Lib. z . Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
tome Herbarifts haiie called S anicula alpina flon rubro . the Ieaues fhoot forth in the [Winning Q f 
the Spring, very thicke and fat, and arc like a purfe or round lumpe at their firfi comm^'- out of 
the ground ; and when it is fpred abroad, the vpper part thereof is fill of veines or finewes'Vnd ho- 
uenvp or curled like Ranunculus Lufitanicus ,or like theermnp ling of a cabbage leafe ; and an ■ not 
onely indented about the edges, but each leafe is diuided into fix or more iagges or cuts, decpelv 
hacked, grecnifhaboae, and of an ouerworne greerie colour vnderncarh,hot in tafte ; from die mi/ 
die whereof fhooteth forth a bar or naked ftalke, fix inches long, fomewhat purplein colour be i 
ring at the top a tuft of fmall hollow floures, looking or hanging ddwncwards like little bells not 
vnlike 111 forme to the common Covvflips,but of a fine deepe red colour tending to purple, hauinn 
in the middle a cettaine ring or circle of white, and alfocertainepointals or firings, which mine 
into an head wherein is contained feed. The whole plant is couered as it were with a rough wont 
linefle : the root is fibrous and threddy. 
f The Place. 
Thefe plants are ftrangers in England ■ their natural! countrey is the Alpifh mountains of Hel- 
uetia : they grow in my garden, where they flourifh exceedingly, except Butterwort,which grow- 
ethin our Englifh fqually wet grounds, and will not yeeld to any culturing or tfanfplantin^ • it 
grovveth efpecially in a field called Crag-Clofe, and at Crosby, Rauenfwaitb, in WeftmerJand 
vpon Ingleborovv fels twelue miles from Lancafter,and in Harwood in the fame countie neere to 
Blackburnc, ten miles from Prcftoniii AundernefTevponthebogsand marifh grounds and in the 
boggiemedowes about Bilhops Hatfield ; and alfo in the fens in the way to Wittlesmcare from 
London, in Himtingdonfhire. f Itgroivethalfoin Hampfhire,and aboundantly in many places 
of Wales. 4 ; t 
The Time. 
They floureand flourifh from May to the end ofluly.- 
If The Names. 
The firft is called S anicula guttata, taken from the fpots wherewith the floures are marked : ofZtf- 
helfiettm Alpimm, making it a kind of Auens : in Englifh, lpotted Sanicle : of our London dames' 
Pratling Parnell. * 
The fecondis called Pinguicula, of the fatnefle or fulnefleof the leafe, or of fatning: in Yorke- 
fhire, where itdoth efpecially grow, and in greateft aboundance,it is called Butterworts Butter- 
root, and white root ; but the Iaft name bclongeth more properly to Solomons Seale. 3 
The T emperaSurc and p'ertues . 
They are hot and dry in the third degree. 
_ The husbandmens wines of Yorkfhiredovfe td anoint the dugs of their kine wlththe fat and 
oilous iuyceof the herbe Butrerw.ort,vvhen they are bitten with any venomous worme,or chapped, 
rifted, and hurt by any ocher meaneL 
They fay it rocs their flieepe, when for want of other food they cat rhereof. g 
Chap. Z77. Of Fox-(j tones. 
<jj TheDeJcription. 
1 r^Ox-gloue With the purple flotire is moft common • the Ieaues whereof are long, nicked in 
L the edges, of a light greene,in manner like thofe of Mullein, but lefler, and not ibdownie : 
the ftalke is rtvaight, from the middle whereof to the top ftand the floures , let in a courfe 
one by another vpon one fide of the ftalke,hanging downwards with the bottome vpward,in forme 
long, like almoft to finger ftalks, whereof it tooke his name Digitalis, ofa red purple Colour, with 
certaine white fpots dallit within the floure ; after which come vp round heads, in which lies the 
feed, fomewhat browiie, and as final I as thatofTime. The roots are many flehder firings. 
2 The Fox-gloue with white floures differs not from the precedent but in the colour of the 
floures ; for as the others were purple, thefe contrariwife are of a milke-white colour. 
3 Wchaue in our gardens another fort hereof, which bringeth forth moft plcafant yellow 
floures,and fomewhat lefle than the common kinde, wherein they diffe r, t This alfo differs from 
the common kind in that the Ieaues are much fmoother,narrOwer,and greener, hauing the nerues 
vrines running alongft it, neither are the nerues fnipr,nor finuated on their edges. if 
4 We haue alfo another fort, which we call Digitalis ferntgiiied, whofe floures are of r! 
lour of rufty iron ; whereofit tooke his name, and likevvifc maketh the difference. 
fort (here is a bigger and a lefler 5 the bigger hath the lower Ieaues fome foot 1 .g,< fa da: >.r .ux,i 
colour, with veines running along them • the ftalks are fome yard and halfe high . t he Sou: as la ; . 
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