Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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colour, fpotted on the infide with white, and of a brighter purple than the reft of the floure, fafhi- 
oned like the fmalleft Antirrhinum , or leaft Snapdragon ; which being pali there fucceed litrle 
feed veflels, fafhioned like the nut of a crollebovv, which containe fmall yellowifh feed cxtrcarne 
bitter of tafte. The whole plant is likewife bitter, as the common or well knowne Gratiela. The 
root is compact of a great number of vvhitifh firings, entangled one within another, which mi- h- 
tily encreafcth and fpreadeth abroad. 
t This plant is onely alelferkindeofthe Lyfimachiagakriculata of Lobell, which fome haue 
called Granola htifolia . our Authors figure was very ill, wherefore I haue endeauoured by the 
helpe of fome dried plants and my memory to prefent you with a better expreffion thereof. $ 
«[ The Place. 
The firft groweth in low and moift places naturally, which I haue planted in my Garden. 
$ The fecond was found growing by my oft mentioned friend M 1 '. Bowles at Dorchefter in Ox- 
ford fh ire, at the backe fide of theenclofed grounds on the left hand of the towne, if you would 
ride from thence to Oxford in the graffie places of the Champion corne fields, f The third 
groweth likewife in moift places. I found it growing vponthe bog or marrifh ground at the fur- 
ther end of Hanip Head heath, and vpon the fame heath towards London, neere vntotheheadof 
the fpiings that were digged for water to beconueiedto London, 1 590. attempted by thatcare- 
full citizen lohn Hart Knight, Lord Major of the City of London : at which time my felfe was in 
his Lordlhips company, and viewing for my pleafure the fame goodly fprings, I found the faid 
plant, not heretofore remembred. 
f Ti( Time. 
The firft floureth in Mayithe fecond in Iune and Iuly:the third in Auguft. 
% The Names in gener all. 
Hedge Hyffope is called in Latine Gratiola, and GratiaDci,or the Grace of God -,nctiwithftan- 
ding there is a kind of Geranium, or Storkes bill,called by the later name. Of Cord»s,Eimneftum,and 
Centauroides ; of Angttillaria it is thought to be Viofcorides his Papauer fpumeum,or Spading Poppy : 
but fome think Papauer fpumeum to be that which we call Behen album dm Dutch it is called <f 5 ohtjS 
gtaftetin Italian, Stanca a»a//ff,becaufe that horfes when they haue eaten thereof do wax leane 
and laiwuifh thereupon : and in Englifh, Gratia Dei, and Hedge Hyffope. The feed hereofis cal- 
led Gellcncch, which name the Arabians retainevnto this day. 
t Names in particular. 
t I Matthiolus, D odor iu s and others haue called this Gratiola ; AnguiUara, Gratia Pei ■ Ctrdus, 
Limnefmm^C ent auroides ; he alfo thought it but vnfitly to be the Eupatorcum of Mefue • Gefncr thinks 
itmay be Polemoninm p.ilujlre amarum oiHippocrates, that write ofthe difeafes of cattell. f 
2 Cordns called this Grafle Poley - y Gefner, Gratiola minor -.C amerarius , Hylfopotdes .-»nd Bauhine, 
Hi ftp! fib 4. 
3 This is not fet forth by any but our Author, and itmay fitly be named Lyjimachia galericu- 
lata minor , as I haue formerly noted . X 
«|j The Temperature. , 
Hedge Hyffope is hotand dry of temperature. And the firft is onely vfed in medicine. 
TheVertues. 
A W ho fo taketh but one fcruple of Gratiola brufed,fhall.perceiue euidently his effedluall opera- 
tion and vertue,in purging mightely,and that in great abundance, waterifh, groffe,and (limy hu- 
mors. Conradus Gefncr us experimented this, and "found it to be true, and fo haue I my felfe and 
many others. 
£ Cr4ti(j/aboiled,and thedecoftion drunkeor eatenwithany k/nde of meate, in manner ofa fal- 
lade,openeth the belly, and cauleth notable loofenesyand to fcoure freely, and by that meancs pur- 
geth groffe flegme and cholericke humors. K • 
q G'atiola or Hedge Hyffope boiled in wine and giuen to drinke, helpeth feuers of what fort fo- 
cuer, and is mod excellent in dropfies, and fuch like difeafes proceeding of cold and watery 
D The extra&ion giuen with the powder ofeinamon and a little of the juice of Calamint,preuai- 
leth againft tertian and quotidian feuers, fet downe for moll certaine by the learned Itachtmus Ca- 
me rarius. 
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