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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Li b.2. 
Synanchica Ltig.p. 1185. 
ChbwJ^cu 5 The root is crooked,blackilh without, yellow vnderneath the skinne, white within that and 
n j wooddie ; about fine or fix inches long, with many hairy firings : from the root arife many foure- 
fquare branches trailing vpon the ground, fometimes reddifh towards the root : the leaues 
are fmall and fharpe pointed, like thofe of Gallium , and grow along the ftalke,on certaine knees or 
ioints,foure or fiue together,fometimes fewerifrom thofe ioints the ftalkdiuideth it felfe towards 
the top into many parts, whereon grow many floures, each floure hauing foure leaues, fometimes 
white, fometimes of a flefh colour,andeuery leafeofthefe flefh coloured leaues is artificially ftra- 
ked in the middle, and neere the fides with three lines of a deeper red, of nopleafant fmell: after 
which commeth the feed fomething round, growing two together like ftones. It floureth all the 
Sommer long, and groweth in drie Chalkie grounds aboundantly. Auguft 13, 1619, lohn 
Goodyer. t 
% 6 Lob el thus deferibes this Dwarfe 
Madder : there is another (faith hee) which I 
gathered, growing vpon Saint Vincents rocks 
not farre from Briftow : the leaues are of the 
bignelfe of thofe of Rupture-woort, fharpe 
pointed, and growing after the manner of thofe 
of Madder, vpon little creeping ftalkes,fome 
inch and halfe high, whereon grow yellowilh' 
fmall floures. The root is fmall,and of the co-’ » 
lour of Corail. $ 
The Place. 
Madder is planted in gardens, and is verie, 
common in moft places of England. Mafter 
George Bowles found it growing wilde on Saint 
Vincents rocke; and out of theCliffes of the 
iockcs at Aberdovie in Merioneth fhire. 
The fecond groweth in moift medowes , in 
moorifh grounds, and vnder bufhes almoft euel 
rywhere. 
3 This grows by the lea fide in moftplaces. 1 
t The fourth growes onely in fome few 
gardens with vs, but the fifth may bee found 
wilde in many places : I found it in great plen- 
ty on the hill beyond Chattam in the way to 
Canturburie. £ 
Cf The Time. 
They flourifb from V ay vnto the end of Auguft : the roots are gathered and dried in Autumnc, 
and fold tothe vfe of Diets and Medicine. 
«[ The Names. 
Madderis called in Greeke ipS ; T.rythrodmirn in Latine, Pubia^nA Rubeia : in fhops, lUt- 
bia tmclorum : Paulies ^Egineta fheweth that it is named Thajifon which the Diers vfe, and the Ro- 
manes call it Herb a Rtibia : in Italian Rubbia, and Robbia : in Spanifh, Rtivia, Roya , and Gran%a : in 
French ^Garance : in high Dutch, IftOtte : in low Dutch, <J@ee,and Q§ZZ Ctflppeniin Englilh, Mad- 
der, and red Madder. 
The Temperature . 
Of the temperature of Madder, it hath beene difputed among the learned, and as yet not confu- 
ted, whether it doe binde or open ; fome fay both; diners diuerfly deeme:a great Phy fition(I do not 
fay the great learned,' cal led me to account as touching the faculties heereof, although hehad no 
commiffion fo to doe,notwithftanding I was content to be examined vpon the point, what the na- 
ture of Madder was, becaufe I hauc written that it performeth contrary effedfs, as fhall be lliewed: 
the roots of Madder, which both the Phyfitions and diers doe vfe, as they ha ue an obfeure binding 
power 
f 6 Rubia minima. 
Dwarfe Madder. 
