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Theatrum Potamcnm, 
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or fine linnen to give the better font. Theoylethit ismadeof the flowers by inflation is good foranv col 
part of the body to warme it,and to cafe the paines of the crampe,and ditching in the fides. ' 
Chap. LI. 
Polemenium pvcTrifohMmfrxticans vel lafminum lutenm vnlgare. 
Shrub Trefoile or the ordinary yellow Iafmine. 
Volcmarrumfnt Trifolium fruticam vel lafminum 
luleum vulgarc. Shrubbc Trcfoile.ur ebe 
ordinary yellow I.ilinuK', 
^though as I laid in the Chapter before,this plant is not of the Iafmines, yet becaufe it hath by time ob- 
rained that name, and that the flowers thereof in forme refemble the white Iafminc I thought it pond 
to joyne it next unto them, becaufe I would not put it into their Chapter. It fpreadeth white rooter, 
at thefuff'but after ofa da^ke^ray^l^colowfwhereon^ire 3 * 65 man ^ ai,d ^ ent ^ er twiggy branches,green 
let at fevcrall didances,three finall darke greene leaves to¬ 
gether on every dalke, the end lcafc being the bigged: at 
the j'oynts with the leaves come forth the flowers, each 
hngly by it felfe upon a dalke which are long and hollow, 
ending in five leaves ufually, jet lometimes in fixe, very 
like unto the flowers of the white Ialmine but yellow,and 
thereupon it was called a yellow Iadnine.which being pad, 
there follow other roend blacke Chining berries of the bie- 
n 1- e i° fa SreaC Pcafe or k'gSfr 11111 of a purplifh juyee 
winch will colour ones fingers that Or all bruile them. 
The Place and Time, 
This greweth plentifully about Momplier, and abideth 
well any where in our Country: it fiowreth in lull, but 
weleldome lee i;ipe fruite the eon. 
T be Names, 
If is called Polemomum Monsjelienfium by Cefner Lobel 
Camera tins aid Lugdunevfrs ^ and Trifolium frutican, by Do - 
doimiu and Tebcrmor.tamu, who alio calleth it 1 bacci. 
jerafivemfoiu, and Cjefner Rutacafraria Gnllornm Men. 
Jpehenfium, and by fomc lafminum Uteum Ita/icum, vec 
Colx.r.na calletli it, lafmini fpeciei trifo/ia non videturad 
hPolemonium a'Cedere, Bijler \ in horto SjjletenR, fiieweth 
one with foure leaves, that ate greener, and not !o fharpe 
pointed, and Bauhinul Fafmn;HmlitUnmvtilgo diUitm bac. 
cifemm, who alio giveth this note of it, thac at Mompeli. 
" ! c ** oP \ en foimtJ but with one leafe alone upon a (hike 
although in Gardens it hath three.lt is veiy doub lull whe¬ 
ther it Ihonld be the ToUmoniitm of Diofcorides or no for 
you hive here the judgement or Column.1, non vidttur ad 
/- lemomumaccedere, although Ljvic/wcu'd make it agree 
ill ail things. Some would make it therefore a (jtifmf but 
1: agree h rhereto in nothing, but ip. having three leaves to¬ 
gether. We cannot learr.e what It., Inn, French, or Dutch 
nameithach, but in Fnghfb it may be called ShrubteTre- 
foile,accordirg to the Latine, hut Gerard faith, ic is called 
bare,yet I know not where nor by whom • it is ufu- 
-11 n j , 7' . ■ , . / ‘tisuiu- 
ally called now adates the yellow Iafmine from the likendfe of the flowers. 
... . TheVertues, 
PdlfT'’ T ° f 3ny k o° Wne pr ° PCrty “ hlth hr “ftaine.and therefore to give you the narticn'ar Vcrtue- of 
errour. ' " ,w len as Peradventure not any one can belong thercunto.wercneedelefli, and the ground of a great 
Chap. L11. 
Sjringa, The Pipe tree. 
&S h 1 h r. ve fl ' eweJ y™ theft fre forts of Pipe trees in my former Booke, yet Ithinkeitnct 
'i fea!vcihere? ty0U wlch them a § amc here > and giveyou a fulldefcripcion of that fort that was de- 
Tj.-i,i I - LiUc c JMwhiolifive Sj/rinpaflore caruleo, The blew Pipe tree or Lilac. 
of the branches come forth man'll* 0 ^ ^ ^ m ln 'y ar ^ S| ff an ^ ,n g °n long fooreflalkes : « the toppes of many 
°‘ nC td ‘ Cl1 mm y W hoIio 'V hlewifli purple flowers, ending in five leaves, in a long tuft toge- 
fiber. 
