6 The fixth Milke-wort is like vneo the reft in each refpeft, failing that the floures are of an 
ouerworne ill fauoured colour, which maketh it to differ from all the other of his kinde. 
Thefe plants or Milke-worts grow commonly 
in euery wood or fertil pafture whetefoeuer I haue 
trauelled. 
5J The Time. 
They floure from May to Auguft. 
5J The Names. 
Milke-wort is called by Do donates, Flos Arnlmi- 
alis ■, fo called becaufe it doth efpecially flourifh 
in the Croffeor Gangweeke, or Rogation iveekej 
of which floures the maidens which vie in Ills 
countries to walkethe Procefllon doe make them- 
felues garlands and nofegaies : in Englifh we may 
call it Crolfe-floure, Proceffion-floure , Gang- 
floure,Rogation-floure, andMilkewort, of their 
vermes in procuring milke inthebreftsof nurfes. 
Hieronymus Tragus, is alfo Diofcorides calleth it Po- 
lygalon. j Gefner calls this puck fios ; and in his 
Epiftles he nameth it •Luimarella : it is vulgarly 
knownt in Chcaplide to the herbe-vvomen by the 
name of Hedge-Hyffop • for they take it for Gra- 
nola, ot Hedge-Hyflop,and fell it to fuch as are 
ignorant for the fame. X 
•ft The Vertues. 
Galen , Diofcorides, and T heophrajlu-s doe account 
thefe for Milkeworts, and that they may without 
error be vfed for thofe purpofes vvhereunto Gltmx 
ferueth. 
t I doubt that this is not the Polygalon of Dio- 
„ , ,, . , . . , , ... fcorides ; for Gr/wraffirmes that an handful hereof 
fleeped all night in wine, and drunke m the morning, will purge choler effectually by ftoole with- 
out any danger, as hehimfelfe had tried. X 
C H , 
m r 
170 . Of Kjtot'CfraJfe. 
5 T The Dcfcription. 
1 T^ eco ™ m ° n nwjf Knot-grafle creepes alongvpon the ground, with long flenderweake 
1, 1, u , ranc . ics full of knots or ioynts,whereofittooke his name. The leaues grow vpon the 
weake branches, like thofe of 1 fmall S .Iohns wort, but longer and narrower. The floures are mar- 
uellouslittlejandgrowoutof theknots, o fanherby colour, in their places come vp triangular 
Teed. The root is long,flender,and full of ftrings. 1 6 
f nP riJ hef T ft n ^ thatit is altogether lefTer, wherein e- 
ro o^t the figure^ ^ dlfference - * Becaufe th e difference is.no otherwife,I hane thought good 
nlarnc Ir f e , Auth ° rs ° f the dduer far ia mention another larger Knot-graffe which growes in diuers 
rhoft of t C ° 3 n ° ft le Med,terranean fea, hailing longer and larger branches and leaues , and 
S r??!" 8 * 1 '. The feeds grow at theioyntsin chaffie white huskes . and the 
cy iso a fait andaftringent tafte. They call it Polygonum marinum maximum, X 
Tt, r v rr . IT T ^ e Mace. 
ie e not-graues do grow in barren and ftony places almoft euery where. 
T , . n , _ ThcTime, 
They arein floure and feed all the Sommer long. 
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