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Of the Hiftorie ot Plants. 



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The greater Tree Stone-crop 



II 



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The firft and fecond grow vpon the fa 

 coafts of Spaine and other hot countries i • ^3 

 the third growethinthe fait marifoes Deere*! 

 fea fide, as you pa ffc ouer the Kings ferrey Jl 

 the Ifle of Shepcy, going to Sherland houfe fa 

 longing fometime vnto the Lord cheinj and 

 the yeare 1 5 <?o, vnto the Worfhipfull S f . WJ/ 

 Hobby) faff by the ditches fides of the fame ma 

 ri fh ; it groweth plentifully in the IfleofThancc 

 as you go from Margate to Sandwiched io ma 

 ny other places along the coaft. The other forrj 

 grow vpon bankes and heapes of fand on the Sea 

 coaffsof Zeeland, Flanders, HollanJ } andinJik c 

 places in other countries, as befidesthc Iflcof 

 Purbecke in England; and on Rauen-fpumc in 

 Holdernefie,as I my felfehaue feene. 





% The Time. 





Thefe flourifh and flowre efpecially io fob 



and Auguft. 





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*»i it is alfo called 



Zee #ojcelrf jne: 



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UUarm 



flane. 



The baftard ground Pine is called offorae, 



Chameptjs vermieulata : in Englifh, Sea ground 



Pine : $ or more fitly, Tree S ton-crop,or Pricket, 



greene. % 





meant 



<Q TheVertues. 



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^ The Temperature, 

 Sea Purflane is (as Galen faith) of vnlike parts, bu- ' u ~ 

 with a moifture vncoricoclcd, and fomewhat windie. 



The leaues (faith Diofcorides) are boy 

 with meade or honied water.is good againft cramps and drawings awrie of finewes, burftiogsai 

 gnawingsof the belly : it alfo caufeth nurfes tohaue (tore of tnilke. The leaues be in the L<*- 

 countnes prefcrued in (altor pickle as capers are, to be ferued and eaten at mens tables in (lead of 

 them.and that without any miflike of tafte,to which it is pleafant. G4/wdothalforeporr,tlutthe 



drunk: 



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young and tender buds are wont in Cilicia to be eaten,andatfo laid vp in ftort 



Clufius faith,That the learned Portugal Knight Damianus a Goes affured him,That the !e«< 

 of the firft defenbed boy led with bran.and Co applied, mitigate the paine of the Goutprocecdiuj 

 ofanhotcaufe. I D r 



thefc JtaSC^ kkSS §"? K ° Ur AUth ° r T h the & **•"*» ****** W hhh h *t forth By 7 •*». rnHcr chc hmc name, m &**"* 

 mcic plants or clfc it it impCika. lauhmt knowes not whatto make of it, but qucitioni it, S^ifi ? 



hap. 150. Of Herbe-Iuy, or ground JPine. 





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<§ The Description. 



THe common kinde oicbamsfitys or Ground -Pine is a fmal herbe and very tenia**. 

 ping vpon the grounddiauing fmalland crooked branches trailing about. Th**"? 

 1,-np h, n „r a fmal ^. n f rrowr and hairy,in fauor like the Firre or Pine treejbut if my fence of ^ 

 X P T a >™ ? lnkes « " rather like vnto the fmell of hempe. The fioures be ltokfi* af* 

 yellow colour^ fometimes white : the root is fmall and fingle,and ofa wooddy M>to** m 

 T 2 I He iecond hath orettv ftrnno- fr>.,r« Um j~..„*ri a,ti,-. k~««w. and hairy ^ , 



which 

 grow a 

 plant /auouring like the 



cot tobe well called Ch m *drj,f«mi» At ox jag^d Germander'as fomc haw n7raed fc * 



r™, o~„„ 1 u ? pr f tty ftron § foure f< l l,are joynted ftalkes, browne and hairy 5 , 

 ZZVJ^ haify , ea \ ,es much clouen or c « * the fioures are ofa purple coW^ 

 out the flalks in roundlcs like the dead Nettle : the ked is black and round, and the ^ 



;i 0rme . r ;" * vvhich ^cwcA this to be fitly referred to the Chm^fr" 



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