508 Ch a P.18, Theatrum B otanicum. Tribe. <5,; 
legiumum , the true Mayden haire • all late writers doe call it Lunaria minor, afolijs lm& crefccntU modo falcatit 
& botrjtis five ramofa, aut racemofa, acapitibus racemi in modumformat is. Gefner in libro de lunarijs , calleth it f 
Lunariapetrta, and Taura^ as he faith the Heardfmen and Shepherds doe, becaufe if the Kine feede, where 
this herbe groweth, they will fpeedily goeto the Bull. Tabermontanw calleth it Ruta Lunaria vel jecoraria. 
The Italians call it Lnn aria delgrappolo, The French Taure and Petite Lunaire. The Germanes <JA€onrauten and c 
tJMonkram . T he ‘Dutchmen CAiaencmyt. We in Englijb Mooonewort, but there are fo many herbes called by ) 
the name of Lunaria, that it would make any man wonder how fo many fhould be fo called. Gefner hath col- 
letted them all or the mod part, and fetthem forth together, in a trattate by it felfe, whereunto if any be de- • 
firous to underhand them, I mud referre them to him; for it were too tedious to repeate them all here. 
T he Vertu.es, 
Voonewort is cold and drying more then Adders tongue, and is therefore held to be more availeable, forall 1 
wounds, both inward and outward, the leaves boyled inredwineanddrunke, ftayeth the aboundance of wo- • 
mens ordinary courfcs, and the whites alfo; it ftayeth bleeding, alfo vomitings and fluxes; it helpeth all brui- . 
fings and beatings; it helpeth to confolidate all frattures or diflocations; it is good for ruptures; but it is chiefly r| 
ufed of mod, with other herbes to make oyles or balfames, toheale frefh or greene wounds, either inward or 
outward as I laid, for which it is excellent good. It hath beene formerly related by impoftors and falfe knaves, „ 
and is yet beleeved by many, that it will loofen lockes, fetters, and fhooes from thofe horfes feete, that goe in i 
the places where it groweth; and have beene fo atidatious to conteft with thofe have contraditted them, that 1 
they have both knowne and leeneit todoefo; but what obfervation foever fuch perfons doe make, it is all 
but falfe fuggeftions and mecre lyes: Some Alhymifts alfo in former times have wonderfull extolled it to con- 1 
denfatc or convert Quicklilver into pure filver, but all thefe tales were but the breath of idle headed perfons, I 
which divers to their coft and Ioffe of time and labour have found true, and now are vanifhed away with them, 1 
like the aire or fmoake therein. 
1. Pyrola vo/lrtu vulgaris. 
Our ordinary Waiter greene. 
Chap. XVIII. 
Pyrola . Winter greene. 
f though there were formerly but one fort of Pyrola knowne, yet Clufitu and fome others have 
found out other forts thereof, which fhall be handled together in this Chapter. 
1. Pyrola noftrat vulgaris . Our ordinary Winter greene. 
This ordinary (for fo T call it in regard it not onely groweth in our Country, and few or none of 
the reft, but becaufe it is beft knowne and of meft u(e,j Winter greene fendeth forth feaven or eight 
or nine leaves, from a fmall brownifh creeping roote, every 
one (landing on a long footeftalke, which are almoft as broad 
as long, round pointed, of a fad greene colour, hard in hand¬ 
ling, and like unto the leafe of the Peare tree, from whence it 
tooke the name, but others compare them to be like unto the 
lmall leaves of wild Beetes,which is not lo proper in my mind, 
from whence arifeth a (lender weake ftalke, yet (landing up¬ 
right, bearing at the toppe many fmall white flowers,fmelling 
as fweete as thofe of Lilly convally, laid open like a ftarre,con¬ 
fiding of five round pointed leaves, with many yellowifli 
threds (landing in the middle, about a gr eene head, and a long 
flile with them, which in time groweth to be the feede veflel 
which when it is ripe is formed five fquare, with a (mall point 
at it, wherein is contained as (mall feede as the duft it felfe, 
2. Pyrola minor fve minima. 
The lead Winter greene. 
This little r P]mla hath the roote creeping in the fame man¬ 
ner that the former doth, and riling up in divers places; from 
whence rile up divers (hikes, about two or three inches high, 
bare for a (pace, in the middle whereofare fctatfcverall joints 
two or three leaves a peece, each beingfmaller, rounder.and 
thinner then the former, a little (nipt about the edges, and at 
the toppes ftandeth only one flower a peece, made of fiveround 
white leaves, fomewhat greater then the firft, very like unto 
the flower of ParnaffiM grade, having divers yellow thredsin 
the middle, compaflingagreenehead, which hath a pointed 
thereat, parted at the toppe into five threds: the head grow¬ 
th ‘ :1 time to be five fquare, with fuch like feede therein as are 
in the former. 
3 - Pyrola tnerinr. Slender Winter greenS. 
This tender or (lender Wintcrgrcene, rifeth up from a fmall 
roote like CouchgrafTe.creeping divers waies under the ground 
with divers more weake and Hinder (hikes then the former, 
from whence grow fomewhat longer pointed leaves, and den¬ 
ted about the edges, nothing fo hard in handling, elfe very like 
the former, the flail es have divers white flowers, [landing at 
the toppes of them, like unto the former but fmaller, as the 
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