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414. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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winto 



or bordered with fmall blewifh Icaues like a pale 5 as in the floures of Camomill ; which gro 

 a whitifli .rough downe chat flieth away with the wind. The root is long and threddy. 



2 There is another kinde of Tripolium like the firft, but much fmaller, wherein confifteth th 

 difference. e 



% The Place. 



Thefe herbs grow plentifully alongft the Englifh coafts in many places, as by the fort aga' ft 

 Grauefend,in the Me of Shepcy in fundry places,in a marfh which is vnder the town walsof H 

 wich,in the marfh by Lee in Eflex 3 in amarfh which is between the Ifleof Shepey and Sandwich 

 efpccially where it ebbeth and floweth : being brought into gardens it flourifheth a long time hJ 

 there it waxeth huge,grcar,and ranke 3 and changeth the great roots into firings. 



g c iroe,but 



Thefe herbs do floure in May and Iune. 



^f The Time. 



tj The Names. 



It is reported by men of great fame and learning,That this plant was called Tripolium becaufc it 

 doth change the colour ot his floutes thrice in a day. This rumor wc may beleeueas true, for that 

 we fee and pcrceiue things of as greator greaterwonder to proceed out of the earth. This herbe I 

 planted in my garden,whither in his feafon I did repaire to fitfde out the truth hereof, but I could 

 notefpy any fuch variablenefle herein: yet thus much I may fay, that as the heate of the fun doth 

 change the colour of diuers floures,fo it fell out with this.which in the morning was very faire but 

 afterward of a pale or wan colour. Which proueth that to be but a fable which Diofcorides faith h 

 reported by fome,that in one day it changeth the colour of his floures thrice j that is to lay, in tbe 

 morning it is whitest noone purple,and in the euening , ♦•«** , or crimfon. But it is not vntrue 

 that there may be found three colours of the floures in one day , by rcafon that the floures are hoc 

 all perfe&cd together, (as before I partly touched) but one after another by little and little. And 

 there may cafily be obferucd three colours in them 5 which is to be vnderftood of them that are be- 

 ginning to floure, that are perfe&ly floured,and thofc that are falling away. For they that are blow- 

 ing and be not wide open and per fed are of a purplifh colour, and thofe that are perfeft and wide 

 open of a whitifh b Icw 5 and fuch as haue fallen away haue a white down : which changing hapnetb 

 vnto fundry other plants. This herbe is called of Serapio ^Turbith .• women that dwell by the lea 

 fide call it in Enghfh,b!ew Dai lies, or blew Camomill;&about Harwich it is called Hogs beans, 

 for that the fwine do greatly dpflre to feed thereon, as alfo for that the knobs about the roots doe 

 fomewhat referable the garden bean. It is called in Greeke, wrf**. and of diuers others, 4**' It 

 may be fitly called lifter marinus ox Amellus mmnus : in Englifh, Sea Starwort^r^VTurbirb: 

 of fome,blew Daifies. The Arabian Scrapio calls Sea Starwort,Turbith • and after him y t^4vicca : 

 yet Aftuarius the Grecian thinketh,that Turbith is the root of Atypum. Mefues iudged it to be the 

 root of an herb like Fenell. The hiftorie of Turbith of the fhops fhall be difcourfed vpon in his 



proper place. 





% The Temperature. 



Tripolium is hot in the third degree>as Galen faith. 





^J The Vertues. 



The root ot Tripolium taken in wine by the quantitie of two drams driueth forth by fiege ware- 

 rifh and grofle humors j for which caufe it is often giuen to them that haue the dropfie. . 



It is an excellent herb againft poyfon^and comparable with Pyrola, if not of greater efficacie in 

 healing of wounds either outward or inward. 



C h a p* $\ Of ^Turbith of Antioch 









^f TbeDeftriftion. 



root 



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which crcepeth in the ground like Ivye, and brin 

 Mallow. The floures be alfo like thofe of the Mallow 



, fometimes much longer, a finger i" 

 geth forth leaues like thofe of the M»" 

 , of a reddifh white colour. The I°* c . r ^ 

 or tne name uuiy, wmen is next vnto tne root ana guramv,is that which is profirable in roe i ' 

 and is the fame that is vfed in fhops : they chufe that for the beft which is hollow, and rounc * 

 a reed,brittle,and with a fmooth bark,as alfo that whereunto doth clcauc a congealed g um >" 1VC < 

 is Caid to be ^(mnt9fum l or gummy, and fomewhat white. But as Garcia* faith, it is n0 ' 



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