A Of thlie hliﬁorie of Plants.

which being palt, there appeare triangle huskes or buttons wherein is the feed. The root is as 5»?

were a great tuft of threds or thrurns. -

1; 2 This plant in his roots and leaues is like the lalt defcribed,as alfo in the l’talk,but much le {Te in each ofthem,the {talk being about forne foot high 5 at the top whereof ﬂand many pr€’:'-‘Y ﬂ'ar»like skinny feed-veﬂ"els,containing a yellowilh feed. i

3 The third kinde hath long little narrow leaues much like the Plantaine called Ribwort =3‘ mong which rife vp r” mall and feeble Pcalkes branched at the top, whereon are placed white ﬂoure-5 conlifting of three {lender leaues 5 which being fallen , there come to your view round knobs 0‘ rough burs: the root is threddy.

qr The Place.

1 This herb growes about the brinks of riuers,ponds,and ditches almoﬂ euery where.

it 2 3 Thefe are more rare. I found the fecond a little beyond Ilford, in the way to Rum‘ ford,and M“ Goodycr found it alfo growing vpon Hounﬂovv heath. I found the third in the c0I1‘P"' nie ofM‘ Will. Brand and M“Le.<m.rrd Bmlmer,in aditch on this lide Margate in the lfle ol'TenCf»

1] Tbs Time. They Home from lune till Augufk. qr The Names.

The {i rll is-called I’/zmtzlga aqaatz'c.<z,that is,water Plantain. III The fecond Laéel calls Alzfmt fﬁﬁl‘ lam rmgr.r]Zzfé2lz"zrm murmzmm: and in the H zﬂ‘.Lugd. it is called Damafonium ﬂcllzrmm. i '

The third. is named P[4}7ttlg0 aqantica laumilzk, the low water Plantaine. ,

:1: I thinke it lit here to reftore this plant to his antientdignitie, that is, his names and titles wherewith he was anticntly digniﬁed by Diofcoria/er and Pliny. The former whereof cals it by {1'“‘ dry narnes,and al very ﬁgniﬁcant and proper,as unwrap, mzuua;«‘vwv.ve~e2aJk':,ir;;_:¢r; .- thus many are G15“ and therefore ought not to be reie<Sled,as they haue been by fome without either reafor1orauth0‘ ritie. For the barbarous names we can fay nothing :now it is {aid to be called Limoniam, becaule 6» warm mm; s it growes in wet or ouerﬂown medowes: it is called 2(garaidc:,becaufe the leaf is c0_I“‘ poled of diuers firings or ﬁbers running from one end thereof to the other,as in Plantaine 5 WW‘ therfore by Diafcoride: it is termed for the fame reafon mu'..um- Alfo it may be as ﬁtly termed 19”‘ aims, for the ﬁmilitude which the leafe bath to the top or head of a lance,which was properly ﬁg’ niEies,as thatother plant defcribed by Dz‘ofcamles,lz'é.3 map. I 61. for that the feed (a leffe emmeﬂ part) refembles the lame thing.And for Potamogeiton,whieh ﬁgniﬁes a neighbor to the riuer or W’ ter,I thinke it loues the water as vvell,and is as neere a neighbour to it as that which takes its £13”! from rhence,and is defcribed by Diofcarz‘dc:,[z'é.4. r o r . Now to come to'Pliny,li£.2o. cap. 8.hC C3 5 it BtMfy_h¢eﬂri5,Lim0nio7z,and Nearoidcs : the two later names are out of Diofcoride:,and I {hall WW you where alfo you {hall ﬁnde the former in him. Thus much I thinke might lferue for the vi-mil‘ tion of my alfertion, for I dare boldly afﬁrm,that no late writer can fit all thefe names to any Other plantsand that makes me more to wonder,that all our late Herbaril’cs,as Mattl2ialm,Doa/amem,F 1" ' ﬂue",C4ef4Zpi71m',D4lcﬁbampitu, but aboue all,Pcmz and Loée1(wl1o,Adaerf.]mg.r2 6.cal it to queﬁloﬂ. fhould not allow_ this plant to be Lz'mom'am,efpecially feeing that Anguillam had before or in the": time alierted it [0 to be : but whether he gaue any reafons or no for his AITertion,I cannot tell, caule Icould neuer by any meanes get his opinions,but onely find by Bauliines Pinax,that fLlCh_W3. his opinion hereof. But to return from whence Idigrellr :1 will giue you Diafcorider his del'cI1P“‘ on,with a briefe explanation thereoﬂand fo deﬁﬁ. It is thusglt hath leaues like a Beet,thinn€1' 3" larger,ten or more 5 a ﬁalke {lender , flzraight, and as tall as that of a Lilly , and full of feeds of 3” allringent taﬁe. The leaues of this you fee are larger than thofe of a Beet,and thin,and as I fofmef ly told you in the names,neruous;which to be fo may be plainly gathered by Diof7orm’c"5 his W or 5 in the defcrrption of white Hellebore, whole leaues he compares to the lcaues of Plantain and ‘I3 1 wild Beet : now there is no wilde Beet mentioned by any of the Antients,but only this by P/my’, 1‘ the‘ place formerly quoted 5nor no leafe moreﬁt to compare thofe of Hellebore to than tho 5 water Plantaine, efpecially for the nerues and fibers that run alongll-; the leaues : the f%al.l.~:e a1{°.:)b this is but ﬂendenconﬁdering the height, and it grows ﬂraighgand as high as that of a LilIy.W‘C.C the COP plentifully ﬂored with afirlngent feed :80 that no one note is wanting in this, not (‘M any robe found in the other plants that many haue of late fet forth for Limmam, a

(3 Tire Tcmfmztzrre.

Water Plantain is cold and cl ry of temperature. «r Tl‘

2.. Of the Hifliorie old” Plants.

qr T/ze Vertrres.

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as;2:r:3§§:£>;;yt«?i;i§‘lglia}r;taE:,::1§oI$pI;9;lIﬂthfors report,ar‘e gtplod tlcpalale lizlrd vponthe legs of fuel: A i Diofwmzwand Ggdm Cgmfnendtb A F ed.11]mcPt{opertret art e an Plantain hath. _ g pitting Ofbloud and Ouermuchx HOW LCOCEC ereo glL1Cl]1IlVV1IlC,aga1ﬂﬂZﬂL'lXC$,dy{CI1t€l'1€S5tll€ B Pym} faith thei 6 ing womens terms. A V A

; eaues are good agarnﬂ burns. 1: C

C H A P. 97. Oflzmd Tlarztdirze.

I Plzmtzzgo latiﬂzlizrm.

_ 2 Plrmtzzgo izzcarza. Broad leaned Plantaine.

Hoary Plantaine.

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1] “I722 Defcrz"}>tz'o7r'.

i v r& . p . 5 ‘W In as .1‘ ' A ‘ ‘r , * « - L ‘ - - W V‘. Atonéugrptis lluLlC called fome kinds of herbs_Serpents tongt1e,Dogs tongue,and 0:; {av tiatnibo auethey termed a kinde ofPlantarn dmogio/faa,whrch is as if you lhould. . S tOngue,well known to a1l,by reafon of the great com rnodrtie and plenty of

It or ~ faﬁ1:)C::l1i:%f]L'e°l’g’a‘:;he{C ,5 and therCf0re it is need lelie to f pend time about them. The greatnes and f 3 T C fecond i@:l}:t Eeen the caule of thevarretres and c_lruerlrt1e_s of their names. _

Pikes or knew): . a d 11 e t e ﬁrfi,and-differeth in that,that_this Plantarne hart: greater but lhorter oary and hair‘ .3 R t re leaues are of an hoary or ouerworne green colour: the Ptallrs are likewrfe

. 3 The ﬁn T “ ‘ » ~ . like in each m?.E1)_1eI:il3‘I‘]F31}1 hfath many tender leaues ribbed like vnto‘ the great Planta‘iﬂ3 3-33 353 ’*J£’f<,w' I L, V E V ‘ . . _ V IJ -

F14 The fpiked rofe P11. auing that It IS altogether leflizr. A , § 1 _ p, _ . ‘-1ntain.fh~arp'er at th E-mm“? hath very few leauesnrarrower than rholiz of the feeond l\'ill(lC3 of

VPOII a {Hort ﬁemg Mk: <_tnd.s, and further" growing one from another. It beareth a very double ﬂ'Q-um‘

3 fpiky tuft aboue the f'irO1.fe>£§f3\ greenrfh colour tending to yellow_ne{l'c. The Feed grow’?-th vpon

other Planning aboue aliniioﬁgrjt of the pli1‘I1E5flOtWlEl"lﬂandlI}g it is but very :3 in re 1” it’ ofthff

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