The Theater of 'Plants. 
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■jchmdis flare. Every one hath his Enghih name m his tide^ht to difting lfh them. 
AIL nr mod of theft herbes are of later knowledge, fo that there is but little fayd of their venues, yet by their 
AIL or molt ottnei , , ■ d a a t mecnt may be profitably applyed today the fluxes of blood 
ncfhumors anTthereby alfo conduce to fhe healingff old and moyft Viters or (ores: the Sea kinds tafte feme- 
j& not unlavory, fo that they are often eaten cold as a Sailer herbe.or dewed and fo eaten. 
G„ A r. LXXIX. 
Saponaria. Sopewort or Bruifewort. 
your confide- 
former, that 
___ , , a. ,„;ide Camnions, 1 have feme other forts of herbes to bring toyi 
JM rationfwhich both for face or forme, and for ufe and properties are fo like unto the f 
2 X\'pi they might well ue taken as jpeaei of the famc£««r. 
\ 3 g they migntwc Stfm J UvH i g „i s . CommonSopewortor Bruifewort. 
Havina (hewed you in my formerbooke the double to.and under it ,n a fort defenbed the 
Having mew y V, e edelefle here agame to fet it forth, which mdeede! would not have 
;fingle or common kinde r g defeription as in the vertues in that place,I thought good here to enlarge 
idonc, but that being briefe as wellin the dcicnpu fore thereof with it. The roote cree- 
' my felfe and therefore to into the defcnption thereot as we.^ ^ abrown£ colouronthc outfide> and yellow . 
j peth under ground farre and n > m „ nv we ake round ftalkes, full of joyncs, fet with two leaves a peece 
' hh within fhooting forth m divers p c are ribbed fomewhat like unto Plantaneand fafhioned like the 
: at every one of them the contrary ^.whicb am ^ frQm thc fide of the ftaIkes> but fa with di . 
. common field white Campion 1 > . kes )j ket h e wilde Campion, made of five leaves a peece, round ar 
I rheends^and a^ittle dented^hi the middlefofa pale Rofe Colour almoft white, fometimespaler, and fometimes 
of a deeper colour,of cmvolato folio. Hollow leafed Sopewort. 
.. . . , rc * XvKJcnPrnlnr m our owne land,mthe forme and manner of the running of thc 
This kind of Sopewort, wh p .j er Ending forth divers weake round ftalkes, with fewer joynts 
roote isvcry like unto the for e , . mnn eleafe and feldome more, which eyther compafl'eth the ftalke at 
I then Ill the former, and at every °n l 10 n o wthe whole leafe like a pipe or trunke compafl'eth it before it 
open i t fo Ifc on die"outfidej or fometimes doth notopen it felfc at all, and are ribled like the former, fomewhat 
%. Saptmana ^nglica convoluto folio. 
I. Saponaria la'girk. 
Common Sopewort. 
Hollow leafed Sopewort. 
