534 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. 2. 
The Place. 
Rocke Sampler grovveth on the rockie cliffes at Douer, Winchelfey, byRie, about South- 
hampton, theIfleofVVight,andmoftrockesabouttheWeftand North-weft parts aboutEng- 
land . 8 
The fecond groweth neerc the Sea vpon the fands,and Bayche between Whitftable and the Ifle 
of Thanetjby Sandwich,and by the fea neere Weftchefter. 
The third groweth in the myrie marfh in the Ifle of Shepey,as you go from the Kin<?s Ferrie to 
Sherlandhoufc. 8 3 ' 
The Time. 
Rocke Sampier flourifheth in May and Iune, and muft be gathered to be kept in pickle in the 
beginning of Auguft. 
«J The Names. 
Rocke Sampier is called in Greekc.V. .• in Latine, Crithmum : and of diuers, Bath in fome 
fliops ,Creta marina • of Petrus Crefcemui, Cretamum^ and Rincummarinum : inhmh Dutch 
fenchel : which is in Latine, Fanilulum marimmpt Sea Fenell : in Italian, Fenoccho rnarinoH&a 
diStn Pietro • and hereupon diuers name it Sampetra .• in Spaniih, Perexil de U mer,Hmoio marino Fe 
nelmmn : in Engliili, Sampier, and Rocke Sampier,and of Tome, Creftmarine • and thefe bee ’the 
names of rhe Sampier generally eaten in fallads. 3 
The other two be alfo Crithma or Sampiers, but rnoft of the laterwriters would draw them to 
fome other plant : for one calleth the fecond Paftinaca mar inapt faa Parfnep,and the third teller 
atticus mannta-pnA Lobcl names it chryf.wthtmum Lmorenm: but we had rather entertaine them as 
Matthiolus doth ,among the kindes of Crithmum, or Sampier. 
The Temperature. 
Sampier doth drie,warme,and fcoure,as Galen faith. 
The Virtues. 
A The Ieaues,leeds, and roots, as Diofcorides faith, boiled in wine and drunke,prouoke vrine and 
womens fickneffe,and preuaileagainft theiaundies. 
B The leaues kept in pickle, and eaten in fallads with oileandvineger,is apleafant fauce for meat 1 
wholefome for the ftoppings of the liner, milt, kidneies and bladder : it prouoketh vrine gently - it 
openeththeftoppingsoftheintraIs,andftirrethvpanappetitetomeat.: • ' 
C Ic is the pleafanteft fauce, mod familiar, and beft agreeing with mans bo Jy,both for digelfton 
of meats, breaking of the ftone,and voiding of grauell in the reines and bladder. 
Chap. 155. OfCjlajJe Saltwoort. 
The Defer iptio». 
1 Z'"'* Laffewoort hath many groffe, thicke and roundftalkesa foot high, full of fat and 
thicke fprigges, fet with many knots or ioints,without any leaues at all,of a reddifh 
greene colour. The whole Plant refemblctha branch of Corall, The root is very 
fmall and Angle. 
2 There is another kinde of Saltwoort, which bath been taken among the antient Herbarifts 
for a kinde of Sampier. It hath a little tender ftalke a cubite high, diuided into many fmall bran- 
ches, fet full of little thicke leaues very narrow, fomevvhat long and fharpe pointed, yet not prick- 
ing ; amongft which commeth forth fmall feed, wrapped in a crooked huske,turned round likea 
crooked perwinkle. The ftalkes areof a reddifh colour. The whole plant is of a fait and biting 
tafte. The root is fmall and threddie. 
t 3 There is likewife another kinde of Kali, whereof Lobel maketh mention vnder the name 
of Kali minus, which is like to the laft before remembred, but altogether Ieffer,f hauing many Ren- 
der vveake branches lying commonly fpred vpon the ground, and fet with many fmall round long 
fharpe pointed leaues, of a whitifh green colounthe feed is fmall and fhining,not much vnlikethat 
of Sorrell : the root is flender with many fibers ; the whole plant hath a faltifh tafte like as the for- 
mer. Dodott. cals this Kali album, f 
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