Tribe 5. 
The Theater of T[antes. 
Chap.6* 475 
1. Serratulafiore alho. 
W hite flowred Sawcwort.- 
1. Serratulavutga/u flare, pur par eo albo vclrubro 9 
Common Sawewort with purple white 
or red flowers. 
This Sawwort is in all things like the former, 
for I.never could obferveany other diftinftion, 
i but onely that the flower, or the threds in the 
i midddle o£ the knappes are white, and the heads 
ill themfelves,and the (hikes, of a frelh greene co¬ 
in lour. 
This alfo as farre as I could learne or heare, is 
I wholly like the firft, and not Angularly to be 
): found by that marke, that it fhould have all his 
s leaves divided, and none whole, as the fourth 
il fort, before fet downe is faid to be : the difte- 
I rence betweene them, chiefly confining in the 
II flower, which is of a deeper red colour, which 
li isnoteafily found, or in many places, and is often 
■ miftaken for the other, 
The Place . 
The firft is molt common in the corners 
i of Fields and Wood-fides, both open and 
I fhadowed; but that with a white flower 
j groweth at the further end of Hamfieed wood, 
i neare unto a rill of water, running by the fide of 
i a cottage there; as alfo upon Water downe Forreft 
i in Snijcx, neare unto the path that leadeth from 
! Fridgenmo Ivy Bridge , by a brooke fides; the 
I laftis feldome found, and not without good ob- 
The Time. 
They flower in the end of Sommer, and their 
feede ripeneth quickly after. 
The Names . 
It is moft generally now adayes called Serratnla a fo/ijs mimtim ferratte yet there be fome other herbes alfo^ 
called by this name, as Betony and (germander, butbecaufe eachofthem is knowne by a more proper name* 
this of Serratnla holdeth to this, and is given but a forma. Some doe thinke that it w as alfo called, ( efpecially by 
thofe of Cjermany and Italy ) SerratuU tinBoria or tinBorie, becaufe it was ufed by them in dying and fetting of 
a greene colour; for which purpofes they in former times, untill they had learned things of better refpeft, ufed 
it much; but I rather thinke it was called TinBoria, \by the miftaking of Tragm, his lies Thttoriw, in Fol, 2S1 . 
which he calleth Scharten kraut to be this; for his is the eABer Italorumpurfnrem, as by his figure under that 
title may well be perceived ; into which errour, Banhimw, as hee faith himfelfe, was milled by Thaliw, who did 
fo thinke ir to be, and called it m his Uarcyniafylva Ccntanroides, ant Centanrinm majus fylvejlre Germamcttm, 
untill he found his errour, and reclaimed it in his Pinax in the title of After Atticw c/rnlew, and SerratuU, 
I cannot finde any other Cjreeke, Arabian, Italian, Spam/h, French, german, or Low-T>utch name given it, than 
according to the Latine,as we in Englijb Sawewrot. And for other Latine name,7lWi'<« onely, as I before faid, 
accounted! it a kinde of great Centory, and Lonicerue Solidago Sarafenica, from theeffefts. 
TheVerutet. 
It is commended to be lingular good for fuch as are bruifed by any fall, and thereby have fome veine broken 
within them; or that are much bruifed by cruell blowes, and much beating, or othertvife much bruifed by ca- 
fualty, for it wonderfully ftayeth fuch bleeding, and eafeth the paine and foreneffe that commeth thereupon if 
fome of the greene or dryed leaves be boyled in white wine,or the powder of them be put into the faid wine and 
drunke. Icisnoleffeeffeftuall alfo, in all inward torments and paines, in the guts and bowels, if both leaves 
and rootes be boyled in wine and drunke. It is wonderfull good alfo for all wounds, whether they be frefh to 
confolidate and heale them, or being old and filthy fores, to clenfe and heale them alfo ; if the wine of the de- 
coffion of the herbe be often ufed to wafh them withall. It is alfo commended for burftings or ruptures, by 
often bathing the places,and applyingthe greene herbe and roote, as a plaifter outwardly; it is good alfo for the 
piles, orhemorrhoides, when they grow full of blood and are very painefull, after the applying of leeches, by 
fomenting the part,with the decoftion of the herbe in wine. 1 
e hap. vi. 
Stabc. Silver Knapweede. 
