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plilh colour, with two long {harpe pointed thicke greene leaues, fetrat each joynt {from the mid- dle to the top of the fiallce grow little branches, which vpon pretty long fialkes carry flonres C9115‘ liingofﬁue little round leaues. yet diuided at the tops 5 they are ofa faire incarnate colour, Witlia deepe purple ring in their middles, without fmell :after the ﬂoures are palhﬁicceed skinny_ 3“ . hard heads, {mallet towards the ﬂalkes, and thicker aboue 5 and inthefe are contained very W3“

clarke red feeds. The root is thicke and blacke with many fibres, putting vpnew (boots and Ptalkes _

after the ﬁrll yeare,and not dying euery yeare like as the two lalt defcribed. . « I _ T/ye Place. V ,

Thefe plants do grow wilde in the ﬁelds in the \/Veil part ofEngland,among the come :wc lffllle them in our London gardensrather for toies ofpleafure,than any vertues they are polTell‘ed with, that haue as yet beene knowne. » V

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Catch Flies hath beene taken for Believe, commonly [0 called, for the lilieneﬂe that it bath with Bebm ruéee-re ﬂare: or with Baker: that hath the red ﬂoure,calIed offomc Valeriamz ruém, or red V3123!’ rian;for it is fomething like vnto it in jointed Pcalkes and leaues,but more like ‘in colour: of 1055.? Mzefizl/mla and Vifearia: of Dorian. Armerim ﬂea tertiw : of C/zeﬁm, Lye/Jﬁirfylzee/lrgkgsjlgpgg Tbeofh 4117’ and Be/yen ruérum Salamantimm .~ in Englifh, Catch Fl v'e,and Limcworr.

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The nature and vertiies ofthefe Wilde Williams are referred to the Wilde Pinkes and Gina‘ ﬂoures. ’

. . . , ’ sof 1 0urAuthor cerraiiacly intended in this ﬁrll: place to ﬁaure and defcribe the Wlufci ula or Viﬂ-aria oFLob l b r th {in he ti ' h E llfmc W‘ that Plant whichl liauc giuen you in rhelafl Chnpterfaiie oiie by the name of..Armcn' P 2 ’ u C hm: cm gang mt ‘ I‘ '

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CH AP. 157; _ Of T/artflf, or our Ladies Cuﬂaion.

I Caryoplzyllm marinas minimuaboéelﬁ.

2 Caryopéy/la: c/‘I/fee/iterremeud. Thrift, or Sea Gilloﬂoure.

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3 ' Hrifc is alto; kinde of cgilloﬂoui-e,by Dodamms rcclconed among grafles,which brings forth leaues in great tufts, thicke thrull together, fmaller ﬂeiiderer and {hotter than‘ I gralfe : among which rife vp fmall tender llalkes ofa fpanne high, naked and without 613"“ 3 On lilletops whereof {land little ﬂoures in a fpoltie tuft, of a white colour tending topur- P C; The root is long and threddy. fea, diifereth not from the precedent in lcaues, ﬂalkes or ﬂoures, but yet is altogether greater, and t; C canes are broader. T . 712: Place. _ ‘ The Hill‘. is found in the moi’: falt marihes in England, 39. am’ 1“ Gmlenss for the bmdefing "P.°fbeds and banl<es,for the which it ferueth very ﬁtly.The other is a (hanger in thefe Northerne égions. The Time. They ﬂoure from May, till Summer be latte fpent. qr The Names; ' ‘ Thrift is called in Latine,Gramm Pnlyam/Jemum, of the multitude of the ﬂour-es : of fome, Gm. ’£’h’€_n marinum .- ofLa6el, Caryop/yyllus wearing: .- in Engliih, Thrift, Sea—grall'e, and our Ladies Cu-, ion. ‘ The Temperature and Vertuex. Tneir vfe in Phy ﬁcke as yet is not known-2, neither doth any feelte into the Nature thereof, but °°Ine them only for their beaurie and pleafure. ‘

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Of the Sgxfﬁeetge of the eﬂ‘ntientr,eimz’ oft/as great one of Mat» t/aiolm, nait/2 that ofTemz and Lake].

l: His name saxiﬁaga or Saxifragc, hath oflatc beene impofed vpon fundry plants farre Tdiﬁerent in their {hapes,places of growing, 8: temperatu_r€;l?“‘ 311 agrﬁelng “iltlgls One faculty of expelling or driuing the {lone out of the Kldﬂlgsi ‘h‘_’“gh 90%“ 1 3' Oge anner ofoperation. But becaufealmoli all ofthem are del_'cribed in I $11’ '5 P “C5 Y 0ur.A“‘h91’a I will not inﬁll: vpon them :yet I thinke it not amille a little to e"Cl“”°:Wh€tl1CT any axlﬁaga Wcfg knowne to the Antients , and if knowne,to what kinde it may probably be referred B

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F the Antients 1) jgﬁoridgy p m1,,;.,£gz'ne¢4,and ijipzilcimfeeme to mention one Srzxiﬁzigegbiit Plz‘. 3 > ‘

.‘“~54P-2 i.by the way ihewes,that fome called i/Idiaﬁf/7”?’ by the name of S4"il_9“§””’ " but is is nothing to the former - wherefore I will not inﬁll vpon it, but returne to examine that the other three haue written iiméor, Dig/Eorider li6,4.berweene the chapters of Triémlm and Lzmomzene, ° W1t,in the feuenteenth place hath deliuered the I-lillory of this plant, both in the Gieeke Editi- on OfAleIm' Mamitiur as alfo in that ofzmircelliis VirgiliI£5,y€t the whole chapter in the Paris Editi- O _ . . _ : . - ) ﬁe 1549,13 reieé-‘ted, and put amonglt the Natka. The beginning thereof (againfhwliich they C ‘efely except) is thus . ,,PE,m,,5,,“,,,,g.a,E.,;3,,ai.ri'2,rws«gsi, iuiﬁoiowftswfa. (i) Sizrxipbdgwa 4!? ‘W79 54'9"" angon,4lg'j vero Empetran,Itom4nz',Sarxiﬁwiga. The ﬁrll. exception of Mziree//us Vz'r_gilmragain.l1 this apter is Peregrine: Gram}: (ﬁe aliemi qiox s4xzﬁag'4 qhévc. The fecond is,~.f’\rr5:'a'771rzl2 ofelzczores zn rom- Ponend,-Ls adeertiorem rei alimzur ﬂ mﬁmtiomm vozzfém Grim‘, qmzm I,zitz'm‘,@°c. The third is, Solam m to- .“ “P"‘P'im4m,é' aprimi io gro ofitam d!{(1i7iR0773ﬂ71A?73 vocem mmqiie inopes in appellmda 54¢ /aeréa hm ‘ G’“0-Hut ni ixomm; of;/higzndzcafﬁnr millzi ﬁlvifi/ti/M cﬂtet Thefe are the arguments wl1i€h e - - .' . ’ ' ' - ’ ' , ‘thou: ﬂ1eVW5l_S againll this Chapter 5 yet re ;e€ts it not,but by this means hath occalioned oitllctfislgmtter and {Orig “W ffafon to doe it: Now I will let downe what my opinion 18 concerning 6 and 3 . ' _ . ' a Greekecxgfdlt {)0 the Judgement of the learned. Igrant 1llz1I‘ﬂ?[[’”a‘h3t .S“x’_ﬁ"l’§" *2 ‘I’; dirt and :3 th G k ;_ l_1t the name in the title, and Hill in the Chapter both in his own [if d h 6 tie? eEdm.°“3 that I haue vet feene is 2ai.r’»'m», which none, n0 H0‘ he hlrpfc C can my t.° “au§_a.dGreeke_originall :7lDT’;r'T|1'va'u’pl;$¢¢’71l7: of eatingthe ﬂea, , yet becaufe [here is ‘n10 fuch facultie t is-.. enomination Imports amibmed thereto by the Aurhour,rherefore he wil not allow it to e for But Y0“ muff note that many names are impofed by E116 Vulgar» and the ‘Caron Ofthe name

by Elilofcthathaue written of them, as in this fame Author maybe fecnet

The other kind ofThrift,fourid vpon the mountaines neer vnto the Leuant or Mediterranean ‘