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Tbeatrum Botanicum . 
Tri b E.5, 
The Time. 
They flower in Iunc and Inly with the reft. 
The Names. 
The fuCiChfiac calleth Lyfimachia purpose* fecunda five minor ■ and by Bauhinus, Lyfimachia rubra non filioiio. 
]a: the other Clufieu likewise called}, Lyfimachia rubra minimal and Etwtiinw Lyfimachia Lini folia purpurea 
carulea. 
The Vertues. 
It is no doubt but thefe ht rbes.being fo like in face and outward forme unto the Lyfimachia ,are not onely to be 
accounted 10{fecks thereof, but of the fame property in home meafure with them,but thereof I knownotany 
tryall made, and therefore can lay no more of them. 
Ghap. XXXV. 
Lyfimachia jpicata. Loofeftirfe with fpiked heads of flowers. 
S Here are likewife two forts of this kinde of Lyfimachia to be entreated of in this Chapter, which are 
as followeth. J 
1. LyfimachiaJpicatapurpnrea. Purple fpiked headed Loofeftrife. 
This Willow herbe or Loofellrife, that carryeth a fpiked head of flowers, groweth with many 
wooddyfquare (hikes, full of j'oynts, about three foote high at the lead, ateveryone whereof ftand two long 
leaves, not altogether fo great and large as thofe of the common yellow, but (horter, narrower, and of a deeper 
greene colour, and fome brownifh : the (hikes are branched into many long Itemmes of (piked Rowers, halfe 
a foote long; growing in rondlesonc above another, out of fmall huskes, very likeuntothe fpiked heads of La- 
vander; each of which flowers have five round pointed leaves, ofa purple violet colour, orfomewhatcnclining 
toredneffejin which huskes (land fmall round heads, after the flowers are fallen, wherein is conteined (mall 
feede: the roote crcepeth under ground like unto the yellow, but is greater than it, and foare the heads of 
leaves, when they firft appeare out of the ground, and arc more browne than thofe of the yellow. 
Lyfimachia Virginianaflare cameo. Blulh Willow herbe of Virginia. 
This Willow herbe hath many faire long and large leaves.&c. expeft the reft hereafter. 
a. Lyfimiachia fyicata ctrulea. Blew fpiked Loofeftrife. 
This blue flowred Loofeftrife, groweth iomewhat lower, with fome branches in the like manner at the toppea 
of the fquare (hikes, and with darke greene and narrower leaves, fetby couples at the joynts towards the 
i. Lyfimachiapurpurea Jpicata. 
Purple fpike headed Loofeftrife. 
2 . lyfimachia caru'ea Jpicata. 
Blue fpiked Loofeftrife. 
