T a i b e . 5, The Theater ofTlants . Chap.71. 621 
j the fame tafhion with the othir, that is, of foure leaves 
i a peece, but they are of a whicilh colour, after 
which come long pods with fcedc like the other the 
: roote is white and fome what fhort, growing aflopeas 
the reft doe, fet together with Joynts, fomewhat clofer 
: an( j more even with fome fibres at it. 
7. Alabaflrites five Dentaria minima. 
The leatt Corallwort. 
Although I know that this plant is referred by moft unto 
the Ranunculi or Crowfeet ,& fo have 1 done here before, 
:i yet having gained a more perfeft figure thereof, and con- 
fidering the ltnall likeneffe it hath with any fort of Crow- 
foote,and the nearer refemblance of it unto thelekindes 
of plants 1 have prefumed to infert it in this place for the 
name fake, and likeneffe of the roote, although you 
have the exaft defeription thereof among the Cro wfeete 
j: ifnder the name of Ranunculus nennrofm Mofchatdla 
| (ltdns. 
The place. 
The firft and the laft have beene found in our land ; the 
firft at Mayfield inSisfiex, in a wood called Highrcede, 
and in another wood there alfo called Foxholes, both of 
l! them belonging to one M r . Stephen Perkhurft at the wri- 
; ting hereof; the reft in the (hadowie woods of Germa- 
.ny, Switzerland and Savoy, Tuples, Italy, and divers 
other places. 
The Time. 
They flower about the end of April/, and beginning or 
middle of CAlay, and are withered and gone before 
Inly for the mod part, the rootes abiding fafe under 
ground. 
The Nantes. 
Neither Dsofcor'utes nor Pliny, nor any.other of the an¬ 
cient writers, as divers have fuppofed have made any 
mention of thefe plants, but being found out by later fearchers are called diverfly; fome from the forme and co¬ 
lour of the rootes, calling them Dentaria, DentUlaria, CoraHoides, and A/ablaftrites as Lohel, and Dentaria Co. 
ralloii- radice,as a difference from other Dent arias ; and fome alfo thereupon tooke it to be an Actmitum, as -Da. 
lechampnu doth in Lugdunenfis ; fome both from the roote and the flowers, that are like unto Stocke Gil- 
lonowers, which were anciently comprehended under the name of Viola, called it Viola Dentaria, as Dodonaut ' 
fome from the effects and properties as Cordus hb.i.plantarumhiftoria cap.i 11. and Gefner in hortis, Samcttlaalba 
and Saxifraga montana, and laith that about Savoy they call it Tulmmaria, but Columna taketh it to bee Ceratia 
Plinij,ana fhewethplamely that this Dentaria,\mh all the properties that Pl.ny aferibeth unto his Ceratia . f ot 
Whereas Plsny faith, it hath but one leafe, fo faith Columna this hath but one fometimes, for hce maketh’thac 
Jeafe to bee but one that ftandeth upon one (hike, howfoever divided into 3.5.7. or more parts, as is to bee 
feene in the Aihtree, Quicken tree,Service and Wallnut.&c. the whole leafe fpringing forth together and fal- 
rng away all together.and not one peece after another, as in others thac are Angle, which is a true note how to 
know a winged leafe fromothers, as I ihewedyou formerly in another place. Thefirftand fixt are called Z>«- 
t.? r *f hulbifera, or bacctfar* becaufe they onely and none of the reft doe beare any bulbes like berries upon their 
ttalkcs; They arc all generally called Dentaria, and moltofthem from the number of their leaves, called cyther 
triphj/llos,pentapbyllos, or beptaphjfioj . but the triphyllos is alio called by L&bel Emc A pbjllos y onely the two laft 
differ m iome things from all the reft ; the fixt being called by Bejkm, that fet forth the great booke of Dortm 
£yftetenfis,‘Dentaria angufiifolia bacciftra, and Taubinus thereupon ‘Dentariabacciferafihjs Ttarmica. Cordus 
m hia fecond booke n 1. Chap.of his Hiftory of Plants, fetteth forth the figure thereof in my minde, but with- 
out any bulbes at the leaves, iinderthenameof CoraHoides alia fiecies. Cjefnerin his fcholia, at the end of thac 
Chapter faith that the Dentaria baceifera was called by ComeConfolida Saradnica, and judgethithimfelfea-kind 
of Aconite : and the laft as I have declared in thefirft divifion of the Crowfcete. 
The Venues* 
The roote of Corallwort is drying,binding and ftrcngthning.yet it helpeth to provoke Vrine.and tocxpell gra¬ 
vel! and the done,as fome-doe afhrme : it is exceeding good to eafe the griping paines of the tides and bowells, 
and for inward wounds that are made in the bread, longs and bowells, a dram of the powder of the roote taken 
for many dayes together, m red wine; the fame alfo given to them that arc burden, or have a rupture is verv 
beneficiall to be drunke in the diftilled water of the herbe, called Horfetaile . it ftayeth alfo Laskes and Fluxes 
thac doe not proceedeofhot and chollericke humours: the decoflionofthe herbe is good to bee applyed both to 
«ufe th^m^Ml'e Ae fooner 0n ^ 0 *^ ate t *' Cm ’ ^ for o!d fi!th y fores > t0 dr y U P their moyfture and thereby to 
7 . 'Slabafitites five TSentaiia minima. 
Theleali Corallwort. 
ChavI 
