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countrie, hath added another epithkethereunto:for the Spaniards call it Lagrymade Adpfen- the French Vdrmeede 
no fire Dame : the Germane s Lachryma I odors ^ as Gefner faith. Lagduneufn calleth it Lythofiermam arntid-.naccum, 
and Tauhinw Lithofpermumarundiesaceurnforte THofroridis & Tlinij, an CeixTheopbraftitlib.i cap. iff hislcria 
flantarum■ we in Englifh follow the titles,of almollall Nations; for fome call it lobs Teares ? Torre Mafes Teares, 
or Jobs Droppes, ot Mofes Droppe; Chrifts Teares, our Ladies Teares, and fome Gtomell reede according to 
Gefner his Latine. 
The Venues. 
It is of little ufe in Phyfickethat we can underhand in the natnrall places, or where it may be had in more 
plenty than with us; yet (bme as fradand Lobelfocj doe commend it,either in powder or the decoftion thereof, 
againft the hone or gravell in the kidnies and bladder : but beyond fea, the greatell ufe they make of it, isol the 
feede, to perforate and firing them, as other things for beades, to flint God with their prayers, and tell him how 
many they mumble upon them,and are fure that they have done him fo good lervice therein, that he mult needs 
give them heaven for it. 
2 . Lithofpermumvulgare maj-'i. 
1 ht greater creeping G.cmclh 
Ghap. VIII. 
Lithofyermurri. Gromell. 
Here are divers forts of Gromell found out and knowne to this later age, more than was to the for¬ 
mer, and there are alfo fome others that are fomewhat like them, and therefore joyned unto them, 
although they participate with other plants: of them all I meane to fpeake in this Chapter. 
I. Lithojpermxmmajtu erettumefr legitimnm. Great upright Gromell. 
The great Gromell rifeth up with divers upright, (lender -wooddy, hairy, browneand crefted 
flalkes, very little or not branched at all, whereon doe grow without order, long, hard, rough, and darke 
greene leaves/{harper pointed and fomewhat longer and narrower than the next : at the toppesofthe (hikes 
ftand divers fmall white flowers,in rough trowne huskes,wherein after they are pall, is containeeba white hard, 
ftony, round, (hilling feede, like unto Pearles and greater chan the next: the roote is long a id harder fomewhat 
wooddy, with divers branches and fibres thereat, which perifheth not, although the (hikes die downe to the 
ground every yeare. 
2. LithoTfermummajusfive vulgar e. The greater creeping Gromell. 
This kind of Gromell groweth up with llcnder hard and hairy (hikes, trailying and taking roote in the ground 
as it Iyeth thereon, and parted into many other fmaller bran¬ 
ches, with liich like hairy darke greene leaves, but (liorterand 
broader than the former: at the joints with the ieaves come 
forth very fmall blew flowers, and after them fuch like hard 
ftony roundifh feede, but (mailer and not fully fo white and 
Hiining : the roote is like the former, abiding the Winter, and 
(hooting forth flalkes frefli in the Spring, but giveth more 
plenty of feede, then the former, yet letter than the firft. 
3. Lithofjsermum minus vulgaris. 
Small wilde Gromell. 
The fmall wilde Gromell fendeth forth divers upright 
hard branched flalkes, full of j'oynts, to be two or three 
foote high, at every ofwhidi joints grow fmall long hard, 
and rough leaves, lette than the laft, and of a darke greene co¬ 
lour, among which leaves come forth (mall white flowers, 
and in their places when they are paft, grayifh round feede 
like the other, the roote is not v ery long, but with many fibres 
fattened thereto. 
4. Litho Therm um anguftifolium wnbellatum. 
V mbelliferous Gromell. 
This Gromell (preadeth fundry wooddy rough flalkes, yet 
eafie to breake,fp ead into divers branches about halfea foote 
high,with many very narrow rough leaves fet on them with¬ 
out any order, the middle ribbe in them being fomewhat 
great; the flowers (land at thetoppes of the branches, and 
fome times from the upper j*oynts, divers being fee together as 
it were in an umbell which confift of five fmall round pointed 
leaves of a blew colour or rather being long and hollow are 
parted and cut into five parts fet in rough greene huskes, 
wherein after the flowers are paft growth ufually two white 
and hard long and pointed feedes fet together: the roote is 
hard and wooddy covered with a brownifh red barke. 
5. LithoTfermum Ancbttfe facie . 
Sm all Gromell with tufted toppes. 
This fmall Gromell hath many hard brittle, wooddy, 
low and hairy flalkes, riling little above halfe a foote 
high, dividing themfelvcs even from the ground, into many fmaller branches, whereon are fet difper- 
fedly fmall long and narrow rough greene leaves, whofe middle ribbe rifeth up fomewhat high : the flowers for 
the moft part (land at the toppes of the branches in an umbell, divers tufting together, and fometimes alfo at the 
j'oynts 
