45 ° Chap. 17. Theatrum'Botanicum. Tribe 4 
of the (lone in an Oxcs gall twenty fouregraines weight; let all thefe be beaten into fine powder and kept by 
you, in a dry box, or pot, to ufe uponoccafion: whereof the quantity to be taken at a time, is from halfe a 
drammetoadramme, as theageand neceflity of the party, who is to take it fhall require: but all'uredly it 
would worke as efteftually in other difeafes, either inward or outward, as either the Knotgraffes, or Knawell, 
or Rupture-wort doe, if it were ferioufiy applyed, for being alike in the temperature of the qualities, and wor¬ 
king the fame effefts in fome of the difeafes, why not in many of the other, whereunto they are tryed to doe 
good: I may here deplore the carclefl'e courfe of many that are learned, who are content oneiy to fucke the hony 
that other Bees before them have gathered; but make none for others, whereas if they would be indufti ious, they 
might by their good judgement apply things to much better efteft then the bold, blind bayards of our time, who 
dare to doe any thing, elpecially when under colour of giving Phyficke to their pockie patients, they may palfe 
without impunity, and without controll. 
Chap. X V11. 
Toljgom. Httccifcr.t. Berry bearing Knotgralfe. 
HereremainethofallthefortsofKnotgraffes.tofpeakeofthofe that beare berries, fome whereof 
arc fhrubby plants,whofe berries are their fruite, bearing feede within them, whereby they ate 
propagated: others are the excreffences of the herbe, accidental! oneiy as 1 fuppofe to the loyle, 
that breedeth them, being not the naturall feede, w hereof I entend-tol’peakefirft, becaufc it com- 
meth neerelt unto fome of the former lmall Knotgraffes. 
I. ^Polygonum Coccijtrum Po[onicnm, The Polonian Scarlet Knotgraffe, 
The Scarlet Knotgraffe is as fmall a plant as the Knawell, or white mountaine Knotgraffe, fpreading in the 
fame manner with fundry fmall ftalkes, full of j'oynts, whereat are let divers very fmall and long leaves, pointed, 
butnot lharpe at the endes, which wich the (hikes are of a grayifh afhcolour, or more whitilh, at the toppes of 
the ftalkes (land a number of fmall white flowers, yet not fo fmall as in the mountaine kinde of Knawell, but 
fuch as may be better defeerned, comming forth of grayifh greene huskes, wherein after they are pad, grovveth 
the feede, which is as fmall as duff, the roote is fmall and fomewhat long, at the toppe whereof, and on the 
ftalkes next thereunto groweth very fmall berries, leffer then thofeof the IlexCoccigcra, or ScarletOake, but 
ofas orient a fcarlet colour as they, and give as precious a dye as they doe, and but that it cannot be had in that 
quantity (every roote, yeclding but a few berries in comparifon of the other ) it would leffen the price, if noc 
abate the ufe of the other; but howfoever it ferveth that Country of ‘Tolonia, in fome meafure, to dye fomeof 
the cloathes that they weare. Amatm Lnfitanm in his Commentaries upon Diofcorida, folio e 23. faith that 
1. rolygnrmcocciferum Polonium. 3. Polygonum bucifavm five yuamuina major. 
Polonian Scarlet Knotgraffe, Tlae greater Sea grape. 
