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t The firft and fecond grow vpon the Sea 
coaftsof Spaine and other hot countries L and 
the third growethin the fait marifhes neere the 
fea fide, as you paffe oner the Kings ferrey vnto 
theifle of Shepey, going to Sherland houfc(be- 
longing fornetime vnto the Lord Chany , and in 
theyeare i 590, vnto the Worfhipfull S'. Edward 
Bobby) faff by the ditches fides of the fame rna- 
rifh: it groweth plentifully in the ifleofThanct 
as you go from Margate to Sandwich, and in ma- 
ny other places along the coaft. The other forts 
grow vpon barikes and heapes of fandon the Sea 
coafts of Zeeland, Flanders, Holland, and in like 
places in other countries, as belides the Ifle of 
Purbccke in England ■ and on Raucn-fpurne in 
Holdernefle, as 1 my felfe haue feene. 
« The Ti me. 
Thcle flourifli and floute efpecially in Iuly 
and Auguft. 
The Names. 
Sea Purflane is called Porlulaca 'JMarina In 
Greeke, it is alfo called in Latine Halimus 
in Dutch, ^Bojceietjtie : in EngliflijSea Pur- 
flane. 
The baftard ground Pines are called of foine, 
Chamcpitys virmiculata ; in Englifh, Sea ground 
Pine : Lor more fitly, Tree S ton-crop, or Pricket, 
or Shrubby Sengreene. L 
The Temperature. 
Sea Purflane is (as Galen faith) of vnlike parts, but the greater part thereof is hot in a rncane, 
with a moifture vnconco£ted,and fomewhat windie. 
5[ TheVertues. 
The Ieaues (faith Diofcsridcs) areboyled to beeaten :a dram weightof the root being drunke 
with meadc or honied water, is good againft crampes and drawings awrie of finewes,burftings,and 
gnawings of the belly : it alfo caufeth Nurfes to haue ftore of milke. The Ieaues be in the^Low- 
countries preferued in fait or pickle as capers are, and be ferued and eaten at mens tables in Head 
of them, and that without any miflike of tafte, to which it is pleafant. Galen doth alfo report,that 
the yong and tendi r buds are wont in C ilicia to be eaten, and alfo laid vp in ftore for vfe. 
L clufitu faith, That the learned Portugal Knight Damianw a Goes allured him, That the Ieaues 
of the firft deferibed boyled with bran, and fo applied, mitigate the paines of the Gout procee- 
ding of an hot caufe. 
t The figure that was formerly giuen by our Author bvthecitleof ‘TortuUctt marina, nnd is fetforth by Tabcrn. vuder the fame name, ij cither of none of thefc 
plants, 01 elic it is vnpcrfc&. "Biuhtne knowes not what to make of it, but queftions, j ^utd fit ? 
Chap. 150. 
Of Herbc-Iuy , or Grounds ine. 
5T TheBefcription. 
T He common kinde of chamxpitys or Ground-Pine is a fmall herbe and very tender, cree- 
ping vpon the ground, hailing fmall and crooked branches trailing about. The Ieaues 
ping vpon t 
be fmall, narrow and hairy,in fauourlike the Firre orPine tree- but ifrny fencefef fmelling be per 
fedt, me thinkes it is rather like vnto the fmell of hempe. The floures be little, ofa pale yellow co- 
lour, and fomtimes white: the root is fmall and Angle, and ofa wooddy fubftance. 
f 2 The fccond hath pretty ftrong foure fquare ioynted ftalkes, brovvne and hairy-, from 
which glow pretty large hairy Ieaues much clouen or cut : the floures are of a purple colour , and 
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grow about the ftalks ityoundles like thedead Nettle :the feed is black and round, and the whole 
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plant fiiuoureth like theTormer: L which flievveth this to be fitly referred to the chamtpnis , and 
not tobe well called Cbamxdrysfamina, or lagged Germander, as feme haue named it. L 
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