99 8 ChaP/JO. 
Theatrum \Botanicum. 
T r i b e 9. 
finpinellaJpino/a. Thorny Burnet. 
The Thames. 
This plant is generally called PimpmeUafpino/a, and by 
fomeasis aforefaid Poterium but faltly for Pcurium as 
you have hea.d before hath very flrong and long white 
thornes, the leaves arc like Lentills, the fruit are cods 
wherein lye the feede and the roote yeeldeth a kmdeof 
gumme all which arc contrary herein as you may perceive 
by the dclcription, the leaves hereof being dented about, 
and in (hew very like Burnet which together with the 
prickes hath caufed the name of thorny Burnet. Hone, 
rim Tellw in his (econd Epiftle unto Clufuss (heweth ve- 
ry learnedly and by found and good reafons, that this 
plant being called <w@SA Stwbeda not onely ill Cand) but 
of the Srtekes in generall (which name is but corrupted 
from Subc) is the true Subc of Diofeeridcs although hce 
hath not given any defeription thereof ( but differeth 
much from the Subc of Galen) (irll becaufe the names are 
fo like,then that the drying qualities herein arc anfwera- 
hle to the Subc of TDiofcorides : next bee Iheweth that 
the Pideas ofTheophraJlm lib.6.cap.\. called alfo Sube of 
foineashc faith (and not Pbleum which is a marfhor 
water plan, the atfinitie of the names havi g deceived 
many learned men in caking them to be both onejis num- 
bred by him among the thorny plants that have thornes 
befide the leaves as this Burnet hath ( and not as Gaxa 
trarflatethit, atche thorny leafe hath another leafe pla¬ 
ced with it J comparing it therein unto Ononis and Tri¬ 
butes : and that Stas is a thorny plant, Plutarbe in the 
life of rfe/rwfhewcth, where faying, loxus the l'onne 
of Menalippus taking care to plant a colony at Curia from 
whence the Ioxides had their original!, have this cuftome 
among them that they neither burne the thornes of Afro- 
r.wm nor of Stcbc but have them in reverence and ho¬ 
nour : i/£ri*r alfo in his third booke and 29. Chapteraf- 
h'rmeth that Ppithyrmtm (or rather C*/c«M)groweth upon . , . .. ,,, . . 
Jo, f-eibut whereas Theophraftusm his (ixt book and third Chapter (eemethto make it peculiar to Fh eosCappar„ 
and Tribulus,to have not onely a thorny (falke but a prickly leafe alfo, hce differing herein much h om himlt Ifer 
for in the fame booke and fiftchapter hee faith, that Phleos and H’ppophcos (which Gaxa tranllateth 
have gentle leaves and not prickly as Intnris or Capparis hathrbut Fli»J in his *i. booke and ‘5-Chapter not 
riehtlv conlidcting what Thcophrafhu had written of ■fra^hath not onely erred himfe.fc but ha.bbeentthe 
caufeofmany other mens errours. Now concerning Pbleum that it is a plant farre differing 1 from Jr* e,3nd rec¬ 
koned alwayes by the Grecke writers among the marfh plants and not among the thorny,thefe things may ef¬ 
ficiently induce. Firfl Plutark. in hi fecond booke of naturall qneftions faith thus, Laytm mud know that all 
mai til plants fiich as Tipha.Phleum and Vina, doe neither fpring nor grow it the fames fail not in their proper lea- 
fon. Arilhiphanit alfo faith the fame in his Comedy of Frogs, where the quite faith, we have . eenc skipping 
amon" the Cypirw and pbleum re joycing in their fongs.-and Thcophrufttu laftly in his fourth booke and eleventh 
Chapter numbreth Thleum among the plants of the lalte Orclmmenins ,xnd appointed! two kindes, the male that 
beareth fruit and the female that is barren ferving onely to binde things vyichall, and faith alio that the fruit of 
this Pbleum is called Arabella, whereof they ulc to make a lye, and is a certaine flat thing like a Cake felt andred- 
difh which plant is yet unknoivnetothebeft herbarids of thefe times. Anguilara tooke this P, mpme/la to bee 
yaxl «©■ chalceios fixe ts£raria Tbeophrafli, and flujim doth fo entitle it alio, Ranmlpus faith that the Moores 
of the country about Libanns call it Bellan and faith it may well be the Sanguiforba fpino/a of others: Clufu rand 
Gamer aritu call it PmpinelU fpino/a ,and Bauhinus P oterio ajfnu folijs PimpincUa ffinofa,v, though there were ano¬ 
ther Pimpinella Ipinofasmd thatthishad leaves but like unto it. 
The Vermes. 
This is of a very drying and binding qualitie, and therefore is taken to [fayTaskes and fluxes of the body, the 
herbe being boyledand thedecoffion taken fading, which Honttnus Bellas faith that they of C“”V “ve account 
to be a lure medicine to helpe them.whenfoever they needc for that purpofe. 
Chap. XX. 
AJpalatbui, Spalalos thorny Bulh or Broome. 
plo/corides maketh mention of two forts of Afpalatbtu,the one rcddiCh or purplifh under the upper barke, 
"> the other white, both which are almofl unknowne to the mod judicious at thefe times,yet Pona in his 
1 Latine and Italian Baldtu, hath expreffed the figure of the fird Ajfalathut, and in his Italian the figure al- 
1 fo of the (econd differing from thofe of Clufms and others, growing with Signer Contanni, all which 
I thinke fit to fhew you here. 
I, Afftalathiu alter Monfpelien/is, Uiofcmdit his fecond Afpalathus according to thofe of Montpelier. 
This Afpalathus or thorny bu(h of Montpelier ( where the learned did judge to be the fecond A/palatl mot 0 10- 
