568 Chapas. 
TheatrumiBotanicum . 
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The Names, 
It is called in Greeke hi mum Sparine, and fo it is in Latine alfo ufually, but it bath divers other Greet* 
names, as»<^sr»'and as Galen faith out of Hippocrates, and as Dio/corides faith »w«a6w}*©- - , 
lytH*aan *&, as it is falfely read in many copies of gdm, P/is;, Paulm.^gineta and tALtim f or 
w “” f > is tmithctu. and the ieede is Navell falhion, whereof came the name; yet fome have it 1 
It is called alfo WwSfanr©-, eyaafihomim mans, and p/XaAxp© for the fame caufe: Pliny callcth it Lappa 
laying it is Lappagini, fjrecies, whereof this being one fort, is called Afperngo, becaufe the leaves are rounha X 
the other Motlugo, becaufe they are foft: but Pliny his words concerning Mollugo, feemes not to be truly ™* 
preffed, as his copies extant doe declare: I have therefore thought it litter to refer re the «»„!„ the le ni 
that which wee fo call ) nnrn rhe kinds cf Gallium. fkipn nnrrv /Irtiriv,* Imennf. r, 1_ _r“ . lc ait 3 
.. ‘ U1 a, ‘ mar were eytncr let torth by anv other 
Author, orthathimfelfe knew or heard of: The Italians call it Sperone/la, the Spaniards Prefer a, and Arnold'b 
iolano, the French Koblc and Grateron, the germane Clebkraut, the Dutch Kleefcrttyt and we in Enclilh Cn r ! 
grafle and Clevers. * ® v°oic-: 
The Vertues , 
Clevers are hot and dry .Diofcorides faith and Pliny from him, that the juice of the herbe and feede together ra , 
lien in wine, helpeth thole that are bitren with Vipers.or the great Spider Phalanamm, by preferving the bear' 
from the venome ; Galen faith it clcnfeth meanely and dryeth, and is of fubtill parts: it is familiarly take i 
broth to keepe them leane and lanke, thatareapt to grow fat. Tragus faith, that the diddled water drimU 
twice a day helpeth the yellow Iaundics, and the decoftion of the herbe is found by daily experience tn IT' 
fame, and ftayeth Laskes and Bloody fixes; the juice of the leaves, or they a little bruifed and lavd r " ' 
wound, or place that bleedcth, will ftanch the blood ; and Matthiolm faith, that the juice is much riZS 1 
and ufed to clofe the lippes of greene wounds, and fo doth the pouder of the dryed herbe (Wed thereuDnrf ■ 
and likewife helpeth old Vlcers: being boy ledwith Axtingia and anointed, it healeth all forts of hard fmrllinn.’ 
or kernells in the throate ; the juice dropped into the eares taketh away the paines of them • the herbe fcr,£h : 
well the Country people in (lead of a drainer, to clcare their milke from lirawes, haires, or anv other rhino 
that falleth into it. ' tiling 
Chat. XL VIII. 
Camphorata. Stinking Groundpine. 
Here are two or three forts ofthis Camphorata, or (linking Groundpine which I thinke fitted to* 
follow the former herbes, becaufe of fome refcmblance in forme as well as in vertue. " tK “ ‘ 
. Camphorata major Monjpelieaftum, 
The greater (linking Groundpine. 
3. Camphorata congener live AntbpUis alter altilorm. 
Groundpine not Oinking. 
I. Camphorata major AfonJpelienRum. Them-ear*,. 
(linking Ground Pine. ^ 
‘ he r °ugh or greater kind of Camphorata fiaooteth forth 
many (lender and pliant feathered round (lalkes of leave? 
parted into many branches from the very ground crrmii ’ 
Upright to be about a foote and a halfe h“ b’ g s 
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