The Place. 
They grow by riuers Tides, fmall running brookes, and waterie ditches. The yellow Pimpcr- 
nell I found growing in Hampfted wood neere London, and in many other woods and copfes. 
The Time. 
They bring forth their floures and feed in Iune, Inly, and Align ft. 
- TAc Names. 
Water Pimpernel is called ^tnagallisaqtuitica: of moll, Bccabunga, whicl| js borrowed of the 
Germane word 13acljpUngl)Cn t mloiv-Dutch , ffimfcpUtighen t in French, Berk ; whereupon 
fome do call it Bertila : notwithftanding Marcellus reporteth, That Bcrula is that which the Greci- 
ans call or rather Creffes : it is thought to be Cefaa ; that is to fay, of the garden ; which Di- 
cfcorides writeth to be like vnto Purflane, whereunto this Brook-lime doth very well agree. But if 
it be therefore faid to be »™*«, becaufe it groweth either onely or for the riioft part in gardens, this 
Pimpernel or Brook-lime (hall not be like vnto it, which groweth no where leffe than in gardens, 
being altogether of his owne nature wilde, defiring to grow in waterie places, and inch as be con- 
tiiiHal^'ouerflowne : in Englifh the firft is called Brooklime,and the reft by no particular names • 
but wiTma"^ call them water Pimpernels, or Brook-limes. 
- «H Thc T emfer attire. 
Brook-lime is.of temperature hot and dry like water Cre(£s,yet not fo much. 
. The Vertues. 
•- Brooke-lime is eaten in fallads as Water-Crefles are,and is good againft that w. •■*.!.*>» of 
fuch as dwell neere the Germane feas, which they call ^cilCtbUPCfee: or as we terme it, che_ Scur- ■ 
uie, or Skirby, being vied after the lame manner that Water C idles and Scuruy grade is > icd,\et 
is it not offo great operation and vertue. . 
The herbe boylcd maketh a good fomentation for fwollen legs and the drofpfie. 
The leaues boyled, ftrained,and ftamped in a (lone morter with the ponder of Fenugrcek,Line- 
feeds, the roots ofmarilli Mallowes,and fome hogs gteafc,vnto the forme of a cataplafme or pu'- 
teffe, taketh away any fwclling in leg or artne 5 wounds aifo that arc ready to fall into apoft u nati- 
on it mightily defendeth, that no humor or accident fhall happen thereunto'. 
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