724. ChaPo 2, Tbeatrum ‘Bctanicum. T r i b e 6. 
the like hot caufes,and to allay the heate in all other fores or hurcssic is faid alfo to flay the fpreading of venemolis HI 
ferpentsbitings, and to draw forth the poyfonjapplyed alfo to the Navell of children that fticke forth it helpethi 
them, it is alfo good for fore mouthes and for fore gums when they arc fwollen,to fatten loofeteech, and to take < 
away their paine when they arc fee on edge by eating fower things : Camerariw faith that the diftillcd waters] 
ufed by fome tookc away the paine of their teeth when all other remedies failed, and that the thickened juice 
made in pilles with the powder of gum Tragic anth and Arabeck_ , and taken prevailed much to helpe thofe that 1 i 
made a blooddy water : applyed to the Goute it cafcth the paines thereof,and helpeth the hardnefle of fineWjes, »: 
if it bee notcanfed by thecrampe or in a cold caufe. The wilde Purflaneis ufed as familiarly in fallcts and ti 
meates in many parts beyond the Seas where it groweth plentifully, as the Garden kinde, and theyfinde it no : 
Ieffe efFc&uall a remedy for moft of the difeaics aforefaid, onely it cooleth not fo ftrongly, but is more aftringenc 1 
and drying for fluxes and the like. 
Chap. II. 
‘portalac* marina. Sea Purflane. 
|He Sea Purflanc might be entreated of with the other Sea plants in the proper place, but that I thiiikc 
T it not mecte to fever it from the other going before, and hereunto for the ncare likenefie and refem- 
Jblancc to joyne two other forts of Halimw, which may be called Sea Purflanes as well but growing in 
fa hotter climate. 
1. < Pbrt*laca marina noftr at . Sea Purflane of our countrey. 
The Sea Purflane hath divers hoary and grayilh purple ftalkes fomewhat wooddy, rifingfrom the roote about: 
a footc or more long,lying for the moft part upon the ground, bearing thereon many fmall thicke fat and long 
leaves of a whitifii greenc colour fet without order, at fomej’oynts more and at lome lefle, branching forth 
here and there,and bearing at the toppes many long fprigges or fpiked ftalkes, let round about with grecnifh 
purple flowers,which tame into whitifh flat thinne feedes like unto thofe of the Sea Arrache , the roote is fome¬ 
what wooddy, with divers long firings j’oyncd thereto and abideth with the leaves on the branches all the 
Winter. 
3, Halimw latifolitu five Portulaea marina incana major. The greater outlandifh or hoary Sea Purflane. 
This hoary Sea Purflanc l'endeth forth divers thicke and wooddy hoary & brittle ftalks,fourc or five foot high, 
whereon are fet many thicke leaves,without any order fomewhat ftiort Sc broad,fo hoary white that they almoft 
glifter: the flowers grow at the tops of the ftalkes on divers long fprigges, being moflic like the Olive bloflome, 
but of a purplifti colour; after which come broad and flat whitiflifcede like unto thofe of Aracbe: the roote 
is long hard and wooddy enduring many yeares in tho naturall places, but muft bee fomewhat defended in the 
Portulaea marina. 
Sea Furflaine, 
t Halimui latifoltus jive Portulaea marina incana major . 
Thegreatcr ouclandifli or hoary Tea Purflane. 
