■ y^z Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
midft of which hands a little white flottre parted alfo into fine; after which fuccted pretty 'large 
Iced vcfTLls which containe an vnequall red feed like that of Prim roles, but bigger : the root is bu- 
gle and flender, and dies as foon as the feedisperfeaed. It growes naturally in diuers places of 
An(tria,and amongft the corne about the Bathes of Baden whereas it floures in Aprill and ri- 
pens the feed in May and Iune. f r 1 
«l The P Lice. 
Jndrof.ee will not grow any where but in water: great ftore of it is about Frontignan by Mont- 
pellier in LanguedoCjWhere euery fiflier- man doth know it. ° 1 
The fecond groweth vpon old Hone and m ud walls : notwithftanding I haueThe more to grace 
Maithiolw great icwell) planted it in my garden. ^ v b 
The Time. 
Thebaftard Jndrcf.ce floureth in Inly, and the feed is ripe in Aitguft. 
The Thames. 
Jndrof.ee is ol fbme called Vm'jihcus marinus , or fea Nauell. 
t The fecond is knovvne and called by the name of Androfce altera Matthioli. + 
The Temperature. 
The fea Nauell is ofa diureticke qualitie, and more dric than Galen thought it tobe, andlelfe 
hot than others haue deemed it : there can no moifture be found in it. 
«[ T he Venues . 
A Sca Nauelvvoort prouoketh vrinc, and digefteth the filthincfleand flimincflc gathered in the 
loints. 
B Two dra ms of it, as Diofcoactcs faith, drunke in wine, bringeth downe great ftore ofvrine out of 
their bodies that haue the dropfie, and maketh a good plaiftcr to ceafe the pame of the gout. 
Rhodia radix. 
Rofe-roo 
^ h a p. 155. u / JfojcAVoort, or Jfojc 
fcart «. 
nrcrtLcU-. 
U The Dcfcriplion. 
-jj — *- *-j vr 
R Ofewoort hath many fmall,thicke,and fai 
ftems, growingjfpm a thicke and knobbj 
root: the vpper end of it for the moftpari 
ftandeth out of the ground, and is there of a pur- 
plilli colour, bunched & knobbed like the rool 
of Orpin, with many hairy firings hanging ther- 
at,ofa pleafant fmell when it is broken, like the 
damaskc rofe, whereof it tookc his name. The 
leaues are fet round about the ftalks,euen from 
the bottome to the top, like thofe of the field 
Orpin, but narrower, and more (hiptabout the 
edges. The floures grow at the top ofa faint yel- 
low colour. 
*[ The Place. 
It groweth very plentifully in the North pari 
of England, efpecially in a place called Ingle- 
borough Fels,neere vnto the brookes fides, and 
not elfew here that I can as yet finde out, from 
whence I haue had plants for my garden. 
The Time. 
It floureth and flourifheth in Iuly, and the 
feed is ripe in Auguft. 
The Names. 
Some haue thought it hath taken the name 
Rhedta ot the Ifland in the Mediterranean fea, 
called Rhodes : butdoubtlelfe it took his name 
Rhodia radix, oi the root which fmelleth like a 
role:in Engli(h,Ro(e-root ; and Rofe-woort. 
The Vertues. 
mlu re a\ :Ic , cxt ^ c rhe fa c ultics ofR°fev v oorc bur this I haue found,tb a t if the 
rootbe ftamped with one 01 Rofes and laid to the temples of the head, it ; afeth the paine of the 
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