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^So Chap.56. 
Theatrum Botaniam. 
Tri BE 
Iff [f: 
4. Salicornia five i(ali genicuintHtn* 
Io/mctl GlaflcvYorc, 
Kjilige- 
zicala- 
utm ru~ 
Irum, 
4. KaligtmcHlatUm five Salkmia. Ioynted 
Slaffewort: 
this joyntcd/vd/i rifeth up ufually, but with one upright 
round thicke,almofttranfparent ftalkc, afootehighor better, 
thicke fet and full of j'oynts or knots, without any leaves 
at all on them, but (Looting forth joynts, one out of another, y 
with fhort cods at the heads ofthem,and alfo fuchlike fmallerS 
branches on all (ides, and they alfo divided into other (mailer S 
ones; this is thought to beare neither flower nor fecde, the ' 
roote is fmall long and threddie. 
There are fome other kindes hereof found, differing a little 
in the forme of the j'oynts one from another, and one that is 
wholly reddi(li,not differing in any thing elfe from the forme 
of the other j’oynted ones. 
The Place '. 
The firft: groweth by the fea (ides, in divcrfe places both in 
Syria, Africa,Italy ,and Spainefis alfo in Provence and Arjuitaine 
or (jafcoignc ,where alfo they fow large fields theroflfor the pro¬ 
fit is made thereof! The fecond groweth not onely in thole 
places, but in other colder climates alfo, and not onely by the 
Sea, but by the Salt pits in Saxonie as Camerarins faith, and up¬ 
on our owne coafls likewife in many parts, efpecially of the 
Weft Countries; the third is more particular to Egypt as rAl- 
pintu faith, yet Cohtmna faith it is frequent on the Neapolitan t 
Weft (hore. The laft is generally growing among other Sea' 
plants,in all Countries almoft, and on our coafls in many places, 
as alfo in Saxony and other places of Cjermanyc, where there , 
are lakes of fait water, whereof they make fait. 
The Time. 
They all flourilh in the Sommer, and thofe that perifh give 
their feede in Augnjl and fometimes later: the laft abideth the 
^Winter. 
The Names. 
The name Kali ami firft from the later hrMamfls it is commonly thought (for Pena thinketh that none of 
the ancient writers either Greckes or Arabians■ have made any mention of them, or of their propertie to make 
glaffe,which was not made butof the alhes of this hearbjof the fame a(Les alfo made into a lye beirw bovled with 
oyle was ufed to be made our ordinary fope; out ofthefaid alhes alfo they extrafled a fait called^/ Kali nr 
Sal Alkali, fo much defired andufedby Chimijls ; for the herbe being dryed and burnt inoreat quantitieto°e 
ther, doth melt, and rnnnemto alumpeof ablackifli a(h colour, and is called by diverfe Jo* and of fome 
A lumen C a, '« am > or peradventure Calinum, onely by the alteration of one letter: and of the allies of anv of thele 
lierbes, but efpecially of the 3 former forts, beaten to powder and mixed with a certaine kind of fand the piaffe 
men by theheate of fire, in their fornace being molten, doe makethofe fine Ghriftall glaffes fcrviccable to 
dnnke in (but thofe other glaffe bottles, &c. which ferve to keepe Role water, and other diftillcd waters in are 
made of other things, as alfo that glade which ferveth for the Windowes of houfes) and from this olaffe while 
it is in the furnace a boyling and refining, rifeth a kinde of feumme, which they that tend die furnace doe dill 
gently takeof; and thisis called A xungiavitri, inFrench Suindeverre ; the fait of glaffe, and wee’in EnoliH, 
much thereafter Sandiver, and is indeed but the fait part of the aflics feparated by the fire from the reft of the 
molten fubftance, for it tafteth like lalr.and will relent,grow moyft.and confiime like falt,if it be not continually 
kept dry as it is: Of the allies of the Kali like-wife relented into a lye, and boyled with oyle of Ol ives thev of 
Spainepc. life to make a kind of hard fope towafli with, the one fort comming from Spaine See ; we call Caftle 
fope, another from Venice, &c. white or Venice fopejbutnow it being for the moft part (pent in making of piaffe 
there are found out other things fufficient, to make our ordinary fope .at a farre eafier and cheaper rate The firft 
is called of Lobel and Tena in their Sdverfaria, Kali magnum Sed, medii fotiisfemine cochleato - Matthiolm fand 
CafiorT) mantes following him in all things) in deferibing this kind confoundeth it with the laft, makiiip them 
feeme but one.G-amerarim nametli it Kali coehleatum majw, and faith it is that hmhyliis falfa , that lohanncsMaior 
doth mention in thefe Epitaphicall verlcs. J - 
Seiner is mafia, falfaejne Anthjllidis herb a 
JFormari fiimmis lucida vitra folent. 
Sic cinis ater eram, cineres nmc folvor in atros 
Sed nitidtm [ammo corpus babebo die , 
. calleth it K «li majus cochleato femine. Ccfalpinus S alfoU genus in hortis, and is generally called of moft 
a n a i W1 e e “ ?T eth J 4 r :the ftcond is ufually called Kali album, & in French as Tena faith 
diltinftlon irom the former: it is alfo called minus for the fame canfe,& is ufually called in Italy where it eroweth 
*?f ! ,‘ tlS veryhkelytobeA^yffir Chamapitj fimilitof Cor das, in his Annotations upon B lofccridl, and is 
likely alfo to be the Anthydoides ot Tbahus in his Harcyniafylva,Bauhmiu calleth it Kali minus villofum- the third 
IS the third fort of Kah ,y£gjpt,Km with Prof per A/pinus, becaufe it is more proper to Egypt than to other places 
as he thinketh: Bauhims calleth it KalnAigiptiaciim folds valde Unfit hirfntis. The laft is called of mod writers 
Kali 
