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fain fmali long huskes, haTfe way riling above the toppesof 
them, after which come fmali feede in long horned veflels, 
;i the roote is fmali and full of threds. 
4. Alia flori Centaur ex minoris jtmilisfolio majore. 
Another with fmali Centory like flowers. 
I have fecne in M r . Thomas pemble his garden at Maribone a 
!. fort that was more fpreading than the former forts, fmali but 
, with larger leaves and flowers than Centory, and of the fame 
D colour of the Centory flowers, yet more plentifully ftored 
i and longer lading; the plant perilling as the other. 
5. Gentianella Centaurex minoris folio minor 0 
A fmaller Gentian with Centory leaves, 
i This fmali Gentian is very like unto the Iaft, in the fafhion 
i and order of the leaves, but that they are fomewhat fmaller, 
ii and the ftalke much lower, being not above three inches high, 
Li yet ftored with many fmali branches, whereon are let long 
(3 and fomewhat large blew flowers, very like unto the lefler 
f Vernall Gentian, after which the feede and veflels being ripe 
jj (hew to be like the laft: the roote is like wife fmali, but with 
1 many more fibres thereat then others. 
6 . Gentianella. minima elegantijfima Tdavarica Camerarij. 
Other excellent forts of Autumne fmali 
Gentians with Centorie like leaves. 
l The greater of them fpreadeth fundry branches upon the 
I ground,fet full of fmali Centory like leaves,but a little pointed, 
and at the toppes of each, an orient blew flower made of five 
leaves. The other is even the fmalleft of all, with fmali round 
leaves (which the cutter hath perverted ) and Starre-like blew 
flowers like the laft. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth in many places of Germany , and other 
places beyond the feas,as alfo in divers places of our o wne land, 
as neare Longfield by Cjravefend^ neare Greenehithe and Cobham in 
Kent, in the fields about Sir Percivall Harts houfe at Lelling- 
fone in Kent , and in a chalkie pir, not farrefrom Dartford in 
-Kc** hard by a Paper Mill, in the Weft Country alfo in divers 
places: it groweth as well in wet as in dry grounds. The fecond groweth on the hills in Naples, as Cohmna faith. 
Thethirdgrowethin/Gwt in divers places, as about Southfleete and Long-field upon the Downes, as alfo upon 
hills in ZJ^for^j^upon a peeceofwafte Chalkie ground, as yeegoe out of Dunftable way, towards 
Gorkambury, and not farre from the ruines of the old Cittie Verulam, which is not farre from Saint Albones : the 
fourth is not knowne from whence it came : the fift upon divers of the Alpes : and the laft according to the title 
in Bavaria. 
The Time . 
Tbefe flower for the mod part not untill Auguft, and that is later than the former, and therefore defervedly 
have the name of Autumne Gentians. 
The Names. 
The firft is fet downe by CMatthiolus, Lobel , Cordws filujius and others; fome under the name of Gcntiana mu 
virna , as CMatthiolus • fome Pneumonanthe , as Cordm and Lobel j fome Calathiana viola x as Cjejner in hortii Ger - 
mania ; fome Campanula Autumnalis as Dodonxw, and of A ugdunenfs Campanula praterfis : the fecond Columns 
onely mentioneth by the name of Gentianellacxruleafmbriata angufHfolia autumn alls. Bauhinw calleth it Gen* 
tianella exude a oris pilojis: the third is the tenth Gentian of Clufrus y and called by Eyflotenjis horti author Gentian 
nella autumnalis foiijs centaurea minoris fiore cxruleo. Lobel calleth it Gentiana minima.Bauhinus Gentiana angnfti - 
folia autumnalis floribm ad later a pilojis: the fourth is not mentioned by any before : the fift is the eleventh fmali 
Gentian of Clufius : the laft is called by Camcrar\w y Gentianella elegantijfima Bavarica- t Bauhinw referreth it to 
the Gentiana verna Alpina i : I to the Calathiana verna Talcchamptj of Lngdanenfis • but that (famerarivu faith it 
flowreth in Autumne. • 
The Vertues. 
The greater Gentians are more ufed in Phyficke with us then the fmaller, although they be neare of one pro- 
pertie, and almoft as effe&uall both inwardly and outwardly, and in the places, where the fmaller are in plentie 
to be had, and the greater not fo readily to be gotten, they doe very well ferve in their ftead. They are by their 
bitterneffe fo available againft putrefaflion, venomneand poyfon, the plague alfo or peftilcnce, being a mod 
certaine and fure remedy, that the Cjermans account it their Treakle, holding nothing to be a more commodious 
counterpoifon, and for this purpofedid formerly make a Treakle therewith and other things, at Jena which was 
tranfpoi ted into our country, and we thereupon called it lent Treakle, made of Gentian ^Arifiolochia^ Bayberies 
and other things, which were all good, wholefome, and efFeftuall for griefes and paines in the ftomacke, and 
an efpeciall medicine againft the infection of the plague, to expell the malignitie of that, and all other infectious 
difeafes, and to preferve the heart, to ftrengthen it alfo againft faintings and fvvounings; which Treakle was bit¬ 
ter, and therefore the more likely to workethefe, and other good effe&s; but that tearfe Treakle, which hath 
Cnee crept into the place of it among the vulgar ,becaufe it is fweet and pleafant; is for that caufe greedily fought 
after, and for the cheapened, of moft forts of poore people defired, but there is nothing in it, that can doe them 
good, nor hath beene found to helpe them ofany difeafe, being nothing but the droffe and worft part of Sugar 3 
