Of Housleke.
SEdum is called also in Latin Semperuiuum / and in Greke Aei∣zoon. There are iiij. kindes of semperuiuum: the fyrste kinde is cal∣led in Latin Sedum magnum / in Greke Aeizoon mega / in Eng∣lish Housleke / and of som Singren / but it ought better to be cal∣led Aygrene / in Duche it is called Gros hauswurtz / in French Iubarb.
The seconde kinde is called in English / thrift stone crop / in Latin Sedum minus. The thyrde kinde is called of som late wryters Vermicularis / in English Mous tayle or litle stone crop / and in Duche Maurpfeffer.
The description of the kindes of Semperuiuum.
Housleke hath the name of Semperuiuum in Latin / and of Aeizoon in Greke / the leaues are grene: wherfore me thynke that Aygrene as I sayed before / is a better name for it then Singrene. The fyrst or great kinde hath a stalk a cubit hygh or hygher / as thycke as your thumb / fatt / fayre grene / hauinge litle cuttinges in it as Tithimalus characias hath: the leaues are fatt / or thyck / of the bignes of a mannes thumb / at the poynt lyke a tonge. The nethermoste leaues lye wyth there bellyes vpward / and the poyntes dounwarde: but they that are toward the top / beyng drawen together / re∣semble a circle with the figure of an eye. It groweth in mountaynes / and hylly places / som vse to set it vpon theyr houses.
But the lesse Semperuiuum / that we call thrift or great stone crop / gro∣weth in walles / rockes / mudwalles / and shaddowy diches / it hath manye stalkes comming from one root / small / full of rounde leaues / fat and sharpe in the ende / it bringeth furth a stalk in the middes a span long / whyche hath a bushye and shaddowy top / and small grene floures.
There semeth to be a thyrde kinde of Aygrene / som call it Porcellayne / or Teliphium / the Romaynes call it Illicibram / it hath leaues thycker and rough drawyng nere vnto the leaues of Porcellayn / thys kind groweth in rockes.
The vertues of the kindes of aygrene.
THe great kinde hath a cooling nature and binding: the leaues by them selues / and layd to wyth perched barley mele / are good for the burnyng heat of swelled places / called Erispilata / or of other saynt Antonies fyre / agaynst crepinge sores and fretinge sores / a∣gaynst the inflammationes of the eyes / agaynst burning and hote goutes. It is good to poure vpon the head that aketh / the iuyce of Housleke wyth perched barley mele and rose oyle / the same to be geuen in drinke vnto them that are bitten of the felde spider. It is also geuen vnto them that haue a great lax / or the blody flixe. If it be dronken wyth wine / it driueth out of the bellye brode wormes: if it be serued after ye maner of a suppository vnto weo¦men / as the place inquireth / it stoppeth the issue of weomen: the iuice also is good for them that are blare eyed / if it come of blood. The leaues of the se∣cond kinde / called stone crepe / hath the same nature that Housleke hath.
Page [unnumbered]The thyrde kinde called Vermicularis / hath an hote nature / and sharpe and blisteringe / and power to dryue awaye wennes / if it be layed to wyth swynes grese.
