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*4 Of the Hiitorie of Plants. Lib. z. 



butalfofortliccfficacicthereofagainftthebloudyifrueSjandraniousvlcersofthevvombeandkid 

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^f T^ Place and Time. 



They floure in Auguft,and continue flourifhing till the froft ouertake them, at what time the • 

 perifh. But theFloramor would befowneinabed of hot horfe-dung,with fome earth ftrewcil 

 thereon in the end of March, and ordered as we doe muskc Melons, and the like. 



^T The Names. 



This plant is called in Greeke *K/«w», becaufe it doth not wither and wax old ; in Latine Am 

 whin purpurea : in Dutch, ^&>amatbiUOmetl % in Italian, Fior velluto : in French, Paffe c*W; • 

 in Englifh, floure Gentle,purple Veluet floure,Floramor - and of fome,floure Velure. 



^1" The Temperature and Vertues . 



Moft attribute to floure Gentle a binding faculty, with a cold and dry temperature. 

 A It is reported they flop all kindes of bleeding -which is not manifeft by any apparant quality 

 in them, except peraducnture by the colour onely that the red cares haue : for fome arc of opinion 

 that all red things ftanch bleeding in any partof the body : becaufe fome things^s Bole armniuke 

 fin*** Dr aeon is, terra Sigi/lata, and fuch like of red colour doe flop bloud : But Galen, lib. r& . £ 

 fimp.facult. plainly (hewetb,that there can be no certainty gathered from the colours, touching the 

 vertues of fimple and compound mcdicines:whcreforethey are ill perfuaded,that thinke the floure 

 Gentle to ftanch bleeding, toftop the Iaske or bloody flix, becaufe of the colour onely, if tbeyhad 

 no other reafon to induce them thereto. 



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^J The Defer if t ion. 



t T ' He Garden white Orach hath an high and vpright ftalke, with broad (harpe pointed 



Icaues like thofe or Bhte, yet fmoother and fofter. The floures are fmall and yellow, 

 growing m cluftcrs:the feed round, and like a leafe couered with a thin skin, or filrac, 

 ana growetn in clufters.The rootis wooddy and fibrous : theleauesand Aalkesat the firft areofa 

 glittering gray colour,and fprinkled as it were with a mcale or floure. 



2 This differs from the former,only in that it is of an ouerwdme purple colour. 



t 3 This might more fitly haue beene placed amongft the Blites ; yet finding the figurehere 

 (though a contrary defcription) 1 haue let itinjoy the place. It hath a white and (lender root, 

 and it is fomewhat like, yet lefle than the Blite, with narrow leaues fomewhat refembling Bafill: 

 it hath abundance of fmall floures, which are fucceeded by a numerous fort of feeds, whkbare 



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4 There is a wilde kinde growing neere the fea, which hath pretty broad leaues, cut deepely 

 about the edges, ftjarpe pointed, and couered ouer withacertaine mealincfle, fo that the whole 

 plant as well leaues, as ftalkes and floures, lookeof an hoary or gray colour. The ftalkes lye fpred 

 on the ihore or Beach,whereas it vfually growes. 



$ 5 Thecommon wilde Orach hath leaues vnequally finuated, or cut in fomewhat after the 

 manner of an oaken leafe,and commonly of an ouerworne grayifh colour : theflourcsand feedsaic 

 much like thofe of the garden but much lefTe. 



6 This is like the laft defcribed,.but the leaues are lefler and not fo much diuided, the feeds 

 grow alfo in the fame manner as thole of the precedent. 



7 This alfo in the face and manner of growing is like thofe already defcribed, but the leaues 

 are long and narrow, fomctimes a little notched: and from the fhape of the leafe Lobel called it, 



ks* triplex Sylueftrisfol-jgom, ant Helscines folia. 



8 This elegant Orach hath a fingle and fmall root, putting forth a k\v fibres, the ftalkes arc 

 fome foot high, diuided into many branches,and lying along vpon the ground ; and vpon the 

 grow leaues at certaine fpaces whitifli and vnequally diuided, fomewhat after the manner oi the 

 wilde Orach ; about the ftalke or fetting on of the leaues grow as it were little berries, fomewhat 

 like a little mulberry,and when thefecome to ripene fie, they are of an elegant red colour,and make 

 a fine fhew. The feed is fmall, round, and afhcoloured . t 



^J The Place. 



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The Garden O raches grow in moft gardens. The wilde Oraches grow nccrc path- waves 

 ditch fides • but moft commonly about dung-hils and fuch fat places. Sea Orach 1 banc found I at 

 Quecneborougb, as alfo at Margate in the I fie ofThanet: and inmoft places about the fea fide. 



$Thc eighth growcth only in fome choife gardens: I haue feen it diuers times with M f P«rki»for>. % 



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