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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. Zi 
I BurfaPafloris. 
Shepheards purfc. 
2 Burfa P aft or i a minima. 
Small Shepheards purfu 
S Q-cjy'L i 
5J TheTime, 
They ftoure, flourilh, and feed all the Sommer long. 
•If The Hames. 
Shcpheards purfe is called in Latine, Papons htirfa, or Penpaporis- in high Dutch, ScChel tin 
' low-Dutch, TSOjfCltens; Ctupt : in French, Bourfe dc pafteur on Cure : in Englifh , Shepheards purfe 
or ferip : of fome, Shepheards pouch,and poore mans Parmacetie : and in the North part of Eng- 
land, Toy-wort, Pick-purfe, and Cafe-weed. 
The Temperature. 
They are of temperature cold and dry, and very much binding, after the opinion of Ruellius,MM - 
thioltis and Dodomus -but Lohet and Pena hold them to be hot and dry, iudging the fame by their 
I'harpe* tafte : which hath caufcd me to infert them here among the kindes of Thlafpi, confidering 
the fafhion of the leaues, cods, feed, and tafte thereof : which do fo wel agree together, that I might 
very well haue placed them as kindes thereof. But rather willing to content others that haue writ- 
ten before, than to pleafe my felfe, I haue followed their order in marfhalling them in this place, 
where they may ftand for confine germanes. 
The Verities. 
A Shcpheards purfe ftayeth bleeding in any part of thebody , whether the iuyee or the deco&ion 
thereof be drunke, or whether it be vied pultefle-wife,or inbath,or any other way elfe. 
B In a Clyfter it cureth thebloudy flix: it healethgreeneand bleeding wounds : it is maruellous 
good for inflammations new begun, and for all dileafes which muft be checked backe and cooled. 
C & The decodlion doth ftop the laske, the fpitting and pilling of blond, and all other fluxes of 
blond. 
Chap. 
