Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 
Lib. 2 . 
The fecond kinde of banke Creflfes grovvethin fitch places as the former doth: I found it 
growing at a place by Chelmesforde in Eflfexcalled little Buddowe, and in fundrie other pla- 
ces. 
t If our Author meant this which I haue defcribed and giuen you the figure of,(asitis pro- 
bable he did) 1 doubt he fcarce found it wilde : I haue feene it in the garden of Mailer Parkinfon, 
and it grovveth wilde in many places of Italy . £ 
€[[ The Time. 
They flower in Iune and Iuly,and the feed is ripe in Auguft and September. 
The Names. 
Banke Creflfes is called in Latine Irio and Eryfimum : in Greeke,»*», and of fome, ac- 
cording to Dtoforides .Theophraflus hath an other Eryfimum.% The firft is called Irio fit Eryftmum by 
c Matthiolus Dodonxus, and others. Turner. Fuchfius and T ragtu call it Verbena faemina, or recta. The 
fecond is Irio alter of cMntth'tolusptrA Saxifraga P.emanomm,Ltigd, It may be called I talian Banke 
Creflfed : or Roman Saxifrage, t 
I EryfimitmDiofcoridis,Lohelij. 
Bancke Creifes. 
Crrc 
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t 2 Eryfimum alterttm Italicmn. 
Italian bancke Creflfes. 
A 
B 
C 
D 
The Nature. 
The feed of bancke Creflfes is like in tafte to garden Creflfes, and is as Galen faith ofa fierle 
temperature,and doth extreamely attenuate or make thinne. 
9^ The Vert ties. 
The feed ofbancke Creflfes is good againft the rheumc that falleth into the cheft, by rotting 
the fame. 
It remedieth the cough, the yellow jaundife,and the Sciatica or ache of the huckle-bones, if it 
be taken with hony in manner of.alohoc and often licked. 
It is alfo drunke againft deadly poifons, as Dtofcorides addeth : and being made vp in a 'plai- 
ner with water and hony and applied, it is a remedie againft hidden cankrous apoftumes behind 
theeares,hard fwellings and inflammations of thepappesand ftones. 
t The feeds of the Italian Banke Crclfes,or Roman Saxifrage taken in the weight of a dram, 
in 
