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—-""TT n n ITTrf: ufually (moo* yet fometimes rugged or knobbed,grayiih without and white with- 
Orchis or Daggelton , ^ 0 y thc roote an d bottome of the ftalke, altogether like an Orchis whereunto 
in,having fma “" . re femble the routes then unto Houfeleeke, but I muft (not be Angular although I fpcake 
X would more near y . ofthiskinde wee have received from Doftor Hoelut at Lijhbone a greater MajorLpl 
i which M 1 '. Tradefcant keepctll at Lambeth. ^ 
in fort.with paler g ^ Cotyledon five Sedum montimumlatifolium[erratum gnttato fine. 
Spotted Kidny wort,or the Princes feather. 
nf Houfeleeke,or Kidny wort call it which you will is defenbed in my former booke, where 
7 T n 1S ^hP Princes feather and therefore needeth not to be here againe repeated although I give you the figure 
of i among the reft: you (hall finde the Figure hereof in 6*0798. ■ 
ofitamongtner y ^ ^ minor f 0 ti 0 f M brttmdo. Small Kidnywort with roundift. leaves. 
This other fmaU Kidnywort hath much rounder and fmaller leaves in the heads then the former, not fo b.gge 
1 ms owe: ltnauivi y a ne colour a3 itj or more white and dented at the edges 111 the lame 
asthenayleofonesfing ^ ° £ ^ t h e other Houleleekes, from the middle of feme of the heads yearcly rile up 
flenderbut ha"d and rough ftalkes about anhandlength high, fet with a few Met and longer leaves thereon, 
at the tonpes whereof appeare fmall flowers upon long footeftalkes confiftmg of five and fometimes of fix leaves 
foLch P fom«imes wholly white, and fometimes fpotted with red (pots, and fometimes having three purple 
f P ec ^’ -rhebacke of every leafe, fo that it make* the whole leafefeeme purplifn, in their places 
follow fmalf heads with fmall feede 1 the roote is fmall and fibrous like the reft, fetting of heads of the like leaves 
round abouti *- Co , ion aIler v „r u ,urihuflmi»i. Small Kidneywort with party coloured flowers. _ 
This fmall Kidnywort groweth with many heads of fmall leaves circlewife like unto the laft IC.dmworc 
(whereof it is a peculiar fort) greater then the fmalleft and fmaller then the greateft; each whereof 
is fomewh t long and narrow of a whitifh greene colour dented as it were about the edges or rather fet with 
fil"ireVpots g about the edges making them feeme like white teeth(or as Gefner compare* them to the filvec 
like fins of Fifties) very pleafant to behold, for in the Winter when no flower appeare* this and the lad (and 
the firft that I have exprefled in my former booke, being all of one genus) give* as much delight as when ic 
is * flower,which are many (landing on feverall footeftalkes, each leale whereof is p»t white and part purple, 
variably diversified in every one of them. ^ . 
The firft oroweth very plentifully in many places of this kingdome, but especially in all the weft parts of this 
land upon ftone and mud walls, upon rockes alfo,and inftony places upon the ground, at the bottome of old 
trees’ and fometimes on the bodies of them that are decayed and rotten : the other of that fort in f« tugall as is 
lavd’- thefecond on the Pyrenian hills, the other two grow upon the rockes and among the very ftones 
where there is l'carfe any earth for the rootes to abide, on the Alpes of the Helvetians or Sinters, and upon the 
hill called Hortus Wei neare Mompelier. 
The Time. 
The firft doth ufuallv flower fooner then the other, as at the beginning of Maj % and che feede ripening quickly 
after Iheddeth it felf Jo that about the end of May ufually the leaves and ftalks are withered dry and gone mull 
September that the leaves fpring up againe and fo abide all Winter: the fecondl about the middle of A^/,*e other 
two fometime flower not untill lime andJWy.and their feede is ripe in Aitgt 1/?,thole heads that bare ftalks ufually 
perilhinc together,and the other thatbare not abiding all the extiemity of the Winter. 
r b The Thames, 
The firft is called ill Greeke mtoaiiJSi- Cotyledonab aeetabulifiveumbilici figura, and therefore the Latmes call 
it Acetabulum as well as Cotyledon or VmbiUcw Veneri,-. it ha* alfo divers other names; as Scutum cal, Scute urn, 
Terra Vmbilicus, Hortm Vencrii and Her bn C'oxendkum : the Italians call it Ombihco di Venire, andfomeC par. 
tivole. that is pot covers, the Spaniards Scudctes, that is Shields, the French Efcunlles and Nombnll da Z enw, the 
Germane! Lofdkraut and Navelkraut, the ‘DutchNavelcruijt, and we 111 Englijb of <ome Navelwort, or great 
Navelwort, Wall Pennywort, Hipwort, Kidneywort, praw-Navell and Navell of the ear*. The othe is 
called of fome in Greeke w»M<SW hit & Cotyledon alter Cynialtmfl nd ownuor S cytalmm, but they 
are rather referred to the former great Houfeleeke, which I have (hewed you before, and is the true Cotyledon 
alter of Diofcoridesby the judgement of Cltsfiw and others, the fccond is ufiiahy called Sedum [erratum with 
molt Herbarifts: I have as you fee joyned it here as fitted I thinke, but the other two laft forts haveobtained that 
name of Cotyledon from CMatthiolus who firft called them fo, and is dill kept and held currant with many, yet 
confounded alfo with many others for the likeneffeunto Sedum minus, as with Cordus, Gefner, Camertnus.lioUo- 
nans and Baubinus,vsbo often call them Seda, and very properly, for there is no herbe can io properly be called 
a Sedum as that which ha* the leaves placed circle wife, one within another as they have, but becaple the to y- 
ledon is of that fafhion it is I faid ;uftly termed a S edum. 
TheVertties. 
The Wall Pennywort as Galen faith is of mixt qualities, that is, of moift and cold, fomewhat aflringent and a 
little bitter withall, whereby it cooleth 3 repelleth clenfeth and difeufleth, and is very cfte&uall for all inflamma¬ 
tions and unnaturall heates,either- inwardly tocoole a fainting hot ftomackc or an hot Liver, or the bowels or 
the mother,to drinke the juice or the diftilled water, or clfe outwardly for pimples, redneffe. Saint Antho¬ 
nies fni and the like heates and inflammations,to apply the bruifed herbe or to bache the place with the juice or 
the diddled water: the faid j'uice or water helpeth much alfo to heale lore kidneys, tome or fretted by the ftone 
or exulcerated within and eafeth the paines: it provoketh Vrine likewife, and is availeable for the droplie it 
helpeth alfo to breake the ftone,and to coole the inflamed parts by the paines thereof,and other wringing paines of 
the bowels and the bloody flux* is Angular good for the paincfull piles or hemorroidall vemes, to coole and tem¬ 
per their heate and the lharpeneffe of blood in them,and to cafe their paines, to nfe the juice as a bathe unto them, 
or made into an oyntment by it felfe or with Myrrhe or other things conducive thereunto: it is no Ic 
all to give safe of paines to the hot goute, the Sciatica and the inflammations and (wellings in the cods, ana 
