Theatrum ‘Botanicum . 
7 2 § Chap^, 
Trib k6. 
ouz any order, and fomewhat like unco Purflanc: at the 
toppes of the branches Hand many fmall white flowers 
in tufts, but more thinly orfparfedly fet then in the former, 
confiding of five leaves a pcece, after which comefmall 
heads like unto the Orpines containing (mall duftie feede, 
the rootc is long and fibrous fmelling fomewhat fweete 
like the Rofewort roote as Camerariw faith, and peril¬ 
ing every ycare, fo that if it rife not of the flaed feede 
(which ufually it doth ifitbc fuffered to fall) it mud bee 
nevy fowne every yeare. 
The TUce. 
The fiift C/xfitu faith hee found as well in Spaine as in 
Hungary upon the Alpes: the fecond of both forts, the 
greater and the lefler is frequent almoft in every country 
ofthis land,the greater being generally cheriflned in Gar- 
dens.butyetisas I take it the fame with the leffer fort, 
thatgrowethas I fayd in the fhadowie fides of fields and 
woods.: the third is often found in divers places of (ferma- 
*y, as Tragiu^CamerariHs ,Clnfiw and others fetdowne: 
the fourth was fent out of Italy by Alphonfus Pancius a wor¬ 
thy Herbarift and Phlfition of Ferrara ; the fixt came from 
TmpcratiM of Naples , from Cortufus and Jofe plow de Cafa 
bon*, of whom Clufwil aith he received the feede .* the laft 
is chiefdy nourfed up in the Gardens of thole that are lo¬ 
vers of rare plants,and was firfl communicated from Padoa, 
The Time. 
They doe all flower about I^ly, and their feede is ripe in 
Augufi. 
The Names. 
Thefe herbes are referred to the T«\sp/cp Telephium of 
‘Diofcorides for the forme fake, and fo taken by divers 
writers although none of them are found to have that clen- 
fing facukie that Diofcorides and Galen attribute unto 
their Telephium : it tooke the name as it is thought from 
Telephut , the King of Mi fa whofe wounds received 
from Achilles , and growne almoft paft cure were healedherewith, and from hence the medicines appointed for 
fuch purpofes were called Telepbia. Thefirft is called Telephium Hifpanicum 0 f CInfos and others, and £>*/#/* 
major H Jpanica of Lobel and others :the fecond is called Scrophularia media vel tertia of Brnnfelftts, Tabaria, 
Faba erajfa and Faba inverfa by divers,and fo alfo by Lobel afoliorumfabs fmilitudine and Crafftudine, and Craf- 
ftili or CrajfuU major by divers alio, as well as by Diofcorides a foliornm crajjhie. Cor dm upon Diofcorides calleth 
it Acetabulum alterum and Column* taketh it to bee Cotyledon alterum of Diofcorides, Gefner in hortis Cjermania 
taketh it to be Anacampferos ^ and O^latthiolm ,Dedonswfilufus and divers others call it Telephium & vujgare, be- 
caufe it is mod common in all thefe partsithe third is called Scrophularta feu Portulaca major fry Tragus Telephium 
fhnbus purpurcis by Lobel mid others, Acetabulum alterum purpurcu by Fuch fus in his leones , and is the Telephium 
quintum of Clufius t who thinketh his not to differ from that of Lobel, notwithftanding that the rootes thereof 
be expreflhd without tubers : Csfalpinus calleth it Craffula montana, and Columna refilling it to be any Telephium 
faith it is a Ra punt i urn, and thereupon calleth it Rapuntium umbetlatum : the fourth is the Telephium fextumoF 
Chi fits who taketh it more nearely to refemble the true Telephium then any other, and called by him and Came- 
rarius al fo Cepsa Pancij , by Dcdonsus,Lobel and others Telephium minus ,and repens 3 and femper virens : wee ufu- 
ally call this in Englifh french Orpine : the fift is called by CInf us Camerarius and all others that have feeneor 
had it Telephium Imperati , and Telephium legitimism Imperati: the laft is called Cepsa by tJMatthiolus and by 
fome Cepsa marina, but generally by all that Gnce have written of it Cepsa Matthioli . The Italians call it Faba- 
graft, the French Orpin , Fevegrajfe, Feve efpaijfe, and of fome Reprife and Joubarbe desvignes,the Germans, 
tVur.dkraut,Du7tpenkraut 3 Fotz,wein^'(\dFotz,v?ang i the Dutch Schmersvortele and wee in Englifh Orpine, and of 
fome livelong becau fe a branch ofthegreene leaves hung up in any place will keepe the verdure a longtime, 
which made Tragus to judge it the Chry'focome oIDiofcorides or elfc an AUoon. 
TheVertues . 
The qualities of our Orpine are as I fayd before differing from the Telephium of Diofcorides, in that they are 
cooling as Purfl me is,c(pecially the leaves,for the roote is more enclining to heate, and by reafon of the muccila- 
ginefle therein it is fomewhat aftringent alfo, whereas the true Telephium as Diofcorides and Galen fay is fome¬ 
what hot,and of a clenfing drying qualitie, foth-tufed with Vinegar it taketh away the Morphew, Lepry, and 
all other deformities in theskinne, and is good alio for old foule Vlcers and fores to clenfe and healc them, thus 
fay Diofcorides and Galen of their Telephium , but divers have thought that the difference in qualitie may happen 
from the Climate as it doth in Arum which in fome places of A fa and Cilicia as Galen faith is not fharpe and bi¬ 
ting,as it is in thefe places of Greece , Italy and all Europe, and as it is found alfo in the lefler Celandine, which as 
they fay is fharpe in fome places but is not lo found with us, Orpine is feldome ufed in inward Medecines with 
us, although Tragus faith from his countrey Germanes experience,that thediftilled water thereof is profitably 
taken of thole,that have any gnawings or excoriations in their ftomackc or bowells,or have Vlcers in their Lungs 
or Liver or other inward parts, as alfo in the matrix or mother, and doth helpe all thofe difeales, being drunke 
for ceruine dayes together, and that it ftayeth the (harpenefie of humors in the blooddy flux, as alfo Itayeth 
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