L I B. 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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I Polygonum mas vulgarc. "fhe Names. 
Common Knot-grafle. 
Knot-grafle is called of the Grecians 
va.tiyrn : that is to fay, Polygonum mas , or 
Male Knot-grafle : in Latine, i eminalis,Sangut 
naria : of Columella, SangninaUs : in fhops cen. 
tumnodia , and Corrigiola : of A fulems,Proferpinx . 
ca : in high-Dutch,SpoagDjJ>t : in low- Dutch, 
<2tohCIJ0 gtaS, and ©utffCtJt ftIJOp : in Itali- 
an, Polygons : in Spanifh, Corf tola : in French, 
Renouce : inW allon, Marielaine de Cure : in En- 
glifh, Knot-grafle , and Swines grafle : In the 
North, Birds tongue. 
The Temperature. 
Knot-grafle (as Galen teacheth) is of a bin- 
ding qualitie, yet is it cold in rhe fecond,if not 
in the beginning of the third degree. 
ThcVertucs. 
The iuyee of Knot-grafle is good againft j\ 
the fpitting of blond, the pilling of blond, and 
all other iffues or fluxes of bloud,as Brafanolns 
reporteth : and Camcrarius faith he hath cured 
manywith the iuyee thereof, thathaue vomi- 
ted b!oud,giuen in a little ftipticke Wine. It 
greatly preuaileth again ft the Gonorrhaa , that 
is, the running of the reines, and the vveaknefle 
ofthebacke commingby meanes thereof, be- 
ing fhredand made intanue with egges and 
eaten. 
Thedecoiftion of it cures the difeafe afore- B 
faid in as ample manner as die iuyee : or giuen 
in ponder in a reare egge it helpeth the backe very much. 
The herbe boy led in wine and hony cureth the vlcers and inflammations of the fecret parts of C 
man or woman, adding thereto a little aIlom,and the parts wafhed therewith. 
Diofcondes faith that it prouoketh vrinc, and helpeth fuch as do pifle drop after drop , when the D 
vrine is hot and lharpe. 
Iris giuen vnto Swine with good fuccefle, when they are (Icke and will not eate their meate • £ 
whereupon the countrey people do call it Swines grafle and Swines skir. 
Chap. 171. Of fundry forts of Knot'Cjrafes. 
•ft The Defer iption. 
1 ''T' He fnowie white and leaf! kinde of Polygonum or Knot-grafle, called of (p/nfus.Parony- 
1 chiaHi/jianica, is a ftrange and worthy plant tobehold, handle,and confider,although it 
be but fmall. It is feldome abouea foot long,hauing fmall branches, thicke, tough, hard,and full 
of ioynts - out of which the leaues come forth like fmall teeth, lefler than the leaues of Berm aria, • 
oxThymumtenuifoliinn. At the top of the ftalkes ftand moft delicate floures fraroedby natureas 
it were, with fine parchment leaues about them, handing in their Angular vvhiteneffe and fnowie 
colour, refembling the perfeft white Alke, fo many in number at the top, and fo thicke, that they 
ouerfhadow the reft of the plant beneath. The root is (lender, and of a wooddy fubftance. The 
feed is couered as it were withchaffe, as it were with chaffe, and is as fmall as d uft, or the motes in 
the Sunne. 
2 x-Anthyllis of Valentia, being likevvife a kinde of Knot-grafle, hath fmall leaues like 
e xigtia, or rather like Chamafyce, fet orderly by couples at the ioynts : among which come floures 
confiding of foure little whitifh purple leaues, and other fmall leaues like the firft but altogether 
lefler. The root is fmall, blacke, and long, and ofa wooddy fubftance. 
t Our Author, though he meant to haue giuen vs the figureof Knawell in the third place , as 
may be perceiued by the title, yet he deferibed it in the fourth, and in the third place went a cut 
