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Of the Hiftorie ol Plmts. 
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1 B. 
or bordered with finall blcwifh leaues,likea pa!e,as in the fioures of Camornill, which grow into 
a whitifh rough downe, that flietb sway with thewir.de. The root is long ar.d threddy. 
2 There is another kinde of Tnpolium like the firft, but much fmaller,«'her£'inconfifteththe 
difference. 
The Place. 
Thefe herbs grow plentifully alongft the Englifh coafts in many places, as by the fort agaitift 
Grauefcnd,in the lie of Shepey in fur.dry places, in a marfh which is \ndcr the towne walls of 
Harwich, in themarfh by ;Lce inEflcx, inamarfh which is betw een the He of Shepey and Sand- 
wich, efpecially where it ebbeth and floweth : being brought into gardens, it fiourifhetha long 
time, but there it waxeth huge, great, and ranke •, and ebangeth the great roots into firings. 
The Time. 
Thefeherbs doflourein May and Iune. 
The Names. 
Itisreportedbymenofgreat fame and learning, that this plant was called Tript>littm,becaute 
it doth change the colour of his fioures thrice inaday. This rumour we may beleeue, and it may 
be true, for that we fee and perceiue things of as great and greater wonder to proceed out of the 
earth. This herbe I planted in my garden, whither (in his icafon) I did repairetofindcout the 
truth hereof, but I could not efpie any fuch variableneffe herein . yet thus much I may fay, that as 
the heate of the funne doth change the colour of diners P.oures , fo it fell out with 
this, which in'the morning was scry fairc, but afterward of a pale or wan colour. W hich proo- 
tteththatto be but a fable which Diofcorides faith is reported by fome, that in one day it chan- 
geth the colour of his fioures thrice: that is to fay, in the morning it is white, at noone purple, 
and in the euening or crimfon. But it is not vntruc, that there may be found three colours 
of the fioures in one day, by reafon that the fioures are not all perfected togethcr(as before I part- 
ly touched) but one after anotherby little and little. And there may eafily be obferued three 
colours in them, which is to be vndcrftood of them that are beginning to floure, that are perfe- 
ctly floured, and thofe thatare.fallirg away. For they that are blowing and be not wide open and 
perfect, are of a purplifh colour, ar.d thofe that are perfect and wide open, of a whitifh blew' ; and 
fitch as haue fallen away haueaw bite down : which changing hapneth into fur.dry other plants. 
This herbe is called of Strafio, Turin h : women that dwell by thefca fide, call inn Englifh, 
blew Dailies, or blew Camornill; and about Harwich it. is called Hogs beares, for that the 
fwine do greatly defire to feed rhcreonias alfofortbat the knobs about the roots doe fomewhat 
refemble the Garden Beane. It is called in Greeke and diners others ■!»» •■ irmay be fitly 
called After Marines, or Amehus Mari/tut ■■ in Englifh, Sea Sraiwort,Scrapio’s Turbith :of fome. 
Blew Daifies. The Arabian Smo/v^doth call Sea Staiwort, Turbith, and after him, Auicen - 
yet Atfuarius the Grecian doth thin! e that Turbith is therootof^/y/ffw: .M elites iudged it to be 
Jherootof anherbelike fennell. The Hiftorie of Turbith ofthefhops flrall bedifeourfed vpon 
in his proper place. 
The Nature. 
Tripolnm i is hot in the third degree, as Galen frith. 
The Verities. 
The root of Trip ilium taken in wine by thequantitie of two drams, driueth forth by ilegewate- 
rifh and groffe humors, forwhich caufe it is often giuen to them that haue the dropfie. 
It is an excellent herbe againft poifon, and comparable with Pjrola , if not of greater efficacy in 
healing ofwounds either outward or inward . 
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94. Of Turbith of aAntioch. 
V\ The Defcript ton. 
G Arcias a Portugal Phyfition faith that Turbith is a plant hauing a root which is neither 
great nor long : the ftalke is of two fpans long, fometimes much longer, a finger thicke, 
which creepeth in the ground like Iuie,and bringetli forth leaues like thofe of the marilh 
Mallow. The fioures be alfo like thofe of the Mallow, ofa reddifh white colour: the lower part 
of the ftalke only, which is next to the root and gummie, is that which is profitable in medicine, 
and is the fame that is vfed in (hops : they chufe that for the bed w hich is hollow, and round like a 
reed, brittle, and with a fmooth barkers alfo that whereunto doth cleaue a congealed gum, which 
Is faid to be or gummy, and fomewhat white. But, as Garci & faith, it is 
