Tribe. 5, 
Tbs Theater of 'Plants, 
Cha 
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. jove a foote high, with finaller ftalkes and narrower leaves, not lb greene, but rather of a grayifh dully greene 
colour, and hath many branches, bearing his flowers olfoure leaves a pccce, at the ends oflong pods, of a dee- 
j !,er red colour, as the former doth, and hath like fecde in downe but (mailer : the roote is fmall and fibrous ,dy- 
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y. Lj/frHitcfjiali/iquofafyfaefirishirfuta, Hairy wilde codded Loofeflrife, 
This other is in growing, and height in leaves and flowers, and ycarely dying like unto the lad defcribed,the 
meiy difference betweene them is, that the leaves arc more hairy, and as it were woolly, and the flowers alfo 
mall and paler. •. . 
60 Lpfmachiafliquofa Virginiana, Codded Loofeftrire or V irginia* 
tf This is fet forth in my former Booke, and (ois Cbamuncrium Cjcfocri, , 
The Place, 
rf The firft groweth more often in moift grounds then in dry, yet Gefner and others fay; it: doth grow in thofc 
>laces that are open to the Sunne all day, it will hardly abide in our Gardens, unlefle it be planted ip fome {ha¬ 
llo wy place. The fecond grbweth upon the Alpcs, in the Country of the Switzers. The third groweth in di¬ 
ners mGift places, and is often found of it felfc in Gardcns,al waies delighting where it may be kept moift by fhaq 
(lowing, the other forts grow wilde in dry grounds, as by the wayes, and lanes, and borders of fields. 
The Time, 
They doe all flower in lune and and are quite pall in Auguft for the moft part. 
The Names, . 
They are all called Ljrjimacbia flliquofa from the long cods they oeare, which none of the others have, the for-* 
I noft are alfo called Chamsnerium by Cjefner, but in my minde that name doth more fitly ferve to the other fort 
hereof, which we call the Willow flower, fet forth in my former'Booke, by the name of Chfim&nemsm fine 
\iclphinf for that hath long greene leaves, very like unto Peach leaves, or the leaves of Nerium^ or Oleander 
vhe Rofe bay, whereas this as I faid, hath narrow leaves like Rofemary, and Gefner himlelfe doth not well like 
of che name Qhamaneriujp^ but rather calleth it PoGnv £pilobium y a.\vo*& made of three, that is quia 
violafdefi fiosjuperfiliquanafcitur, and reckoneth up fixe forts thereof, as he fetteththem downc, at the end 
of Cordus his Hiftory of Plants. Dodon&w and Lobel have fet this forth as a finaller kinde of the greater wilde 
fort, which is the third here fet downe. And Bauhinus calleth it Lyfmachia latifolUy and this Anguftifolia, as 
they ought to be. Lugdunenjts expreflcth it under the narfTe of Linaria rubra, Dodon<eus calleth it Pfeudo Lyji - 
machiumpnrpureum minus , for as I faid before, he maketh the third fort here to be the w)us. The reft neede no 
further amplification, being every one is exprefled in their title anfwcrable unto them, and not much varying 
from what others -call them ; onely C&falpinu* calleth the third fort, Onagra gewn alter urn t for hee calleth the 
Ghamancrittm fiore Delvhmu Onaqra, 
The Verities . 
. The firft which is more ufed in phificke then any of the reft, is hot and dry in the fecond degree,as G'fncr faith, 
and very aftringent withall, and fomewhat abfterfive, whdteby it confifteth of divers parts, but is effedluall both 
to ftanch blood, reftraine fluxes, heale the fores of the mouth and fecret parts, clofe up quickly greene Wound? 
! and heale old ulcers, and britfely doe and performs almoft as much as the ordinary Ljfmachia can. 
Cha?. XXXVII, 
Veronica mas. The male Speedeweii. 
F the Speedewels there are two kindes, the male and the female, of the male there are many 
forts, which {hall be fet forth in this Chapter, andthe female in the next. 
1. yeronicamas vulgaritftipina. T he common Specdewcll. 
The common Speedeweii hath divers foft leaves, ofan hoary greene colour, a li f tie fi e n tec J 
bout the edges, and fomewhat hairy alfo,let by couples at the joynts of the hairy Drowmfh ftalkes, 
which leane downe to the ground, never (landing upright, but (hooting forth rootes as they lve upon the ground 
at divers javnts, the flowers grow one above another at the toppes, being of a blewifti purple colour,and lome- 
times it is found white,after which come fmall flat huskes, wherein is (mall blackifti feede included, che roote 
is made of many fibres. 
•z. Veronica mas ereBa. Vprighc Speedeweii. „ , 
This Sdeedewefl differech from the focmer in this, that the Halites leane not downe to the g r ° u ™> ° ut ltanc! 
more upright, having fomewhat narrower and greener leaves then the other, and the flowers lean t ic er o 
g ether, a:, it were in a fpiltc, ofafaintblew colour, andtherootecreepethunderground. there isa 
hereof, differing onely in the lownefie, and in the linallnelfe both o( leaves and flowers. 
fo. Veronica (bleat a latiMi/i major. The greater fpikeflowrcd.SpeedewcIl. 
This greater fpiked Speedeweii, rifeth up with divers crelled Halites full of joynts, two foote high, whereon 
•fl and two large, (tining, thicke, and darke greene leaves, and iu fome neither (Tuning nor lo darke, wra^hac 
dented about"the edges, the ftalkes have very feldome any branches, but have fometimes two or thre. 
ftalkes of fpiked flowers, fomewhat larger then the laft, and of the fame paje blew colour, flowring y g 
the lowed firft, the feede that folio weth is fmall, endofed in fmall flat huskes as the other, the ,oote is ome 
what blacke and fibrous, encreafihg by the fides. 
4 Veronica eretba ancufiifo/ia. Spiked Speedwell with narrow leaves, 
F This upright Speedeweii hath his ftalkes about two foote high,fet at the joynts with two leaves atpeece,which 
arc lonner and narrower then the laft, and flightly dented about the edges, of a bitter and unp eafant talte, on 
the toppes of the ftalkes, which are as feldome branched as the laft, (land the flowers in long fpiked hea s, many 
fet together, every one having foure pale blew leaves a pecce, with fome threds in the middle, which after 
they are pall gi*e fmall feede veffels, which are flat, but a little fwellmg in the middle, and bieornered aune 
Minor. 
