if r ibe 7. The Theater of Plants. Chap. 28. 867 
3. TarfapafiorU minor. Small Shcpheards purfe. 
id This fmall one is in all things like the firft, but that it is leffe in every parr thereof. And there is alfo another Minor{oii> 
■mall one that is in all things like the fecond, having no divifion on the leaves. ixttgt. 
4. Burfapttflorit Alpina hirfiuta. Hairy Mountaines Shephcards purfe. 
v This famll Shcpheards purle hath many fmall leaves lying in a roun4 compaffe upon the ground foft and 
( i ioary or hairy, of the bigneffe of Lentilles, {lightly dented, and fometimes nbt at all, matting or Ipreading many 
ibiieads of leaves, and from thence many (lender naked ffalkes, bearing white flowers,and fmall long and yellowifh 
laoouches, greater than ttie common,with fmall reddifh feede within them •• the roote is fmall and threddy. 
The Place. 
The greater and leffer forts that have entleaves are frequent in every place with us. but the other two with 
titvhole, I have not feene to grow wilde, but in Germany, Montpelier , and Italy , as Baahintu zn&Thalim lay. 
The Time. 
I They flower and feede all the Summer long, yea fo quickc fome of them are, that they flower and feede twice 
«inevery jteare. The Names. 
II It hath no Greeks name, and alfthac have written hereof do'call it in l.atine Barft or per a pafisris , except Gefner , 
rlwho calleth it Thlasfi fatmim <£r f'afior Unrantes Herba Cancri, Bauhintu maketh particular relation both of the 
- fecond and the lafl: : and ThaUtu of that fmall one with whole leaves: the Italians call it after the Latine name 
y Bor fit di pa fore, the French T'abonret & bourfie de bergier , the Cjermanes Siekelkraut, and Tefchclkyant, the ‘Dutch 
yUSerfekexs,and we in Englifi Shepheards purle or pouch, and in the North, Picke purfe and Cafeweede. 
The fieri Het. 
Some doe hold that Shepheards purfe is cold and binding, others finding a little heate upon thetaffeof the 
K flowers and feede, doe judge it qpt to be cold at all but drying and aftringent, and by thatonely quality worketh 
I fo powerfully in flaying all fluxes of bloud,either in inward or outward wounds, as alio the fluxes or hikes of the 
7: faellie, the blondy fluxe, and the abundance of womens courfes, or the pilling of bloud, the j'uyce or the decotflion 
II of the herbe with fome Plantane being drunke, or any other way taken: fome doe hold that the greene herbe 
| bruited and bound to the wrefts of the hands, and foies of the feete will helps the yellow j'aundife: thy herbe 
Ji bmiled and laid pultis wife upon inflammations, Saint Anthonies lire, or the like peprelTeth them-' the j'uyce drop- 
3 ped into mattering or running cares helpeth them: it clofeth the lippes of greene wounds, and is of great effeft 
3 be.ng made into a falve for wounds in the head. 
Chap. XXVIII. 
'JUyagrnm. Gold of pleafure,’ 
He other plant that I entend here to fet forth, and therein alfo not pleating my feife to bring them into 
this Claffis is Myogram, Gold ofpleafure, whereof there are more forts come to our knowledge in 
thele dayesthan formerly hath beene. 
i. UUyagrum fativum. Garden gold of pleafure. 
This golden feeded plant rifeth up with one or more upright round (hikes about two foote high, fet with fen- 
dry long and fomewhat narrow leaves, of a whitilh greene colour, fomewhat deepely dented about the edges, or 
deepely waved, copaffing them at thebottome, fpread from the middle upwards into (undry branches,bearing at 
their tops very fmall yellow flowers, where when they are fallen,come fmall flat feede vc(lejls,with gold yellow 
coloured feede within them,fomewhat long and fmall,the roote is fmall and long, perifhing thill after feede time. 
2. Myogram fylvefirefive Pfendompagram. Wild gold ofpleafure. 
"1 his plant that is much found among the fieldes of flaxe, fpringeth up but with one round ftallte, almoft a yard 
high, fet about with long and fomewhat narrow leaves, refembling thofe of Woadc,but longer and (mailer poin¬ 
ted, broad at the botrome where they compaffe the ftalkes about with a point end flicking ouc on each fide, (hoo¬ 
ting forth many branches from the very botrome almoft, at whofe toppes come forth divers Whitilh flowers ve¬ 
t's like unto thofe of Flaxe, after which rife round fmall heades, with a fmall pointat the toppe, very like in fa- 
fhion unto the Myogram with one feede therein, but thefe are full of fmall yellowifh feedes like unto Creffes, 
but fweeteintaftc without any acrimony when it is dry, and exceeding bitter when it isfrefhas the herbe being 
greene is alfo. 
3. Camclina five Myagrum alterum amarttm. F.ngfifb Wfjrmefeede. 
The Engtijh Wormefcedcgrowcth very like the lafl, with a taller upright ftaike, branching toward the top, 
but thicker fet with long and narrow greene leaves, (bmewhat like unro thofe of the (ingle Wall-flowers, but 
{mailer, and of a whiter greene colour, and very like unto the leaves of Clufins his L'ticontutnfylvefire. that it is; 
often miftaken for it, blit that the leaves of this are fomewhat Imaller and not of fo frefh a greene colour, at the 
toppes of the ftalkes and branches come forth many very fmall pale yellow flowers made of foure leaves apeece, 
very like allounto thofe of that Leacoiam, but much fmaller, even more than Iialfe, which afterwards give fmall 
long cods, containing within them very pale coloured feede, bitter intafte, theroote is fmall and woo’ddy, pe- 
riffling every yeare after (cede, but riling agair.e of the fhed feede. 
4 . tMyagrumfatidum. Stinking gold of plealure. 
The ffalkes of this Myagrum rile to be about two foote high being rough, round, and greene, bearing rough 
pale greene leaves on them, fet here and there one above another, being foure or five inches long, and one and 3 a 
halfe broad.very lightly waved about the edges: at the tops of the branched ftalkes ftand divers fmall pale yellow 
flowers upon long foote ftalkes in a thicke tuft together .where unto.fuccecde fmall round huske containing fmall 
feede : the leaves and flowers hereof, not onely bruited but growing, have fomewhat a grievous orevillfent. 
S. Myagrummomljermonmapts. The greater one grained gold of pleafure. 
The firftleaves hereof that lie upon the ground are long andnarrow, round pointed, and cutinontheodges 
like unto Succory leaves, with a white line in tlje middle of every one, and of a pale greens colour, but thofe that 
E c e 6 * " grow. 
