Of the Htllorie of Plants, 
L ! B. 2 
The Kinds. 
B vrnetofwhich we will intreat, doth differ from Pimpineffa, which is alfocalled Saxifraga. One 
of the Burners is leffer, for the moft part growirg in gardens, notvyithftandieg it groweth in 
barren fieldcs, where it is much lmaller; the other greater, isaltogitherwilde. 
The Dcfcriptiort. 
t s~~\ Arden Burnet hath long Ieaues made vp together ofa great many vpononefiem,cuc- 
Cjry one whereof is lbmething round, nicked on the edge's, fomw hat hairie.-among thelei 
rifeth a ftalke that is not altogether without Jeaues, fomethirg chamfered : vpon the < 
tops whereof grow little round heads or knaps, which bring forth fmall floures of abrowne purple i 
colour, and after them cornered feeds, which are thruftvp together. The root is long : the whole i 
plant doth fmell fomething like a Melon, or C ucumber. 
2 Wilde Burnet is greater in all parts, ithath widerand bigger leauesthan thofeofthe for- ' 
mer: the ftalke is longer, fometimes two cubits high : the knaps are greater, ofa darkc purple co-> 
lour, and the feed is likevvife cornered and grtatcr-the root longer, but this Eurr.et hathnopleafant 
fmellatall. 
t j There is kept in fome gardc-ns another of this kinde, with very large Ieaues, ftalkes, and, 
heads, for the heads are fomc inch and halfe long, yet but (lender conf dering the length, and tha 
bouresfas I remember) are ofa whitifh colour: in other refpedls it differs not from the precedent:* 
it may fitly be called Pimpincl/afaxguiforba hortenfis maxima ^ Great GardenBumet. p 
The Place. 
The fmall Pimpinellis commonly planted in gardens, notwithflanding it doth grow wilde vp-! 
on many barren heaths and paflures. 
The great wilde Burnet groweth(as Ml.lyte faith) in dry medowes about Viluord, and my fclfc 
bane found it growing vpon the fide of a cattfey which crofleth the one halfe of a field, whereof the 
one part is earable ground, and the other partmedow, lying between Paddingtonar.d Lyffon green 
neere vnto London , vpon the high way. 
f : 7 he Time. 
They flourc from Iune,vnto the end of Auguft. 
^ The Names. 
The later herbarifts doe call Burnet Pimpinella fanguiforha^ that it may differ from the other, and, 
yet it is called by feuenrll names, S anguiforbajind S anguimria : Ccfptr had rather it fhould becalledi 
Peponella of the fmell of Melons or Pompions,to which it is like,as we haue laid :ofothers it is na- 
med Pimpinella, or BipenmU: of moft mCn,Sol6afire/la : in High Dutch, &0lblC3ltrailt, l)Et (EOtSS 
®attUn,2SUltUtmit.nifgelhra»t:in French, Pimpennelle,Sanguifcrbe: in Englifh, Burnet. It agreeth 
cum altera Diofcondis Sidcr it ide ; that is to fay, with Die (cor ides his (ccond Iron-woort:the leafe (and 
efpecially that ofthe leffer fort)which we haue written to confift of many nicks in the edges of the 
Ieaues ; and this may be the very fame which Pliny in his 2 4book,chapter iy.reporteth to be named 
in Perlia, Si/fitieptens, becau fe it made them merry • he alfo callerh the fame Protomedia , and Cafig- 
ncta, and likevvife Dionyfienymphasjor that it doth maruelloufly agree with winejtowhich alfo this 
Pimpinella(as we haue faid)doth giue a plcafant fent : neither is that repugnant, that Pliny inano-: 
tiler place hath written, Dc Sideritibus, ofthe Iron-woorts ; for it often falleth out that he intrea-: 
.tethofoneand the felfe fame plantindiucrs places, vnderdiuers namesnvhich thing then hapneth! 
foonei when the writers them (elites do not well know the'plant, as that pltny did not well know Si- > 
deritis or Iron-woort,it is eucn thereby manifefl, becaufe he fetteth not downe his owne opinion; 
hereof, but other mens. 
The Temperature. 
Burner,bcfides the drying and binding facultie that it hath, doth likevvife meanly coole.-and the 
leffer Burnet hath likevvife withall a ccrtaine fuperficiall,lleight,and temperate fent, which when 
tt is put into the wine it doth leaue behind it : this is not in the dry hetbe,in the mice, nor in the 
decotffion. 
If ^e Vert ues. 
A Burnet is a fingular good herb for wounds (which thing Diofcorides doth attribute to his fecond , 
Ironwoort)and commended ofa number : it ftancheth bleeding, anti therefore it was named San-. 
gmforba,a% well inwardly taken, as outwardly applied. 
B Either the mice isgiuen.or thedecoflionof the ponder ofthe drie Ieaues of theherbe, beeing 
bruifed,it is outwardly applicd,or elfe put among other cxtcrnall medicines. 
C It ftaieth the laskeand bloudy flix: it isalfo moft effedluall to flop the monthly courfe. 
D The letter Burnet is plcafant to be eaten in fallads,in which it is thought to make the heart mer- 
ry and glad, as alfo being put into vvine,to which it yeeldeth a certaine grace in the drinking. 
The 
