The Theater of Plants. 
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in man y other excellent matters declare hisinduitry, .whereby many have reaped much. profit thereby, I would' 
we had many more fuch worthy Merchants continually. The lul'imtciVt it Trihlo anjuaiico. Hie French Ma~ 
err, and-$«fi<w. The Gtrmmes infer **/, Tbe’pttuh fetter mien and Afmktfert, and vveiti £»ihjb Water 
Caltrops, or Water nuts or Saligei after the French.. 
The> Venues. 
The leaves are cooling and reprclTc inflammations being made into a pultis and applycd : the Juice mixed with 
hony healcththcCankers.andloresofthetriouthandthroate.andtherankeneffeof the gutemes being gargled,; 
Fhnj faith that the Thracians that inhabit about the river Strimon,io fatten their horfes with the leav es and make 
bread of c .enut kernels toieedc thcmielvcs which doth binde the belly. 
C H A ». XXVII. 
ii Stritiotes five Militaris Aie-eides. Water Souldier. 
He Water Souldier bath divers and (undry long narrow leaves (birpe pointed fer ciofe together 
fomewhat like unto the leaves of Aloes tor the forme, .but much lefl'c and (harpely toothed about 
the edgeslike iralfo, from among which rife up (hort (hikes not much higher then the leaves, 
and fometimes lower,bearing one greene threeforked head onelyat the toppe much like unto a 
LobAers claw, which is the huske, out of which commeth a white flower, confiding of tin ee 
leaves with dtversyeflowifh hairy threds in the middle: under thele leaves there is a uuall fl 10 rt 
head,broadpfl: next unto the leaves and fmalleft dovvnewards, from whence doe proceede fundty long flripps, 
nke fmall yvormes (wherewith as 'Dodonhits faith, tome crafty men and women leeches putting them into glades 
with water to make them (hew tbi grcater.make others bcleeve that they are wormes which came otic of their 
bodies, to whom they have given medicines for that purpoie ) which take roote inthe mitdde unde r the Wa¬ 
ter. 
2 . Str at totes Aquatic A verA Diofccridu eyfEgjftiAcA, 
_ ^ The true Water Houfeleeke of Egypt. 
This Water Houfclcckc hath divers large and broad chrcke, hard and hairy whitifli greene leaves Ivina on the 
water,m three or fourerowcs,rGundcompafled together.likeuntothofeof the great tree Houieleekc,butgre.iccr 
the ourcrmoll row of them being broadeft.and the inner fmaller and fmaller. Alarms fhewith them to be pointed’, 
