The true Glaux or Milkwoortgroweth ve- 
ry plentifully in fait places & marlhes neere 
the fea, from whence I haue brought it into 
my garden, where it profpereth as well as in 
his natiue foile. I found it efpecially be- 
tweene Whitftable andthelfle of Thanet 
in Kent, and by Grauefend in the fame coun- 
tie, by Tilbery Block-houfe in Effex, and in 
the ifle of Shepey, going from Kings ferry to 
Sherland houfe. 
5J The Time. 
It floureth in May, and the feed is ripe in 
Iune. 
•IJ The Name. i. 
The names haue beene fufficiently fpo- 
ken of in the defcription. It (hall fuffice to 
call it inEnglifh, Sea Milkwoort. 
5f The Tint lire. 
Taulus Acgineta faith, tt is hot and moifl of 
temperature. 
51 The Vcrtnes. 
This Milkwoort taken withmilke,drinke, 
or pottage, ingendereth ftore of nrilke, and 
therefore it is good to be vfed by nurfes that 
want the fame. 
Chap. itfc?. Of tSX'ftlf-woort. 
liiii 
The Defcription, 
1 nr Here haue beene many plants neerely refembling Tolygalaya nd yet not the fame indeed, 
, which doth verihe the Latine faying, NuBum fimile eft idem. This neere refemblance 
doth rather hinder thole that haue fpentmuch time in the knowledge of fimples, than increafe 
their knowledge. And this alfo hath been an occalion that many haue imagined a fundry Polyra- 
Avtito them fclues, and fo of other plants. Ofwhich number, this (whereof I l'pcake) is one, obtai- 
ning this name of thebeft writers and herbariffs of our time,defcribing it thus. It hath many thick 
fpreadtng branches, creeping on the ground : bearing leaues like them of flcrniaru, Handing in 
rowes like the Sea Milkwoort • among which dogroiv fmall whorles,or crownets ofwhite floures 
the root being exceeding fmall and threddie. 
2 The iccond kinde of Polygala is a finall herbewith pliant (lender Hems, ofawooddie fub- 
ftapce,4nhandfull long, creepingby thegroundjthe leaues be fmall & narrow like to Lintels, or 
littleHyuope. file floures grow at the top.ofa blew color, fafhioned like a little bird, with wings 
tai i_, and bodie,eafietobe difeerned by them that doe obferue the fame : which being pall, there 
fucceed fmall pouches, like thole of Burjapajlorisjout lefler.The root is fmall and vrooddie 
■ ^ j^"^j S o 1 r < ^^*ndeof Polygalaot Milkewoort,hath leaues and ftalkes like the lall before men- 
tioned,anil differeth from it herein,' that this kinde hath flnaller branches, and the leaues are not fo 
thicke thruft together, and the floures are like the other, but that they bee of a red or purple co- 
, 4 .1 * le f ourt ^ kinde isdike the Iaft fpoken of in etiery refpechbut that it hath white flouresio- 
thervvi feit is \ cry like. 
y Purple Milkevvoort differeth from the others in the colour of the floures-it bringeth foorth 
Jleth the'differ • ic" ^ prcccdcnr;l and t!:ie floures are of a P llr P Ie coIoi,r i vv herein efpecially confi- 
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