Chap, 
Tribe 6 . 
The Theater of Tlants. 
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lam mains which peradventure is more proper to the firfl fort, and Angmlara, Vmbilici veneris Jpccies altera. 
Cafalpbtw Cajjia hgnee fmilufititex tertirn, who alfo thought it to be the Sclago 0 t Pliny, Label faith it may be 
ebamapeace of that is, ,Picea bumilis ; but ScUgo was called Camphorata by the learned of Mempelier from 
the fmell of Camfyre, which the leaves being bruifed give, but this hath no (uch fmell, and therefore I thinke 
cannot be the Selago of PA»/, which is a different plant from this whereof I have fpoken before, but it is pro¬ 
bable that this plant is that which Bauhintu calleth S edum montmum Sricoides as he faith hinafelfe; the laft Label 
calleth Solum minimum arborefeens vermiculatitm.Bauhintis maketh fame doubt whether it might not be the Po¬ 
lygonum mafcnlumfruticefum of Thalim, who faith he never faw the flowers,but faith ic is not‘the Po/igonum al- 
tcrum Scrpitlifolium Angler urn ^ meaning Label and Pena, foriohee calleth them, becaufe their Adverfaria\ips 
printed in England. TbeVermeK 
Gur ordinary Houfeleeke is cold in the third degree, moderately drying and binding, and is good for all in¬ 
ward heats as well as outward, and in the eyes or other parts of the body : a Poflit made with the'juice of Houfe¬ 
leeke is Angular good in all hot agues, for it cooleth and temperateth the blood and fpirits, and quencheth the 
third, and is alfo good to flay all hot defluxions of (harpe and fait rheutr.c into the eyes, the /nice being dropped 
intothem, or into theeareshelpe them, it helpeth alfo all other fluxes of humors into tkebowells, and the im¬ 
moderate courfes of women s it is fayd alfo to kill the wormes, and to remedy the biting of the Pbalanginm Spi¬ 
der : ir cooleth and reftraynech alfo allother hot inflammations. Saint Anthonies lire, and all other hot eruptions 
in the flefh, lealdings alfo and burnings, the lhingles, fretting ulcers, cankers, tetters, ringwormes and the like, 
and eafeth much the paine of the goute,proceeding of an hot caufe : the juice alfo taketh away warts and cornes’ 
in the hands or feetebejng often bathed there with, and the skmneofthe leaves being iaydon them afterwards: 
it eafeth alfo the headach.and diftempered heate of the braine in frenfyes or through want of fleep'e, being appli¬ 
ed to the temples and forehead: the leaves bruifed and layd upon the crowne or feame-of the head llayeth blee¬ 
ding at the nole very quickly. The diftilled water of the herbe is profitable for all the purpofes aforefaid : the 
leaves being gently rubbed on any place flung with Nettles or Bees,or bitten with any venemous creature doth 
prelently ta‘ke away the paine. 
Chap. VI. 
Aizoon Solum Jive Sempcrvivtm minus. Small Houfeleeke.' 
He nextranke of Houfeleeks that lam to entreateof,are of rjiofe fmaller forts that grow with us tile 
1 where upon mudde and (lone walls, or on dry fandy bankes or places,&c. whereof fome are of a 
contrary qualitie,being hot,fharpe and exulcerating.wbcreuuro I mull ad/oyne one other thatgrow- 
eth in moyft mcdoWes,becaufe it is fo like them in the outward face. 
I, Vermieularis & Crajfula minor vulyaris five Hlecebra major. 
The ordinary Prickmadam or Stonecrop.. ... 
Thecommon Stonecrop growethupon theground with divers trayling branches, fet with many thicke, fat, 
and fome what round whitifh or yellowith greene leaves, a little pointed at the edges •• the flowers Hand at the 
toppes of the branches, many fet together, yet fomewhat loofely and not in a thicke tult or duller as the Or¬ 
pines, of a yellowifh colour, the rootes arc very fmall creeping in the ground,and lend forth flalkes with leaves 
here and there all abouts. 
3 . Vermieularis Scorpioides. Stonecrop with turning heads. 
This other Stonccropor Prickmadam hath luch like {hikes with leaves thereon as the former, that it is hard to 
dillinguifh them untill they come to flower, which then may be defeerned to differ onely in the turning toppes, 
of yellow flowers bending or turning like the taile of a Scorpion, or thofe herbes that are refembled unto it: the 
rootes in like manner creepe and fhoote forth in divers places. Of this fort there is another whofe head of flow¬ 
ers turnech not,which Libel calleth Hstmttodes. 
3. Vermieularis minor. Small Stonecrop, 
The fmall Stonecrop hath fmall and long leaves like the other, fet upon fhort flalkes, not pad an handbreadth 
long which are not fo thicke but more flat, and of a more ftipticke tafte, the flowers are of a paler yellow colour 
and greater then the firfl, elfe (landing in tufts in the lame manner : the roote is like it alfo creeping about: this 
loofeth bothftalke and leafe in the Winter. 
4. Vermieularis fore albo. white flowred Stonecrop with round pointed leaves. 
The white flowred Stonecrop creepcth upon theground in the fame manner that thp others doe, with (lender 
flalkes and long round leaves upon them, of ablewifh greene colour, not (harpe but round pointed, feemirig 
like wheate cornes or pine apple-kernels, being fparfedly fet thereon : at the toppes whereof (land fmall white 
flarre like flowers in fmall tufts or fparfed umbells.'the roote creepeth like the reft,and the [caves perifh with the 
flalkes every yeare like the laft. 
5. Vermieularis dafyphySon. A fmaller white flowred Stonecrop. 
This other Stonecrop groweth lower and hath more (lore of fuch fmall round leaves like wheate cornes, thic¬ 
ker fet thereon then the other: the flowers are white alfo like the lad, and in no other thing differech from it. 
6 . Sedumarvenfe five palufire fiorerubente. Marfh or Field Stonecrop. 
This Field Stonecrop hath divers reddilh flalkes fet with fmall fatlong leaves, fomewhat hairy, and much 
greener then any of the former : the flowers are ffnall (landing like (larres, many in a tuft together, of a pale red 
or carnation colour: the roote is like the reft, lending forth divers llioots: this abideth greene all the Winter 
and hath as little cade as the former. ’ 
7. Illecebra miner Jive Sedumtert turn Diofcoridis. Wall Pepper. 
This wall Pepper is almoft the fmalleftofallthefe,and groweth like the former with very many and (len¬ 
der ftalkes,and fmall round leaves thicke fet upon them, at the toppes whereof grow fmall pale yellow flowers 
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todes. 
