVarietas, ally, which are long blackifh and hairy: the roote is hard and wooddy, with diversfibres thereat, and abideth long. Thishath beenc foundto vary, the colour ofthe fower,, efpecially in fhadowy and moilt places, tobecither blew or white,or mixed as the {maller kindeis. ; 7 2. Polygala minor. The lefler Milkewort.. Theleffer kinde growethin all thingslike the former,but wich lowerand flenderex ftalkes, yet fomewhat hard ot wooddy,not fo many rifing from aroote and with fewer and{maller leaves onthem: the flowers alfo are alike but {maller and vary as much or rather morein their colopr, fome. being of a blewith purple, others purple and white,fomeall white,other reddifh or of a wan colonr,. or overwotnered, &c... There is al(oanotherfort hereof whofe lower leaves that fprcad om the ground ate many, androunder then,in any of the former, bur thofe that grow onthe ftalkes are long like therelt, the fowers whereof are onely blew, without mixture or'var riation. : ; 3+ Polygala Monpelaca,, Milkewortof Adompelier, This French Milkewort hath upright ftalkes a foote high, many riling from a {mall long white roore, with fundry longer and narrower leaves on them fet without order « the Howers grow one abave another,in longer {pikes thenin the other fmaller, ‘and notfully like the other, .batof areddith colour,. the feede that followethis {mall contained in long cornered huskes, 1. Poljgala major. Thegreater Milkevvort. Lhe Lheater of Plants, 4. Polygalamepens s.» Creepin’ Milkewort. This fmall Milkeworttuth ia ‘number ‘of ftalkes, fall of branches lying and fpreading on the ground, not above a {pan long, fet thicke by couples with very {mall leaves like Herniaria Rupture wort :, the flowers are ofa whitifh colour, ftanding among theleaves at the toppes in wharles compaffing the ftalkes one above another, Guar .6. 4 Polyyaa repens. Creeping Milkewoit, 5+ Polygale afin. Baftard Milkewort, Polygala.. Milkewort- ted of together. Trae 15. x 2. Polygala minor, The eh Milhowiorts This {mall plant fpreadeth many weake flender ronnd flalkes upon the ground. afpanne long or. more, fet with fundry {mall leaves without order, in fafbion fomewhar like unto Mirtle leaves, but not fo mnch poinred,the flow- ers.aré very beautifull, fanding in a {mall {pike one above andther,wich leaves amonglt them, copfifting offixe leaves ofafine bright fhining purple colour; the feedeis {mall, contained in {mall hiskes: the rootéis madeof {mall long and whice fibres. yf The Place andTime : The fict kinde groweth. not in onr Country that Ican heare of,butin Auftria,Germany and the parts thereabouts, fotind out by Clufns, The fecondis frequent with us, as well in barren and untilled places, héathes and the like, as infertile and pafture greunds, yet there it willbemore freth and large. The third about Azompelier, and fo doth the fourth and laft,and in other places in Francenotfarre of, Theyall flower in the beginning or middle of May, and continite fowring a mhorieth, and perfect their feede prefentlyafter, : The Names, _ Thename Polygala or Polygalonas Tragus doth call it.is impofedon thefe plants, upon fuppofall thar they arethe Polygala of Déofcorides, but they dog butrefembleit, and are nor the fame, and-therefore Lobel calleth it Polygala ree centibrum,as not judging it to be.right, which Ge/ner alfo ; before him perceived by the bitter tafteithath, and therefore called it Amarela, yet according tothe Germane vulgar name,he called it alfo Crucisfos, Dodoneus,( lufius, Loveland {undryothers following the currant knowne name,call ic Polygada,as not knowing a fittertocallitby, yet Anguilarafeemeth to call ic Thefion, and Dodonens | FilosizAmber daly. €lafins calleth the firlt Polygala valgaris major,and che fetand mixor, althoughic be fer aiiffe, major for minor. The third Bashivins referrethto the Onobrychwtertia purpurea of. Lugdanenfis, and callech it bimfelfe Polygala acutioribns folys Monjpeliaca, The fourth is generally called Polygala repens by Lobel, and all others chat have written of ic: The laft is the Chamemyrfine quorindam of Liigduwenfis, which Banhinus callethPolyeale affina as I doe. Banhinws numbreth up amongthete Polyzala’s, one with a yellow flower; whichhe referreth to a plant that Awgai/ara found, and was like untoa Lentill,but had thicker and'fiiller leave's, a yellow flower and feede in cods,which I havereferred rather to the Scorpioides tegumino/a, as | have there {hewed. The Jtalianscall at Poligalay the French \L’herbe ancroiz,the Germanes (reutz blumlin,and Ramfel,the Datch Crags bloomen;and we in English Gane-flower;Crofle-flower,or Milkewort. The Vertues. . _ Gefner as I fhewed yonbefore,by reafon of the bitterneffe of this herbe, having called it Avsarella, faith that he forind itto purge choller,having made thetryall of ic on himéelfe, by fteeping a handfall thercof all night in wine, and drinkingit inthe morning,and thereforeis not likély to encreale milke in womens brefts, neither bitter nor purgings thing working any fuch effe& thar we have knownjandtherefore cannotbe che Palygala af Diofcorides, which worketh notthat efe@ : other certainty hereof we have notyet learned,and therefore we forbeare to fer downegheffesorfalfities. ‘ Cuapr. VI. Antirrhinam[ylocfire medium, The greater wild Snapdragon. a4 fe wilde Snapdragomis of twoforts, one greater then another, the greater whereofriferh up uifa- “i ; : 7 S A 2jus 78 Fh} ally but with one {talke,branching forth onall fides into fome other, wher¢on are fer long and ;7) fomewhar'narrow thicke darkegreene leaves, by couples zat the toppes ofthe ftalkes and branF<} ches {tand in feverall places reddifh. purple gaping flowers, in thape like thofe ofthe garden or manured kinde,but farre lefle and withour any;white colour therein, after which come fuchlike 3 heads,like calves {nontes,as in the other,butnotbalfe.fo bigge,, wherein is, contained very {mall blackith browne feede: the roote is {mall and. perifhing, every yeare regaining it {elte from the fhed feede. .We pricks have had another of this fort brought us.outof Spaine by Bor/,ofien remembred. before, whofe flower was much #yiue more beaurifyll, being of a bright ctimfon colour, the mouth orchappes being of ayellawith whize, much like jy trum, fome ofthe garden kindes,but morclively forealour, Asalfo another with milke white flowers, which fpreadeth. alrerum abroad a Jittle more then. the former. The leffer fort groweth lower by the one balfe, yet bufhing. thicker. with fore albo;,, branches, having long narrow leaves nothalfe fo great, and the flowers very {mall alfoand whitifh, the feedeis Mining, Xxxxx 3 {mall |