each of them ending in a long point, which maketh the flower feeme to have five leaves, having a round greenc i 
head in the middle, with a pricke or point at the end thereof: the flower is of a faire blew colour, in fome dee- l 
per or paler,or white as nature lifteth, without any fmell at all: the middle head after the flower is fallen.rifeth i 
to be a long round pod,bearing that pointell it had at the end thereof, wherein is contained fmall greenifh feede: : 
the roote hath many fibres, (hooting from a long round head or roote. There ft a letter fort hereof as Clujius \ 
faith, little differing in funder one from the other,but in the greatnefle or fmalneffe. 
The Place'. 
The firft groweth on our owne Sea coafts,in many places plentifully, as well as in other Countryes. The other ii 
groweth as well wilde in defert places,as in gardens in Syria, as Rauwoljius faith,as alfo on the coafts of the king- & 
dome of Naples, as Impsratw faith : the laft groweth on the fnowye hills in Hungary as C^ u fi HS faith. 
The Time . 
Ihe two former flower toward the end of Summer, and their feede is ripe in Auguflx the laft in the na- &• 
turall places flowreth not tintill Inly or Augufi , asthefnow meltethfooner or later, but in Aprill in Gardens, i, 
The Names. 
The firft is taken of all writers for the mod pare, to be the K 9 a.tea.rU ‘BraJJica marina of THofcorides, 
all the markes and notes thereof agreeing with this: yet it hath no refemblance unto any kindc of Cole wort, ,r: 
as the name fhould import, yet many authors doe call it BraJJica marina , as CMatthiolus, Cordtts , Gefner, Came* ± 
rarius , Dodon&us, and others, and fome of them alfo call it Soldana and Soldanella , as well as Label, Cajdlpinus, 
Tahermontanus, and others. Bauhinus calleth it, Soldanella maritina minor : we in Englifh doe call it by diverfe b 
name-, as fome call it Sea cole, according to the Latine name, others more properly in my Judgement Convoh/u - § 
lusmarinus , SeaIVithreindoor Sea Bindweedc, becaufe the branches winde themfelves, and tne flowers, arefo )c 
like the fmall kinde of Bindweede, and that it groweth naturally neere the Sea coafts,as alfo Sea Bells for the like- i* 
neffeof the flowers, and fome alfo call it Tujjilago marina. Sea Fole-foote, for the refemblance of the leaves.’ !, 
The other Rauwoljius calleth Brajfice marina genus, as it is extant in the Appendix of the great Herball of Lugdu - x 
ftenjis' and Imperatus calleth it, Convolvulus marivui nofier•• Bauhinus calleth it, Soldanella vel Brajfica maritime q 
major , and hath fet forth the figure thereof in his Lfrfatthiolus ; the laft is called by moft, Soldanella AIpina, and by tj 
fome Lunar id minor ccerulea, in Englijb Mountaine Soldanella, (but not Mount aine Binder? cede, as (jerardd. oth, be- > 
caufe it is no Bindeweede) or ellc Blew Lunary or Moonervort . 
The Vertues . 
The herbe and every part thereof zsDiofcorides faith, is an enemy totheftomacke, being fharpe in tafte, and '4 
openeth the belly very powerfully,and violently,and therefore not fit to be given,but unto ftrong and robuftuous ;|i 
bodies, and that boylcd alfo in the broth of fatmeate, to hinder the violence of its working : the decoftion in 
thereof with fome Rubarbe, is commended by fome to helpe the Dropfie and Tlmpanie, and the powder of the : > 
leaves with Rubarbe, and a few Cubebes drunke in wine, is of the like operation: the juyee alfo not prefled, ,il 
but :H 
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