448 C h a p. 16. Theatrum Botanicum. T iubs 4, 
folio . and Lugdunenfis, Polygonum altemm Serpilli folio ; but Bauhinus Polygonum maritimum minus folio Serpilli i 
the leventh Tragus accounceth to be a kinde ot 'Polygonum, which they of his countrie called Knaml ; hee alfc 
thinketh it might be called fVKwfov of the abundance of feede, and Polycnemon of the vertues. Lagdumnfu 
alfocallethit Pdycarpon, andDodonaus in his Ft mptades taketh it to be a Polygonum e xigmm. Gt r<rnf C alleth h 
Pologomtm Selinoides five Knavel, wherein hee is deceived many wayes. Firft, in that he giveth the name Selil 
mides unto Knawel, when as his owne defeription and figure thereof might have plainciy convinced that errout 
in him, in that Knawd hath not leaves like S elinum or Parfiy ■' fccondly, that he maketh Trawl and Partly pert 
to be one, whereas they are two plants; then againe that he thinketh, that Saxifraga Anglicana of Lobel, which 
he faith he found about Chipnam in the Well countrie to be Parfiy pert- when as Lobel and Pena their description 
and figure doth contrary alfo that opinion, although their figure belomewhat like, as Gerard himfelfe confcfleth 1 
which he calleth Selinoides : againe, that he thinketh the Parfiy pert, that was fhewed by a cc untry Empericke 1 
to Mr. Bredvrdl, was Knawd, which as it is likely Mr. Bredreell (liewed him, and yet he could not difeerne the 
face of the one berbe from the other; and laftly he findeth fault with the name Parfiy pert, calling it a barbarous 
word, and would amend it with his owne fine I.atine word Petra pungent, not underbanding the true Etymon 
logie of the vvord being corrupted, as for the moll part all ltnufuall or hard words are to the vulgar fort, for the, 
uncorrnpted word is Percepierre, a true French word, and fignificth the lame that Lithontribon in Grceke, Sa.vi - 
fraga in Latins,or Gerard his Petra pungent,if ye like it;Breakcftone in F-nglijh,o fail which 1 lhall fpeak more ful¬ 
ly in the next Chapter: but 1 have here before given you iny opinion of the Saxifraga Anglicanaof Lobel, neither 
can I thinke the Knavel of Tragus to belt as many might imagine by the likeneffe of their figures being compa. 
red together; but lately it may be a kinde thereof: the forme and ftrong fweetfmell, which Tragus faith it hath 
inducing me in part fo to thinke, but that the lmall greene flowers and feede in them be much differing from the 
Pincke-like white Bower in that: the eight, I call Polygonum alteram Germanicum, another Germane Kraved, 
caufc it is lb like thereunto, and that Bauhinus faith, the Germane Knavel hath many varieties, whereof I thinke 
this to be one,and it is prob.ble alfo, that both the Polygtmummontanummveum,ar\d thcAnthy/lis Valentina may 
be a fpecies thereof jftswf ew hinfietfe calleth it Polygonum litoreum minus jlo/culii jpadicco albicantibtts : the ninth 
is called Bmpetron by Tragus and Lonicerm, but not truely -, Polygonumminus by CHatthiolus and Cajhr Durantes 
that follovveth him, HcrbaCarcri minorhy Cordus in his Scholiattes, and Millegranaiu his hiftory of plants, Epim 
paFlisby tydrculLira, Herbs Turcaby Libel and Cafa/pinus, Herniaria multigrana Serpyth folio, by Pena in his 
Adverftria, and generally Herniaria, and fo by Gefner in hortis QtrmanU, and in libellode colldhone Jlirpirim, by 
CamerariwDodonaus, Thalius, Luodunenfit , Tabermontar.us, a . Cjcrard, and by Bauhinus Polygonum minus, feu 
Mdlegrana w*;w ; the tenth we haveimpofed the name as it is in the tide and mod fitting thereunto: the lab is cal¬ 
led Milleoranammimaby Lobel in his Dutch Heroall,and in his leones ftirpium, by Thalius Herniaria altera- and 
therefore I call it Herniaria minor, 'Bauhinus calleth it, Polygonum minimum, jive Mdlegrana minima. 
The Vertues, 
All or mod of thefe forts of Knotgrafie, doe participate with the former in the binding qualities,although not 
altogether fo much in the cooling, fomeof them having a little bitternefle or fharpenefle in them, which decla¬ 
red fome heate, and therefore hath not that abundant moidure, which Galen faith, is in the former, whereby 
as he with, they have their cooling qualitie: they ferveto provoke urine,and helpe tobreakeand expell the done 
and graved by urine, as the others doe, yet wee have not fo evident tedimony ot the operations of the fivefirft 
fort. (howfoever the delicacic of forme in fome of them doe argue in mans judgement fome fingular vertue 
which yet doth rot alwayes follow, for in many deformed, there is found much more helpe ) as we have of the 
red, which are thefe in particular; Tragus faith that K nawel hath the fame properties that Knotgrafie hath, and 
may fervetn the dead thereof to all purpofes, as well inward as outward remedies, when the other is not at 
band and that it is very power full to breake the done, being boyled in wine and drunke, which out owne peo- 
ple doe averre alfo .-the other germane Knarred or Knotgrafie being of the;fame kinde, worketh the like effeftf. 
Rupturewort Hath not his name in vaine, for it is found by daily experience in a number that have taken it, to 
helpe and cure the rupture,not onely in children, but in elder perlons, foas it be not too old and inveterate; by 
taking eirher a dramme of the powder of the dried herbe, every day in wine for certaine dayes together, as” the 
ftrength of the difeafe and age of the patient doe require; or the decoflion made of the herbe in wine and drunke 
or the juice or diddled water of the greene herbe taken in the fame manner ; and helpcth all other fiuxes, either 
ofmenor women, vomitings alfo and the Gonorrhea, being taken any of thofe wayes aforefaid; itdoth mod 
affuredly helpe alfo thofe that have the drangurie, and have theirurinedopped, or are troubled with the done 
or graved in their reines or bladder, caufing them that take it to urine plentifully, and thereby to remove and 
Wafh downe, whatfoever dicketh or is offenlive in the pafiages thereof: Vide HolUriumde morbii interniii, Ub.\, 
c 6i./o/.2d8.thefamealfo helpeth much all ditches in the Tides, all griping paines or torments in the domacke 
or belly, caufed by collcricke or fharpe or fait humours; it helpeth the obfi.ruftions of the liver, andcureth 
the yellow jaundife likewife; it killeth alfo the wormes in children: being outwardly applied it conglutinateth 
wounds very notably, and helpeth much to day defluxions of rhenme from the head to the eyes, nofe or teetbj 
being bruifed greene and bound thereto, or the decoflicn of the dried herbe, to bathe the forehead and temples, 
or the nape of the necke behinde, it doth alfo drie up the moidure of fidulous ulcers, or any others, that by the 
much accede of fharpe humors are grownefoule and ipieading: the lefier Rupturewort is not much wanting, 
in all the faculties of the other. 
Chap. XVI. 
Polygonum Selinoides, Parfiy pert, or Partly Breakeftone, 
H ave as you fee feparated this kinde of Knotgrafie from all the other in the lad Chapter,and not with-’ 
^ • °ut juft reafon as I take it, becaufe the face and forme thereof, is fo much differing from them, as the 
i enfuing defeription will declare : the roote is very fmall and threddy, but abiding divers yeares in the 
natural! places, from whence come many leaves, fpread upon the ground, eachdanding on a fmall longfoote 
ftalke 
