XrIBE I. 
TheTbeater ofTlantes. 
3 . Caryophyllata Alp'ina minor. 
Small Mountaine Avens. 
Chap. 47. 537 
5. CaryoVbyRata moiitana, purpurea. 
Purple toouncaine Avens, 
7. CaryopbyHata PentaphylUa. Cinque-folic Avens. 
The Cinque-foile Avens hath the leaves thereof divided into 
five parts, like unto a Cinque- foile I cafe, dented about the edges, 
the ftalkes are about a foote high, having feme fuch like leaves 
thereon, at the joynts where it brancheth forth; at the toppes 
whereofftand pale yellow flowers, like the firft fort; but fmaller, 
With many yellower threads, foinewhat downy in tlae middle : 
the roote is compofed of many brownilli firings, fmelling fome- 
what like unto the former kindes. 
The 7 1 Uce. 
■ Thefirfi as I faid before, is found wilde in many places of this 
Realme, under hedge fides, and by the pathes in many field's, and 
delighteth rather to grow in fhadowy than Sunny places, yet is 
ufually brought into gardens to be at hand, to be ufed upon any Oc¬ 
eanian. The lecond is found upon divers Mountaines, as Coronas 
in Bihemia, by the Springs of the River Alb is, as CMatthiohts 
faith : upon Mans Baidas, is Pena faith, and in fome other places. ' 
The third and fourth upon Mount Baidas, as Bonn relateth, both in 
his Latine and Italian deferiptions thereof. The fifth and fixth 
grow by water fides, and in moiftand wet, or marifh grounds, on 
the Mountaines. Thelaft wasfbjjnd by‘T’ew* hard by Clatena 0 n 
the Rbstian Alpes in whereas he faith, hee tookc it 
for akinde of Cinque-foile orTormentill at thefirfi, untill by the 
fmell and colour of the roote, he judged it a kinde of Avens. 
The Time. 
Thefe doe flower in the monethsof May, and Iune,for the molt 
part, and their feed is ripe in Iuly at the-fartheft. 
The Names. 
It is generally called in Latine now adayes CaryophylUta and 
Garyophyllata, (for it is not found to be knownc to any of the an¬ 
cient Greeke or Latine Writers, except it bee Genm of Pliny, as 
moft of the later Writers doe confidently, and not without good 
rsafon fuppofe) from the feent of the roote, fo ncare rcfembling 
7 , CaryopbyUata Tcntaphilae), 
Cinqu--foile Avens. 
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