630 Chap. 76. 
Theatrum Botanicum , 
T r 1 b e 15. 
^^mWhereof tooke rhenamc, tor in the'te^W^hey ulcdthe leaves of the Campion's,*! of many other ■ 
plants in their lampes mftead of the week to burne. The (ingle kind is called alio by divers ether namft L 
CihZ£\ak ' GemCUUru ’ and Cor}ml,c of ColHmeUll > in his tentl >b°ohe,as Rucllim thinketh,where Columella ! 
fcK* Mfmv&tcu/bimmicACwymhc. Vnleffe heunderftandErambethereby. 
The Greeks alfo called it e-io^iQ^e.mmortaius^noddmnns vennfiatem f«am re,intend fonieV«rra but nor 
Z °I r °^.which ,s a venemous plant as I have (hewed before ; in Latine moft ufually they call it Lick* ? , 
f.V? C ° rm “ na and (■ ca, ' eth K Vnbtfcum momAHum. Some have taken this to be the 
ofThecphraJlsts in his fixt booke and feventh Chap, but that cannot be, for he reckoneth both Lych*u, and Diofan 
, am ™ g the flo 7 ers! { °™ to be his FUmcna, but hce mentioneth that alfo in the LZl . 
pUce and cannot be both one herbe. tliny in his s,. booke and fourth Chap, faith they called an herbe R 
which the Oreekes called Lychnu, and in the n. Chap, of the fame 2 t. booke he nameth Lye, visit, Theopbelfo, , 
doth among the Summer flowers: the Garden kind therefore as fitted for the ufes aforefaid is held bv the II ! 
judicious in thefe times to be the true Ik 4»» of Theophrafim and Diofcoride ,: the Italians call the Lychnis fa iva 
Lythnuie ortolan.,, and the wilde Lychntdefylveftre , the f rcc/s, OeilletDien for the Garden kind,and odtTl 
■vsgefm the Wilde : the C/ermam call the manured fort FrawwenrofJin (JHarienrof^lin, and HtmmelroHlm R,. 
is to fay ,DominaramRoUMartanaRofaCAlt Jf^,and C^fies: they call the wildc kind MargenrofaiU nd wi d 
^l?r£*nrofz,lm,ihc DrtrchciU the Garden kinde Chrifiw ceghen, and the wild Iennettekins, and wee in lS 
Role Campions thofe of the Garden and the other wilde Campions, as you fhall heare in the next Chapter The 
other Campion (as well the (ingle as double kindes) is called Lychnis By^antina, Chalcedonies Gentian,LI, 
and <fc m d p! ° f f°r b 7 / ofG>>er-,iho alfo calleth it OciLidespereoJ’I 
wAflesConflannnopohtanm of Label Lngdunenfi ,, an d others: wee in Engl,ft, ufually call it Nonefuch PidwrrTf 
Rn/we and flower of Ce»/a«, M p/e. It is thought by fome to be Strath,„m or Lunar,a which thce^Zl f 
call Cond,fi becaufe it w.l make water to lather like fopt, and denfe fuel, doathes as are wS inhfZrZ 
notwithftandmg that quality (which is alfo given to Saponaria, and thereby alfo thought to bee Struthium Hr 
agteeth not with the defer ptions of Thcophrajlm and Pliny (for Diofcoride, del'cribeth it not) which as thev (av 
s a thorny p.ant bearing leaves like unto an Olive, and hath a great roote, none of all which this plant harf/anX 
therefore cannot be it. Somelikewife thinkeit to bee Pathos of Theophrafim j n the lame fixt Booke afno 
Chapter,Whtcb Athens agreeing with him faith isoftwoforts, theln 'Hyacinth !jS Se other 
& J 'n‘ \ nd VCry wdla S rcc with ^ fcver.Il colours of theflowers hereof 
o^Flo^ah^ Cort is very hkc to be the Flos cocci ness oUngdanenfis, and the OcMespereoZZZZ' 
Zl i f \ G 'f‘ er ™ h ° r ‘“, and not the Mnfcipstla Lobeliy or Lychnis Mveflris primacZi 
as Bmhtnus maketh the doubt.for Cjefncr there faith, that the letter fort endureth long and h{th ftwe/flowers ^ 
, . The Venues. ’• 
the cid°en C r a ,h P L° nS r re r /‘“n “f e Ph . yi * ke now adaycs with us > being chiefly tifed as flowers, fit to decke 
r Z ( r’ uu '5 at tbe ftede lhereof is hot in or third degreed and drvin Re 
C H 4 P. LXXVI. 
Lychnis fyheftris. Wilde Campions. 
UtM E cau f , fel b a « many forts of Lychnide, fyhejlres, wilde Campions to declare unto you: I thinke it the 
$ « r e a nv nd rb!r : r o ‘hn^ 0dlCa ^ Way ’ '^“ngn'fh then, intofeverallChapters, and emteate of them fe- 
f nr ^’e^ r 1 both my writing and your reading be not confounded nor they with it. I meane there- 
• n f £ l “treatein this Chapter of thefe wilde forts that beare rough leaves and (hikes, and crow hinh- 
in the next of thofe that are glutinous and clammy; and laftly of thofe that^yther bend or lye downevMrdfto 
the ground, or cteepe thereon, and of thofe that are fmall.or that ate like Mode upon the ground 
T . ... _ .1. Lychnis fylvejfris fltre albo. White wilde Campions. 
The white wdde Campmnhuth many long and fomewhat broad darkegreene leaves lying upon ibe nrnmid 
with diversnbbes therein fomewhat like unto Ribwort Plantaine, but fomewbat hany S bro P ader and nor fn 
long : the hairy ffalkes rife up in the middle of them, three or foure foote high, or fometfmesmore with divers 
great white joynts at feverall places thereon, andtwofuch like leaves thereat up to tbe toPDe frrdncrfnrrh 
branches«the feverall joynts alfo s all which beate on feverall footeflalkelwh,“? flowers at the totes of t£m 
Tlx rcA -1J ^ 2. Lyehms fjhefirii florerubro. Red wild Campions. 
/. 1 # f ie r < T ^ lIde Cam P 1 f >n groweth in the lame manner as the other, but his leaves are not fo plainelv ribbed 
fomewhat (hotter,rounder,andtnorefoftor woolly in handling : the flowers areof tL fame foJme and big’ 
"he ff /agged n ieaves°feem P e a ^to if ° thcrS 3 rcdd ,n ’ colo . ur > cur >n a t the ends, mci e finely, which makefh 
tnc jaggea leaves leeme to bee more in number than the other: tbe feede is like, and fb is the lootealfn- 
the rootes ot both thefe forts doe not perifh after feede time, but abide many yeares, 
3, Lyebnit 
