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The Names, - 
Tistalled in Greek asbtewtpuey Ligho(permum which fe onifes as much ag 
“ Stony-[eed » for the feed is very hard likea Stone; i in Latine alfo Liz thofper. 
mim; and Gorgonium, AL ginochos,and Heraclea; in Shops Milinm Solis and 
‘Granum Solis, as {ome think, becaufe ef its gliftering ; when the Sun fhines 
‘upon it’; but Serapio faith;it fhould be called Milium Soler becanle the feedes.be. | 
_ Ing like “thofe of AGMet, did grow uponthe Mounraine So'er, It is calledin 
Enghith Gromell, Pearle-Plant, and Lichwale, Jobs Teares, which Tintend to 
‘treat of alfo in this near oe as being Litho/permi {pecies, a kind 0: Gromel, becall+ 
‘ed int Eating Sseingesa: and Job:, and LackrymaChrifti; ot ome Diofpyres or 
Triticum, the Leaves hereof being like the Blades of Come, The tates | 
when they firft had it, called it Lachryma {amply, aiterwards Lachryma Chrifi: 
aud fince,every Country hath added fome or other Epithite thereunto , moft of 
which are made ule of in in ss eh 3: calling it Jobs Teares , fome Mofes Teares 
fome fobs Drops, or Adofes Chrifts Teares , Our Ladies ee and forne 
Gromit sane pecaas i kat calls it Arunde Lithelpermes, . “y 
The Kinds. 
oe ay Geteeered thele wine forts. x. Great upright Gromell ~ 
‘a. The greater creeping Cromwell. 3. Small wildGrorell, 4. Umbellifee 
yousGromell. 5. Small Gromel,with tufted tops fike otikenihe 6, Small 
CorneGromel, 7. The{mall Gertane Gromel] or Sparrowort, $, French 
Gromel with Finan dei, ca “et $s Teares, £ 
ccs ahs Cad ics a eed kins th 
‘up with divers, upright, flender,woeddy, hairy, brown sh ghee 3 
little or not at all, whereon oe orow ie order , long, > bat | 
_ rough, tharp pointed narrow greene Leaves ; att tops of the Ralkes fa q 
a white Aowers, in rough brown huskes, wherein after theyare pat 
contained a white hard , fiony , round, fhinine g feed, like unto Pearles; the 
root is long and hard or fomwhat wooddy, with divers branches site ice es 
cg ee not every yeare, as the alle g. 
: . The Places and Time. 
The fr groweth in Gardens as I faid before, whither ir was: 
Tsaly, orthe parts of France next unto it, where it groweth wild, ¢ 
and chiro ge wild in many places of our Land in bien geht te 
ed or untilled, and fomtimes in thofe which are fruictull alfo ; The fourth grow- 
eth,as Lobel faith,in the defcent of the Valley of Oftia, in Piedmont. The fixtas 
the fame Author affirmeth, groweth in Corne-grounds by the way from Bri, thy 
to Bath, The feaventh in the Corne-feilds of Germaxy, Theei 
" ‘France; The saft growgth paw soe in hedes, Syria ,apd 
