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L i b. j. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
r the French men,Mjcres : in Englifli it is named water Caltrops, Saligot, and Water nuts :moft 
| do call die fruit of this Caltrops, Cajlancx aquatiks, or water Chef-nuts. 
The Temperature. 
Water Caltrop is of a cold nature, it confiftethofarrioifteflence, which in this is more ware- 
il de than in the land Caltrops, wherein an earthie cold is predominant, as Galen faith. 
the yert ties. 
The herbevfed in manner of a pultis, as teacheth,is good againft all inflammations h 
r or hot fvvellings : boiled with honie and water, it perfedly healeth cankers in the mouth,fore gums. 
: and the Almonds of the throat. ' 
The Thracians, faith Plinie, that dwell in Strymona,do fatten their horfes with the leaues of Sa- B 
i ligot,and they themfelues do feed of the kernels, making very fvveet bread thereof, which bindeth 
!i the belly. 
The green nuts or fruit of Tribulus aquatic»s,oi Saligot, being drunke in wine, is good for them C 
'i which are troubled with the ftoneand grauell. 
The famedrunke in like manner, of laied outwardly to the place, helpeth tbofe that are bitten D 
'j withanyvenomousbeaft,andrefiflethallvenomeandpoifon. 
The leaues of Saligot be giuen againft a 11 inflammations and vlcers of the mouth, theputrifa- E 
[ (Sion and corruption of the iawes,and againft the Kings euill. 
A ponder made of the nuts is giuen to filch as piffle blond, and are troubled with gfauell, and f 
I it doth bind the belly very much. 
t The two lelfer water Caltrops here deferibed are in my opinion much agreeable in temper G 
j to the great one, and are much fitter Succidanea for it then Aron, which feme in the compofiti- 
j tm of Fngucntum t^efgrippx haue appointed for it. J 
Chap. Of water Sengreene, or frejh water Soldier * 
Militaris Aizoides. 
Frefh water Soldier. 
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The Defcription, 
TTRefh water Soldier or water Houfleeke, 
hath leaues like thofeof theherbe Aloe.oi 
Semper z’tvupt, but fhorterand lefter, fee round 
about theedges with certaine ftiffe and (horc 
prickles : amongft which eommeth forth di- 
uers cafes orhuskes, verie like vnto crabbes 
tlavves : out of which when they open grow 
white floures,confifting of three leaues, alto- 
gether like tbofe of Frogs-bit, hailing in the 
middle little yelloWifh thi'eds : in ftead of 
foots there belong firings. round,» hitc, verie 
like to great Harp-ftrings, or to long wormes, 
which falling dovvne from afhortfltead that 
brought forth the leaues, go to the bottom of 
the water, and yet be they feldome there fafte- 
ned : there alfo grow from the fame other 
firings aflope, by which the plant is multipli- 
ed after the manner of Frogs-bit. 
The Place. 
t I found this growing plentifully in the 
ditches about Rotfeya fmal village in Holder- 
neffle. And my friend M c . William Broad obfer- 
ned it in the Fennes in Lincolne-fhire. f The 
leaues and domes grow vpon the top of the 
water, and the roots are fent dovvne through 
the water to the mud. 
The Time. 
It floures in Iune,and fometimes in Align'd. 
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