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Winter with us if you will have it preferved, yet bringeth not forth the leaves fo hoary white with us. 
5 . Halimm tenuifelimpve Portulaca marina incana minor. The leffer outlandifh or hoary Sea Purflanc, 
Thisother hoary Sea Purflane hath very (lender, weake, and fomewhat hoary halites about two foote longs 
1 fcarlc able to hand upright, but for the mod part fall downc and lye upon the ground, the leaves that grow on 
:h:m being fet in the fame manner, that is without order, are narrower, longerand not fo hoary whitethe', 
dowers are like the former,but of a more greenifh colour growing atthetoppes of the (lalkes, and afterwards 
1 yeeld fuch like feede as the former, but fomewhat leffc : roote is wooddy and endureth like the other. 
4 * Halimus minor Cjermanicm. The Idler lea Purllane of Germany. 
This hath a (mall hoary llalke an handfull high,riling from a fmall threddy roote leaning divers wayes, brrr.eh- 
1 jng forth a little above the roote, fet with fmall and fomewhat round leaves, and thofe up higher with a gafh 
on each fide, of an afh colour, the flowers are fmall greenifh and moffie, yet yellow within, fet on fon» ftalkcs- 
lafter which come fquare huskes with fmall gray feede like unto kidneys in them. 
The Tlace. 
iThe firff groweth in the fait marfhesofthe Sea coafts of our owneland,in Kent and many other placcsithe fecond 
Clupm faith he found about Lifibone in Pertingall, and the third as well in the kingdame of Valentin in Spain? 
■as not farre from Mompelier and CWarfelles in France, and in the upland places about Tholoufc as Lugdunenps 
j’laith, if his Halimm be this as you (hall heare by and by, the laid about Nerthufa in Cjermanp. 
The Time. 
They flower in I«/y and their feede is ripe in tefugup. 
The Names. 
I Diofcorides,Galen and Theophraftm call it in ffirceke A'ju/a©- Halimm with an afpiration.becaufe it is a fea plant 
and tafleth fomewhat faltifh, whom Pliny followcth and yet faith, a ccrtaine herbe ufed to be eaten is fo called 
alfo, as though it were differing from Halimm which as Diofcorides and Galen fay is uied ro bee eaten Solinus 
and others call ic A'aij*©- cAHmos without an afpiration,and fay the name was taken from the effecfl it worketh 
whicb is to expell hunger, for faith Solium, the people in Candy fay that that day they eate thereof they fhall 
not be hungry, if you will beleeve them. Divers hetbes have beene taken for Halimm by divers writers, as 
the Atrip/ex marina by divers, the Liguflrttm or Privet by Lacuna, and Pcriclymcmm rettum, upright Wood- 
binebyTf*?*/. Lugdunenpr fetteth forth a plantby the name of Halimm vera Da/echampij, the "title Ha 
limm of Diofcorides, and faith it better agrecth thereto then thole of Clupm , or any other, to whom 
Clufim fcarfe giveth credic, in that hee faith heefheweth the fru t thereof to bee like unto Kites, whom 
S«Bfo'»Bjfolloweth,and faith that he knew not what plant it fhould be, but reading the place in Lugdunenfir I 
finde Clupm to be much miftaken.for in the defeription thereof he fetteth downc thefe words Semen produc'd U, 
tum.randicansfinfummis ramit copiofum, which broad white feede can no wayes agree with Rites. And for Lu?Ju- 
nenps to make k a different plant from Clupm his fecond Halimm whereunto himfelfe faith it is like.I fee nofoch 
great caufe.more then th itit grew in the upland countries, and that his figure fheweth the leaves to grow ma¬ 
ny cluftcring together at a j'oynt. I have you fee fet the Portu/aca marina with the Halimm ; f 0 r in my judgement 
it differech not fo much from it,neither in forme of leaves or feede,which Is (with me) a chi’efe note of agreement 
or difference, nor yet in place,but that ic may very well be accounted the Halimm ot our countrey, and other 
thefe Northerne parts, the climates chiefly making the diftinftion if any be, and hereunto lam the more indu¬ 
ced becaufe Matthiolm his firff Portulaca,mi Clupm his laft be by them called Halimm which Dodonem and Bau. 
hinm call Portulaca marina. Lobel and Pena atfirme that the difeription of Portulaca marina doth better a^ree 
with the Crithmum oi Diofcorides then the Faniculummarinttm doth ; firff for that the leaves of Crithmttm are 
fayd to be white which in Sampire are greene, next they are compared to Garden Purflane leaves but thicker 
longer,and broader, which cannot agiee to Sampire being fmall long and fomewhat round, and againe Crith¬ 
mum oCDiofcerides is faid to be of a cubits height, but Sampire is little above an handbreadch or twohigh, thefe 
things confidcred did put fome doubt in them and fome others fince whether our Sampire which is generally 
fuppofedtobetherightCwAOT«»>ofDiVycon(ifjbefoorno:biithereofI fhall enrreare more hereafter when 
I fhall fpeakeof Sampire in the Claflisof Sea Plants, Kuellim Lit. 1 .Cap. 8; . taketh that plant to be Halimm u ,j.h 
which the French in divers places make their hedges,and call ic 'Blanche putain, but he is therein much deceived 
that being Viburnum ; for I thinke he doth not make the Viorne to be it which yet they fo ca 1 alfo : Mattbiolm 
faith that the Arabians call Halimm Molochia, and that Scrapie fpeaking thereof, faith that in Baby ten it is carried 
by handfulls and cryed in the flreets, but I thinke cMatthiolm is herein deceived,for it is the true Oklotochia and 
not this herbe that Scrapie faith they cryed in the flreets : the laft is called Halimm minor in his Pinax and 'Pro. 
dromns. The Italians as Matthiolm and Lugdunenfu fay call ic Bidene, and Clupus faith the Spaniards call ir Ma- 
rifma, and the Pertugalls Sa/guideirai, and the French efpecially about Tholoufe V herbe du Mafctonfdep , Herb a 
Celica, the Collicke herbe for the properties lake: we call it Sea Purflanc, as theDutchdoc fo like wife. ’ 
T he f Uertues % 
The Halimm or Portulaca marina (for as their formes fo their properties are alike) is ufed ro be eaten as other 
Sailer Herbes are in all the places of their growing, for talking fomewhat faltifh of the narurall fo) Ie, bciiw 
tranfplanted into other grounds, it much pleafeth the pallate,having a little aftringent rellilh withal!, whereby 
it is found as Galen faith to bee of different qualites, as well temperately hot fufficient to diifolve winde in the 
lower belly and guts, and the paines of the Collicke fpeedily, by drinking of the decoftion of the leaves in 
wine, or of the juice put into wine and being boyled and eaten with oyle or bntter, loofenech the body and yet 
by the aftringent qualitie doth ftrengthen the loofe or fluxible parts: the fame alfo helpeth thofe that arc trou¬ 
bled with Crampcs or are burden inwardly: it caufeth alfo plenty of milke, not oneiy to Nurfes for their chil¬ 
dren, but in Cattle alfo that feede thereon, or to whom it is given : it encreafeth alfo natural! feede : bur that 
which Diofcorides attributed! to the roote is found ftsffeient effeftuall in the leaves, cheroote in rhefr Have, 
being feldome ufed that I know. " * ' 1 
,Q.qq s 
ChaY,' 
