132S Chap. 3 * 
Theatrum Botanicnm. 
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r r nn .helSikSand bTawhes which are many,wd having other (trailer leaves comming forth at the joynts 
-" ’ tSefpiMd head of flower, rpening notfo much,but abiding clofer.in feme wholly redd,IT,both above 
vi and white m the rmddle.in others reddilh below,and yellower above, or mixed With white yellow. 
likewife.t—. 
and below,and white in the imddle,i..--—' i„' 
and "reene amongft, you may fay it is the fame, with thefe onely dll 
■ r MeUmpyrum perpufidum luteum, Small blackc Wheate. 
T . . ornwin- among the come,in the fieldes of Provence in Pram, nleth not above two inches 
This woolly Wheate hath a Yquare hoary or woolly ftalke »loots long, branching forth from the roots with 
two lone and narrow woolly leaves fet at every joynt, finely dented on the edges, much like unto thole of the 
dcitedcXi",, on the roppes of the ftalkes and branches are fet 1 ong fpiked heads, foft and woolly, with long 
flowers breaking out ofthem like the others but fpreading a little broader. 
The place and Time, 
The firft as T laid groweth among bulhes and brakes and the like, upon barren heathes, as at Humpjleede, neere 
Louden and many ofher places oftfo Land,but I have not head that any of the reft havebeene found with us but 
in Auflria and German ry.the fifth in France, and the laft m Spake, and doc flower moft of the Summer, the feede ri¬ 
pening fodrie after. Therms. 
Kf,™v»r Crauoeonum is remembted by ‘Dio[cor.de,,,denimri, Jici,*r,hoc eft feme* retire ecu,re, 
& .naf, vir.bu, .mbutre, but LMiUmpyrum is not, faving that he faith CraUog.num, hath the ike leaves1 to Me- 
lump,rum and that Myngrum was called alfo MeUmpyrum, but Theephre.Hu, in his eighth Books and fifth Chap¬ 
ter men'ioneth MeUmpyrum to grow among corne.and which m comparifon of L°h«m Darnell, that trouble* 
the’brainche caUeth re/imecem, a harmelefle thing. Galen hath it prime alimentornm ulume, to grow from dege. 
nerated Wheate, and lome thinke that the Stelcphurc, of Pliny lit ,, c.iy.is it,and as fome thinke it is his Mope, 
cure’s alfo but ri"htly in neither,as it is likely, TSauhinu, alfo th.nketh it may be Aera of Theophraftu, .which is 
eenerallv taken to be Lei,urn, but it cannot be his Ar«,becaufc he nameth them both in one Chapter, and compa¬ 
red them together: Moft men now adaye. call it Trilkum vaceinum or tavmnm. Be.uh.nu, make* all thefe to 
be MeUmpyra , not allowing any one diftinftly to be called Crauogonum, but as others doe lo call them, Clufiu, 
in following an ancient error among the Germane,, whereas Tragus fir ft as it is likely remembreth iCcallal, them 
Parieturia f.hetri,, which he faith himfelfe he knoweth no reafon or caule why it fhould be fo called The hrft 
here is the Tarietariafylveftrit fecund* of Clujiu,, called Crauogonum by Lohel and others, Lugduneuft, bath it 
both by the name of Satureia lutea Dalechampiy in one place, and by Bp,feu, uemoreuf,, lute* m another ■ J“ter- 
montanu, caUeth it Milium Mvaticum, and Thalim and Buuhinu, Melampjrum The fecond is Cluf.u, his third 
Pane,aria (ylvcftritjxA called Triticum vaccinum by Tragus,Doionant and Lugdunenfis, and MeUmpyrum bv C*. 
meruriu, and others. The third is the laft MeUmpyrum of Th.hu, as it is likely, and the auguft.fohum, or/»««i» 
Linetrie folio of Bauhinu,, The fourth is the CMelumpjrum oiLetel, and the firft P arte,ar.afylvejtru of Clufiw. 
The fifth is called fo by Label as ic is in the title. And the laft is called Parietaria rnontana Tsetica by Clttfius in his 
Cur a pofiniores i which Btuhintu calleth (JWelampyrum Lnuginojum Htticum. The French call them Ble to vxche, 
and tie de £ra/,the Germane, Kuweijfcn, and trawnjffeifcb blumen t the 'Dutch Peer,, t/eemen, and wee in Englifh 
Cow wheate,and Melampjrum,Wacke wheate generally, fome authours,account them degenerations of wheaio 
and H ye others take them to be the faults of the Come when as they ate with them ai well as with as, no other 
then weedes.as Cockle,Blew bottles,and Cornerofe.which come where they arefowne.as well out of the Come 
as in it. 1 rhe Vertuet. 
The Cow Wheates generally in all the places where they grow among Come, if theybe not weeded out, but 
fuffered untill the Corne is gathered, doe make the bread blacker then that which hath it not is Tragus faith, and 
caufeth the like diflignes in the head and eyes that Darnell doth, as Lobcl faith, yet he faith the feede is a great in¬ 
cendiary to Venery, is'Diofcor.des and P liny fpcaketh of it before. Galen faith that the feede oiCrutiogonnmis 
lliarpe in tafle,and isufed as Millet is. -. ■ ' '/ 
C HA?. III. ' 
Bufragia. Eyebtight. 
Lthough formerly there hath becnebut one fort of Eyebright knowne, yet tkefe later times have found 
out diversherbes that for their likeneffc thereunto they have entituled by the fame name with their 01- 
111 verfitics as (hall be (hewed together. 
i i, Sufragiuvulgaru. Common Eyebright. 
The common Eyebright is a fmall low herbe, riling up nfually but with one blackifh greene ftatke, a.fpanne 
high, or not much more, Ipread from the bottomc into fundry branches, whereon are fet fmall and almoft round 
y et pointed darke greenedeaves,finely fnipped about the edges, two alwayes fee together and very thicket at^the 
joynts with the leaves from the middle up wards,come forth fmall white flowers ftriped with purple,and ycjlow 
fpors and ftripes,alter which follow fmall roundheads with very fmall feede therein, the roote is long fmall and 
tbreddy at the end,this is found on fome hills, to vary in the colour of the flower to be more whitrfh, yellow, or 
more purple. * 
I. Fnfragi* minima. Small Eyebright. , 
This fmall Eyebright groweth not much above two inches high, having narrower and fmallcr leaves thereon 
then the former,in all other things not differing from the former. 
3. Sufrugia pratinfi, rubra major , Great red Wooddy Eyebright. 
Thiswooddy wildc kinderilethup with one weoddy fquarc brownifis flalkc divided into fnndry branches,! 
