Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
8xo 
Lib. x. 
dent, but Idler : on the other foot-ftalkes ftand prettic white floures, confiding of flue fina'llleaues 
apeece, hailing a little yellow in the middle thereof. 
3 T^jmphaaalha minor. 
The finall white Water Lillie. 
5 Nympbaa lutea minima. 
Dvvarfe Water Lillie. 
4 The trnall yellow water Lillie hath a little threddie root, creeping in the bottome of the water, 
and Jitperhng it fclfe tar abroad : from which rife fmall tender ftalkes, fmooth and foft , whereon 
do grow little bu lkier Ieaues like the laft defcribed : lrkewife on the other fmall ftalke ftandetha 
tuft of many floures Jikewifc flotingvpon the water as the others do, f: This hath the floures larger 
than tholeof the next defcribed, wherefore it may be iitly named Nymphax lutea minor flore am- 
plo r % 
5 This dvvarfe water Lillie differeth not from the other fmall yellow water Lillie,fauing that, 
that this kindehath fharper pointed Ieaues, and the whole plant is altogether lefler, wherein lieth 
t>'e difference, f rhis ha h the floures much leffe than thofe of the laft defcribed, wherefore it is 
fitly for diihimftion lake named Nymph&a lutea minor flore par no. £ 
f The Place. 
Thefe herbes do grow in fennes, Handing waters, broad ditches, and in brookes that run flowly, 
and fometimes in great riuers. 
^ The Time. 
They floure and flourifh mod of the Sommer moneths. 
_ 41 The Names. 
Water Lillie is called in Greeke : and in Latinealfo Nymphaa,{o named becaufe ltloues 
to grow in waterie p!aces,as Diojco- ties faith : the Apothecaries call it Nenuphar: of i^4ptdeius,Ma- 
ter H ■rcula»ia,Algapabt/lris ) PapitKer p duJfre,Clavus veneris find Digitus veneris : Marcellusa very old 
writer reporteth,that it is called in Latine Claua Hercutis: in French, Badittm : in high Dutch, 808^ 
t in low Dutch,|^l0!Jipcn J in Engliih, Water Lillie,water Rofe. 
The Temperature. 
Borh rhe root and feed o! water Lillie haue a drying forcewithout biting. 
The Vertues. 
A Water Lillie with yellow floures floppeth Iaskes, the ouerflowing of feed which commeth a- 
way by dreames or otherwile.ajid is good for them that haue the bloudie flix. 
But 
