Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
42? 
Lib. z. 
The Names. 
Holojleum is alfo calledby Dodonaus, Plantago angujlifolia albicU, or Plantago Hijpanienfis : in En- 
glifhjSpanifh hairy fmall Plantaine, or flouring fea Plantaine. 
- | The fourth is called by Clufius, Leontop odium Creticum ■. by fome it hath beerie thought to be 
Catanance of Diojcoridcs : the which Honorius Bellas vv ill not allow of : Bauhine calls it Holojleum, fiue 
Leontop odium Creticum. 
The fifth is Leontopodium Creticum alteram oi Clufius ; the H allures of (Jameranus ; and the Hole, 
jleum Creticum altenm of Bauhine. ^ 
Galen faith, That Holojcnm is of a binding and drying facultie. 
Galen, Diofcondes, and Pliny haue proued it to be fuch an excellent wound herbe, that it prefent- \ 
ly clofeth or fhutteth vp a wound, though it be very great and large :and by the fame authority I 
fpeake it, that if it be put into a pot where many pieces of flefh are boyling, it will foder them to- 
gether. 
Thefe herbeshaue the fame faculties and vertues that the other Plantains haue, and are thought 
to be the beft ofall the kindes. 
That which was formerly in the fourth place of this chapter, vnder the name of Hojofleum petntum, you fliallfinde hereafter vnder the ticleof Mufctu corn}- 
cithtm ■, for vnder that name our Author alfo gauc another figure thereof, with a defeription 5 and I iudge it more fitly placed in that place, than here amongft the 
plantaines. 
old wound. But for mine owne opinion thus 1 thinke, the plantwhichis reckoned forakindeof 
Corompus is doubtlefle a kinde of Holojleum : my reafon is, becaufe it hath graffie leaues, or rather 
leaues like Vetomca fylueftris or wilde Pinks, a root like thofe of GaryophylLta or A.uens,and the fpi- 
kie eare oCHolofleum or Sea Plantaine : which are certaine arguments that thefe writers haue neuer 
feene the Plant, but onely the picture thereof, and fo haue fet downe their opinions by heare-fay . 
«|y The Temperature and Vertues, 
Chap. 100. Of Sea TSucf borne Tlantaines. 
I Coronopus. 
2 Coronopus, fitte Serpentinamin'orl 
Small Sea Buck-home* 
The Defeription. 
i ■' I ’He new Writers following as it 
were by tradition thofe that haue 
written long agone , haue beene 
Content to heare themfelues fpeake and fet 
downe certainties by vneertaine fpeeches 5 
which hath wrought fuch confufion and cor- 
ruption ofwritings, that fo many Writers, fo 
many feuerall opinions ; as may moll euident- 
lyappeare in thefe plants and in others : And 
my felfe am content rather to fuffer this fear to 
pafle,than by correcting the error, to renew the 
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