• IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The Names. 
It is called in Greeke ■. in Latine alfo Anagallis „• of diuers, (as Pliny reporteth) Cor dm us 
blit vntruly : of MarcelLus ano\& Writer, Macia-^ the word is extant in T>ioj'corides amon" the ba- 
fiard names. That with the crimfon floure, being the male, is named Phosnicion^ and (porallion ■ of 
this is made the compolition or receit called Diacorallion , that is vfedagainft the gout- which 
composition P nulm tAigmeta letccth downe in his feuenth booke. Among the baftard names it 
hath beene called A'etitis, tAigitis, and Sauritis : in Engliflr, Red Pimpcrnell,and blew Pimpernel, 
^ The Temperature. 
Both the forts of Pimpernell are ofa drying facultiewithoi.it biting, and fomewhat hot witha 
certaine drawing quality, infomuch that it doth draw forth fplinters and things fixed in the flefb 
as Ga/f»writeth. 3 . 
•(J The Vertues. 
Diofcoridcs writes. That they are bf power to mitigate paine, to cure inflammations or hot fwel- , 
lipgs, to draw out of the body and flefti thornes, fplinters , or lhiuers of wood.and to hebe the 
Kings Euill. r 
The iuyee purgeth the head bv gargarifing orwafhingthe throat therewith ; it cures the tooth- 1 
ache being fnift vp into the nofethrils, efpecially into the contrary nofethrill. ’ 
It helpeth thole that be dim flighted : the iuyee mixed with honey cleanfes the vlcers ofthe eye 1 
called in Latine Argcma. 
heart s >rC ° Uer he aff,mieth ' That k is 8 ood a S ainft the Ringing of Vipers , and other venomous 1 
It Pteuaileth againft the infirmities of the liner and kidneyes, if the iuyee be drunk with wine I 
Headdeth further, how it is reported, That Pimpernel with the blew floure helpeth vp the funda ’ 
ment that is fallen downe , and that red Pimpernell applied, contrariwife bringeth it downe 
• HAP. 
1 95* Of c Brooke4ime ) or Water Timperncll. 
«[ 7 he Defer iption. 
I TARooke-lime or Brooklem hath fat thicke ftalkes, round, and parted into diuers bran- 
I J ches : the lcaues be thicke, lmooth, broad, and of a deepegreene colour. Thefloures 
grow vpon fmall tender foot-ftalkes, which thruft forth ofthe bofome ofthe leaues, of 
a perfeiT blew colour, not vnlike to the floures of land Pimpernell : the root is white,low creepin 0- , 
with fine firings failned thereto : out of the root fpring many other ftalkes, whereby it greatly en- 
crealeth. - 1 
$ There is a leflervarietie pi this, which our Author fet forth in the fourth place, differing 
not from this butonely in that it is Idle in all the parts thereof , wherefore I haue omitted the hi- 
ftorie and figure, to make roome for more confpicuous differences . 4: 
a The great water Pimpernell is like vnto the precedent, failing that this plant hath (harper 
pointed or larger leaues, and tnc floures are ofa more whitifh ora paler blew colour, wherein con- 
fifteth the difference. 
t Thereisalfoa leflervarietie of this, whole figureand defcription our Authourgauein the 
next place •, but bccaufc the difference is in nothing but the magnitude I haue made bold to omit 
3 Now that I haue briefely giuen you the hiftory of the foure formerly deferibed by our Au- 
thor, I will acquaint you with two or three more plants which may fitly be here inferted : The firft 
of thefe Lolelc alls Anagallis aquattca tertia • and therefore I haue thought fit to giue you it in the 
lame place here. It hath a white and fibrous root ; from which arifetha round fmooth ftalke a 
foot and more high, (yet I Irf^p fometimes found it not aboue three or foure inches high:) vpon 
the ftalkes grow leaues round, grcene,and firming, (landing not by couples, but one aboue ano- 
. tiler on all (ides of the ftalkes. The leaues that lie on the ground are longer than the reft, and are 
in fliape fomewhat like thofe ofthe common Daifie, but that they are not fnipped about the ed- 
ges : the floures are white, confifling ofone leafe diuided into flue parts ; and they grow at the firft 
as it were in anvmbel, but afterwards more fpike faflrioned.lt floures in Iuneand Inly, and grow-* 
eth in many waterie places, as in the marifhes of Dartford in Kent, alfo betweene Sandwich and 
Sandowne caftle, and in the ditches on this fide Sandwich. Btmhine faith, That GuilUndinm called 
(foffletimes Ahfma, and otherwhiles Cochliaria : and others would haue it to be Samslum of Pliny, 
fob . 2 j . cap. r i . Bauhine himfelfe fitly calls it Anagallis aquatics folio rot undo non crenato, 
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