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1. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter k.
ML2 = k LtM2
Solution
k = ML2 = LM−1t−1
LtM2
2. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter g.
T− 1 tL = gL−2
Solution
g = T−1 tL = L3tT−1
−2
L
3. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter h.
It−1 h = N
Solution
h = It−1 = N I−1 t
N
4. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter f.
3
MM−3 = a cos(f L)
Solution
The argument of a function must be dimensionless, so the parameter f must have the
dimension of reciprocal length. Note also that the left side of the equation is dimensionless.
Thus,
f = L−1
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5. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimension of the parameter p.
T = T log(T−2 t p)
Solution
The argument of a function must be dimensionless, so the parameter p must have the
dimensions
p = T2t−1
1. A structural engineer states that an I-beam in a truss has a design stress of “five million, six
hundred thousand pascals”. Write this stress using the appropriate SI unit prefix.
Solution
2. The power cord on an electric string trimmer carries a current of 5.2 A. How many milli-
amperes is this? How many microamperes?
Solution
Solution
Solution
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5. In the following list, various quantities are written using SI units incorrectly. Write the
quantities using the correct form of SI units.
Incorrect Correct
a. 4.5 mw 4.5 mW
b. 8.75 M pa 8.75 MPa
c. 200 Joules/sec 200 J/s
d. 20 W/m2 K 20 W/m2 ⋅K
e. 3 Amps 3A
1. Essay.
Solution
From Appendix B,
3. Consider a professional linebacker who weighs 310 lbf. What is his mass in slugs?
Solution
W = mg
m = W = 310 lbf
g 32.2 ft/s2
= 9.63 slug
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4. A rock (ρ = 2300 kg/m3) is suspended by a single rope. Assuming the rock to be spherical
with a radius of 20 cm, what is the tension in the rope?
Solution
If the weight of the rope itself is neglected, the tension in the rope is equivalent to the weight
of the rock. The weight of the rock is
W = mg
m = ρ V = ρ (4/3) π R3
= 77.07 kg
= 756 N
1. A micro switch is an electrical switch that requires only a small force to operate it. If a micro
switch is activated by a 0.25-oz force, what is the force in units of N that will activate it?
Solution
2. At room temperature, water has a density of about 62.4 lbm/ft3. Convert this value to units
of slug/in3 and kg/m3.
Solution
62.4 lbm × 1 slug × 1 ft3 = 1.12 × 10−3 slug/in3
ft3 32.17 lbm (12 in)3
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C . XXVII.
N
Ext vnto the Aconites, of right are to follow the Ranunculi or
Crowfeete, for the nearenesse both of forme, of leaues, and
nature of the plants, although lesse hurtfull, yet all of them for the
most part being sharpe and exulcerating, and not without some
danger, if any would be too bold with them. The whole Family of the
Ranunculi is of a very large extent, and I am constrained within the
limits of a Garden of Pleasure; I must therefore select out onely such as
are fit for this purpose, and set them here downe for your knowledge,
leauing the rest for that other generall worke, which time may perfect
and bring to light, if the couetous mindes of some that should be most
affected towards it, doe not hinder it: or if the helpe of generous spirits
would forward it.
This lowe Crowfoote hath three or foure broad and thicke leaues,
almost round, yet a little cut in and notched about the edges, of a fine
greene and shining colour on the vpperside, and not so green vnderneath,
among which riseth a small short stalke, bearing one snow white flower
on the toppe, made of fiue round pointed leaues, with diuers yellow
threads in the middle, standing about a greene head, which in time
groweth to be full of seede, in forme like vnto a small greene Strawberry:
the roote is composed of many white strings.
There is another of this lowe kinde, whose leaues Duplici flore.
are somewhat more deeply cut in on the edges, and
the flower larger, and sometimes a little double, as it were with two
rowes of leaues, in other things not differing from the former.
This Crowefoote hath faire large spread leaues, cut into fiue diuisions,
and somewhat notched about the edges, greene on the vpperside, and
paler vnderneath, hauing many veines running through the leaues: the
stalke of this riseth not so high as the former, although this be reasonable
tall, as being neare two foote high, spread into many branches, bearing
such like white flowers, as in the former, but smaller: the seede of this is
like the former, and so are the rootes likewise.
The double white Crowfoote is of the same kinde with the last single
white Crowfoote, hauing such like leaues in all respects: the onely
difference is in the flowers, which in this are very thicke and double.
Some doe make mention of two sorts of double white Crowfeete, one
somewhat lower then another, and the lower likewise bearing more store
of flowers, and more double then the higher: but I confesse, I haue neuer
seene but one sort of double, which is the same here expressed, not
growing very high, and reasonably well stored with flowers.
This Crowfoote hath three or foure very greene leaues, cut and diuided
into many small peeces, like vnto the wing of leaues of Rue, or rather
like the lower leaues of the Coriander (for they well resemble either of
them) euery of them standing vpon a long purplish stalke, at the toppe
whereof groweth the flower alone, being composed or made of twelue
small white leaues, broad pointed, and a little endented at the ends,
somewhat purplish on the outside, and white on the inside, sustained by
diuers small greene leaues, which are in stead of a cup or huske: in the
middle of the flower are many small white threads, tipt with yellow
pendents, standing about a small greene head, which after groweth to bee
full of seedes like a Strawberry, which knobs giue small blackish seede:
the roote is white and fibrous.
The lower leaues of this Crowfoote haue long stalkes, and are very
like vnto the smaller leaues of Colombines, or the great Spanish
Thalictrum, which hath his leaues very like vnto a Colombine, foure or
fiue rising from the roote: the stalke riseth about a foote and a halfe high,
somewhat reddish, beset here and there with the like leaues, at the toppe
whereof stand diuers small white flowers, made of fiue leaues a peece,
with some pale white threads in the middle: the seede is round and
reddish, contained in small huskes or hornes: the roote is made of a bush
or tuft of white strings.
This small Crowfoote hath three or foure winged leaues spread vpon
the ground, standing vpon long stalkes, and consisting of many small
leaues set together, spreading from the middle ribbe, euery leafe
somewhat resembling both in shape and colour the smallest and youngest
leaues of Colombines: the flowers are white, standing at the toppe of the
stalkes, made of fiue round leaues: the root hath three or foure thick,
short, and round yellowish clogs hanging at the head, like vnto the
Asphodill roote. The great Herball of Lyons, that goeth vnder the name
of Daleschampius, saith, that Dʳ. Myconus found it in Spaine, and sent it
vnder the name of Oenanthe; and therefore Ioannes Molineus who is
thought to haue composed that booke, set it among the vmbelliferous
plants, because the Oenanthes beare vmbels of flowers and seede, and
haue tuberous or cloggy rootes; but with what iudgement, let others say,
when they haue compared the vmbels of flowers and seede of the
Oenanthes, with the flowers and seede of this plant, and whether I haue
not more properly placed it among the Ranunculi or Crowfeete, and
giuen it a denomination agreeable to his forme.
This Autumne Crowfoote hath diuers broad round leaues lying on the
ground, set vpon short foote-stalkes, of a faire greene colour aboue, and
grayish vnderneath, snipt all about the edges, hauing many veines in
them, and sometimes swelling as with blisters or bladders on them; from
among which rise vp two or three slender and hairy stalkes, bearing but
one small yellow flower a peece, consisting of fiue and sometimes of six
leaues, and sometimes of seuen or eight, hauing a few threads in the
middle, set about a small greene head, like vnto many of the former
Crowfeete, which bringeth small blacke seede: the roote is made of many
thicke short white strings, which seeme to be grumous or kernelly rootes,
but that they are somewhat smaller, and longer then any other of that
kinde.
This Crowfoote of Candy, hath the greatest and broadest leaues of all
the sorts of Crowfeete, being almost round, and without any great
diuisions, but onely a few notches about the edges here and there, as
large or larger sometimes then the palme of a mans hand; among which
riseth vp the stalke, not very high when it doth first flower, but
afterwards, as the other flowers doe open themselues, the stalke groweth
to be a foote and a halfe high, or thereabouts, hauing some leaues on it,
deeply cut in or diuided, and bearing many faire yellow flowers,
consisting of fiue leaues a peece, being somewhat whitish in the middle,
when the flower hath stood blowne a little time: the roote is composed of
a number of small kernelly knobs, or long graines, set thicke together.
This flowreth very early, being vsually in flower before the end of
March, and oftentimes about the middle thereof.
The leaues of this Crowfoote are very like vnto the leaues of the red
Crowfoote of Tripoli or Asia, hereafter set downe, being somewhat
broad and indented about the edges, some of the leaues being also cut in
or gashed, thereby making it as it were three diuisions, of a pale greene
colour, with many white spots in them: the stalke riseth vp a foote high,
with some leaues on it, more diuided then the lower, and diuided at the
toppe into two and sometimes into three branches, each of them bearing
a faire snow white flower, somewhat large, included at the first in a
brownish huske or cup of leaues, which afterwards stand vnder the
flowers, consisting of fiue white large round pointed leaues, in the
middle whereof is set many blackish purple thrums, compassing a small
long greene head, composed of many scales or chaffie whitish huskes,
when they are ripe, which are the seede, but vnprofitable in all that euer I
could obserue: the rootes are many small graines or kernels, set together
as in the former, and much about the same colour, that is, of a darke or
duskie grayish colour, but much smaller.
There is another of this kinde, whose flowers Alba purpureis oris
haue purple edges, and sometimes some veines of & venis.
The greene leaues of this Crowfoote are as small and thinne, cut in or
diuided on the edges, as the last two sorts; the stalke riseth vp somewhat
higher, and diuided into some branches, bearing at the toppe of euery of
them one flower, somewhat smaller then the former, composed of six,
seuen, and sometimes of eight small round pointed leaues, of a whitish
yellow blush colour on the inside wholly, except sometimes a little stript
about the edges: but the outside of euery leafe is finely stript with
crimson stripes, very thicke, somewhat like vnto a Gilloflower: in the
middle riseth vp a small blacke head, compassed about with blackish
blew threads or thrums, which head is as vnfruitfull for seede in our
Countrey as the former. This flower hath no such greene leaues vnder it,
or to enclose it before it be blowne open as the former: the rootes are in
all things like the former.
The lower leaues of this red Crowfoote are alwayes whole without
diuisions, being onely somewhat deeply indented about the edges, but
the other that rise after them are more cut in, sometimes into three, and
sometimes into fiue diuisions, and notched also about the edges: the
stalke riseth higher then any of the former, and hath on it two or three
smaller leaues, more cut in and diuided then those belowe: at the toppe
whereof standeth one large flower, made of fiue leaues, euery one being
narrower at the bottome then at the toppe, and not standing close and
round one to another, but with a certaine distance betweene, of a duskie
yellowish red colour on the outside, and of a deepe red on the inside, the
middle being set with many thrums of a darke purple colour: the head for
seede is long, and scaly or chaffie, and idle in like manner as the rest: the
roote is made of many graines or small kernels set together, and closing
at the head, but spreading it selfe, if it like the ground, vnder the vpper
crust of the earth into many rootes, encreasing from long strings, that
runne from the middle of the small head of graines, as well as at the head
it selfe.
17. Ranunculus Asiaticus flore amplo rubro.
The large single red Crowfoot of Asia.
There hath come to vs out of Turkie, together with the former, among
many other rootes, vnder the same title, a differing sort of this
Crowfoote, whose leaues weare broader, and much goaler; the flower
also larger, and the leaues thereof broader, sometimes eight in a flower,
standing round and close one to another, which maketh the fairer shew:
in all other things it is like the former.
There is little difference in the roote of this Crowfoote from the last
described, but the leaues are much different, being very much diuided,
and the flower is large, of a fine pale greenish yellow colour, consisting
of six and seuen, and sometimes of eight or nine round leaues; the toppes
whereof haue reddish spots, and the edges sometimes also, with such
purplish thrums in the middle that the other haue. None of these former
Crowfeete with kernelly rootes, haue euer beene found to haue giuen so
good seed in England, as that being sowne, any of them would spring vp;
for hereof tryall hath been often made, but all they haue lost their labour,
that haue bestowed their paines therein, as farre as I know.
The double red Crowfoote hath his rootes and leaues so like vnto the
single red kinde, that none can perceiue any difference, or know the one
from the other, vntill the budde of the flower doe appeare, which after it
is any thing forward, may be perceiued to be greater and fuller then the
budde of the single kinde. This kinde beareth most vsually but one faire
large double flower on the toppe of the stalke, composed of many leaues,
set close together in three or foure rowes, of an excellent crimson colour,
declining to Scarlet, the outter leaues being larger then the inner; and
instead of thrummes, hath many small leaues set together: it hath
likewise six small narrow greene leaues on the backside of the flower,
where the stalke is fastened to the flower.
There is of this double kinde another sort, whose Prolifero flore.
flower is of the same colour with the former, but out
of the middle of the flower ariseth another double flower, but smaller.
The Place.
The Time.
The Names.
The names that are giuen seuerally to them may well serue
this worke, that thereby they may bee distinguished one from
another: For to set downe any further controuersie of names,
how fitly or vnfitly they haue beene called, and how variably
by diuers former Writers, is fitter for a generall History, vnto
which I leaue what may be said, both concerning these and the
rest: Onely this I would giue you to vnderstand, that the Turkie
kindes haue been sent to vs vnder the names of Terobolos for
the single, and Terobolos Catamer lale for the double, and yet
oftentimes, those that haue been sent for double, haue proued
single, so little fidelity is to bee found among them.
The Vertues.
A
S an appendix to the Crowfeete, I must needes adde this plant,
yet seuerally by it selfe, because both it and his single kinde are
by most adioyned thereunto, for the neare resemblance both in
shape and sharpnesse of quality. The single kinde I leaue to the
Ditch sides, and moist grounds about them, as the fittest places for it, and
onely bring the double kinde into my Garden, as fittest for his goodly
proportion and beauty to be entertained, and haue place therein.
The double Marsh Marigold hath many broad and round greene
leaues, a little endented about the edges, like vnto the single kinde, but
not altogether so large, especially in a Garden where it standeth not very
moist: the stalkes are weake, round, hollow, and greene, diuided into
three or foure branches at the toppe, with leaues at the seuerall ioynts,
whereon stand very double flowers, of a gold yellow colour: the fiue
outer leaues being larger then any of the rest that are encompassed by
them, which fall away after they haue stood blowne a great while (for it
endureth in flower a moneth or more, especially if it stand in a shadowie
place) without bearing any seed: the rootes are composed of many
thicke, long, and round whitish strings, which runne downe deep into the
ground, and there are fastened very strongly.
The Place.
The Time.
The Names.
There is great controuersie among the learned about the
single kinde, but thereof I shall not neede to speake in this
place; if God permit I may in a fitter. This is called generally in
Latine, Caltha palustris multiplex, or flore pleno. And wee in
English (after the Latine, which take Caltha to be that which
wee vsually call Calendula, a Marigold) The double Marsh
Marigold.
The Vertues.
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Ext vnto the Crowfeete are to follow the Hepaticas, because of
the likenesse with them, seeming to be small Crowfeete in all
their parts, but of another and more wholsome kinde. Their
diuersity among themselues consisteth chiefly in the colour of the
flowers, all of them being single, except one which is very thicke and
double.
The flowers of this Hepatica doe spring vp, blow open, and sometimes
shed and fall away, before any leaues appeare or spread open. The rootes
are composed of a bush of blackish things, from the seuerall heads or
buttons whereof, after the flowers are risen and blowne, arise many fresh
greene leaues, each seuerally standing vpon his foot-stalke, folded
together, and somewhat browne and hairy at their first comming, which
after are broad, and diuided at the edges into three parts: the flowers
likewise stand euery one vpon his owne seuerall foote-stalke, of the same
height with the leaues for the most part, which is about foure or fiue
fingers breadth high, made of six leaues most vsually, but sometimes it
will haue seuen or eight, of a faire blew colour, with many white chiues
or threads in the middle, standing about a middle green head or vmbone,
which after the flower is fallen groweth greater, and sheweth many small
graines or seede set close together (with three small greene leaues
compassing them vnderneath, as they did the flower at the bottome) very
like the head of seed of manie Crowfeete.
The leaues of this Hepatica are smaller by the halfe then the former,
and grow more aboundantly, or bushing thicke together: the flowers
(when it sheweth them, for I haue had the plant halfe a score yeares, and
yet neuer saw it beare flower aboue once or twice) are of a pale or bleake
blew colour, not so large as the flowers of the former.
This Hepatica is in all things like vnto the first, but onely the flowers
are of a deeper blew tending to a Violet purple: and therefore I shall not
neede to reiterate the former description.
The flowers of this Hepatica are wholly white, of the bignesse of the
red or purple, and the leaues somewhat smaller, and of a little whiter of
paler greene colour, else in all other things agreeing with the former.
There is no other difference herein from the last, but that the flower
being as white, is as large as the next.
Both the leaues and the flowers of this Hepatica are larger then any of
the former, except the last: the flowers hereof at the first opening seeme
to bee of a blush ash-colour, which doe so abide three or foure dayes,
decaying still vntill it turne almost white, hauing yet still a shew of that
blush ash-colour in them, till the very last.
There is no difference between this Hepatica and the first white one,
sauing that the threads in the middle of the flower, being white, as in the
former, are tipt at the ends with a pale reddish colour, which adde a great
beauty to the flowers.
The double Hepatica is in all things like vnto the single purple kinde,
sauing onely that the leaues are larger, and stand vpon longer foote-
stalkes, and that the flowers are small buttons, but very thicke of leaues,
and as double as a flower can be, like vnto the double white Crowfoote
before described, but not so bigge, of a deepe blew or purple colour,
without any threads or head in the middle, which fall away without
giuing any seede.
In the colour of this flower, consisteth the chiefest difference from the
last, except one may say it is a little lesse in the bignesse of the flower,
but not in doublenesse of leaues.
The Place.
The Time.
These plants doe flower very early, and are of the first
flowers that shew themselues presently after the deepe frosts in
Ianuary, so that next vnto the Winter Wolfesbane, these making
their pride appeare in Winter, are the more welcome early
guests. The double kinde flowreth not altogether so early, but
sheweth his flower, and abideth when the others are past.
The Names.
The Vertues.
These are thought to coole and strengthen the liuer, the name
importing as much; but I neuer saw any great vse of them by
any the Physitians of our London Colledge, or effect by them
that haue vsed them in Physicke in our Country.
1 Hepatica flore albo amplo simplici. The large white Hepatica.
2 Hepatica flore rubro simplici. The red Hepatica.
3 Hepatica flore purpureo pleno. The double purple Hepatica.
4 Geranium tuberosum. Knobbed Cranes bill.
5 Geranium Batrachoides flore albo vel cæruleo. The blew or white Crowfoote Cranes bill.
6 Geranium Hematodes. The red Rose Cranes bill.
7 Geranium Romanum striatum. The variable stript Cranes bill.
8 Geranium Creticum. Candy Cranes bill.
C . XXX.
A
S was said before concerning the Crowfeet, of their large extent
and restraint, the like may be said of the Storkes bils or Cranes
bils; for euen of these as of them, I must for this worke set forth
the descriptions but of a few, and leaue the rest to a generall
worke.
The knobbed Cranes hath three or foure large leaues spread vpon the
ground, of a grayish or rather dusty greene colour, euery one of them
being as it were of a round forme, but diuided or cut into six or seuen
long parts or diuisions, euen vnto the middle, which maketh it seeme to
be so many leaues, each of the cuts or diuisions being deeply notched or
indented on both sides; among which riseth vp a stalke a foote high or
better, bearing thereon diuers pale but bright purple flowers, made of fiue
leaues a peece, after which come small heads with long pointed beakes,
resembling the long bill of a Storke or Crane, or such like bird, which
after it is ripe, parteth at the bottome where it is biggest, into foure or
fiue seedes, euery one whereof hath a peece of the beake head fastened
vnto it, and falleth away if it bee not gathered: the roote is tuberous and
round, like vnto the roote of the Cyclamen or ordinary Sowbread almost,
but smaller, and of a darke russet colour on the outside, and white within,
which doth encrease vnder ground, by certaine strings running from the
mother root into small round bulbes, like vnto the rootes of the earth
Chesnut, and will presently shoote leaues, and quickly grow to beare
flowers, but will not abide to be kept long dry out of the ground, without
danger to be vtterly spoiled.
This Cranes bill is in leafe and flower altogether like the former, the
onely difference betweene them consisteth in the colour of the flower,
which in this is wholly white, and as large as the former: but the roote of
this hath not such red heads as the other hath.
The flowers of this Cranes bill are variably striped and spotted, and
sometimes diuided, the one halfe of euery leafe being white, and the
other halfe blew, sometimes with lesser or greater spots of blew in the
white leafe, very variably, and more in some years then in others, that it
is very hard to expresse all the varieties that may be obserued in the
flowers, that blow at one time. In all other parts of the plant, it is so like
vnto the former, that vntill it be in flower, the one cannot be knowne
from the other.
This purple Cranes bill hath many leaues rising from the roote, set
vpon long foot-stalkes, somewhat like vnto the other, yet not so broad,
but more diuided or cut, that is, into seuen or more slits, euen to the
middle, each whereof is likewise cut in on the edges more deeply then
the former; the stalkes are somewhat knobbed at the ioynts, set with
leaues like vnto the lower, and bearing a great tuft of buds at the toppes
of the branches, which breake out into faire large flowers, made of fiue
purple leaues, which doe somewhat resemble the flower of a Mallow,
before it be too full blowne, each whereof hath a reddish pointell in the
middle, and many small threads compassing it, this vmbell or tuft of
buds doe flower by degrees, and not all at once, and euery flower abideth
open little more then one day, and then sheddeth, so that euery day
yeeldeth fresh flowers, which because they are so many, are a long while
before they are all past or spent: after the flowers are past, there arise
small beake heads or bils, like vnto the other Cranes bils, with small
turning seede: the roote is composed of a great tuft of strings, fattened to
a knobby head.
This beautifull Cranes bill hath many broad yellowish greene leaues
arising from the roote, diuided into fiue or six parts, but not vnto the
middle as the first kindes are: each of these leaues hath a blackish spot at
the bottome corners of the diuisions, the whole leafe as well in forme as
colour and spots, is very like vnto the leafe of the Geranium fuscum, or
spotted Cranes bill, next following to be described, but that the leaues of
this are not so large as the other: from among these leaues spring vp
sundry stalkes a foote high and better, ioynted and knobbed here and
there, bearing at the tops two or three small white flowers, consisting of
fiue leaues a peece, so thickly & variably striped with fine small reddish
veines, that no green leafe that is of that bignesse can shew so many
veines in it, nor so thick running as euery leafe of this flower doth: in the
middle of the flower standeth a small pointell, which when the flower is
part doth grow to be the seed vessell, whereon is set diuers small seeds,
like vnto the small seedes of other Cranes bils: the root is made of many
small yellow threads or strings.
This Cranes bill hath diuers leaues spread vpon the ground, very much
cut in or diuided into many parts, and each of them againe slit or cut into
two or three peeces, standing vpon slender long foote-stalkes, of a faire
greene colour all the Spring and Summer, but reddish in Autumne:
among these leaues spring vp slender and weake stalkes, beset at euery
ioynt (which is somewhat reddish) with two leaues for the most part, like
vnto the lower: the flowers grow seuerally on the toppe of the stalkes,
and not many together in bunches or branches, as in all other Cranes bils,
euery flower being as large as a single Rose Campion flower, consisting
of fiue large leaues, of a deeper red colour then in any other Cranes bill
at the first opening, and will change more blewish afterwards: when the
flower is past, there doth arise such like beakes as are in others of the
same kinde, but small: the roote is hard, long, and thicke, with diuers
branches spreading from it, of a reddish yellow colour on the outside,
and whitish within, which abideth and perisheth not, but shooteth forth
some new greene leaues, which abide all the Winter, although those that
turne red doe fall away.
Candy Cranes bill beareth long and tender stalkes, whereon growe
diuers broad and long leaues, cut in or iagged on the edges: the toppes of
the stalkes are branched into many flowers, made of fiue leaues of a
reasonable bignesse, and of a faire blew or watchet colour, with a
purplish pointell in the middle, which being past, there follow beake
heads like other Cranes bils, but greater, containing larger, greater, and
sharper pointed seede, able to pierce the skinne, if one be not warie of it:
the roote is white and long, with some fibres at it, and perisheth when it
hath perfected his seede, and will spring of it owne sowing many times,
if the Winter be not too sharpe, otherwise (being annuall) it must be
sowne in the Spring of the yeare.
The Place.
The Time.
All these Cranes bils doe for the most part flower in Aprill,
and May, and vntill the middle of Iune. The variable or stript
Cranes bill is vsually the latest of all the rest.
The Names.
The Vertues.
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Auing long debated with my selfe, where to place this & the
other plants that follow in the two next Chapters, I haue thought
it not amisse for this worke to set them downe here, both before
the Beares eares, which are kindes of Sanicle, as the best Authors
doe hold, and after the Cranes bils, both for some qualities somewhat
resembling them, and for some affinity of the flowers with the former.
The spotted Sanicle hath many small round leaues, bluntly endented
about the edges, somewhat like vnto the leaues of our white Saxifrage, of
a full greene colour aboue, and whitish hairy, and somewhat reddish
withall vnderneath: the stalkes are set here and there with the like leaues,
rising a foote and a halfe high or more, very much diuided at the toppe
into sundry small branches, bearing many very small white flowers,
consisting of fiue small leaues, wherein are many small red spots to be
seene, as small as pins points, of a pretty sweete sent, almost like
Hawthorne flowers, in the middle whereof are many small threads
compassing a head, which when it is ripe containeth small blacke seede:
the roote is scaly, or couered with a chaffie matter, hauing many small
white fibres vnderneath, whereby it is fastened in the ground.
There is another of this kinde, like both in roote, Minor non guttata.
leafe, and flower to the former, the onely difference
is, that this is lesser then the former, and hath no spots in the flower, as
the other hath.
We haue also another smaller kinde then the last, Minus guttata.
both in leafe and flower, the leaues whereof are
smaller, but rounder, and more finely snipt or indented about the edges,
like the teeth of a fine sawe: the stalke is little aboue a span high, hauing
many small white flowers spotted as the first, but with fewer spots.
The Place.
The Time.
The Names.
The Vertues.
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His spotted Nauelwort, as many doe call it, hath many thicke
small leaues, not so broad as long, of a whitish greene colour,
lying on the ground in circles, after the manner of the heads of
Houseleeke, and dented about the edges; from the middle whereof
sometimes (for it doth not flower euery yeare in many places) ariseth vp
a stalke, scarce a foote high, beset with such like leaues as are belowe,
but somewhat longer: from the middle of the stalke vp to the top it
brancheth forth diuersly, with a leafe at euery ioynt, bearing three or
foure flowers on euery branch, consisting of fiue white leaues, spotted
with small red spots, like vnto the spotted Sanicle, but with fewer and
greater spots, hauing a yellowish circle or eye in the bottome of euery
flower, and many whitish threads with yellowish tips in it: the seede is
small and blacke, contained in small round heads: the roote is small,
long, and threadie, shooting out such heads of leaues, which abide all the
Winter, those that beare flower perishing.
There is another like vnto that before described in most things, the
differences be these: It hath shorter leaues then the former, and dented
about the edges in the like manner: the flowers hereof are white, but
greater, made of six leaues, and most vsually without any spots at all in
them, some are seene to haue spots also: the heads or seede vessels are
more cornered then the former.
This hath also many heads of leaues, but more open, which are longer,
greener, and sharper pointed then eyther of the former, somewhat reddish
also, and not dented about the edges, but yet a little rough in handling:
the stalke ariseth from among the leaues, being somewhat reddish, and
the leaues thereon are reddish pointed, diuided at the toppe into many
branches, with diuers flowers thereon, made of twelue small long leaues,
standing like a starre, of a reddish purple colour, with many threads
therein, set about the middle head, which is diuided at the toppe into
many small ends, like pods or hornes, containing therein very small
seede: the roote is small like the former.
The Place.