25 g Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lie. 2. 
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They fpring and waxgreene in Aprill, and fiourein luly. 
The water Creffe to be eaten in fallads (hevveth it felfe in March, when it is beft, and floureth 
in Summer with the reft. 
The Names. 
X i The firft of thefe is Slum maws Utifolium of Tahernamontanus. 
2 This is Sion odomumTragi ■ 5 ;«>»,of Matthiolus,D odonnus , and others : it is taken to be Sinnt^ 
or Latter, of Diofcorides. Lohel calls it alfo Pafiinaca aquatic a, or water Parfenep. 
3 This may be called Stum vmbeUatum ref cm, Creeping water Parfenep. Of this there is a rea- 
fonable good figure in the Hiftorui Lngdunenfs,pag. 1092. vnder the title of Stum verum Matthioli - 
but the defeription is of that we here giue you in the fixth place. 
4 This is Shim alterum of Dodonews : and Stum alterum olufatri facie of Lohel. 
5 Many iudge this to be the Sifymhrium alterum, ox Cardamine of Diofcorides : as alfo the Sion 
of Crateuts . and therefore Lohel terrnes it Sion frateua eructe folium. It is called by Dodonxus , and 
vulgarly in {hops know ne by the name of Najlurtium aquaticum, or water Crefl'es. 
6 This is called Stum vulture by Matthiolus : Lohel alfo terrnes it Sum iJMatthioh dr It alarum. 
This was thought by our Countrey-man Doftor Turner to be no other than the fecond here dc- 
feribed : of which opinion I muft confefle I alfo was ■ but vpon better confiderationof that which 
Lohel and Bauhtnc haue written, I haue changed my minde. $ 
^ The T emperature. 
Water-Crefle is euidently hot and dry. 
f The Vert ties. 
a Water-Crefle being boyled in Wine or Milke,anddrunke for certaine dayes together, is very 
goodagainft the Scuruy or Scorbute. . 
g ^ Being chopped or boyled in the broth of flefh, and eaten for thirty dayes together, at morning, 
noone,and night, it prouoketh vrine, wafts the ftone, and driueth it forth. Taken in the famema- 
ner, it doth cure yong maidens of the green ficknefle,bringeth downe the tcrmes,and fendeth into 
the face their accuftomed liuely colour, loft by the flopping of their Menjlrua. 
C h a p. 1 8. Of Vc 'ilde Water 'frejfes, or Quckove Flour ese 
The Defeription. 
1 r T" He firft of the Cuckovv floures hath leaues at his fpringing vp fomwhat round,and thofe 
that fpring afterward grow iagged like the leaues of Greeke Valerian : among which ri- 
fethvp a ftalkea foot long, fetwith the like leaues, but fmaller,and more iagged , re- 
fembling thofe of Rocket. The floures grow at the top in fmall bundles, white of colour, hollow 
in the middle, refembling the white fweet-Iohn : after which do come fmall chaffie husks or feed 
veflels, wherein the feed is contained. The root is fmall and threddy. 
2 The fecond fort of Cuckovv floures hath fmall iagged leaues like thofe of fmall water Va- 
lerian, agreeing with the former in ftalkesand roots : the floures be white, ouerdafht or declining 
toward a light carnation. 
t 3 The leaues and ftalks of this arc like thofe of the laft deferibed ; neither are the floures 
which firft fhew themfelues much vnlike them 3 but when as they begin to faile, in their middle 
rife vp heads of pretty double floures made of many leaues, like in colour to thefe of the fingle. + 
4 The fourth fort of Cuckow Floures groweth creeping vpon the ground, with fmall threddy 
ftalkes, whereon do grow leaues like thofeofthe field Clauer, or three leaned Grade : amongft 
which do come vp fmall and tender ftalkes two hand fulls high, hailing floures at the top in grea- 
ter quantitie than any of thereft,of colour white ■, and after them follow cods containing a fmall 
feed. The root is nothing elfe but as it were a bundle of thrums or threds. 
y Milke white Lady-fmocke hath ftalkes rifing immediately from the root, diuiding them- 
felues into fundry fmall twiggy and hard branches, fet with leaues like thofe of Serpillum. The 
floures grow at the top, made of foure leaues of a yellovvifh colour : the root is tough and woody, 
with fome fibres annexed thereto, f This is noother than the firft deferibed, differing onely 
therefrom in that the floures are milke white, as our Author truly in the title of his figure made 
them ; yet forgetting himfelfe in his defeription, he makes them yellowiih,contrarie to himfelfe 
and the truth, $ 
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