Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants; 
$ 3 SoldandU Alpha minor. 
Small Mountaine Bindweed. 
t 3 Then; is of this kinde another ha- 
iling all the parts frnaller,and the leanes redder 
and rounder : the floures alfo blew, and compo- 
sed ofone leafe diuided into fine parts,and luc- 
ceeded by a longifh cod, round and /harp r ,om- 
ted. f 
The fir ft grows plentifully by the Sea Chore 
inmoft places of England, efpecially nc ere to 
Lee inEflex,at Merfey in the fame countie, in 
The fecond grovveth vpon the mountains of 
Germanie,and the Alpes- itgrowcth vpon the 
nrountains of Wales, notfarfrom Covvmers 
Mearein North-Wales. 
The/eherb?s do floure in Iune, and are°T- 
thered in Augult to be kept for medicine. 
The firft called SoldandU is of the Apothe- 
caries and the Antients called Marina brajpca ; 
that is to (ay, Sea Co'evvoort ibutwhatrealbn 
hath moued them fo to doe I cannot conceiue,vnl e (Te it be pemirie and fcarfitie of names and be 
caufe they know not othenvile how to terme it : of this I am fure,that this plant and braSica are no 
I more like than things which are moft vnlike ; for brafica Marinah the Sea Colewoort which doth 
t much referable the garden Cabbage or Cole, both in fhape and in nature, as I haue in his due place 
exprelfed . A great fault and ouerfight therefore it hath been of the old writers and their fuccef- 
l fors which haue continued the cuftome of thiserror,not taking the paines to diftinguifh a Binde- 
R tveed from a Cole-woort. But toauoid controuerfies,the truth is,as I haue before Chewed that this 
5 Soldmetta is a Bmdeweed,and cannot be efteemed for a brafica, that is a Colewoort The later Her 
i bands call it Soiling and SoldandU : in Dutch, ZertJOttjD, that is to fay, Convolnulm UUarinus • of 
J V’ofcondcs (0 Brfca Marina : in Englifli.Sea VVithwinde, Sea Bindweed,Sea-bels , 
I Sea-coaIe,of Come, Sea Fole-foot, and ScottiCh Scuruie-grafle. 
The fecond is called SoldandU montana : in EngliCh,Mountaine Bindweed. 
51 Thcl Mature. 
SeaBindewced is hot and drie in the fecond degree : the fecond is bitter and very aftrinfent. 
| SoldandU purgeth downe mightily all kinde of watrifh humours, and openeth the {toppings of a, 
J the Iiuef, and is giuen with great profit againft the dropfie; but it muft be boiled with the broth 
oi lome fat meat or flcfh,and the broth drunkest elfe die Iierbe taken in ponder worketh the like 
I cireiix. 
j _ SoldandU hirrteth the ftomack,dnd tijoubleth the weake and delicate bodies which doe receiue it B ' 
in ponder, wherefore admee muft be taken to nhix the Laid ponder with Annife feeds. Cinnamon 
ginger, and fitgar, which fpices do cofred bis malignitic. 3 
Practitioners about Aufpuige and Rauifpurge(cities of Germanic) do greatly boaft that they C 
Iiaue done wonders with this herbe SoldandU «m«fawa ; faying,that the leaues taken andernplaiftred 
vpon the nauell and fomewhat lower draw forth water from their bellies that are hydroorike 
I that is, troubled with water orthe dropiie : this effed it worketh in other parts without heating ' 
It doth alfo wonderfully bring fiefhin wounds, and btaleththem. 
Diofcoridcs witnefleth, that the whole herbe is an enemie to the flomacke.bicing and extremely 
• P ur g ln S (uoth fodden,and taken with meat)and bfingeth troublefome gripings thereunto and 
1 “oth oftentimes more hurt than good. 
t My friend M r . Coodyer hath told me, that in Hamplhire at Chichefter and thereabout they F 
' ’ nakc v e ° us for Scuruie-grafle, and that not without great erroar, as any that know the quali 
: tics mayeafily perceiue. 1 1 
Chap. 
