r R I B E. 5 , 
The Theater ofTlants . 
Chap.^t. 559 
TifinFonFftifeTthcfecond is nothing fo common, yet is found growing neere Settle by Oxford, and plenti- 
ully in Rummy Marfh, at Higham Terrors, Artilborrow, and Raundes in Northamptonshire, and at Beams field i n 
- luckinghetmfinre, The third as Chifius faith, firft grew with him, in his Garden at Franckford , and continually 
ly the fhedding of the feede, preferved it owne kindp, as well there, as in Holland at Leyden. The fourth grew 
j,f i t (eife, in my owne Garden here in London, and commeth up every yeere, of it owne fowing. The fift grow- 
ith in the'fhady places of Hampfied wood, and in many places of Kent, and about AJhford, ataplace called the 
. ‘arke. The lall Clupw (aith he had from the noble and learned John Monnel of Tor nay, who received it from 
Hadis, or Cults, where it grew; and grew likewife in his garden at Tornay. 
The Time, 
\, They doeallflower from May, unto AtigtsJl., and the feede ripeneth in themeane time, andfalleth. 
The Names, 
It is called in Grceke AV^ww;, Anagallis, and fo likewife in I.atine. Penn thinketh it might take thensme 
I 'aWu'i, yttod Greece dicebatssr nydcinthw unde a. colore Hyacinihco, Anagallis nuncHparfpottsii: vel forte dixit anti- 
jnitM Anagallidem, quia [upcrbulafioribus -jenufiu vias pasfim ornct,colore oculU grata & arnica. Jacobus Manlius, 
md Matthiolus after him, call it uMpfm Gallina, and CMorgelina, hut that name is more truely the name of 
dlfirte Chickcweede, whereof this may be accounted a Ifecics. Some have called it Auricula Maris, following 
i herein the Pandc Bar urn author. ‘Liofiorides faith, that in his time it had divers names,among which he numbreth 
tMacia, which Marcelliu Virgilm alfo remembreth, and Corchorus, and Halkacabus, whereby it is fiippofed to 
| Je the C'orchorus of Thcophraftw, which in his feventh booke, and feventh chapter, hereckoneth Inter olera, a- 
f ong the pot herhes, or fallet herbes; and for the bitterneffe became a Proverbe Mfjof©- b> Corchorus 
terohra ; which is underftood of thofc men, that would be efteemed of fome worth andaccount among others,’ 
when they are the vileft of others, for fo Plinyc, in his twenty fift booke, and thirteenth chapter, doth fay that 
this- Anafallis Pimpernell, was called Corchorw,ac Corcorus in the fame manner : but not that Corchorus he men¬ 
tioned!, m his ibooke, and 3 2. chap, which as I fayd before, is more truely taken to be Mehchiafilm Judaicum, 
the Iewes Mallow. Paulies ^£gineta ufed the male Pimpernell in the compofition. Diacorallion, becaufe itwas 
called Corallkn, whereof he fpeaketh in his feventh booke, which is ufed againft the difeafes of the Arteries and 
Joynrs, and was to be made with this herbe, which fome doe rather thinke fhould be called, diacollqrien, and 
the herbe Collarion, which may feeme to take the name of glewing, which is proper to Pimpernell. Some alfo 
take this to be the Melochia of Serapio, but Serapio calleth the Anagallit fiore phetmeep, which is generally called 
Mas, In the ^Arabian tongue Xantala, and the other fiore cartelea, which is the TeminaCardabella , as Tragus 
faith. The Italians call it Anagallo, and CMorfo digalltna. The Spaniards Murages. The French tJVTasiron and 
C JMorgelinc. The Germane: (jastch hehl, quafi fahes fatuorum, or coccygfis fiive cuculi, for fo they call Gauchbrot 
Fanis cuculi, and qauch blutnfios cuculi, from a fupcrftitious conceit as it is thought, that it being hung over the 
threfhould of the porch or dore, willfruftrateor expell all witchcraftor forceries. The Uutch,Guichel heil j 
and we in Fnglijh Pimpernell. The firfl here fetdowne is generally of all writers called, Anagallis mas & fiore 
pbamcco,asthe other,or (econd, Anagallis famina fiore carseleo. The third C/ufius maketh mention of in his hi- 
ftoryof plants. The fourth is not remembred orfpokenof by any other butmyfelfe : the fift is generally cal¬ 
led Anagallis lutea, but of Gefner inbortis Germania Numulariafylvatica & mas ,and of Lugdunenfis Aljine luteal 
The la [t C/ufius calleth Anagallis tenuifolia Monclli, and Batthirms Anagallis cdruleafohi, binjs ternifve, exadverfo 
najcentibus. 
TheVertues. 
Pimpernell as Galen faith, in his fixth booke, of the faculties of fimples, of both forts with red or blue 
flowers, are of a denting faculty, they have alfo an attraftive hcate, whereby they draw forth thornes or fplin- 
ters, or other fuch like things faftned in the flelh, and therefore the juyee put up into the noftrils, purgeth the 
head; briefely alfo they have a drying faculty without (harpeneffe, whereby they are good to foder the lippes of 
wounds, and todenfe foule ulcers; thus faith Cjalen-, whereby it is plaine, that they erre greatly, that make 
Pimpernell, to be cold and moyft, when as they are quite contrary hot and dry, and of fuch a clenfing quality, 
that the diftilled water or juyee, are by the French Dames accounted mervailous good to clenfe the skinne from 
any roughneffe, deformity or difcolouring thereof, and to make it fmaoth neate and cleere: being boyled in wine 
and given to drink, it is a good remedy againft the Plague, and other Peftelentiall Fevers,and contagious difeafes, 
fo as after the taking thereof warme, they lye in their beds, and fweate for two houres after, and hereby the 
venopie of the difeafe would bee expelled, yet fo as that it bee ufed twice at the leaft: the fame alfo helpeth all 
ftingings and bitings of any venemous beafts, be they of Serpents, as the Viper, Adder, or Scorpion, or maddc 
dogges,or any other, ufed inwardly, and applycd outwardly -. the fame alfo openeth the obftruiftions of the Li¬ 
ver, and is very available againft the infirmities of the raines, provoketh urine, and helpeth to expell the ftone 
and graved out of the Kidnies and Bladder, and conduceth much in all inward wounds, and ulcers. The decofti- 
on or the diftilled water, is no leffeeffedluall, to be outwardly applyed to all wounds, be they frefh, to confoli- 
datethem,or old filthy or fretting and running ulcers, venemous alfo, or infeffed, by clenfing their corruption, 
by reftraming their malignant corroding, and infectious qualities, by drying up their fluxe of humours, which 
hindrerh their cure, and quickly bringing them to healing: a little honey mixed with the Juyee, and dropped into 
the eyes, clenfeth them trorn clondy miftes, orfilmes growing over them, which hinder and take away the 
fight n it helpeth the toothach being dropped into the eare, on the contrary fide of the paine s it is effedluall alfo 
to eafe the paines of the hemorrhoidcs, or piles-* the male Pimpernell is fayd to drive forth the fundament, and 
the female to repcll it, and drive it into his place againe, whereby it is found that the male is more powerfull in 
expelling, and the female in repelling. 
Chap. 
