be Kitchen Cjarden . 
commonly called Hippelapathum remndifoitum, Ballard Rubarbe, orMonkes Rubarbe, 
the properties of both which are of very weake effed : but I haueakindeof round 
leafed Dock growing in my Garden, which was fent me from beyond Sea by a worthy 
Gentleman,M r .D r .Matth. Lifter, one of the Kings Phyfitians, with this m\c,Rbapo»ti. 
sum verum, and firft grew with me, before it was cuer feen or known elfe where in Eng- 
land, w ch by prool I haue found to be fo like vntothetrueRubarbe,orthe Rha of Pon- 
tus, both for forme and colour, that I dare fay it is the very true Rubarbe, our climate 
only making it lelfe ftrong in working, IdR* heauy,and leffc bitter in talk: For this hath 
great and thicke rootes, as diuerlly difcolourcd with flelh coloured veines as the true 
Rubarbe, as I haue to drew to any that arc defirous to fee and know it ; and alfo other 
fmaller fprayes or branches of rootes, fpreading from the mainegreatroote, which 
fmaller branches may well be compared to thcRhaponttcum which the Merchants haue 
brought vs, which we haue feene to be longer and flenderer then Rubarbe, but of the 
Very fame colour : this beareth fo goodly large leaucs, that it is a great beauty in agar- 
den to behold them : for I haue meafured the llalke of the leafeatthebottome next 
the roote to bee of the bignelle of any mans thumbe ; and from the roote to the leafe 
it felfe, to bee two foote in length, and fometimes morc ; andlikewjfethelcafeitfelfe 
from the lower end where it is ioyned to thellalke,to the end orpoint thereof, to bee 
alfo two foote in length, and fometimes more ; and alfo in the broadell part of the 
leafe, to be two foote or more ouer in breadth : it beareth whitilh flowers, contrary to 
all other Dockes, and three fquare brownifh feede as other Dockes doe, but bigger, 
and therefore afluredly it is a Docke, and the true Rubarbe of the Arabians, or at the 
lead the true Rbxpontuum of the Ancients. The figure of the whole plant I haue cau- 
fed to be cut, with a dryed roote as it grew in my garden by it felfe, and haue inferted 
it here, both becaufe Matthiolus giucth a falfe figure of the true Rubarbe, and that this 
hath not been expreffed and fet forth by any before. 
The Vfeof Patience,and of the Rubarbe. 
The leaues of Patience are often, and of many vfed for a pot-herbe, and 
feldomc to any other purpofe : the roote is often vfed in Diet-beere, or ale 
or in other drinkes made by decoction, tohelpeto purgetheliuer, and 
clenfe the blood. The other Rubarbe or Rhapo»ticum,\vheroi I make men- 
tion, and giue you here the figure, 1 haue try ed, and found by experience to 
purge gently, without that aftridion that is in the true Rubarbe is 
brought vs from the Eaft Indies, or China, and is alfo lelfe bitter in talk - 
whereby I coniedureit may bee vfed in hot and fcauerilh bodies more effe- 
dually, becaufe it doth not binde after the purging, as the Eaft India Ru- 
barbe doth : but this rauft bee giuen in double quantitie to the other, and 
then no doubt it will doe as well : The leaucs haue a fine acide tafte : A fvr- 
rupe therefore made with the iuice and fugar, cannot but be very effeduall 
in deieded appetites,and hot fits of agues 5 as alfo to helpe to open obftrudi- 
ons of the liuer, as diuers haue often tryed, and found auaileable by expe- 
rience. 
Chap. XV. 
Lapathum f anguineum. Blood-wort. 
A Mong the forts of pot-herbes Blood-worte hath alwayes beene accounted a 
principali one, although I doe not fee any great reafon therein, efpecially fee- 
ing there is a gtcater efficacie of binding in this Docke, then in any of the o- 
ther: but as common vfe hath receiued it, folherefetitdowne. Blood-wortcisone 
of the forts of Dockes, and hath long leaues like vnto the fmaller yellow Docke, but 
ftriped with red veines, and ouer-fhadowed with red vpon the grecne leafe, that it fee- 
meth almoft wholly ted fometimes : the ftalke is reddifb, beating fuch like leaues, but 
fmaller 
