Fr J E E. 5, 
The Theater of "Plants* 
Chap. 45. 
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4 . G li-iam a.'bum live MoUuguvulgaUor. 
T lie common white flowed Ladies bedftraw 
Te very {snail and white, (land ing at the toppesof the 
candies, mote thickly or plentifully fet chan the other, 
rich red flowers before, which likewife turne into 
/Imall blacke round feede. 
4, vulgatior. The common white 
flowred Ladies Bedftraw. 
I This is in all things like the laft, but that the branches 
ajre fo weake, that unlefle they be fuftained by the hed¬ 
ges, or other things neere which it groweth, it will lye 
iowneonthe ground; and the leaves are (mailer and 
Narrower, yet not fo (mall as the former, with yellow 
dowers; the flowers are likewife fmall and white, but 
tot plentifully fet thereon: and the roote threddyand 
ibiding; fome doe make a (mailer fort hereof, which 
snot a proper Jpecies, for upon tranfplanting it will 
>rsw as great as the laft. 
Gallium montanu Creticum MountaineC<iW? Gallium. 
Gall,urn montamm Creticum groweth like the ordinary 
out much LelTer, with greater rootes and branches: it is 
a more cf fa dual l rennet than the other, ic is hot and 
aftringent, flaying fluxes of blood. 
6 .Gallium montanum alterttm. Another fmall 
fandy Gallium. 
The rootes are fmall and wooddy ; it hath two or 
three (mail, long leaves, broad pointed andwhitifh 
flowers, (landing in fpikes. 
The r P lace. 
The firfl and the fourth are frequent in many places of 
this Land, in Meddowes and Failures both wet and dry, 
and by the hedges: thefecond was found in Italy, as 
Cltsfim faith, and Cohtmna his in the Kingdome of Na¬ 
ples : the third is found in Germany, on divers hils there; 
the two laft in Canty'. 
The Tims. 
All thefe are in flower in May, for the moll part, yet 
that with the red flower is later than the other, & How¬ 
rah not untill Iune: the feede is ripe in luly and Augujl. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke y{^„, and in Latifte alfo Gallium , or as others have it Uxm Galium and as Dbfcorh&t 
faith, of fome Galeritm and Galarion, and was fo called from the efteft, which is tocaufethe 
milke to gather into a curd, when they fet it to make cheefe; and therefore m many Countries, as we here as 
beyond the feas, they call it Cheefe rennet, and ferveth for that purpole very well The firft is generally called 
of all writers, without variation gallium, and Gallium luteum. The econd C/ufius firft made mention of and 
then Columm by the names formerly fet do wne. The third is the Moling, mors,ana of Voders, Clufim, Label , 
Lued,mentis, Thalsus and Tabermonianut. gefnir in horti, calieth It Rnbtajylvatsca altera, & major in his Append,x, 
and is the fccond Matrifyha of Tragus. I he fourth is the Moling, vulgatior herbartorum of Lobe .and the 
UAlolluqo prima of Dodonsus, Lugdunenfis, and 7 abermontams ■ it is Tragus his third gallium, and called of Ca- 
merarius Jrhalists,Pena and others Gallium album. The two laft are mentioned by Alptnus in h.s book de plants, ex- 
cticis. The Italians call it Gallo, the Spaniard, Coaja Ucheyerva : the French Fety Muguet : the Germaines Wat 
tiro smAVnferlickenfrawen Betflro, and Maierkf-ut, of helping of the diy fcabbe in children, which they call 
Mferry: the Dutch tvdfirco, andwein Sugli/h, onr Ladyes Bedftraw, according to the Germane name, ot 
Cheefe rennet, and Maides haire in divers Countries of this Land. 
The Vertues. 
The decoaion of the hearbe, I meane the common Ladies Bedftraw, being drunke, m ufed by'divers,■ to helpe 
to provoke Vrine, and thereby to fret andbreake theftone ■■ the fame alfo drunke ‘^rsbeint 
dings, as alfo to heale inward wounds, by the drying and heating qualities therein,' chehe ^; i h h e /°^ b p e ’"S 
brnifed, and put up into the nofthrtls, ftayeth their bleeding likewife. Diofcondes wmeth that the roo.e 1 ' f 
to provoke bodily luft, and fome fay the flowers doe fo alfo : the flowers and the hearbe'likewife ™de nmo an 
ovntmentor oyle, inoyle robe infolated or fet into the Sunne, and changed after it hath flood fome tenne 
or twelve dayes, but if it be made into an oyntment, it mull be boyled in Axuugta orfallet“^’W^f‘ 
evaxe melted therein after iris ftrayned; which will helpe burnings with fire, and foldings with water , the 
fame alfo or the decoftion of the herbeand flowers, is good to bath the feete of travellers who are forba^ 
with travaile,and for Lackies or fuch like, whofe running long, caufeth not oncly wearmeffc, but fbffenefTe m 
their finewes andjoyntsj for whichboth the.decoftion warmeis very available, and fo is the oyntmen toufe 
afterwards: the fame alfo as is favd before, helpeth the dry fcabbe, and the itch in children, whereof the Ger. 
“doe make dayly experience : thefe forts with white flowers have beene thought unprofitable and of 
no ufe: but faith, the poore women in Auflria, Hungaria, and other places m Germany that gather herbes 
and rootes for their ules that neede them, bringing them to the market to fell, calieth it Gletdkraut■ and by tne>r 
experience have found it good, for the finewes, arteries, and joynts, to bathe them therewith, both to take away 
their wearineffe, and weakeneffo in them,and to comfort and ftrengthen them alfo,after travaile, cold, op-' 
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