IB. 1. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
107! 
Cnfit Ga/li. 
The Place. 
, It groweth in drie medoives and failures, 
U and is to them a great annoiance. 
% The Time . 
It floureth moll part df the Sommer. 
The Name!. 
It is called in love Dutch l&atclCB, and 
dBCCletSatCleni commonly in Latine, C.nfta 
Galli, and GaHinnea Cnjla : in Englifh, Cox- 
combc, Penie grafife, yellow or white Rattle : 
in High Dutch it is called gefl jftobe! •• in 
French Crefle de Coc : diuers take it tone the 
old writers Aleflorolophos. t Some thinke it 
to be the Mimmulus :ot as others (& that more 
fitly) readc it, Nnmmulm, mentioned by Plimi 
lib. 18 . cap. i 8 ■ $ 
fl The temperature and Verities. 
But what temperature or vertue this herbe ^ 
is of, men haue not as yet beene carefullto 
know, feeing it is accounted vnprofitable. 
tcdicularis. 
Loufewoort,or red Rattle. 
Chap. 4^7. Of red %attle } or 
Lcufewoort. 
«] 7 he Vefcription, 
R Ed Rattle (of Vodon.tus called Fiftularia i 
and according to the opinion &cenfure 
of Carols Clujius,Pena & others, the true 
Ale cl or 0 ophos) hath very fmall, rent, or tagged 
leaneSjOf a browne red colour, and weake, fmall 
and tender ftalkesjwhereof fome liealong trai- 
ling vpon the groundjwithin very moorilli me- 
dowes they gtow a cubit high and more, but in 
moift and wet heathes, and Rich like barren 
grounds not abotrean handful high:the flourcs 
grow round about the ftalke,from the middell 
thereof euen to the top, and are of a brown red 
Colour, in fhape like the flourcs of dead Net- 
tle: which being part, there fucceed little flat 
pouches,wherin is contained flat and blackifh 
feed, in fhew very like vnto the former:the root 
Is fmall, white, and tender. 
T^r Place. 
It groweth in moifland moorilli m'edowes, 
the herbe is not nnely vnprofitable, but alfo 
hurtful], and dn infirmitie of the medoives. 
The Time. 
It is found with his flourcs and ftalkes in 
May and Iune. 
tp The Names. 
It is called in Greeke in High Dutch, 
ilBiaiWUoBdlinLatinejPr^Vw/ar^oftheelFeA, becaufe it filleth flieep and Other cartel that feed 
in medowes where this groweth full oflice: diuers of the later Herbarifts cal 1 it FifhUrhrof fome, 
iCrifla Gain • and diuers take ic to be Mimmulus herba ; inEnglifh, Rattle-grafle, Red Rattle-gulfe, 
and Loule-woort. ^The 
