Lib. 2. Of theHiftory of Plants. 1 . ^yp 
growing one againit another , the leaues are Idle and narrower than the common purple kinde. 
and growing by couples, vnlefle at the top of the ftalkes and branches, whereas they keepe no cer- 
taine order^and amongft thefe come here and there cornered cups containing flourcs compoied 
of fix little red leaues with threds in their middles'. The root is hard, woody, and not creeping, as 
in others ofthiskinde, yet it endures all the yeere, and fends forth new (lioots.lt floures in fine 
and Inly, and was found by Clttfths in diners Wet medovves in Auftria, £ 
The Place . 
The firft yellow Lyfimachia groweth plentifully in moift medewos, efpecially along the me- 
dowes as you go from Lambeth to Batterfcy neere London, and in many other places throughout 
England. 
4 : 13 Lyftnuchia purpurea minor Cluj'. 
Small purple Willow herbe. 
t The fecond and third I haue not yet 
feene. 
The fourth groweth in many gardens. + 
The fift groweth in places of greater inoi- 
flure, yea almoft in the running (treames and 
Handing waters, or hard by them. It groweth 
vnder the Bifhops houfewall at Lambeth, neere 
the water of Thames, and in moift ditches in 
molt places of England. 
The fixth groweth neere the waters (and in 
thewaters) in all places for the moll part. 
The feuenth groweth in York fh ire in a place 
called the Hooke,neervntoaclo(e calleda Cow 
pafture , from whence I had thefe plants, which 
doe grow in my garden very goodly to behold, 
For the decking vp ofhoufes and gardens. 
t The eighth I haue not yet found growing.' 
The ninth growes wild in fome places of this 
kingdome,but I haue feene it only in Gardens. 
The tenth growes by the ponds and waters 
hides in Saint lames his Parke, in Tuthill fields 
and many otherplaces. £ - 
Theeleuenth groweth hard by the Thames, 
as you goe from a place called the Piuels Nee- 
kerchiefe to Redreffe, neere vnto a ftile that dan- 
dethinyour way vpon the Thames banke, a- 
mong the plankes that doe hold vp the fame 
banke. It groweth alfo in a ditch fide not farre 
from the place of execution, called Saint Tho- 
mas Waterings. 
$ The other varieties of this grow in wet 
places, about ditches, and in woods and fuch 
like moift grounds. 4 
The Time, 
Thefe heibes floure in Iune and Iuly,and oftentimes vntill Auguft,’ 
The Names. 
Lyfimachitijas Diefcoridcs and Pliny write tooke his name ofa fpeciall vertue that it hath in ap- 
pearing the ftrife and vnrulineffe which falleth out among oxen at the plough, if it bee put about 
their yokes : but it rather retaineth and keepeth the name Lyfimachiapi King Lyfimachtu the fonne 
of Agathocles, the firft finder out of the nature and vertues of this herb, as P liny faith in his 25 .book 
chap.y.vvhich retaineth the name of him vnto this day,' and was made famous by Era fifty at us . Ru- 
ellius ivriteth,that ir is called in French Comelle and Corneola ■■ in Greeke,Mww*« • of the Latines,Z.y- 
fimachmm : of Plmy,Ly,fi>isachi.i .- of the later Writers, Salicaria : in high Dutch, in En- 
glifli. Willow herbe, or herbe Willow, and Loofe ftrife. 
Chitmxnerium is called of Gefner, Evilobion : in Englifh,Bay Willow, or bay yellow herbe. 
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