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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52618	An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures.	Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688.; Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659.; Wood, John, Captain.; Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699.; Robinson, Tancred, Sir, d. 1748.	1694 (1694)	Wing N154; ESTC R18669	230,732	472

Red Sorrel I mean that which was shewed to me at Bremen by the Dutch Gardener which was of the same size but the Leaves of that of Spitzbergen are Red. I desire the courteous Reader to accept at present of these for a Sample to shew him that on these rough barren and cold Mountains there yet grow some Plants for the Nourishment both of Man and Beast The Herbs grow of their perfection in a short time for in June when we first arrived at Spitzbergen we saw but very little Green and yet in July most of them were in flower and some of them had their Seeds already ripe whence me may observe the length of their Summer I proceed to the Description of those Plants which I had time to delineate and begin with those that put forth their Leaves only at and about their Roots and have but few or no Leaves on their Stalks Then shall follow those that have single Leaves on their Stalks then those that have pairs of Leaves or opposite ones afterward those with three Leaves and then conclude with the imperfect Plants CHAP. II. Of a Plant with Aloe-Leaves IT is a very pretty Herb and puts forth thick prickly and sad green Leaves like those of Aloes a brown naked Stalk about half the length of your Finger whereon hang round Heads of Flesh-coloured Flowers in Bunches which are hardly to be discerned by the naked Eye one Flower close above another and near to one another Tab. G. marked with a. Sometimes two Stalks shook out of one Plant one bigger that the other Yet each Stalk has two of these Bunches of Flowers I could not delineate its Seed for want of time The Root consists of many small Fibers We gathered it in great plenty on the 17 th of July behind the Cookery of Harlem in the running Water I know not well to what kind this may be referred Caspar Bauhim maketh mention of an Herb in his Prodromus of his Amphitheater of Plants in the 5 th Book and 15 th Chapter which he calls Limonium Maritimum which he describeth with small roundish and thick Leaves like House-leek between which spread forth small Stalks with pale red Flowers but the Root doth not agree with our Plant for his is long red and parted at top whereas this Root consists in many small Fibers and is not red CHAP. III. Of small House-leek THE Leaves of this are indented and very like those of our Dasies for which I should have taken it also had not it been for the Flower only the Leaves are thicker and more juicy like those of House-leek or as we call it those of the lesser House-leek The Leaves grow round about the Root betwixt them is a small Stalk of the length of your little Finger which is round and hairy and generally without Leaves save only where it divides into another Stalk at which place is a small Leaf The Flowers grow in scaley Heads like unto the Flowers of Stohceas are of a brown colour and have five pointed Leaves as I think with five small Chives within like unto the Flowers of Wall-pepper or Stone-crop I found only the Flowers for the Seed was not yet ripe The Root is somewhat thick and strait with many strong and thick Fibers from the sides of it it may be referred to the House-leeks and called small indented or crenated House-leek with scaly Heads This Plant I found in the Danish Harbour or Bay on the 18 th of July it is figured in Tab. F. at a. CHAP. IV. Of Crows-foot SOme of these Plants are figured in the Tab. G at c and e and the Tab. H at c and in the Tab. I at d. These four following Plants are all Crows-feet only distinguished by their Leaves The Roots are differing that of the first hath many small Fibers and the fourth hath a thicker and longer with tender and small Fibers The first burns the Tongue like Persicaria or Flea-bean but somewhat less than in our Countries The Leaves of the fourth do not burn so I found them both in the Danish Haven the first in great quantities they flower in July The second hath somewhat differing Leaves from the two former for although the lowermost Leaves agree with them of the first yet they are less and those that grow higher and come up after the lowermost are in two places deeper cut so that the first part of the Leaf that stands out before is not very unlike a Tongue but the two sides are but a little indented in Table G it is marked with e. There is also a difference in the Leaves of this Plant as well as in the two before mentioned for the Leaves that are nearest to the Flowers are small and deeply cut and that with two incisions and it burns the Tongue The Flower is small and hath six and sometimes seven Leaves The Seed-vessel is like unto the former only it is less The Root is like that of the first only it hath more Fibers there is also a kind of thick sheath that surroundeth the Stalk as is also to be seen in the fourth I found this Plant near the first in the Danish Haven the 16 th of July The third is yet smaller but fuller of Leaves only they are less and not so deep cut although they have also four Incisions like the second in this I did not find that difference in the Leaves between the lowermost and those that are nearer the Flower it is in the Tab. H marked with c. The Flower is of five white Leaves its Seed-vessel I could not yet see Its Roots are small Fibers I found it in the South Haven on the Sixteenth of July it burns the Tongue the Leaves are thick and juicy I found in the same place another small Plant exactly like to these only the Flowers thereof were of a purple Colour and the Leaves not so juicy wherefore I did not draw it CHAP. V. Of Scurvy-grass THis Scurvy-grass sends forth a great many Leaves from one Root that spread themselves round about it upon the Ground The Stalk grows out of the middle of these Leaves which is a great deal lower than in our Country with a few Leaves underneath the Sprouts The Flowers are of four white Leaves they grow many on the same Stalk one above the other when one Flower fades another cometh in its room when the Flower is past the Seed appears in a longish Box as you may see in the Figure when on the contrary in ours the Seed is found in a round one The Root is white somewhat thick and streight with some small Fibers below A great quantity of this Plant is found on the Rocks where they are not much exposed to the East and North Winds I found it most in the South English and Danish Havens the Earth was quite covered with it in the Danish It was the first Herb I found in Spitzbergen when we Landed the first time it was so small that I could