The Theater ofTlants. 
Chap.62- 141^ 
Tr’BI 14. 
divided leaves, and the fmall flalkes have round heads not differing in any other thing from the lath. 
3. Lichen petrsus racemofus .Cluftcr headed Liverwort. 
This Liverwort that groweth upon the ftones by wells and fprings, hatfi much leifcr leaves than the former, 
but lying fiat one upon another m the like manner,and of a paler greene colour and (omewhathayrie, from among 
which rife (lender naked ftalkes, two inches high, bearing at their toppes l'mal! heads made like a duller of divers 
graincs fee together of a reddifii colour. 
r* Lithe 1 five Kcpaticovulgaru. 
Common ground Liverwort, 
.f 
a 
■Jmt* 
<j, Lichenpetram fiieMus. Liverwort with 
a hooded head. 
This Liverwort groweth in the like moyft ftony 
places.^ and hath fuch like leaves lying one upon ano¬ 
ther of a yellowifh greene colour, dalhr over with an 
a(h colour, and (patttd a little in the middle of them, 
the ftalke groweth to be three or foure inches high, 
being whfte frnooth cleare or tranfparent, and of the 
thickeneffe of amfh, whereon fhndeth afmallhead, 
fomewhat like unto a hat divided underneath into 
five parts, ofa fpongic fubllance.greene at the firft, then 
yellow, and laltly reddilh, under which are growing 
the fruite, which are of a darke purple colour and fappie 
while chey.aro fre(li,but being dry have a (inoakic pow¬ 
der within them in Head of feedc: the rootes arefmall 
fine and white. 
5. Lichen alter minor folio calceato. Small 
Liverwort with skinnie hedes. 
This (mall Liverwort hath frnooth tranlparent’lcaves 
mo c tender and fmall than any of the former, growing 
in ci ne to be of a hlackifh pnrplecolour, and notlying 
or flicking one to anocher, as the other: from the backc 
whereof groweth forth a skinne or fheath, fhaped like 
a fiiooe, whofebrimmes are a little crumpled and ray- 
fed higher than the reft, from whence rife up foure lit¬ 
tle darke greene (timing heads, of the bigneffe of the 
fmalldl Pole, which afterwards open into yellow flo¬ 
wers, with foure leaves apeece,(landing on yellowifh 
((hikes foure inches high, with divers impalpable 
threads in the middle, theroote hath fibers as fmallas 
(tike. 
6 . Lichen petraus minimus acaulis. The fmalleft 
Liverwort without (hikes. 
This Liverwort is the fmalleft of any, having leaves 
no bigger than the nayles of ones finger, greene and 
rough with white fpors, this hath cerraine fad purplifli 
1 kins fet on both (ides of the lower part of the leafe, 
before any (lower appeare, but when the leafe groweth 
greater.it waxeth of a fad purplifb colour like the skins 
and (wellcth at the end, fending fortha fmall fruit,as big as a (mall Pcafe,being of the lame colour with the leafe' 
-ppic or full ofwhitifti watry juyee, which afterwards as the fruitegrowethripe, changcth yellow and heino 
broken hath then a yellow powder, which will colour their fingers that touch irf to the feaves cleave v-rv (inf 
fhorc white fibres whereby it livetb. . ’ cue waves cicave very hne 
. , . 7 ■ Lichenpetrtm purpureas Derbienf,,. Corke or Archill 
Thcre is growing in Darbijbire upon the free ftones of the Mountaincs a kinde of herbe much rcfemblinn T ; 
verworr, butofa fad purphlh colour which the poore people there gather, and grindine ir make into a 
mafic, keeping it m barrels, and therewith make akinde’of murrie or purplifh dye which althouohic wiilnnr 
holdccfiour 111 the cloth long, but will ftarve and change, yet it fciveth ihepoore people for their wearing very, 
. _ The Place and Time and Names. 
1 here needeth no further declaration of any of thelc Liverworc^then hath beene fnrn'ficr? at- 
ons.Quely let me cell you that the third is taken from ’Smhinm, as the fourth, filth and fixth from rw defcr 'P» • 
tit e to the fifth is cauleca/ceato, but his defeription thereof fheweth it rather in the’leafe then (talk- andcTcrefnr- 
: 1 have fo called ir. The Greekes call it *«*V,and fo in Larine Luuon of (ome Hepatic* and TeZlril ri £ 
! fFOm th ‘- fo ™ e of the leaves or from helon* the d,leafe called Lichen WwhiSffiiAe kin’ne and makf 
1 it rough or from hefotng the difeafes of the Liver. The Arabian, call i: Wand A/fachel The Lu "It Z, i Z 
> gattlla, the French Hepatite,the Germanes Stein Leber kraut. The Dutch Steenelop 1 rcr 1 .it. **“ “ ^ 
j . TheVertues. 
1 v' S 3 finRUlar " ood h " be for aU the difeafcs of the Liver,both to code and cleanfe it and helnerh ,1 
fretting and running fores and fcabs.&c.the name it fclfe importing fo much § ’ r,n S worm «s“ d othec 
Having 
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