The 'Theater of ‘ Plants . 
Chap. 54. 581 
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hereout from bctweenetwoleavesi come forth fuch like pale yellow flowers, (landing in tufts, with fmall 
•ede following like it alfo •' theroote isftnall and reddifli, perifhingas it doth. 
. ‘Perfoliata Alpinaaitgafiifoliamajor. The greater narrow leafed Mountains Thoroughwaxe. 
Thisgreater Mountaine kindeof narrow leafed Throughwaxe, hath divers very long, and narrow, whi- 
fli precne fmooth leaves, fprcad on the ground, about a foote long, of an inch, or inch and halfe 
r ad with corners alfo about them almoft like lvie leaves, which compaffe thtftalkes about the bottomc of 
rem Veldotne more than one at a joynt; at the toppe whereof come forth five broad leaves (landing round, 
-om the midft whereof arifefixe or feven fmall llalkes, lome longer and fhortcr than others, bearing thereon 
nail reddifb yellow flowers, in the middle of fmall round leaves: the roote is long and thtcke, covered with 
hlackifhbarke, and endureth. 
6 Perfoliata Alpina anguflifolfa minor, The letter narrow leafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe. 
This Thoroughwaxe hath but one ftalke,about a foote high, without any branches beartng thereon atfeverall 
l.ftances long and narrow leaves like the lad, but fhortcr and lefler, comparing the flalke at the bottome, and 
t the toppes Tome few reddifli flowers, (landing in tufts like the common kinde, andfeede accordingly; the 
oote is fmall and reddifh. , , , T , , 
~ ftMiata Alpinaanguflifoliammma. The lead narrow leafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe. 
This lead kinde is a fmall plant, not pad an hand breadth high, with a reddifli running or creeping roote.fhoo- 
inn forth in divers places very narrow, long, fmooth, greens leaves: from among which arifeth a flalke, parted 
nto two branches and each of them againe into other lmaller ones, with one or two leaves under *cm,compa(- 
in „ them at the bottomc,where it is broadeft ;the flowers ate fmall,and yellow,(landing together in tufts like the 
)t * ler ' g Perfoliata minor ramis inflexit. Small Thoroughwaxe with bending branches. 
This fmall Thoroughwaxe hath divers leaves, arifmg from the roote, which are foinewhat long, but fhorter 
hanthofeof the firft Mountaine Thoroughwaxe; the llitlke isTmall, and, lye* as it were upon the ground, bea- 
in" fuch like leaves as that Mountaine kinde doth, and comparing the flalke in the lame manner; the flowers 
irc 3 yellow like the common kinde : the roote perifheth every yeere like unto it, and therein differeth from mod 
if the other mountaine kindes. . _ ,, . 
p. Perfolinta p/njtiofa vulgar^, Common coddea ! nrougnwaxe. 
The ordinary codded Thoroughwaxe, hath wcake llalkes,branching forth at every joynt, with leaves fetat 
hem compafling them at the bottome, very like unto the lirft Common Thoroughwaxe,but thicker, fatter, and 
nore’pointed and pf a whiter greene colour, mod like unto Cabbage or Colewort leaves, and with fquare 
ineveiineffe on the ed«e5 ufually : the toppes of the branches are furmfhed with many, (mall white flowers, 
landing one above another, confiding of foureleaves a peece, which afterwards turne into fmall long and fquare 
■oddes wherein is conteined round brownilh feede ; the roote is fmall and yyooddy,per idling after feede time. 
* jo Perfoliata jiliqtiofaflarepurpureo. Codded Thoroughwaxe with purple flowers. 
This other codded Throughwaxe, is very like the lad, having ftraighter, and more upright (hikes, and lar¬ 
ger flowers thereon, of a pale purplifli colour, like unto thofe of the white Satun: in all the tell it differeth not 
from the lad. 
The Place. 
The fit d and the lad fave one are found oftentimes in our owne Land ill many come fields, and paflure 
grounds • the fecond, as I fayd, is but a degenerate kinde of the firft, and is often found in gardens, where the 
firft is fowen • the? 4. 5 . 6 . 7.8. grow all upon hills, fome in Germany, and the Alpesof tht Sontfers, and 
fome upon the Apenins towards Spainc and France: the laft alio afwell as the ninth Clafin faith, he found in a 
Province of Spaine. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower about Inly, and their feede is ripe in Augttft. 
The Names. - I 
!t too ke the name of Perfoliata (for there is no ancient Greeke, or Latine author, hath written of it) from 
the "rowing of the (hikes through the leaves, yet fome have thought it to be the Cacaha of T>tofeondes, and 
foul would make it his firft Cotyledon, but neither of them agree* with it. Cafalptnw take* it to be his Sefclt 
'sEthiopiam, which differeth much from thisiall the later writers doe generally call it, Perfolma and P'ffiha- 
utm , ^ Italians call it Perfoliata: the French P erfefueille, and the Germancs Burch wackfs and fothe .®*«* 
alfo: in Lr.nhfh Thoroughwaxe or Thoroughleafe; the fecond is exprefled by Camcrarmmhorto, as alfo the 
third from Gefner, who firft fet out the exadl figure thereof, being the firft Mountaine kinde here, and is the 
Perfoliata lonrifolia ‘Dalechampij in Lugdunenfs ,although it may fee me much to differ from it in mew : the fourth 
I take to be the Perfoliata altera of Lngdunenfis, whereof it is likely alfo Cameranw in horto , maketh mention 
under the name of Perfoliata w/W, and it may be Bauhinns remembreth it, under his Lat, folia minor : the, fift 
Taubtnw maketh his Perfoliata Alpina angnjlifolia major , and he maketh another like unto it, which he calleth 
Media , and thereunto relerreth the Perfoliata longifolta Dalechamphii of Lugdunenfis , when as I can node no other 
Perfoliata inhim; whereunto the montana is to be referred, but there is fo little difference betweene his major 
and' media. that I take them both for one; the greatneffe of the one from the other being likely to be caufed one- 
ly by the climate, and fo his mayor may as well agree unto that of Pahehavpm , as his media . the fix* alfo Tate. 
LI calleth Perfoliata Aipina anguftifolia minor ,and is very like the Baplenram Alp,num angujhfolmmfn forth in 
the former chapter, yet he give* a caution, that they fhould not make them both one: the feven* hee calleth 
minima but diftinguiftieth it from the Perfoliata mimmaTupler.nfoho of Colamna, which he faith alfo is 0 don. 
litis lutea of Luudtnenfis : but I cannot otherwife think then that his minimal} Colamna his mmma, alfo and hke- 
ly to be the Sefeli^thiopicum parvttm of C.efalpinm- the eighth is remembred onely by Va«him m1 his Pmax & 
Prodomus : the ninth is called Perfoliata ftliqmfa, 9 r Napifolta Anghrm.ft,epmfa by m-his Adverfarta and 
Obfervations, and as Tra m , Gefner, Camcrarm, Tahermoatanw and allot mod of the Herb.nfts at this tune 
doe: although divers other, from the colour of the leaves, and forme of the flowers and feede, would referre 
it to the wilde Coleworts, and thereupon call it Braffta campejlruffyheftn, & agrcflu) fihquofa or perfohata^ but 
