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Of Frogge-Bit

The Description.

THere floteth or swimmeth upon the upper parts of the water a small plant, which we usually call Frog-bit, having little round leaves, thicke and full of juyce, very like to the leaves of wall Peniwort: the floures grow upon long stems among the leaves, of a white colour, with a certain yellow thrum in the middle consisting of three leaves: in stead of roots it hath slender strings, which grow out of a short and small head, as it were, from whence the leaves spring, in the bottom of the water: from which head also come forth slopewise certain strings, by which growing forth it multiplieth it selfe. The Place.

It is found swimming or floting almost in every ditch, pond, poole, or standing water, in all the ditches about Saint George his fields, and in the ditches by the Thames side neere to Lambeth Marsh, where any that is disposed may see it.

The Time.

It flourisheth and floureth most part of all the yeare. The Names.

It is called of some Ranae morsus, and Morsus Ranae, and Nymphaeaparua. The Temperature and Vertues.

It is thought to be a kinde of Pond-weed (or rather of Water Lillie) and to have the same faculties that belong unto it.