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[ 3] THere is founde in this countrey at this present, two kindes of herbes, both comprehended vnder the name of Crowfoote.
THe first Crowfoote or Hartshorne, hath long narrow and hearie leaues, & bringeth forth vpon each side of the leafe three or foure shore startes or branches, almost like to the branches of a Hartes horne. It lieth spread
vpon the ground like a starre. Frō the middle of those leaues, groweth vp small round hearie stemmes, bearing long spiked knappes, or torches, like the middle Plantayne. The roote is long and threddy.
[ 2] The second crowfoote, hath three or foure stemmes or branches, creeping vpon the ground, & alwayes lying flat vpon the earth, but neuer mounting or rising higher, & are set full of long, nar∣row, & iagged leaues, much like to the leaues of the other Crowfoote Plan∣tayne, but smaller, and nothing hearie. The floures be small & white, & grow∣ing betwixt the leaues & the stalke, well fastened to the stēme, whan they are de∣cayed, there cōmeth forth small flat pur∣ses, broade & rough, in whiche the seede is conteyned. The roote is white of the length of ones fingar, in tast lyke to gar∣den Cressis.
One may also place amongst ye kinds of Coronopus, a certayne herbe, whiche we shall now offer vnto you (the which is a stranger, & but little knowen in this
countrey) seing that it is very well like to Harteshorne. The leaues be long & narrow, branched with shorte startes, altogither like to the leaues of Hartes horne, sauing that sometimes they be bigger. They lie also flat, & spread round vpon the ground, and are somewhat rough, & hearie, like the leaues of Hartes horne: so that it is harde to know one from an other, whan they are both with∣out stalkes and floures. But whan this herbe beginneth to haue stalkes and floures, than the difference is easily marked: for this herbe bringeth forth two or three rounde stalkes, parted into sundry branches, at the toppe whereof are placed knoppes and buttons, like to Cyanus or Corne floure, sauing that the scales of the knappes or heades, be not so closely couched, and layde one vpon an other, & the sayde scales seeme cleare and thorough shining, especially whan the floure is fallen of and withered. The floures come forth of the sayde knops or heads, in colour and making like the floures of Cychorie, but smaller. The roote is long and slender.
[ 1] The first kinde groweth in Brabant & Flaunders, in vntilled, sandy places.
[ 2] The second also groweth about wayes, and dry sandy pathes, and vpon bankes and rampiers, especially in certayne places about Antwarpe, where as it groweth so plentifully, that almost one shall see none other herbe.
[ 3] The third which is a strange herbe, groweth not of his owne kinde in this countrey, but it is planted in gardens. It groweth plentifully in Languedock, in stony and dry places.
[ 1.2] The two first kindes, do floure in May, and Iune.
[ 3] The third floureth, in Iuly, and August.
[ 1] The first is called in Latine Cornu ceruinum, or Herba Stellae, and Stellaria: in English of Turner, and Cooper Herbe Iue, and Crowfoote Plantayne: of Pena, Buckhorne. We may also call it Hartes horne Plantayne, Buckehorne Plantayne, or Coronop Plantayne: it is called in French Corne de Cerf, or Dent au chien it is vnknowen in Shoppes: The Brabanders, do call it Hertshoren, and Crayenuoet cruyt: Some late writers call it in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine Pes cornicis: in high Douch Kraenfuz, supposing it to be the same Corono∣pus, whiche Dioscorides hath described in the. 123. Chap. of his second booke, although in deede they be not like at all: And therefore we haue called it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Pseudocoronopus, that is to say, Bastard Crowfoote.
[ 2] The second kinde draweth neare to the description of Coronopus made by Dioscorides, albeit that notwithstanding, the learned Ruellius, Doctor in his time at Paris, could not be made beleeue, that this was the right Coronopus. Wherefore for the same Ruellius sake, who made a liuely description of this herbe, we do now call it Coronopus Ruellij: in base Almaigne Crayenuoet, or Rauenuoet. They call it at Paris Verrucaria: in some places of England they call it Swynescressis. We may also call it Ruellius Coronopus.
[ 3] This strange herbe hath no name as yet, knowen vnto vs, sauing that the Herboristes of Languedock take it to be a kind of Scabious, or for the Corne∣floure called Cyanus, in English blew Bottell. A man may doubt whether this be not Dioscorides Coronopus, bycause that Hartes horne should seeme to be a kind of Plantayne. But bycause the Description of Coronopus is very short, we are not able to assure you. This may also be a kinde of Condrilla.
[ 1] Hartes Horne is colde and dry in temperature much like Plantayne.
[ 2] The Swines Cresses, or Ruellius Coronopus (as it is euident by the taste) is hoate and dry, like to garden or towne Cressis, but not all thing so hoate.
[ A] Hartes horne is in vertue like to Plantayne, whereof it is a kinde, and may be vsed in all things whereto Plantayne serueth. Also it hath bene proued sin∣guler against the pissing of bloud, the grauell & the stone, to be taken in meates or otherwise.
[ B] If Swines Cressis, or Ruellius Coronop, be the true Coronopus, than the roote thereof rosted in the imbres or hoate Asshes, and eaten in meates is very good against the laske proceeding from the coldnesse of the stomacke, whiche is the cause of slimie humors in the Guttes: for whiche purpose the very sent, and taste of the roote here described, declareth the same to be very good, bycause it is hoate and somewhat astringent.