The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 Soldanella or Sea Binde-weed hath many small branches, somwhat red, trailing vpon the ground, beset with small and round leaues, not much vnlike Asarabacca, or the leaues of Aristolochia, but smaller; betwixt which leaues and the stalkes come forth floures formed like a bell, of a bright red incarnate colour, in euery respect answering the small Binde∣weed, whereof it is a kinde, albeit I haue here placed the same, for the reasons rendred in my Proeme. The seed is blacke, and groweth in round huskes: the root is long and small, thrusting it selfe far abroad, and into the earth like the other Binde-weeds.

2 Soldanella or mountaine Binde-weed hath many round leaues spred vpon the ground, not much vnlike the former, but rounder, and more full of veines, greener, of a bitter taste like sea Binde∣weed: among which commeth forth a small and tender stalke a handfull high, bearing at the top little floures like the small Bell-floure, of a sky colour. The root is small and threddy.

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‡ 3 Soldanella Alpina minor. Small Mountaine Bindweed.

‡ 3 There is of this kinde another ha∣uing all the parts smaller, and the leaues redder and rounder: the floures also blew, and compo∣sed of one leafe diuided into fiue parts, and suc∣ceeded by a longish cod, round and sharp poin∣ted. ‡