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4. T.olygala repens. Creeping Milkewort. 
This fmall Milkewoit hath a number of flalkes, fall of 
branches lying and fpreading on the ground, not above a 
fpan long,(ec thickc by couples wiih very (mall leaves like 
Herniaria Rupturewort: the flowers are of a whitifh co¬ 
lour, (landing among the leaves at the toppcs in wharles 
cotnpafling the Italics one above another. 
y. PolygaU affinis. Ballard Milkewort. 
Thisfmall plant fpreadeth many weakc (lender round 
flalkes upon the ground a (panne long or more, fet with 
fundry fmall leaves without order, in falhion (omewhat 
like unto Mirtle leaves, but not fo ranch pointed,the flow¬ 
ers are very beautifull, (landing in a (mall fpike one above 
another.with leaves amongftthem, confiding of fixe leaves 
of a fine bright (hining purple colour, the feede is (mall, 
contained in (mall huakes: the roote is made of final! long 
and white fibres. 
The Place and Tim'. 
The ficflkinde groweth not in our Country that lean 
heart of,but in Auftria,Germany ,and the parts thereabouts, 
found our by Clupus. The fecondis frequent with us, as 
well in barren and unfilled places, heathes and the like, as 
in fertile and padure grounds, yet there it will be more 
fiefh and large. The third about Alcmpelitr, and fo doth 
the fourth and lad.,and in other places in France not farre of. 
They all flower in the beginning or middle of May, and 
continue flowring amoneth, and perfefl their feede pre- 
(ently alter. 
The Names. 
The name Toly gala or Polygalon as Tracts* doth call ir,i; 
impofedon thefepiants, upon fuppofall that they arethe 
Polygala of ‘Diofcorietcs , but they doc but referable it, and 
are not the fame, and therefore Lobel calleth it Poly gala re- 
centiorum, as not judging it to be tight, which GefnerzlCo 
before him perceived by the bitter cade it hath, and therefore called it Amarella, yet according to the german? 
vulgar name,he called it alfo CrucisfLos.Dodonaiu^flHjiWyLobel, and fundry others following the currant knowne 
name, call it Polygal*,i$ not knowing a fitter to call it by, •pttAnguilarake.mtthioaWtx.Thrfum, and Dodonaut 
Flos Amber vatu. Clnfim callctll the fir (l Polygalavulgari, major find, the fecoud minor, although it be fet amide, 
major for minor. The third Bauhinus referreth to the Ombrychu tertia purpurea of Lugiunenfis, and calleth it him- 
fclfe Polygalaacutioribste follys Aionfpeliaca. The fourth is generally called PolygaUrepens by Lobel , and all others 
that have written of it .* The lall is the Chamamyrpne cjuorundam of Lugdunenfis, which Baubintu calleth Poly gale 
affinhas Idoe. Bauhinus numbreth up among thctc Polygala s^ one with a yellow flower, which he referreth to 
a plant that Anguilara found, and was like unto a Lentill,but had thicker and fuller leave s, a yellow flower and 
feede in cods.which I have referr ed rather ro the Scorpioides tegumino/a , as I have there (hewed. The ItalianscM 
it Poligala , the French Vherbe aneroid ,the germane! freutz blrtmlin t and Ramfelyhe. Dutch Crnys bloomen.^rtd we 
in Snglijh Ging-flowcr,Croffe-flower,oi- Milkewort. 
The Vertttes. 
Ge filer as I (hewed you before,by rcafon ofthebitterneffe of this herbe, having called it AmareUa, faith that he 
found itto purge choller,having made the tryall of iron himfelfe, by fleeping a hand full thereof ail night in wine, 
and drihking it in the morning,and therefore is not likely to encreafc millte in womens brells, neither bitter nor 
purgings thing working any fuch effcfl that we have known,and therefore cannot be the Polygala ofDiofcorides^ 
which worketh not that cffedl s other certainty hereof we have not yet learned,and therefore we forbeare to fet 
downe gheffes or falfities. 
* IV,fa a ' Opens. Creep mg Milkewort. 
Chap. V I. 
Antirrhinum fylveftre medium. The greater wild Snapdragon- 
He wilde Snapdragon is of two forts, one greater then another, the greater whereof rifeth up ufu- 
ally but with one iialke,branching forth on all (ides into (omc other, whereon arc fet long 
fomewhat narrow thicke darkegreene leaves, by couples : at the toppes ofthe dalkes and bran- • ua ‘ 
ches dand in feverall places reddifli purple gaping dowers, in (hape like thofe of the garden or 
manured kinde,but farre leffe and without any white colour therein, after which come fuch like 
heads,like calves fnoutes,as in the other,but not halfe fo bigge, wherein is contained very fmall 
blackifii b-owne feede: the roote is fmall and perifhing, every yeare regaining it felfe from the fhed feede. We 
have had another ofthis lort brought us out of Spams by 2 ? 0 c/,often remembred before, whole flower was much 
more beautifull, being of a bright crimfon colour, the mouth or chappes being of a yellowifli white, much like , u 
fomeofrhe garden kindes,but more lively for colour. As alfo another with milke white flowers, which fpreadeth Artrum 
abroad a little more then the former. The lefler fort groweth lower by the one halfe, yet bulbing thicker with fore alio, 
branches, having long narrow leaves not halfe fo great, and the flowers very (mall alfo and whitifh, the feede is 
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