f 74 Chap. 
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Theatrum r Botanicum 
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cond groweth as Label faith ncare the mouth of the River 
Pm: the third faith Cordua groweth in the fait Marfhes 
that are nigh unto the Lake of brackiih water, which is 
by Sraffurt in Germany, and lodoc the other two as nee 
faith alfo. 
The Time. 
They flower in lane and July for the moil part. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke 7 eterohiav Tripolium, which name 
the Latines keepe and change not, and as Diofcorides re- 
lateth was fo called, becaule the flowers did change their 
colours three times a day, which was but a falfe informa¬ 
tion or a negligent confideracion. Serapic called it Turbith 
but Label and Pena difprovc it, as I fayd before in the 
Chapter of Titbymales or Spurges : for the roote of this 
purgethnot fay they,cither the juice or decoflion : Pliny in 
initialling Tripo/mm maketh Pohum to have the lame fa- 
cultie.that Theophraftus in his ninth Booke and 21. Chap, 
giveth to Tripolium : and (jar.a following Pliny his errourj 
tranflateth it Polium alfo; the firft is called tripolium of 
all that have written thereof,except Cordtu, who in Obfer. 
•vationum fytva calleth it Anthylli, major, as he doth the fe- 
cond Anthyllii minor, and the lad Amhyltubrevier, andCo- 
ltetnna who calleth the Hrft Amelli Jpeciespahiftrit , as Lobel 
before him gave him the occafion, who faith it doth more 
fignificantly expreffe the Amellm ofViryil, then that After 
Italornm, or montamn purpureas which we doc account to 
beit: yeti may fay by Labels leave, that the After before 
laid doth more properly grow prepe flumina as Virgil faith 
hi s Amelina doth, then in aqnii velfcrob.bsu as Tripolium 
doth. 
The Vcrtues, 
Diofcorides faith that the roote is fweete in fmcll, and 
hotintalle, that two drammes thereof given in wine to 
drinke purgeth the belly, (which as is before fayd Ten* 
and Label doe deny) from watery humours, and by Vrine. 
Cjalen faith rhe roote is fharpe in talk and hot in the third 
rf D/.»aa 1 n Irnr 1 A/e r fnrrlniir .G * . 
5 ‘ 
1 . Tripolium vui^aru. 
ScaScarrewoit. 
degree. Vmfcor.dei r further addeth that it is;put into Antidote, againft venome and poyfon. It Is found by la- 
ter experience to be Angular good to heale all freflt wounds, the leaves onely bruifed and bound to the place or 
Cha?. XCII. 
Verbena, Vervaine. 
J muc h doubt among many of our moderne writers, whar it flionld be that 
Yfcorides fi.1 en and Pliny make mention of, fome fuppofing one herbe,fome another, as you (hall beare 
I by and by ; but unto thofc two forts that Diofcorides fpeaketh of, and Pliny calleth mat and ftmina , 
i and others re a and/«/><« 4 , wee arc to adde one or two more knownc in thefc later times, and fee 
forth by fome. 
«. Verbena mas feu rc&a & vulgaris. Common or upright Vervaine. 
The common Vervaine that is familiar to our Countrey hath divers fomewhat long and broad leaves next the 
ground, deepely gafht at the bottome of them, the other part being deepely dented about the edges, and fome 
onely deepely dented, or cut all alike, of ablackilhgrccnecolourontheupperlide, and fomewhatgrayunder- 
ncath : the (hike is fquare and branched into divers parts, riling to bee about two foote high, efpecially if yee 
put thereto the long (pike of flowers at thetoppes, which are let on all fides thereof one above another, and 
lometimes two or three together,being (mail and gaping, of apurplifh blew colour, and white intermixt; after 
Which come fmall round feede,in (mall and fomewhat long heads: the roote is fmall and long and of no ufc. 
2. Verbenafupinafive famina. Bending or female Vervaine 
This other Vervaine hath divers fmaller and weaker fquare flalkes, leaning orbending downe to the ground, 
and almoft lying thereon,not (landing upright like the other,parted into many more and fmaller branches, and 
having luch like leaves growing on them at the feverall joynts.but much fmaller, and more divided or cut in, ma- 
lPj, t cm ecme to be many leaves, fet on both fides the middle ribbes, ofa erayifh greene above and more erav 
underneath: the flowers grow in thefame manner that the other doth, in fmall long fpikes, being of a deeper 
the " 1 the other, ocherwifc1 in forme not unlike 1 the feeds that follow is like it alfo and fo is the roote. 
Doth pcrifning after feede time,and railing it felfe of its owne fowing. 
. 2 . Verbena Peruana. Vervaine of Peru. 
This Vervaine is like unto the lad Vervaine, but growing greater, and abiding grecne in Winter as well as 
Summer,as many of thofc Accidental plants doe, which will not in thefe European parts, yea it hath bcene ob- 
ferved 
