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five fquare heads of fcede that follow arelikewife, wherein is fuch likedufty feede. ' 
4 ■ ByroUEuropta Alfsrtesflora. The Winter greene oFEssrope with Chickeweede flowers. 
This (mall Winter greene rifeth up with one or more ftraight round ftalkes,about halfe a footc hfoh or better a! 
mot bare of leaves for a fpacc next unto the roote,or at the mod but with two or three very fmail Saves fer nn’r 
little above another, but at the toppe thereof there groweth five or fixe, or fcaven or eight leaves, fomewhat 
long and pointed at the end, fomewhat like unto the leaves sfthe Peare tree, but longer and not fo round beiW 
many ot them an inch and a halfe long, or more, tender, fmooth, greene,and having one middle ribbe w’ith di 
vers veines in the leafs, finely dented about the edges, from among which leaves arife weake footeftalkes 
tlier then ftalkes,, about three inches long, fufteining three or fonre flowers, each of them by it felfe made of 
skinne : the roote is made of many fmail fibres fet together at a fmail roundhead j'He'reof there is foundlnothS 
loi t fmaller then the other, both in leaves, ffalkes, and flowers. ner 
Ulster. 5 - PymUprafilUm Alfirsei fare. Winter greene of America with Chickeweede flowers 
This Winter greene alfo ofBraftllin America , is of two forts,one greater then the other: From a fmail white 
roote very full of fibres, there rifeth one fingle fmail fmooth flalke, otfixor fcaven inches high, without anv 
leaves thereon up to the middle thereof, where there are two fmail ones fet one againft another - but at 
the toppe thereof breaketh forth fix or feaven leaves laid round about it, w'hich are (ome larger and (mailer then 
others: feme being two inches long, others but an inch or an inch and a halfe long, f mooth,tender and greene 
pointed at the end, having five nbbes running thorow every one of them, like unto the Ribwort Plantaine and 
not dented about the edges, from among which rifeth up a Imallfooteftalke or two, not above an inch or two 
long, (ultaining every one of them, one fomewhat large whitilh yellow flower, confiding of fixe narrow and 
Minor. K ? a f ve< ; two whereof are fomewhat broader then the reft, having divers reddifti threds in the middle, 
ihe Idler fort hereof groweth fomewhat lower, withleffer leaves then the former, and with letter flowers 
then it alio, but yet longer and greater then the greater of the European kinde. 
C. Pyrolafrut icons. Shrubby Winter greene. 
Although this plant be no (hrubbe of any hard wooddy fubftancc; yet becaufc the ftalkes be hard abidinp knn 
and encreafing every yeare without withering or dying, it is called fhrubby, therein comming ueereft unto the ■ 
nature ofa (hrubbe. it rileib up with divers limber ftalkes, which forfomeyeares remaine fiime and unrinbt 
but after they be growne elder, that they are laden with leaves, the waight of them doth beare them downe to’ i 
the ground, wherein fometimes they take roote againe, thefe ftalkes have at every joynt two three or fonre far 
flefhy leaves ofa deepe Aiming greene colour,(omewhat like to the leaves of the Strawberry tree,both for forme ■ 
and bigneffe, but dented about the edges: from the middle whereof arife certaine buds,made as it were offtnall 
lcaly heads, which turne into frnall twigges, whereon are fet three or foure or five flowers a pecce.of a whitifh 
purple colour, fomewhat bigger then the flowers of the firft Pyrola or W inter greene, after the flowers are naft 
come five fquare heads, containing very fmail feed : the roote is (lender with fome firings annexed thereunto 
and creepeth farre abroad under the ground. b { J 
The Place. 
T The firft fort groweth in our owne land, yet but in very few places, and thofe Xhrthrrards, in rmhUire' 
L.v,cajb, r e, and further North yea even in Sectland, m the woods every where, and fcldome in fields. Theft/ 
cond groweth at the foote of die high hils in Afrsa land Stiria as C faith. The third in Germany, as al fo 
neere Savoy. The fourth groweth in the woods of Germany in divers places, as alfo in the Beetl e wood in Scot. 
ll y f h *72 ° i * ftnt ‘j h ! m from ™ the mountaines in Wales 
likewife. The fifth ; of both forts groweth in Brafi/e, towards the Weft Indies. The laft groweth in mod of the 
Provinces or Hungary, Get many ,and Tobemta, ° 
The Time, 
Tbey-doe all flower except the American forts about lane and Iuly, but the other more late with us/ 
The Names, 
It is called in Fatine (for it hath not found any Grceke name j afoliorum pyri arboris, ef flora* etlabi 
ftmlstadsn, of the hkeneffe of the leaves and I may fay of the flowers alfo, unto Peare tree leaves and 1 flowers di- ' 
vers have taken lc to be L’momam,as Fafthttts, Lontcerus,Tragus, and CWnsalfo, whocallethit Batafyhcflris 
but the true f.now fo well knowne, that it putttth all out of doubt, and fome would make it to be 
BrmanscaTlp whereunto it hath no refemblance, but is generally of all now adaies called Tyrol., and val- 
g.sttor beczuCe the reft arc rarer to be: found. The fecund Cluftm cal | eth Pyrola msnima, and Bauhim, PyroU 
rotandsfoUa.msnor. The third IS: called by Clafiw PyroU terser sor, by Camararm I yroU Tarsnamc. Lundl by 
ThaUus PyroU minor, by Dalechampsw upon Dsofcoridas , aricl by Lssgdunenfis Ambrofla mo,nan*, and by Brush J, 
TyroUfrho mstcronato ferrate. The fourth is cal ed by Car dm r„ cbfervationam fylva,Herba Triantali, b y Schrremk- 
feldms Alfiae Alpim, byTkalsus Alftnanthamot idaft.Alfines flos, and by Bautinas Vyrola Alflnes/ore Suropaa, 
to diftmguifla betweene it and the next, which he calleth Vyrola A/fines flora Trrfiiana and Americana, an d doth 
much referable the VolyrrhsK.es Utsfalsa of Lugdunersfss in my opinion, although Bauhinus referreth i- to Carlo, 
p^eotapby aa. The laft is called by Cluflus VyroU frsstsc ns or fissta/Js, and BauhiZVyrola frusafZs 
}} 18 ca led b / the VyroU by the French Vyr ole, by the Germancs Wintergrul .and UaftLau- 
Wintergr«ne ^ ^^ ° f f -> lv ^ ri, > or UmmKn >, by the Dutch winterorocn, and in Ersgli/h 
The Vertues, 
Wintergreene is very cold and drying and exceeding aftringent, and glutinous withall, whereby it is a mod 
forfaid InTcd wounds - 1 co.eonfolidate^their lippes fpeedily together, either the greene leaves brui- 
fcdandapplyedofthemfelves, otthe juceofthem, or a falve made of the greene herbes (lamped, or the juice 
boy led with Axunprs or Hogs lard, or with fallet oyleand waxc, and fome turpentine added unto if which 
is to foveraigne a falve for all manner of wounds and fores, that the Cernsanes uie it exceeding much,and extoll it 
beyond 
