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- 1 kind nfSnxifiaHe like Unto Burnet or Burnet Saxifrage,as alfo at the rootes 
S^S^RbeW- 1 . anc * other hetbcs Hkewife, and that not onely in Poland but in Italy and 0- 
thet Countries. * r lVe Anabap. Ciiming Knotgraffe or Sea Grape. 
This kinde of Sea Grape growtth in the w£rme Countr.es where it is natural! into a thicke trunke or Rum* 
as bigge as a mans arme at the bottome 5 from whence tile many very long brand es, full of joynts like unto the 
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other Sea crapes, ciiming up to the toppes of the nighelt 1 lane 
trees, or others againh which it groweth> cAherwife if it hand 
4. Eva maiii.a minor. 
The Idler Sea Grape. 
i trees, orotnersacamu which il 
i ueare unto a lower tree or fhrubbe, it feldome nfech above their 
height, yet hath it no clafpers to winde about any thing, nor 
doe the branches windethemfelves, as the nature of Apocynum 
or p eriploca Dogs bane doth; yet as the Ivy by fending forth 
| rootes at the joynts, into the barke of the trees that groweth 
1 next thereunto, it thereby dimeth unto the toppeot them: at 
1 thefe joynts grow no leaves for iris wholly demtute or them, 
I but from them thooce forth divers other branches, and at the 
: fame joynts upwards, Hand many fmall molly flowers, of a pale 
or whitifhyellow colour, fomewhatlike unto the blonomesot 
the male Cornell tree, which afterwards turne into l®* 11 red 
berries when they ate ripe, like unto fmall Mulberries, full of 
juice,of a fowre tafte, wherein lye fmall yellow feede like Mil¬ 
let, the roote lpreadech divers wayes underground, being hard 
and wooddy. 
3. P olygomm baccifirumfiveVva marina major. 
The greater Sea Grape. 
This greater Sea Grape is fo like unto the former, except in 
the Iona and ciiming branches, that it is verily thought of divers 
“he bat the fame not growing neare any Ihrubbe or tree to caufe it to afeendas the other doth, and as it lsfaid 
before the former kind § e ufeth to doe, by the report of Solloun, in hi, third booke ot Oblervation* .and the 
.1 Chauter for this alfo hath a flubbed ftocke, from whence rife many (lender branches about a foote long, fet 
wiih joynts like unto an Horfetayle giraffe, up to the toppes, which doe a little bow or hang downe aga.ne, al¬ 
together without leaves, and with many moffy pale flowers,, but Atmnlara laith reddifh.fet together at the 
joynts which afterwards turne into fmall red berries like RaJpu,ofa lowrifli tafle as the other doth, wherein 
lie thelike yellowifh feede : the roote is like wife hard and wooddy. 
4 VolyironumbactifcritmmmM,[mVvamariMmwcr. The lefkr Sea Grape. 
The Imaller Sea Grape rifeth up immediately from the roote, with many (lender wcake, redd.fh, rufli like 
ftalkes fixe or leaven foote long fometimes, lying for the mod part upon the ground, wooddy at the bottome 
of them with the like joynts and branches iffuing from them, as in the former, and without any leaves at them 
alfo • the flowers are many and pale alfo, and molly like them .but Handing upon fomewhat longer footeftalkes, 
and the red berries are likewife like unto Rajph or Mulberries, ofafownlh tafte, wherein is contained a fmall 
btackifh three fquare feede or two, like unto the former: the ftalkes and branches are no lefle aftringenc in tafte 
then the laft.the roote is fmallcr, and lendech forth divers fuckers, which creeping under ground fpreade farre. 
The Tlace. 
The firft groweth in many dry, barren, and fandy grounds, in Volonia. The fecond Bcllomm in his thi rd booke 
and a. i Chapter of his Obfervations, faith gtoweth in the valleies or lower plaine grounds, at the foote of the 
inountaine Olympus, and in Vlyricum betweene Cafiello novo, and the old Epidourm. The third C lufm faith he 
found onely in Sp.rne, in the Kingdome of CMnnia, by the Sea fide, and no where elfe. The fourth Libel faith 
eroweth not onely neare the Sea fide, about Capede Sete,VtrauUnA Magalonanot farre from Mmplur, but 
at Bochcll alfo about the Sea fide, and in other places, but Clttfw faith, he found it not farre horn Salamanca, 
which is the heart ot Spa'me in great plenty upon a fmall hill, whereof he wondreth much,not having found it or 
hearing of any other to have found it, in any other places then the Sea coafts. Anguillara laith in ‘ Dalmatia , a- 
bout the river Sabemcw, , 
Thefe flower late, and ripen their fruite in the naturall places feldome before O Bober, and never in tnele colder 
climates, as hath beene often prooved true : yea the rootes will hardly without efpeciall care and keeping, be 
preferved in the W inter with us. 
The Names, 
The firft is mentioned by Camerariw }oy the name of P olygontim Cocciferum Volomcum in his Epitome of Matthi- 
duty and as I faid before by Am atm Lufitanw^ yet as not growing on P olygonum- but other herbes. The lecond is 
recorded by Tellonim in his third booke and 41. Chapter,/#/. I97.by the name of Ephedra, that it was full or red 
feede like unto Andrfifdcje, by Dodontw, under the name of Sphedrafive Anabafs, as alfo by Rauwolfius.Vlmy 
calleth it Cancan five Ephedra. Bauhinw calleth it polygonum baccjferumfcandens . The third is called by C 
Volyqonum quartum Vlinij majits, and faith the Spaniards call it Telcho: by Tabermontanm Volygonum minimum 
five cocciferum prim am: by Bauhinw Volygonum bacciferummaritlmum majus, jive Vva maritima major. The fourth 
is called by Clufm Volygonum quantum Vlinij minus , who thinketh it to be the Androface of Bello ius 9 but 1 thinke 
Tellonius rather meant the greater forts, by LobclVva marina CMonjpeliejsjinm , and contefteth w ith MattmolW' 
why this fhould not be Tragon or Traganon ofEDiefcorides, (as they of Mompelier formerly called it, and 
afterwards Androface as Belloniw did) in that he made Theophraftw his Scorpio to be Tragos ; by Ruellim Tragos , 
by Lucdttnenfis Tragm, five Scorpius maritimm T)alechampij , yet in another place he calleth it Sqmfctum quar¬ 
tern, as Vena doth Equifetifacie racemofa planta-, by Anguillara it is thought to be Croton of N.cander, by Camera - 
rim Traeum a nd Vva marina,by Gefner in hortis GermanU 7 *ragium,by Tabermontanus Volygonum mannum fccun- 
dum i anefby Bauhinus Volygonum bacciferum maritimum minus ,Lugdimnfis taketh it to be Ofteocollnm Bieroclu & 
