Tribe. 5. The Theater of‘Plants* CHAP.41. 557 
which turne about like a Scorpions taile, greater then the other, and huskes that hold the feede greater alfo, the 
rootes are fmall and fibrous. 
The? lace. 
The two firft forts are found upon open hils, and in the dryer grounds of them, both the laft forts are often 
: found together, that is either upon old [lone or brickewals, or in dry gravelly grounds, yet dill where it hath 
a: grade or mode or the like, growing neere to fhadow it. 
The Time, . 
T They flower very earely in the Spring, for they are all pad by the end of April/, and arenottobe found all the 
n; Sommer following. 
The Names. 
r Thefe are not as I faid, the true Paronychia of Diofcorides ,but received under that name by good Her- 
1: barids,ffa«fcxnrasl faid before difclaimeth all the forts of‘?4royyffcfl,&referreth them all to one plant or other, 
! t as he thinketh bed,and therein I think he hath as much erred,as he thought others did, for althogh the Paronychia 
8 primaoMatthioli, be true Rutamuraria, or Salvia vac, being ot the talte and quality of the red of the capillary 
si herbes, as you (hall heare when wee come to fpeake of them in their proper place, mi Matthiolw his Parony- 
\< chia altera, be Anthyllit A/Jives folio, yet how Battlrinw ihould make the Paronychiafolijs incifisftve r macro folio 
0 to be a Sednm, rather then the other, calling it Sednm tridaSlyliter teUorum, 1 cannot well le e; for the leaves 
rl thereof doe not lye compafdng one another, as all or mod of the Seda’s doe,neither ate the leaves thereof thicke, 
a as mod of them are, nor are the Seda's hot in tade as thefe are, and although Loniccrus fetteth forth the Medicu 
I Innata, (whofe figure and defeription I have given you in my former Bookc ) for a Paronychia, whereunto as he 
I faith, Diofcorides his defeription doth not much vary, which is called alfo Lunaria Italicafis a difference from the 
i Lunaria (jermamca, which may be refufed, yet in my opinion he hath erred as much as in the others, to make 
1 all the other here fet downe to be fpecies of Bnrfapafioris, and I cannot but mervaile alfo at Qerard, in that hee 
j had meant, if he had lived to have (eenc his worke publidied againe, with the additions, to have made another 
! Paronychia, by the name cf Par ony chi aCambr onJisyoizo herbe that he had received from a friend thatfent it him, 
I being gathered upon a mountaine in Wales, whichisthe P yroia Europea a/fines floremmor, as by his defeription 
: may plainely appeare, but I mudexcufe him in that, I thinke he never read,or marked what he read of PyreU 
s Alfinesflare, fpoken of before in the Chapter of Pyrola, and therefore he referred the plant upon fight, unto the 
neereft his wits would ferve him. The firft is called byThalius PilofelUftliyuatamayor, Airmen Telcphistm ‘Dale- 
champiyby Lugdunenfis, and 'Bauhmits, 'Barfa pajloris fimilis fliyuofa mayor fest majorihm foliys. The fecond is 
Thalius his P ilofella flicyuataminor, which Gefner cal]eth Paronychia altera Myagri foliys, and Bauhinus. Burfa 
pajloris fimilis filicyuofa minor feu minoribw foliys. The third is called Tanonychia Alfines folio, by Label,Lugdunenfis^ 
and Camerarins, Paronychia vulgaris by ‘Vodoneus, Thlajpios minimafpecies, by Thalius rvho yet laith it may well 
be referred to thbfe forts, b y Lugdunenfis ALyoforisaltera (pecics, andby Bauhinus Bnrfapafioris minor locale ob- 
longo. The laft which is 'Paronychiaincifs folijs and rutacco folio by Lobel, Paronychia altera by ‘Doder.aus, A/fine 
petrearitbrdef Paronychia tertiaby Tabermontanut. Tragus not knowing by vvbat name bell: to call it, cntituled 
it in hisowne language Hendelkraut.zndThalim thereafter DaLlyliobotanon alterum, and as I (hewed you before, 
Bauhinus maketh it an Aizon or Sednm. 
The Verities } , 
There is noexaft and certaine tryall made of late dayes of this herbe Whitlow-gtaffe, whether it performeth 
the cure, Diofcorides and Galen attribute unto their Paronychia, for being by tafte found to be fomew hat het and 
fliarpc, it hath not that drying faculty without (harpeneffe, that they fay is in theirs, and therefore it is not pro¬ 
bable to worke thofe eifefts, to heale the impoftumes that grow at the rootes ofthcnailes of a mans hand, and 
other hot inflammations and impoftumes, but onely a generall fuppofition it hath from the name that it will hclpe 
whitlowesand fellons, that rile upon the fingers, tnoft ufually about the joynts of them, which is performed by 
a digefting quality. 
Chap. XI.I. 
Anagallis. Pimpernel!, 
Here were formerly onely two forts of Pimpernell knowne to T> iofeorides, and the other ancient 
Authours, which are that with the red flower, agd that with the blew, but our times have 
found out other forts, as fhall be (hew'ed in this Chapter, yet I doe not meane to fpeake of any 
ofthe Brooke limes, or Water forts here, for they fhall be entreated of in their proper place, 
which is among thofe plants that delight to grow in watery places. 
J. Anagallis flare phssniceo . Redflowted Pimpernell. 
The Common Pimpernell hath divers weake fquare ftalkes lying on the ground, befet all along with two 
fmailand almoit round leaves at every joynt, oneagainft another, very like unto Chickweede,but have no foote- 
ftalkcs, fortheydoeasit werecompaffetheftalkc, wherein it differeth from Chickewcede, the flowers (land 
fingly, each by themfelves, at the joynts bet weene them and the ftalkes, confiding of five •fmall round pointed 
leaves, of a fine pale red colour, tendingtoanOreng, with fo many threds in the middle, in whofe places after 
they are paft, fucceed fmooth round heads like thofe of Chickeweedes^ wherein is contained filial! feede, the 
roote is fmall and fibrous periftiing every yeare. 
2. Anagallis flare caruleo. Blew fiowred Pimpernell. 
This other Pimpernell, is in all things like unto the former, faving onely in the colour of the flower, fot 
whereas that is of a red colour-, this is of a faire blew colour, wherein cbnlifteth the difference. 
5. Anagallit fore ohfoltte purpurea. Pimpernell with fullenred Sowers, 
This Pimpernell doth in all things likewiferefemble theformer, fave that the flowers hereof are of a fulien 
or darke red colour, having a glimpfe of purple therein, 
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