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B. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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and oftentimes fomewhat nicked in the edges, leffer than thofe of the former placed out of order 
The Homes be either red or yellow , or elfe vvhitifh : the root is white, well bodied and full of ker’ 
nels. This plant is very full oflife: the ftalkes fet onely in clay continue greene a Iona time and 
if they be now and then watered they alfo grow. We haue a wilde kinde of Orpyne t ’o- row i n ’ in 
corne fields and fhadowy woods in moft places of England,in each refpetf like that of the mu-den 
failing that it is altogether leffer. ° ■ * 
The Placet 
They profper beft in (liadowie and ftony places, in old walls made of iome or Hone Onbafim 
faith That they grow in Vineyards and tilled places. The firft groweth in gardens . the Other eue 
ne where : the firft is much found in Spaine and Hungarie ; neither is Germanie without it • for 
it groweth vpon the bankesoftheriuerofRheneneere the Vineyards, in rough and ftonv daces 
nothing at all differing from that which is found in Spaine. ° ' ^ 3 
The fecond groweth plentifully both in Germany, France, Bohemia, England, and in other 
countries among vines, in old lomie daubed and ftony walls . 
f The Time. 
TheOrpynes floure about Auguft or before. 
%The Names. 
The firft is that which is called of the Grecians and .-..yw*,,, : of the Latines , Telephium 
and Sempervivumfykeftre, and lllecebra : bmlllecebra by reafon of his fharpe and bitino- qdalitfe 
doth much differ from it, as we haue declared in the former Chapter. Some there be that name it 
or Portulacafyltteftris : yet there is another Portnlaca fyli/cjlris, or wilde Purfiane like to that 
which groweth in gardens, but leffer: we may call this in Englifh, Spanifh Orpyne, Orpyne of 
Hungarie, or loynred Orpyne. 
The fecond kinde of Orpyne is called in fhops Craffula, and Crajfula Tabari a, and Craffr.U maior 
that it may differ from that which is defcribed in the chapter of little Houlleeke • it is named alfo 
Tab art a .• in high-Dutch, ^UtlDteaUt, fetiaUCtlfetaUt, f OJt Jtoatig, and jfotjtoepn t in Italian, 
Fe,te ■' in lcw - Dutch > Smtes toojtels, and kernel 
SwKtflJin Englifh, Orpyne; alfo I,iblong,or Liue-Iong. ' 7 
TheTemperature. 
The Orpyns be cold and dry, and of thin or fubtill parts, 
TheVertues. 
Vioftondes faith. That being laid onwith Vineger it taketh away the white morphcw : Gale* A 
faith the blacke alfo ; which thing it doth by reafon of the fcouring or cleanfing qualitie that it A 
hath. Whereupon attributed vnto it an hot facultie, though the tafte fheweth the contra- 
ry : which aforefaid fcouring facultie declared. That the other nvoalfobe likewife cold. But 
cold things may as well cleanfe, if drineffe of temperature and thinneffe ofeffence be ioyned to- 
gether in them. 1 
Chap. 14.7. Of the fmaller Orpjns* 
«' The Defcription. 
1 'T' hie Orpyn with purple Homes is lower and leffer than the common Orpyn : the ftalkes 
be flenderer,and for the moft part lie along vpon the ground. The leaues are alfo thin- 
hei and longer, and of a more blew greene, yet well bodied, Handing thicker below than aboue, 
confufedly fet together without order : the Homes in the tufts at the tops of the ftalks be of a pale 
blew tending to purple. The roots be not fet with lumpes or knobbed kernels, but with a multi- 
tude of hairy firings. 
2 This fecond Orpyn, as it is knowneto few, fo hath it found no name, but tjiat fome Herba- 
rifts do call it Telephium fempervivum or wens : for the ftalkes of the other do wider in winter, the 
root remained greene ; but the ftalkes and leaues of this endure alfo the fharpenefle of Winter; 
and therefore we may call it in Englid, Orpyn euerlafting, or Neuer-dying Orpyn. This bad 
Idler and rounder leaues than any of the former : the Homes are red, and the root fibrous. 
i 3 Clufiu-s receiued the feeds of this from Ferranto Imperato of Naples, vnder the name of 
Telephium 
