732 Chap.2, 
Tbeatrum Botanicum. 
T R I B E 6. i 
•dlterum 
upon longer flakes that thruft out trom the roote : from the middle of the greateft and elded head, fhootethntv 
a <* a ' k e fcarci: a foo:c h >g h » ftc with fmall leaves like the other, bearing flowers in the lame manner bur, 
J*,dcnia- larger, and confiding of fixe leaves, onely of a white colour, after which come fixe cornered heads, containing 
fmallblackilh feede : the roote is fmall and like the other, yet a little thicker. Clttfmi maketh mention of sn 
flor'pm-. otherfort: hereof > with Ieffer leaves and more dented in on the edges in little elfe differing. There is of this 
purco t do- an other alike in all ^things, faving the flowers which are of a brighter red colour than the common fori 
5. Sedttm rttbrum tomentofum , Netted or Woolly Houfeleeke. 
This rare Houfeleeke in the Autume and Winter hath the hoary or afh coloured heads of leaves fmooth' 
plame, and open, like unto the ordinary fort, but when the Spring commeth on, it groweth overfprc’ad with* 
number of hoary or woolly threades like unto a net, that it draweth the leaves together, and fheweth divers 
formes, as triangles,qua dranglcs.quinquangles, & fexangles.the leaves themfelves being fmaller and longer than 
the ordinary fort but thicke and flefhic : in Summer when the llalkerifeth to be halfe a foote high, they grow 
pointed up Pyramisfafhion, thicke covered with that woollineffe : upon the flalkearc let many fmaller and 
narrower leaves up to the toppe, which parteth into two, bearing on each fundry large fpread flowers of a 
deepc red Role colour, ending in tenne points, as if they were fo many leaves, but before they open to be like a 
(latte, are plaited into ten plaitcs, each plait or fould being of a deeper colour, having twenty threads in the mid¬ 
dle tipt with yellow, (landing about the middle umbone which bccommeth the feede veffell, and each flower 
fet in a paler hairy httske pointed alfo : the roote is very (mall and thready, yet thrufleth it felfe into the chinkes 
of therockie andflony places, where fcarce any earth is to befound. 
6 . Sedummajus anguftifolium. Great narrow leafed Houfeleeke 
This kindc of Houfeleeke hath fundry circles of leaves fomewhat like the former fort, but the leaves are nar¬ 
rower and longer, and a little rough or hairy vvithall; the ftalke that rileth from fome of the heads is brownifh 
and about a cubit high, (ct thicke with narrower and red pointed, fat thicke undented leaves up to the toppe* 
where it brancheth forth into fome few, bearing each a flower of tenne or twelve long and narrow leaves’ 
laid open like a ftarre, of a reddifh purple colour; the feede that followeth in fo many fmall heads, as there were 
leaves in the flowers, is as (mail almoft as dull: the roote is realonable thicke, with divers firings faftened 
thereto. 
7, VermlcuUrii arborefeens. Tree Houfeleeke with (mail leaves. 
This kinde of Houfeleeke or Prickemadam, rifeth up to be five or fixe foote high, as I have obferved it when it 
groweth in Gardens, plentifully flored with branches Irom the bottome to the toppe, and fet thicke with (mall 
long and round greene leaves without any tafie, very like to thofe of the fmall Houfeleeke called Stonecroppe 
or Prickemadame, (although Lobcl, aslthinkc faith it hath a faltifh tafie) but Ieffer and greener, the flowers 
grow at the toppes of the branches, fmaller than in the next that followeth, and of a pale yellowifh colour: the 
motes are long wooddy and fpreading in the ground: the branches hereof flipped and put into the ground will 
quickly take roote and grow. 
8. VermicularUfruticefa alter*. Shrubby Prickemadam. 
This other fhrubby plant groweth nothing fo high as the former, not being above a foote high full of branches 
covered with an afh coloured barke, as limber and pliant as it, the leaves hereof are fomewhat greater and lar¬ 
ger than the other, of a more faltifh tafie, and of a darker greene colour: the flowers at the toppes of the bran" 
ches are larger, but fewer, and of a yellowifh colour, the roote is hard and wooddy. 
The Place. 
The firfi groweth in Greece, Italy, Portugall.Spaine, Illyria or Slavey, and fome of the Ides inch eCWe- 
diterranian fea. as Sadly, Sardinia, Ccrjlca, &c. where it groweth naturally, but in divers places of Italy ’Porta, 
gall and Spainc, it is kept, as Clafim faith,in pots.and carefully preferred in the Winter,& in Lijhbone as he (aith 
upon the houfes as our common Houlclceke, but will not endure the coidol thele more Northren countries of 
Europe, with all the care that may be without a ftove, (uch as they ufe in Germany and other places more Nor 
therly; yet Lebel faith, he found it in the Hand of Holmes by Brifiow : the (econd groweth by the fea fide in ma¬ 
ny places of this hand, and in the lie of Holme, rlot farre from Bnftore : the third ?roweth naturally on divers 
hills in Germany, but with us onely where it is planted upon houle Tides,&c.and that in day efpecially, for there¬ 
in it will belt thrive. The fourth, Clafim latch, he found very common on the hills neare Vienna in Autlria \ the 
fife Columna found in Naples : the fixe Clstfim faith, he found on the Alpes neare Saltzburg in Germany, the two 
Iaff groweth by the fea fide,and further offlikewife where the laft will tafie brackifh as well as neare the fea fide 
The Time. 
The firfi flowreth in Portugal!, as Clufitu faith, in November an d December, but never with us: the fecond 
flowreth by the fea fide in Angufl : the third, fourth, and fixch, in Uly ; the fift in May - and the two laft forts 
very lace alio. 
The Names, 
It is 'called in Greeke A’"?** •»' ulyt,Aizoon magnum or majus, 0 f the ever living and greeneneffe thereof, and 
therefore Gaza tranflateth it out of Theephrajfas Sempervivum, which is the lame in fignification ; it hath likewife 
divers other names, for as Pliny faith, it was called Buphthalmitm Zoophtha/mum, and Steigethrov, and Hjpoee- 
fori) fome called it alfo,as he (aith, Oculm and Digiuliw. it is called by Apuleim, yitalU, and lev is barb/, Eat 
ufually, Sedummajus ; the Arabians csWv.'Be'yahalalemtni Haialhalez-, the Italians Semperv,vo maooiore-the Spa¬ 
niards Semprevivaherba punlera-, the French Grande Joubarbe ; the Germans Hanfwurtz and D onderbaer ■ the 
Dutch Dmderbacrt and Huiflook^ we in Snglifi generally Houfeleeke ; vet fome call it Stngrcene, dgreene, 
and (omc Iupittrs Eye. Bullocks eye, and Iupiters beard. C/ufmmd others doe certainely affirme, thatouror- 
inary great Houlelecke is the Cotyledon altera of Diofcorides .andnoonecan disprove their judgements therein,' 
The firft is the tme Aizmn magnum of Diefierides land others, and there is no doubt made'thereof by any. 
CMattbioliu and others call it Sempervivrtm arborefeens, and Sedum arborefeens and Aizoon arborefeens : (fliifiiu. 
cal lech it Sednm majus legitimum : the fecond Lobel maketh a kinde thereof, and callcth it Sedum Port, 
land; cum : the third is moll common with us, and is generally called Sedum majtu , and Sempsrvi- 
vnmmajtu vulgare, which as I faid, Clufitu callcth Cotyledon ultra Ttiofcoride ,• fome alfo call it Acetabn. 
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