Tr ib e.5- The Theater of‘Plants. Chap. 91. 673 
— ndnot Cur dm •fteuedisftie, as it is appointed in the Pharmacopeia Londmenfis .-the fccond is the Struck 2 . 
fhmtar.M of Tabermontanw and the fir AErigermu in the old Gerard very well expreffing it: the third is fee 
, b Luodunenfis under Micenm name i the fourth it the fecond S»m» with Tragtu % Lobel his figure of 
F verumtomentofum, as alfo the Erigerum tertium of Dodonaus, is, not the true figures of this plant, as T>odoua M 
■ If felfe acknowledge*, but rather as others called it Cichoriumfetidum,3od Lugdurenfu hath obferved it Iike- 
, f or this differeih chiefly from the common fort but in the hoarinelfe and largcnefle as well of the whole 
m' 6 as of the'leaves : thefift is called by Lebel Erigerum tomentofam alteram, by 7 haliut Erigerum faidum feu 
H plane G ' trin hurtu zniby Lngdunoiifii Senecio fatidus, by Clufm lacobea Tamomca pnma as Bauhinus 
rhlnketli & by him Senecio incanuipingttis-.the laft is mentioned oncly by Camerariw in horto lV /ho faith he received 
,, ™y the name of SenecMore odor At* from IofeplF de Cafa^ bona, the great Duke of Tufcane. or Florence his Herbarift. 
I Groundfell is cold and moift as Tragus faith, and therefore feldome ufed inwardly, Qalen faith in 6. fimpl. 
it hath a mixt quality both cooling and a little digefling: the decoftion of the herbe faith THofcorides, made with 
i wine and drunke helped) the paines in the flomacke proceeding of choller (which it may well dee by a vomit, 
! which our daily experience (hewetb, the juice hereof taken in drinke, or the decoflion of the herbe in Ale 
, [ performeth) Pliny addeth from others report that it is good againft the Iaundies and falling ficknefle, be- 
itna taken in wine, as alfotohelpethe paine of the bladder, that is in making water when it isflopped, which 
it nrovoketh, asalfotoexpellgravellfn the reines or kidneyes, a dram thereof given m Oxymel, after fome 
walking or flirting the body lit helpeth the Sciatica alfo and the griping paines m the belly, or the Collicke.- 
fome alfo cate it with Vinegar as a Sallat, accounting it good for the (adnefle of the heart, and to helpe the de- 
i f c a so fche Liver: it is faid alfo to provoke womens courfes, and fome fay alfo that it flayeththe whites, which 
as CHatthiolus faith cannot be beleeved to be fo, in that the one quality is contrary to the other: The frefh herbe 
boyled and made into aPoultis,and apgjjyed to the breads of women that are fwollen with paine and heate, - 
alfo to the privy parts of man or woman, the Seate or Fundament, or the Arteries, Ioynts and Sinewes, v 
thev are inflamed and fwollen doth much eafe them ; and ufed with fome fait helpeth to difTolve the knots or 
kernells that happen in any part of the body : the juice of the herbe or as Diofcorides faith, the leaves and flow¬ 
ers with fome fine Frankinfence in powder, ufedin wounds, whether of the body or of the nerves andfinewes 
doth Angularly helpe to hcale them. The downe of the heads faith hee ufed with V inegar doth the like, but if 
the fame downe be taken in drinke it will choake any •• the diftilled water ofthe herbe performeth well all the 
aforefayd properties, but efpecially for the inflammations eftheeyes, and wateringof them. by reafon ofthe 
defluxion ofthe rheume into them. Pliny reporteth a ridiculous fable to helpe the toothach, to digge up the 
plant without nny Iron toole, and then to touch the aking tooth five times therewith, and tofpit threetimes 
after every fuel) touch, and afterwards to fet the herbe againe in the fame place, fo that it may grow will eafe 
the paines : another as fabulous and ridiculous as that, is this, which fome have fet downe, that glafle being 
boyled in the juice of Groundfell, and the blood of a Ramme or Goate,will become as foft as wax, fit to bee 
made into any forme,which being put into cold water will come to be hard againe. 
Chap. X C I. 
Tripolium. Sea Starrewort. 
BmsutasjM Lthough Diofcorides and G<i/c»knew tut of one Tripolmm,yei btcaufe Zobe/bath fet forth another 
that is leffc, and CawcWrw accounteth another herbe alfo to be a little fort thereof, I thinkeitnot 
amide to make mention of them alfo in this place,and fome others of later knowledge. 
1 Tripolium majits five vulgare. The greater Sea Starrewort. 
Our ordinary SeaStarrewort hath many long and fomewhat broad leaves,riling from the roote 
next the ground .fmooth,fat and thicke, and of a ble wifh greene colour, fomewhat like unto the leaves of Dorian 
Wound wort,but much lefl'er, from among which rifeth up a fmooth herby or flefliy greene ftalke, two or three 
footchigh, branched towards the toppes into divers fmaller branches, with fuch like leaves on them as grow 
below but lefler: the flowers that fland at the toppes ofthem ate fomewhat larger and greater then of the other 
Italian Starrewort,here before fet forth among the Afters and almofl of the fame colour, having a blewifh purple 
border of leaves Handing about a yellow middle thrum, which after it bath done flowring, turneth into downe, 
and the fmall feede therewith is blowne away at the will of the winde: the roote hath divers greater firings, and 
many fmaller fibres thereat, which grow deepe and fticke fait in the mudde of the marfhie ditches where it 
groweth. 
a. Tripolium minus. The letter Sea Starrewort. 
The fmall Sea Starre is in all things like the greater, but lefler and lower, both in roote,leafe ftalke and flower, 
and in the naturall places obferved not to exceede the greatnefle of the fmall Coryza or Fleabanc. 
• 3. Tripolium minus Germanicum. Small Sea Starrewort of (jermany. 
This alfo is very like unto the laft, but lefle then it, having a fhorter (lalke and narrower leaves, the flower 
alfo is fmall and of a more purplifh colour. 
J>£c/maketh mention that Moutonus had in bis Garden one hereof with yellow flowers, but I rather 
thinke it was another kinde of herbe,and therefore I make no further mention of it here. 
4, 5. Tripolium LychnidiiCoronaris folio eh alterunoFeruU folio. Starrewort with Rofe 
Campion like leaves, and another with Fennell like leaves. 
The feede of both thefe forts of Starre worts I received from Signor Boel from £i/W,bUt they fprang not 
with me .• but it may be that with Fennell like leaves was the Ageratumferulaceum of Lttgdunenfis. 
The Place. 
The firfl groweth as I fayd before in the ditches of the fait Marihes.nearethe Sea coafts in many places of this 
Land, fotbatyauftiall hardly miffe it in any fait Marfh in fome place or. other if you boke well for it: thefe- 
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