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inhishiftory of plants, callcth it Hepatica alba. Gefner'm ColieftioHcJHrpiumVm folium paluflre ,, callerh ir 
P*™# hederaceum recentiornm, Tabermontanus Gramen hederaceum and J 7 w A«4«w. The ocher is caU 
led by Lobcl Cjramen Parnajfi auplicatoflore. r 
The Virtues. 
Paulm faith that P«rr«pu graffe.is temperately cold, of thinne parts, and fomewhat fowre, the juice 
ju jj C ’ 0r u the j c , oc ^ 1 ? n thereof,or of the rootes,doch dilfolve and expell flones and eravell from the reines 
and bladder gathered therein,and provoketh urine aboundancly; and the feede thereof taken in powder, wor¬ 
ked! more forcibly then either the herbe or roote, and withall doth flay any vomitings from the ilomacke, and 
any nuxe of the belly, the decoftion ofthe rootes made with wine, being drunke,doth eafe torments and griping 
parncs in the bowels, and thenlcers that are in the bladder, ithelpethalfoagainft the biting of any venemous 
Dealt, the juice of the herbe or roote is good to coole any inflammation or heate in the eyes,to dry up the running 
or watering in them^and to cleare them from miftinefle or cloudy skinns, that obfeure the fight, it it be mixed 
with a little hony ana dropped into them : it is held alfo efle&uall to eafe the toothache, being gargled in the, 
mouth : the herbe, or roote,or feede, either the juice, dccodlion or powder, is very effectually applyed to clofe 
up greene wounds, that are much fubj'edl to bleeding, and reflrainech inflammations that may difeafe the party* 
or hinder the cure. J r 
Lacbryma lob. lobs Tares. 
Chap. VII. 
Lachryma lob. lobs TeareS.” 
Have thought good to place this plant in a Chapter by it felfe, and not with the kindes of 
Grom el, becaufe it differeth fo much from them in growing, becaufe the feede doth neareft re- 
femble them:and although divers Authors have thought it rather to be a kind of graffe or reed, 
and therefore have placed it among them; yet I cannot finde it agree with either of them, more 
than in the jointed, ftaikes, and leaves, which in my judgement, is not fo fulficient a marke, 
to make it of that kinred, but as Columna faith, the flower and feede efpecially of plants, 
_ . . doth belt demonflrate to what genus every Jpecies may be referred. It fhooteth from a 
thicke bufhie threddy roote, many reafonable thickeround jointed ftaikes, about a foote and a halfe high, 
whereon at every joint ftandeth one narrow long, great 
leafe, fomewhat like unto the leafe of Millet, or a fmall 
Recde, rather Handing upright, than at any time bending 
downe; and at the joints with the leaves commeth forth 
one graine or feede, of the bigneffe of a good Peafe, wrap¬ 
ped m fome hnskes, round a; the bottome, and pointed at 
the end,whereathangeth two or three fmall chaffie huskes, 
or beards as Pliny calleth them, fomewhat like unto fmall 
lanke fliorteares of corne, which are idle having nothing 
within them.'the feede it felfe,being taken out of the skins, 
wherein it was wrapped, is fomewhat like unto a Gromel- 
ieede, but much larger, brighter of colour, and harder to 
breakc, round yet pointed at the one end, fomewhat flat 
alfo, and with an hole at the bigger and lower part, where 
it flood upon a little fhort foote flalke; the tafle whereof 
being broken, and having but lictle kernell within it, is a 
little drying without any other manifefl tafle. 
The Place. 
This groweth naturally in the lies of Candy and Rhodes , 
in Syria alfo and thofe Eaflerne Countries, but nowhere 
elfe in Europe junleffe it be planted as it is faid. 
The Time. 
It groweth {lowly In our countrie, and feldome giveth 
ripe feede for the want of fufficient heate ofthe Sunne to 
ripen it, before the frofls doe take it. 
7 he Names. 
It hath beehe judged as l faid before by former Authors, 
to be a kinde of fleede, and therefore Gefner in hortis Ger- 
manir, calleth it Arundolythofpermos ,and fo did Adatthiolus 
account it, & f -und fault with Fufchius, that tooke it to be a 
kinde of Lythojpcrmon, as Tragus, CJe/her^wd divers others 
who called it Lyihofpcrmummajus. Pena and Lobel in their 
A aver [aria, doe call it Lythofperirum PI nianum fivemajus , 
and doe very probably referre it to the Lythojpermon of 
Piny, Ub. 27 . cap. 1 1 . ( which hee there callcth TNoJpiros, 
1 0 vis tnt.atm, which name is not fo proper unto ir, as 
k’hn inithe leaves hereof, are more like unto the blades of corne)bnt not of Diofcmd's, 
\ hotnthedefcriptton^confoundeththemboth together, but in that he faith, the feede is of the bigneffe of a 
diich is our Gromell 
- - . . _ „.-Jf ufually called Lct- 
vhentney nrfl had it called ic fijnply Lagrima • and fince every feverali 
countrie. 
