Roses Heathes Mosses Mushroms Corall and their seuerall kindes Each booke hath chapters as for each herbe a bed and euery Plant presents thee with the Latine and English name in the title placed ouer the picture of the Plant. Then followes the kindes description place time names natures and vertues agreeing with the best receiued opinions Last of all thou hast a generall Index as well in Latine as English with a carefull supply likewise of an Index b linguis of barbarous names And thus hauing giuen thee a generall view of this garden now with our friendly labours wee will accompany thee and leade thee through a Grasse-plot little or nothing of many Herbarists heretofore touched and begin with the most common or best knowne Grasse which is called in Latine Gramen pratense and then by little and little conduct thee through most pleasant gardens and other delightfull places where any herbe or plant may be found fit for meate or medicine CHAP. 1. Of Medow-Grasse THere be sundry and infinite kindes of Grasses not mentioned by the Antients either as vnnecessarie to be set downe or vnknowne to them onely they make mention of some few whose wants we meane to supply in such as haue come to our knowledge referring the rest to the curious searcher of Simples ¶ The Description 1 COmmon Medow Grasse hath very small tufts or roots with thicke hairy threds depending vpon the highest turfe matting and creeping on the ground with a most thicke and appatant shew of wheaten leaues lifting vp long thinne ioynted and light stalks a foot or a cubit high growing small and sharpe at the top with a loose 〈◊〉 hanging downward like the tuft or top of the common Reed 2 Small medow Grasse differeth from the former in varietie of the soile for as the first kind groweth in medowes so doth this small grasse clothe the hilly and more dry grounds vntilled and barren by nature a Grasse more fit for sheepe than for greater cattell And because the kindes of Grasse do differ apparantly in root tuft stalke leafe sheath eare or crest we may assure our selues that they are endowed with seuerall vertues formed by the Creator for the vse of man although they haue been by a common negligence hidden and vnknowne And therefore in this our Labor we haue placed each of them in their seuerall bed where the diligent searcher of Nature may if so he please place his learned obseruations 1 Gramen pratense Medow Grasse 2 Gramen pratense minus Small Medow-grasse ¶ The Place Common Medow-grasse groweth of it selfe vnset or vnsowen euery where but the small medow grasse for the most part groweth vpon dry and barren grounds as partly wee haue touched in the description ¶ The Time Concerning the time when Grasse springeth and seedeth I suppose there is none so simple but knoweth it and that it continueth all the whole yeare seeding in Iune and Iuly Neither needeth it any propagation or replanting by seed or otherwise no not so much as the watery Grasses but that they recouer themselues againe although they haue beene drowned in water all the Winter long as may appeare in the wilde fennes in Lincolnshire and such like places ¶ The Names Grasse is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Gramen as it is thought à gradiendo quod 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 serpat crebroquenouas spargat radices for it groweth goeth or spreadeth it selfe vnset or vnsowen naturally ouer all fields or grounds cloathing them with a faire and perfect greene It is yearely mowed in some places twice and in some rare places thrice then is it dried and withered by the 〈◊〉 of the Sunne with often turning it and then is it called Foenum nescio an à foenore aut foetu In English Hay in French Le herbe du 〈◊〉 ¶ The Nature The roots and seeds of Grasse are of more vse in physicke than the herbe and are accounted of all Writers moderately to open obstructions and prouoke vrine ¶ The Vertues The decoction of Grasse with the roots of Parsley drunke helpeth the dissurie and prouoketh vrine The roots of Grasse according to Galen doe glew and consolidate together new and bleeding wounds The iuyce of Grasse mixed with honey and the pouder of Sothernwood taken in drinke killeth wormes in children but if the childe be young or tender of nature it shall suffice to mixe the iuyce of Grasse and the gall of an Oxe or Bull together and therewith anoint the childes belly and lay a clout wet therein vpon the nauell Fernelius saith that grasse doth helpe the obstructions of the liuer reines and kidnies and the inflammation of the raines called Nephritis Hay sodden in water till 〈◊〉 be tender and applied hot to the chaps of beasts that be chap-fallen through long standing in pound or stable without meate is a present remedie CHAP. 2. Of Red Dwarfe-Grasse ¶ The Description 1 DWarfe Grasse is one of the least of Grasses The root consists of many little bulbes couered with a reddish 〈◊〉 or skinne with very many smal hairy and white strings the tuft or eare is of a reddish colour and not much differing from the grasse called Ischaemon though the eare be softer broader and more beautifull †1 Gramen minimum rubrum siue Xerampelinum Red Dwarfe-grasse 2 Gramen minimum album White Dwarfe-grasse †2 This kinde of Grasse hath small hairy roots the leaues are small and short as also the stalke which on the top thereof beares a pannicle not much vnlike the small medow 〈◊〉 but lesse the colour thereof is sometimes white and otherwhiles reddish whence some haue giuen two figures which I thinking needlesse haue onely retained the later and for the former giuen the figure of another Grasse intended by our Author to be comprehended in this Chapter 3 Small hard Grasse hath small roots compact of little strings or threds from which come forth many soure rushy leaues of the length of an inch and a halfe the tuft or eare is compact of many pannicles or very little eares which to your feeling are very hard or harsh This Grasse is vnpleasant and no wholesome food for cattell 4 Rush-grasse is a small plant some handfull high hauing many small rushy leaues tough and pliant as are the common Rushes whereupon do grow small scaly or chaffie huskes in stead of floures like those of Rushes but smaller The root is threddy like the former ‡ There is a varietie of this to be found in bogs with the seeds bigger and the leaues and whole plant lesser ‡ 3 Gramen minus duriusculum Small hard Grasse 4 Gramen junceum Rush-grasse or Toad-grasse ¶ The Place The Dwarfe-grasse doth grow on heathy rough and dry barren grounds in most places of England ‡ That which I haue giuen you I haue not as yet obserued growing in any part of England ‡ The white Dwarfe-grasse is not so common as the former yet doth it grow very plentifully among the Hop gardens in Essex and
hurtfull to the eyes and braine They cause troublesome dreames and worke all the effects that the Leeke doth The Vine-leeke or Ampeloprason prouoketh vrine mightily and bringeth downe the floures It cureth the bitings of venomous beasts as Dioscorides writeth CHAP. 97. Of Garlicke ¶ The Description 1 THe bulbe or head of Garlicke is couered with most thinne skinnes or filmes of a very lightwhite purple colour consisting of many cloues seuered one from another vnder which in the ground below groweth a tassell of threddy fibres it hath long greene leaues like those of the Leeke among which riseth vp a stalke at the end of the second or third yeare whereupon doth grow a tuft of floures couered with a white skinne in which being broken when it is ripe appeareth round blacke seeds ‡ 2 There is also another Garlicke which growes wilde in some places of Germanie and France which in shape much resembles the ordinarie but the cloues of the roots are smaller and redder The floure is also of a more duskie and darke colour than the ordinarie ‡ ¶ The Place and Times Garlick is seldome sowne of seed but planted in gardens of the small cloues in Nouember and December and sometimes in Februarie and March ¶ The Names It is called in Latine 〈◊〉 in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Apothecaries keepe the Latine name the Germanes call it 〈◊〉 the Low Dutch Look the Spaniards Aios Alho the Italians Aglio the French 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 the Bohemians Czesnek the English Garlicke and poore mans Treacle ¶ The Temperature Garlicke is very sharpe hot and dry as Galen saith in the fourth degree and exulcerateth the skinne by raising blisters ¶ The Vertues Being eaten it heateth the body extremely attenuateth and maketh thinne thicke and grosse humors cutteth such as are tough and clammy digesteth and consumeth them also openeth obstructions is an enemie to all cold poysons and to the bitings of venomous beasts and therefore Galen nameth it Theriaca Rusticorum or the husbaudmans Treacle It yeeldeth to the body no nourishment at all it ingendreth naughty and sharpe bloud 〈◊〉 such as are of a hot complexion must especially abstaine from it But if it be boyled in water vntill such time as it hath lost his sharpenesse it is the lesse forcible and retaineth no longer his euill iuyce as Galen saith It taketh away the roughnesse of the throat it helpeth an old cough it prouoketh vrine it breaketh and consumeth winde and is also a remedie for the Dropsie which procceedeth of a cold cause It killeth wormes in the belly and driueth them forth The milke also wherein it hath beene sodden is giuen to yong children with good successe against the wormes 1 Allium Garlicke ‡ 2 Allium syluestre rubentibus nucleis Wilde Garlicke with red cloues It helpeth a very cold stomacke and is a preseruatiue against the contagious and pestilent aire The decoction of Garlick vsed for a bath to sit ouer bringeth downe the floures and secondines or after-burthen as Dioscorides saith It taketh away the morphew tetters or ring-wormes scabbed heads in children dandraffe and scurfe tempered with honey and the parts anointed therewith With Fig leaues and Cumin it is laid on against the bitings of the Mouse called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English a Shrew CHAP. 98. Of Crow-Garlicke and Ramsons ¶ The Description 1 THe wilde Garlicke or Crow-garlicke hath small tough leaues like vnto rushes smooth and hollow within among which groweth vp a naked stalke round slipperie hard and sound on the top whereof after the floures be gone grow little seeds made vp in a round cluster like small kernels hauing the smell and taste of Garlick In stead of a root there is a bulbe or round head without any cloues at all 2 Ramsons do send forth two or three broad longish leaues sharpe pointed smooth and of a light greene colour The stalke is a span high smooth and slender bearing at the top a cluster of white star-fashioned floures In stead of a root it hath a long slender bulbe which sendeth downe a multitude of strings and is couered with skinnes or thicke coats †1 Allium syluestre Crow Garlicke 2 Allium vrsinum Ramsons ¶ The Time They spring vp in Aprill and May. Their seed is ripe in August ¶ The Place The Crow Garlicke groweth in fertile pastures in all parts of England I found it in great plentie in the fields called the Mantels on the backside of Islington by London Ramsons grow in the Woods and borders of fields vnder hedges among the bushes I found it in the next field vnto Boobies barne vnder that hedge that bordereth vpon the lane and also vpon the left hand vnder an hedge adioyning to a lane that leadeth to Hampsted both places neere London ¶ The Names Both of them be wilde Garlicke and may be called in Latine Alliua syluestria in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first by 〈◊〉 and Lobell is called Allium syluestretenuifolium Ramsons are named of the later practioners Allium Vrsinum or Beares Garlicke Allium latifolium and Moly Hippocraticum in English Ramsons Ramsies and Buckrams ¶ The Nature The temperatures of these wilde Garlickes are referred vnto those of the gardens ¶ The Vertues Wilde Garlicke or Crow-Garlicke as Galen saith is stronger and of more force than the garden Garlicke The leaues of Ramsons be stamped and eaten of diuers in the Low-countries with fish for a sauce euen as we do eate greene-sauce made with sorrell The same leaues may very well be eaten in April and May with butter of such as are of a strong constitution and labouring men The distilled water drunke breaketh the stone and driueth it forth and prouoketh vrine CHAP. 99. Of Mountaine Garlicks 1 Scorodoprasum Great mountaine Garlicke ‡ 2 Scorodoprasum primum Clusij Clusius his great mountaine Garlicke ¶ The Description 1 2 THe great Mountaine Garlicke hath long and broad leaues like those of Leekes but much greater and longer embracing or clasping about a great thicke stalke soft and full of juyce bigger than a mans finger and 〈◊〉 toward the top vpon which is set a great head bigger than a tennise ball couered with a skinne after the manner of an Onion The skinne when it commeth to perfection breaketh and discouereth a great multitude of whitish floures which being past blacke seeds follow inclosed in a three cornered huske The root is 〈◊〉 of the bignesse of a great Onion The whole plant smelleth very strong like vnto Garlicke and is in shew a Leeke whereupon it was called Scorodoprasum as if we should say Garlicke Leeke participating of the Leeke and Garlicke or rather a degenerate Garlicke growne monstrous ‡ I cannot certainely determine what difference there may be betweene the 〈◊〉 expressed by the first figure which is our Authors and the second figure which is taken out of Clusius Now the historie which Clusius giues vs to the second the same is out of him giuen by our Author to the
narrow below butby little and little toward the top wax broad and after that grow to be sharpe pointed in form somewhat neere Ramsons but thicker and more oleous When the leaues be wide opened the floure sheweth it selfe vpon his long weake naked stalke bowing toward the earth-ward which floure consisteth of six very long leaues of a sine delayed purple colour which with the heat of the Sunne openeth it selfe and bendeth his leaues backe againe after the manner of the Cyclamen floure within which there are six purple chiues and a white three forked stile or pestell This floure is of no pleasant smell but commendable for the beauty when the floure is faded there succeedeth a three square huske or head wherein are the seeds which are very like them of Leucoium butbosum praecox but longer slenderer and of a yellow colour The root is long thicker below than aboue set with many white fibres waxing very tender in the vpper part hauing one or more off-sets or young shoots from which the stalke ariseth out of the ground as hath been said bringing forth two leaues and not three or onely one saue when it will not floure 3 The third kinde is in all things like the former saue in the leaues which are narrower and in the colour of the floure which is altogether white or consisting of a colour mixt of purple and white Wherefore sith there is no other difference it shall suffice to haue said thus much for the description ¶ The Place These three plants grow plentifully at the foot of certain hills in the greene and moist grounds of Germanie and Italy in Styria not far from Gratz as also in Modena and Bononia in Italy and likewise in some of the choice gardens of this countrey ¶ The Time They floure in Aprill and sometimes sooner as in the middle of March. 1 Dens caninus Dogs tooth 2 Dens caninus flore albo angustioribus 〈◊〉 White Dogs tooth ¶ The Names This plant is called in Latine Dens caninus and some haue iudged it Satyrium Erythronium Matthiolus calls it Pseudohermodactylus The men of the countrey where it groweth call it 〈◊〉 and the Physitians about Styria call it Dentali The secoud may for distinctions sake be termed Dens caninus flore albo angustioribus folijs that is Dogs tooth with the white floure and narrow leaues ¶ The Nature These are of a very hot temperament windie and of an excrementitious nature as may appeare by the vertues ¶ The Vertues The Women that dwell about the place where these grew and do grow haue with great profit put the dried meale or pouder of it in their childrens pottage against the wormes of the belly Being drunke with Wine it hath been proued maruellously to asswage the Collicke passion It strengthneth and nourisheth the body in great measure and being drunke with water it cureth children of the falling sicknesse CHAP. 110. Of Dogs stones ¶ The Kindes STones or Testicles as Dioscorides saith are of two sorts one named Cynosorchis or Dogs stones the other Orchis Serapias or Serapias his stones But because there be many and sundry other sorts differing one from another I see not how they may be contained vnder these two kinds onely therefore I haue thought good to diuide them as followeth The first kind we haue named Cynosorchis or Dogs stones the second Testiculus Morionis or Fooles stones the third Tragorchis or Goats stones the fourth Orchis Serapias or Serapia's stones the fifth Testiculus odoratus or sweet smelling stones or after Cordus Testiculus Pumilio or Dwarfe stones 1 Cynosorchismaior Great Dogs stones 2 Cynosorchis major altera White Dogs stones ¶ The Description 1 GReat Dogs stones hath foure and sometimes fiue great broad thicke leaues somwhat like those of the garden Lilly but smaller The stalke riseth vp a foot or more in height at the top whereof doth grow a thicke tuft of carnation or horse-flesh coloured floures thick and close thrust together made of many small floures spotted with purple spots in shape like to an open hood or helmet And from the hollow place there hangeth forth a certain ragged chiue or tassell in shape like to the skinne of a Dog or some such other foure footed beast The roots be round like vnto the stones of a Dog or two oliues one hanging somewhat shorter than the other whereof the highest or vppermost is the smaller but fuller and harder The lowermost is the greatest lightest and most wrinkled or shriueled not good for any thing 2 Whitish Dogs stones hath likewise smooth long broad leaues but lesser and narrower than those of the first kinde The stalke is a span long set with fiue or six leaues clasping or embracing the same round about His spikie floure is short thicke 〈◊〉 compact of many small whitish purple coloured floures spotted on the inside with many small purple spots and little lines or streakes The small floures are like an open hood or helmet hauing hanging out of euery one as it were the body of a little man without a head with armes stretched out and thighes stradling abroad after the same manner almost that the little boyes are wont to be pictured hanging out of Saturnes mouth The roots be like the former 3 Spotted Dogs stones bring forth narrow leaues ribbed in some sort like vnto the leaues of narrow Plaintaine or Rib-wort dasht with many blacke streakes and spots The stalke is a cubit and more high at the top whereof doth grow a tuft or eare of violet-coloured floures mixed with a darke purple but in the hollownesse thereof whitish not of the same forme or shape that the others are of but lesser and as it were resembling somewhat the floures of Larkes-spur The roots be like the former 4 Marish Dogs stones haue many thicke blunt leaues next the root thick streaked with lines or nerues like those of Plantaine The floure is of a whitish red or carnation the stalk and roots be like the former 3 Cynosorchis maculata Spotted Dogs stones 4 Cynosorchis palustr is Marish Dogs stones ‡ 5 This hath fiue or six little leaues the stalke is some handfull or better in height set aboutwith somewhat lesse leaues the tuft of floures at the top of the stalke are of a purple colour small with a white lip diuided into foure partitions hanging downe which also is lightly spotted with purple it hath a little spurre hanging downe on the hinder part of each floure The seed is small and contained in such twined heads as in other plants of this kinde The roots are like the former but much lesse ‡ ¶ The Place These kindes of Dogs stones do grow in moist and fertile medowes The marish Dogs stones grow for the most part in moist and waterish woods and also in marish grounds ‡ The 5 growes in many hilly places of Austria and Germanie ‡ ¶ The Time They floure from the beginning of May to the midst of August ¶ The Names The first and second
first growes vpon the borders of bankes and ditches cast vp and in the borders of fields The second growes in ditches standing waters and riuers as on the stone wall that bordereth vpon the riuer Thames by the Sauoy in London 1 Raphanus syluestris Wilde Radish 2 Raphanus aquaticus Water Radish ¶ The Time They floure in Iune and the seed is ripe in August ¶ The Names †The first of these is Rapistrum flore albo Erucae folijs of Lobell Armoratia or Rapistrum album of Tabernamontanus and Raphanus sylvestris of our Author in English wilde Radish The second is Radicula sylvestris of Dodonaeus and Rhaphanus aquaticus or palustris of others in English water Radish ¶ The Temperature The wilde Radishes are of like temperature with the garden Radish but hotter and drier ¶ The Vertues Dioscorides writeth that the leaues are receiued among the pot herbes and likewise the boiled root which as he 〈◊〉 doth heate and prouoke vrine CHAP. 7. Of Horse Radish ¶ The Description 1 HOrse Radish bringeth forth great leaues long broad sharpe pointed and 〈◊〉 about the edges of a deepe greene colour like those of the great garden Docke called of some Monkes Rubarbe of others Patience but longer and rougher The stalke is slender and brittle bearing at the top small white floures which being past there follow small cods wherein is the seed The root is long and thicke white of colour in taste sharpe and very much biting the tongue like mustard 2 Dittander or pepperwort hath broad leaues long and sharpe pointed of a blewish greene colour like woad 〈◊〉 snipt or cut about the edges like a sawe The stalke is round and tough vpon the branches whereof grow little white floures The root is long and hard creeping farre abroad in the ground in such sort that when it is once taken in a ground it is not possible to root it out for it will vnder the ground creepe and shoot vp and bud forth in many places farre abroad The root also is sharp and biteth the tongue like pepper whereof it tooke the name pepperwort ‡ 3 This which we giue you in the third place hath a small fibrous root the stalke growes vp to the height of two cubits and it is diuided into many branches furnished with white floures after which follow seeds like in shape and taste to Thlaspi or Treacle mustard The leaues are somewhat like those of Woad This is nourished in some Gardens of the Low Countryes and Lobell was the first that gaue the figure hereof and that vnder the same title as wee here giue you it ‡ 1 Raphanus rusticanus Horse Radish 2 Raphanus syluestris Offic. Lepidium Aeginetae Lob. Dittander and Pepperwort ¶ The Place Horse Radish for the most part groweth and is planted in gardens yet haue I found it 〈◊〉 in sundrie places as at Namptwich in Cheshire in a place called the Milne eye and also at a small village neere London called Hogsdon in the field next vnto a farme house leading to Kings-land where my very good friend master Bredwell practitioner in Phisick a learned and diligent searcher of Simples and master William Martin one of the fellowship of Barbers and 〈◊〉 my deere aud louing friend in company with him found it and gaue me knowledge of the place where it flourisheth to this day Dittander is planted in gardens and is to be found wild also in England in sundry places as at Clare by Ouenden in Essex at the Hall of Brinne in Lancashire and neere vnto Excester in the West parts of England It delighteth to grow in sandie and shadowie places somewhat moist ¶ The Time Horse Radish for the most part 〈◊〉 in Aprill or May and the seed is ripe in August and that so rare or seldome seene as that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath written that it bringeth forth no seed at all Dittander floures in Iune and Iuly ¶ The Names Horse Radish is commonly called Raphanus rusticanus or Magnus and of diuers simply Raphanus 〈◊〉 of the high Dutch men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in French Grand raifort of the low Germaines 〈◊〉 in English mountaine radish Great Raifort and Horse Radish It is called in the North part of England Redcole Diuers thinke that this Horse Radish is an enemy to Vines and that the hatred betweene them is so great that if the roots hereof be planted neere to the Vine it bendeth backward from it as not willing to haue fellowship with it It is also reported that the root hereof stamped and cast into good and pleasant wine doth forthwith turne it into vineger but the old writers doe ascribe this enmity to the vine and Brassica our coleworts which the most ancients haue named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dittander is described of Pliny by the name of Lepidium in his 19. booke 9. Chapter likewise Aegineta maketh mention of this plant by the name Lepidium in shops Raphanus 〈◊〉 and Piperitis the Germans call it 〈◊〉 the lowe Dutch men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the English men Dittander Dittany and Pepperwort 3 Lepidium Annum Annuall Dittander ¶ The Temperature These kindes of wilde Radishes are hot and drie in the third degree they haue a drying and clensing quality and somewhat digesting ¶ The Vertues Horse Radish stamped with a little vineger put thereto is commonly vsed among the Germanes for sauce to 〈◊〉 fish with and such like meates as we doe mustard but this kinde of sauce doth heate the stomacke better and causeth-better digestion than mustard Oximel or syrupe made with vineger and honie in which the rindes of Horse radish haue beene infused three dayes causeth vomit and is commended against the quartaine ague The leaues boiled in wine and a little oile 〈◊〉 added thereto and laid vpon the grieued parts in manner of a Pultis doe mollifie and take away the hard swellings of the liuer and milte and being applied to the bottome of the belly is a remedie for the strangurie It profiteth much in the expulsion of the secondine or after-birth It mittigateth and asswageth the paine of the hip or haunch commonly called Sciatica It profiteth much against the collicke strangurie and difficultie of making water vsed in stead of mustard as aforesaid The root stamped and giuen to drinke killeth the wormes in children the iuyce giuen doth the same an ointment made thereof doth the like being annointed vpon the belly of the child The leaues of Pepperwort but especially the rootes be extreame hot for they haue a burning and bitter taste It is of the number of scorching and blistring simples saith Pliny in his 20. booke the 17. chap. and therefore by his hot qualitie it mendeth the skin in the face and taketh away scabs scarres and manginesse if any thing remaine after the healing of vlcers and such like CHAP. 8. Of Winter Cresses ¶ The Description THe Winter Cresses hath many greene broad smoothe and flat leaues like vnto the common turneps whose stalkes be round and full of branches bringing forth at
like as Rocket doth neither doe we know what other vse this herbe hath CHAP. 12 Of garden Cresses ¶ The Description 1 GArden Cresses or Towne Cresses hath small narrow iagged leaues sharpe and burning in taste The stalks be round a cubite high which bring sorth many small white flowers andafter little flat huskes or seede vessels like to those of she pheards purse wherein are contained seeds of a browne reddish colour The roote dieth when the seede is ripe 2 There is another kinde in taste like the former but in leaues farre different which I recouered of seedes sent me from Robinus dwelling in Paris The stalkes rise vp to the height of a foot garnished with many broad leaues deepely cut or indented about the edges the middle of the leafe is deckt and garnished with many little small leaues or rather shreds of leaues which make the same like a curlde fanne of feathers The seede is like the former in shape 3 Spanish Cresses riseth forth of the ground like vnto Basill afterwards the leaues grow larger and broader like those of Marigolds among the which riseth vp a crooked lymmer stalke whereupon do grow smaall tufts or spokie rundles of white flowers The seede followeth browne of colour and bitter in taste The whole plant is of a loathfome smell and sauour 4 Stone-Cresse groweth flat vpon the ground with leaues iagged and cut about the edges like the oake leafe resembling well the leaues of shepheardes purse I haue not seene the flowers and therefore they be not exprest in the figure notwithstanding it is reported vnto me that they bee small and white of colour as are those of the garden Cresses The seed is contained in small pouches or seede vessels like those of Treacle mustard or Thlaspi ¶ The Place Cresses are sowne in gardens it skils not what soile it be for that they like any ground especially if it be well watered ‡ M. Bowles found the fourth growing in Shropshire in the fields about Birch in the parish of Elesmere in the grounds belonging to M. Richard Herbert and that in great plenty ‡ ¶ The Time It may be sowne at any time of the yeere vnlesse it be in Winter it groweth vp quickly and bringeth forth betimes both stalke and seede it dieth euery yeere and recouereth it selfe of the fallen or shaken seed 1 Nasturtium hortense Garden Cresses ¶ The Names Cresses is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Nasturtium in English Cresses the Germaines call it kersse and in French Cresson the Italians Nasturtio and Agretto of some towne Cresses and garden Karsse It is called Nasturtium as Varro and 〈◊〉 thinke à narribus torquendis that is to say of writhing the nosthrils which also by the loathsome smell and sharpnesse of the seede doth cause sneesing ‡ The first is called Nasturtium hortense Garden Cresses 2 Nasturtium hortense crispum Garden Cresses with crispe or curled leaues 3 Nasturtium Hispanicum or Latifolium Spanish Cresses or Broad-leaued Cresses 4 This is Nasturtium 〈◊〉 of Tabernamontanus and not of Lobell as out Author termed it Stone Cresses ‡ ¶ The Temperature The herbe of garden Cresses is sharpe and biting the tongue and therefore it is very hot and drie but lesse hot whilest it is yong and tender by reason of the waterie moisture mixed therewith by which the sharpenesse is somewhat allaied The seede is much more biting then the herbe and is hot and drie almost in the fourth degree ¶ The Vertues Galen saith that the Cresses may be eaten with bread Velutiobsonium and so the Antient 〈◊〉 vsually did and the low-Countrie men many times doe who commonly vse to feed of Cresses with bread and butter It is eaten with other sallade hearbes as Tarragon and Rocket and for this cause it is chiefely sowen It is good against the disease which the Germaines call Scorbuch and Scorbuye in Latine Scorbutus which we in England call the Scuruie and Scurby and vpon the seas the Skyrby it is as good and as effectuall as the Scuruie grasse or water Cresses Dioscorides saith if the seed be stamped and mixed with hony it cureth the hardnesse of the milt with Vineger and Barley meale parched it is a remedie against the Sciatica and taketh away hard swellings and inflammations It scoureth away tetters mixed with brine it ripeneth felons called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it forcibly cutteth and raiseth vp thicke and tough humors of the chest if it be mixed with things proper against the stuffing of the lungs Dioscorides saith it is hurtfull to the stomacke and troubleth the belly 3 Nasturtium Hispanicum Spanish Cresses 4 Nasturtium Petreum Stone Cresses It driueth forth wormes bringeth downe the floures killeth the child in the mothers womb and prouoketh bodily lust Being inwardly taken it is good for such as haue fallen from high places it dissolueth cluttered bloud and preuenteth the same that it do not congeale and thicken in any part of the body it procureth sweat as the later Physitions haue found and tried by experience CHAP. 13. Of Indian Cresses ¶ The Description CResses of India haue many weake and feeble branches rising immediately from the ground dispersing themselues far abroade by meanes whereof one plant doth occupie a great circuit of ground as doth the great Bindeweede The tender stalkes diuide themselues into sundry branches trailing likewise vpon the ground somewhat bunched or swollen vp at euery ioint or knee which are in colour of a light red but the spaces betweene the ioints are greene The leaues are round like wall peniwort called Cotyledon the footestalke of the leafe commeth forth on the backeside almost in the middest of the leafe as those of Frogbit in taste and smell like the garden Cresses The flowers are dispersed throughout the whole plant of colour yellow with a crossed starre ouerthwart the inside of a deepe orange colour vnto the backe part of the same doth hang a taile or spurre such as hath the Larkes heele called in Latine Consolida Regalis but greater and the spurre or heele longer which being past there succeed bunched and knobbed cods or seede vessels wherein is contained the seede rough browne of colour and like vnto the seedes of the beete but smaller ¶ The Place The seedes of this rare and faire plant came first from the Indies into Spaine and thence into France and Flanders from whence I receiued seede that bore with me both flowers and 〈◊〉 especially those I receiued from my louing friend Iohn Robin of Paris ¶ The Time The seedes must be sowen in the beginning of Aprill vpon a bed of hot horse dung and some fine sifted earth cast thereon of an handfull thicke The bed must be couered in 〈◊〉 places with hoopes or poles to sustaine the mat or such like thing that it must be 〈◊〉 with in the night and layd open to the Sunne in the day time The which being sprung vp and hauing gotten three leaues you must replant them abroad in
A suppositorie made with the same iuyce and put into the 〈◊〉 causeth sleepe The wine wherein the root hath beene boyled or infused prouoketh sleepe and asswageth paine The smell of the Apples moueth to sleepe likewise but the iuyce worketh more effectually if you take it in small quantitie Great and strange effects are supposed to be in the Mandrakes to cause women to be fruitfull and beare children if they shall but carry the same neere vnto their bodies Some doe from hence ground it for that Rahel desired to haue her sisters Mandrakes as the text is translated but if we looke well into the circumstances which there we shall finde we may rather deeme otherwise Young 〈◊〉 brought home amiable and sweet smelling floures for so signifieth the Hebrew word which is vsed Cantic 7. 13. in the same sense and the lad brought them home rather for their beauty and smell than for their vertue Now in the floures of Mandrake there is no such delectable or amiable smell as was in these amiable floures which 〈◊〉 brought home Besides wee read not that Rahel conceiued hereupon for Leah Iacobs wise had foure children before God granted that blessing of fruitfulnesse vnto Rahel And last of all which is my chiefest reason Iacob was angry with Rahel when she said Giue me children else I die and demanded of her whether he were in the stead of God or no who had withheld from her the fruit of her body And we know that the Prophet Dauid saith Children and the fruit of the wombe are the inheritance that commeth from the Lord Psalm 127. Serapio Auicen and Paulus Aegineta doewrite that the seed and fruit of Mandragoras taken in drinke doe clense the matrix or mother and Dioscorides wrote the same long before them He that would know more hereof may reade that chapter of doctor 〈◊〉 his booke concerning this matter where he hath written largely and learnedly of this Simple CHAP. 66. Of Henbane 1 Hyoscyamus Niger Blacke Henbane 2 Hyoscyamus Albus White Henbane ¶ The Description 1 THe common blacke Henbane hath great and soft stalkes leaues very broad soft and woolly somewhat iagged especially those that grow neere vnto the ground and those that grow vpon the stalke narrower smaller and sharper The floures are bel fashion of a faint yellowish white and browne within towards the bottome when the floures are gone there commeth hard knobby huskes like small cups or boxes wherein are small browne seeds 2 The White Henbane is not much vnlike to the blacke sauing that his leaues are smaller whiter and more woolly and the floures also whiter The cods are like the other but without pricks it dieth in winter and must likewise be sowne againe the next yeere ‡ 3 Hyoscyamus albus minor The lesser White Henbane ‡ 4 Hyoscyamus albus Creticus White Henbane of Candy ‡ 3 This other white Henbane is much like the last described but that it is lesser the leaues smaller and rounder hanging vpon pretty long stalkes the floures and seed vessels are like those of the last mentioned 4 This is softer and tenderer than the last described the leaues also hang vpon long foot-stalkes and are couered ouer with a soft downines and they are somewhat broader yet thinner and more sinuated than those of the white and somewhat resemble the forme of a vine leafe being snipt about the edges the stalkes are also couered with a white downe The floures are of a gold yellow with a veluet coloured circle in their middles the root is sufficiently thicke and large Clusius had the figure and description of this from his friend Iaques Plateau who had the plant growing of seed receiued from Candy 5 The stalke of this growes some cubit high being pretty stiffe about the thickenesse of ones little finger and couered ouer with a soft and white downe the leaues grow dispersed vpon the stalk not much vnlike those of the common kinde but lesser and more diuided and white while they are young couered with a slender and long downinesse the top of the stalke is diuided into certaine branches that bend or hang downe their 〈◊〉 which alternately amongst 〈◊〉 lesser and vndiuided leaues carry cups like as the common one ending in fiue pretty stiffe points in which are contained floures at first somewhat like the common kinde but afterwards as they grow bigger they change into an elegant red purplish colour with deepe coloured veines neither is the ring or middle part purple as in the common kinde but whitish hauing a purplish pointall and fiue threds in the middle the seeds and seed vessels are like those of the common kind Clusius receiued the seed 〈◊〉 from Paludanus returning from his trauailes into Syria and Egypt wherefore he calls it Hyoscyamus Aegyptius Egyptian Henbane ‡ ‡ 5 Hyoscyamus slore rubello Henbane with a reddish floure ¶ The Place Blacke Henbane grows almost euerie where by high-wayes in the borders of fields about dung-hills and vntoiled places the white Henbane is not found but in the gardens of those that loue physicall plants the which groweth in my garden and doth sow it selfe from yeare to yeare ¶ The Time They spring out of the ground in May bring forth their floures in August and the seed is ripe in October ¶ The Names Henbane is called of the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Latines Apollinaris and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Arabians as Pliny saith Altercum of some Faba 〈◊〉 or Iupiters beame of Pythagoras Zoroastes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alterculum 〈◊〉 and Calicularis of the Tuscanes Fabulonia and Faba lupina of Matthaeus syluaticus Dens Caballinus Milimandrum 〈◊〉 of Iacobus à Manlijs Herbapinnula in shops it is called Iusquiamus and Hyoscyamus in English Henbane in Italian Hyosquiamo in Spanish Velenno in high Dutch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in French Hannebane Endormie the other is called Hyoscyamus albus or white Henbane ¶ The Temperature These kindes of Henbane are cold in the fourth degree ¶ The Vertues Henbane causeth drow sinesse and mitigateth all kinde of paine it is good against hot and sharpe distillations of the eyes and other parts it stayeth bleeding and the disease in women it is applied to inflammations of the stones and other secret parts The leaues stamped with the ointment Populcon made of poplar buds asswageth the paine of the gout and the swellings of the stones and the tumors of womens brests and are good to be put into the same ointment but in small quantitie Towash the feet in th e 〈◊〉 of Henbane causeth sleepe or giuen in a clister it doth the same and also the often smelling to the floures The leaues seed and iuyce taken inwardly causeth an vnquiet sleepe like vnto the sleep of drunkennesse which continueth long and is deadly to the party The seed of white 〈◊〉 is good against the cough the falling of waterie humours into the eyes or brest against the inordinate flux 〈◊〉 womens issues and all other issues of bloud taken in the weight of
My selfe speake by proofe who haue cured of that infectious disease a great many diuers of which had couered or kept vnder the sickenesse by the helpe of Tabaco as they thought yet in the end haue beene constrained to haue vnto such an hard knot a crabbed wedge or else had vtterly perished Some vse to drinke it as it is tearmed for wantonnesse or rather custome and cannot forbeare it no not in the midst of their dinner which kind of taking is vnwholesome and very dangerous although to take it seldome and that Physically is to be tolerated and may do some good but I commend the syrrup aboue this 〈◊〉 or smokie medicine It is taken of some physically in a pipe for that purpose once in a day at the most and that in the morning fasting against paines in the head stomacke and griefe in the brest and lungs against catarrhes and rheumes and such as haue gotten cold and hoarsenesse Some haue reported that it little preuaileth against an hot disease and that it profiteth an hot complexion nothing at all but experience hath not shewed it to bee iniurious vnto either They that haue seene the proofe hereof haue credibly reported that when the Moores and Indians haue fainted either for want of food or rest this hath beene a present remedie vnto them to supplie the one and to helpe them to the other The priests and Inchanters of the hot countries do take the fume thereof vntill they be 〈◊〉 that after they haue lien for dead three or foure houres they may tell the people what wonders visions or illusions they haue seene and so giue them a propheticall direction or foretelling 〈◊〉 we may trust the Diuell of the successe of their businesse The 〈◊〉 or distilled water of the first kind is very good against catarrhes the dizzinesse of the head and rheumes that fall downe the eies against the paine called the Megram if either you applie it vnto the temples or take one or two greene leaues or a dry lease 〈◊〉 ed in wine and dried cunningly vpon the embers and laid thereto It cleereth the sight and taketh away the webs and 〈◊〉 thereof being annointed with the iuice bloud warme The oile or iui ce dropped into the eares is good against deaseness a cloth dipped in 〈◊〉 same and laid vpon the face taketh away the lentils rednesse and spots thereof Many notable medicines are made hereof against the old and inueterate cough against 〈◊〉 or pectorall griefes which if I should set downe at large would require a peculiar Volume It is also giuen to such as are accustomed to swoune and are troubled with the Collicke and windinesse against the Dropsie the Wormes in children the Piles and the Sciatica It is vsed in outward medicines either the herbe boiled with oile waxe rosin and turpentine as before is set downe in yellow Henbane or the extraction thereof with salt oile balsame the distilled water and such like against tumours apostumes old vlcers of hard curation botches scabbes stinging with nettles carbuncles poisoned arrowes and wounds made with gunnes or any other weapon It is excellent good in burnings and scaldings with fire water oile lightning or such like boiled with Hogges greace in forme of an Ointment which I haue often prooued and found most true adding a little of the iuice of thorne apple leaues spreading it vpon a cloth and so applying it I doe make hereof an excellent balsame to cure deepe wounds and punctures made by some narrow sharpe pointed weapon Which balsame doth bring vp the flesh from the bottome verie speedily and also heale simple cuts in the flesh according to the first intention that is to glew or soder the lips of the wound together not procuring matter or corruption vnto it as is commonly seene in the healing of wounds The receit is this Take oile of roses oile of S. Iohns 〈◊〉 of either one pinte the leaues of Tabaco stamped small in a stone morter two pounds boile them together to the consumption of the iuice straine it and put it to the fire againe adding thereto of Venice Turpentine two ounces of Olibanum and masticke of either halfe an ounce in most fine and subtill pouder the which you may at all times make an vnguent or salue by putting thereto wax and rosin to giue vnto it a stiffe body which worketh exceeding well in maligne and virulent vlcers as in wounds and punctures I send this iewell vnto you women of all sorts especially to such as cure and helpe the poore and impotent of your Countrey without reward But vnto the beggerly rabble of witches charmers and such like couseners that regard more to get money than to helpe for charitie I wish these few medicines far from their vnderstanding and from those deceiuers whom I wish to be ignorant herein But courteous gentlewomen I may not for the malice that I doe beare vnto such hide any thing from you of such importance and therefore take one more that followeth wherewith I haue done very many and good cures although of small cost but regard it not the lesse for that cause Take the leaues of Tabaco two pound hogges grease one pound stampe the herbe small in a stone morter putting thereto a small cup full of red or claret wine stir them well together couer the morter from filth and so let it rest vntill morning then put it to the fire and let it boile gently continually stirring it vntill the consumption of the wine straine it and set it to the fire againe putting thereto the 〈◊〉 of the herbe one pound of Venice turpentine foure ounces boile them together to the consumption of the iuice then adde therto of the roots of round Aristolochia or Birthwoort in most fine pouder two ounces sufficient waxe to giue it a body the which keep for thy wounded poore neighbour as also the old and filthy vlcers of the legs and other parts of such as haue need of helpe †The figures were formerly transposed CHAP. 69. Of Tree Nightshade Amomum Plinij Tree Nightshade ¶ The Description THis rare and pleasant Plant called tree Nightshade is taken of some to be a kinde of Ginnie pepper but not rightly of others for a kinde of Nightshade whose iudgement and censure I gladly admit for that it doth more fitly answer it both in the forme and nature It groweth vp like vnto a small shrubbe or wooddy hedge bush two or three cubits high couered with a greenish barke set with many small twiggie branches and garnished with many long leaues very greene like vnto those of the Peach tree The floures are white with a certaine yellow pricke or pointell in the middle like vnto the floures of garden Nightshade After which succeede small round berries verie red of colour and of the same substance with Winter Cherries wherein are contained little flat yellow seeds The root is compact of many small 〈◊〉 yellow strings ¶ The Place It groweth not wilde in these cold regions but we
afresh for certaine yeeres after ¶ The Time It may be sowne in March or Aprill it flourisheth and is greene in Iune and afterwards euen vntill winter ¶ The Names Purslane is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Portulaca in high Dutch Burkelkraut in French Poupier in Italian 〈◊〉 in Spanish Verdolagas in English Purslane and Porcelane ¶ The Temperature Purslane is cold and that in the third degree and moist in the second but wilde Purslane is not so moist ¶ The Vertues Rawe Purslane is much vsed in sallades with oile salt and vineger it cooleth an hot 〈◊〉 and prouoketh appetite but the nourishment which commeth thereof is little bad cold grosse and moist being chewed it is good for teeth that are set on edge or astonied the juice doth the same being held in the mouth and also the distilled water Purslane is likewise commended against wormes in young children and is singular good especially if they be feuerish withall for it both allaies the ouermuch heate and killeth the wormes which thing is done through the saltnes mixed therewith which is not only an enemy to wormes but also to putrifaction The leaues of Purslane either rawe or boiled and eaten as sallades are good for those that haue great heate in their stomackes and inward parts and doe coole and temper the inflamed bloud The same taken in like manner is good for the bladder and kidnies and allaieth the out ragious lust of the body the juice also hath the same vertue The juice of Purslane stoppeth the bloudy fluxe the fluxe of the hemorroides monthly termes spitting of bloud and all other fluxes whatsoeuer The same thrown vp with a mother syringe cureth the inflammations frettings and 〈◊〉 of the matrix and put into the fundament with a clister pipe helpeth the vlcerations and 〈◊〉 the guts The leaues eaten rawe take away the paine of the teeth and fasteneth them and are good for teeth that are set on edge with eating of sharpe or soure things The seed being taken killeth and driueth forth wormes and stoppeth the laske CHAP. 149. Of sea Purslane and of the shrubby Sengreens ¶ The Description 1 SEa Purslane is not a herbe as garden Purslane but a little shrub the stalkes whereof be hard and wooddy the leaues fat full of substance like in forme to common Purslane but much whiter and harder the mossie purple floures stand round about the vpper parts of the stalkes as do almost those of Blyte or of Orach neither is the seed vnlike being broad and flat the root is wooddy long lasting as is also the plant which beareth out the winter with the losse of a few leaues †2 There is another sea Purslane or Halimus or after Dodonaus Portulaca marina which hath leaues like the former but not altogether so white yet are they somewhat longer and narrower not much vnlike the leaues of the Oliue tree The slender branches are not aboue a cubit or cubit and halfe long and commonly lie spred vpon the ground and the floures are of a deepe ouerworne herby colour and after them follow seedes like those of the former but smaller ‡ 3 Our ordinary Halimus or sea Purslane hath small branches some foot or better long lying commonly spred vpon the ground of an ouerworne grayish colour and sometimes purple the leaues are like those of the last mentioned but more fat and thicke yet lesse hoary The floures grow on the tops of the branches of an herby purple colour which is succeeded by small seeds like to that of the second kinde ‡ 4 There is found another wilde sea Purslane whereof I haue thought good to make mention which doth resemble the kindes of Aizoons The first kinde groweth vpright with a trunke like a small tree or shrub hauing many vpright wooddy branches of an ashe colour with many thicke darke greene leaues like the small Stone crop called Vermicularis the floures are of an herby yellowish greene colour the root is very hard and fibrous the whole plant is of a salt tang taste and the juice like that of Kaly 5 There is another kinde like the former and differeth in that this strange plant is greater the leaues more sharpe and narrower and the whole plant more wooddy and commeth neere to the forme of a tree The floures are of a greenish colour ‡ 1 Halimus latifolius Tree Sea Purslane ‡ 2 Halimus angustifolius procumbens Creeping Sea Purslane 3 Halimus vulgaris siue Portulaca marina Common Sea Purslane ‡ 4 Vermicular is frutex minor The lesser shrubby Sengreen ‡ 5 Vermicularis frutex major The greater Tree Stone-crop ¶ The Place ‡ The first and second grow vpon the Sea coasts of Spaine and other hot countries ‡ and the third groweth in the salt marishes neere the sea side as you passe ouer the Kings ferrey vnto the isle of Shepey going to Sherland house belonging sometime vnto the Lord Cheiny and in the yeare 1590 vnto the Worshipfull Sr. Edward Hobby fast by the ditches sides of the same marish it groweth plentifully in the isle of Thanet as you go from Margate to Sandwich and in many other places along the coast The other sorts grow vpon bankes and heapes of sand on the Sea coasts of Zeeland Flanders Holland and in like places in other countries as besides the Isle of Purbecke in England and on Rauen-spurne in Holdernesse as I my selfe haue seene ¶ The Time These flourish and floure especially in Iuly and August ¶ The Names Sea Purslane is called Portulaca Marina In Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is also called in Latine Halimus in Dutch Zee 〈◊〉 in English Sea Purslane The bastard ground Pines are called of some Chamepitys virmiculata in English Sea ground Pine ‡ or more fitly Tree Ston-crop or Pricket or Shrubby Sengreene ‡ ¶ The Temperature Sea Purslane is as Galen saith of vnlike parts but the greater part thereof is hot in a meane with a moisture vnconcocted and somewhat windie ¶ The Vertues The leaues saith Dioscorides are boyled to be eaten a dram weight of the root being drunke with meade or honied water is good against crampes and drawings awrie of sinewes burstings and gnawings of the belly it also causeth Nurses to haue store of milke The leaues be in the Low-countries preserued in salt or pickle as capers are and be serued and eaten at mens tables in stead of them and that without any mislike of taste to which it is pleasant Galen doth also report that the yong and tender buds are wont in Cilicia to be eaten and also laid vp in store for vse ‡ Clusius saith That the learned Portugal Knight Damianus a Goes assured him That the leaues of the first described boyled with bran and so applied mitigate the paines of the Gout proceeding of an hot cause ‡ CHAP. 150. Of Herbe-Iuy or Ground-Pine ¶ The Description 1 THe common kinde of Chamaepitys or Ground-Pine is a small herbe and very tender creeping vpon the
water of them which is vsed to make the heart merry to make a good colour in the face and to make the vitall spirits more 〈◊〉 and liuely CHAP. 236. Of Mother woort Cardiaca Mother-woort ¶ The Description MOther woortbringeth forth stalks foure square thick hard two cubites high of an obscure or ouerworn red colour the leaues are somewhat black like those of Nettles but greater and broader than the leaues of Horehound deeply indented or cut on the edges The husks are hard pricking which do compasse the stalks about like wharles or little crownets out of which do grow purplish floures not vnlike to those of dead Nettle but lesser The roote is compact of many small strings the whole plant is of a very ranke smel and bitter taste ¶ The Place It ioieth among rubbish in stony and other barren and rough places especially about Oxford it profiteth well in gardens ¶ The Time It flourisheth floureth and seedeth from Iune to September the leaues and stalks perish in winter but the root indureth ¶ The Names It is called in our age Cardiaca in High Dutch Nertzgesport in Low Dutch Nertegespan in French Agripauline in English Motherwoort Some there be that make it a kinde of Bawme it seemes that it may be also referred to 〈◊〉 is Herculana or Hercules Ironwoort ¶ The Temperature Motherwoort is hot and dry in the second degree by reason of the clensing aud binding quality that it hath ¶ The Vertues Diuers commend it against the infirmities of the heart it is iudged to be so forceable that it is thought it tooke his name Cardiaca of the effect It is also reported to cure convulsions and cramps and likewise the palsie to open the obstructions or stoppings of the intrails to kill all kindes of Wormes of the bellie The pouder of the herbe giuen in wine prouoketh not onely vrine or the monthly course but also is good for them that are in hard trauell with childe Moreouer the same is commended for greene wounds it is also a remedie against certain diseases in cattell as the cough and murreine and for that cause diuers husbandmen oftentimes much desire it CHAP. 237. Of stinging Nettle ¶ The Description 1 THe stalkes of the first be now and then halfe a yard high round and hollow within the leaues are broad sharp pointed cut round about like a saw they be rough on both sides and couered with a stinging downe which with a light touch onely causeth a great burning and raiseth hard knots in the skin like blisters and sometimes maketh it red The seed commeth from the roots of the leaues in round pellets bigger than Pease it is slippery glittering like Line-seed but yet lesser and rounder The roote is set with strings 1 Vrtica Romana Romane Nettle 2 Vrtica vrens Common stinging Nettle 2 The second Nettle beeing our common Nettle is like to the former in leaues and stalkes but yet now and then higher and more full of branches it is also couered with a downe that stingeth and burneth as well as the other the seed hereof is small and groweth not in round bullets but on long slender strings as it were in clusters as those of the female Mercury which grow along the stalkes and branches aboue the leaues very many The root is full of strings of colour something yellow and creepeth all about ‡ This hath the stalkes and rootes sometimes a little reddish whence Tabernamontanus and our Authour gaue another figure thereof by the name of Vrtica rubra Red Nettle ‡ 3 The third is like to the second in stalkes leaues and seed that groweth by clusters but lesser and commonly more full of branches of a light greene more burning and stinging the root is small and not without strings 3 Vrtica minor Small Nettle ¶ The Place Nettles grow in vntilled places and the first in thicke woods and is a stranger in England notwithstanding it groweth in my garden The second is more common and groweth of it selfe neere vnto hedges bushes brambles and old walls almost euery where The third also commeth vp in the same places which notwithstanding groweth in gardens and moist earable grounds ¶ The Time They all flourish in Sommer the second suffereth the winters cold the seed is ripe and may be gathered in Iuly and August ¶ The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Vrtica ab vrendo of his burning and stinging qualitie whereupon Macer saith nec 〈◊〉 nomen 〈◊〉 videtur Tacta quod exurat digitos vrtica tenentis Neither without desert his name hee seemes to git As that which quickly burnes the fingers tou ching it And of diuers also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it stingeth with hurtfull downe in high-Dutch Nessel in Italian Ortica in Spanish Hortiga in French Ortie in English Nettle The first is called in low Dutch Roomsche Netelen that is 〈◊〉 vrtica or Roman Nettle and likewise in high-Dutch 〈◊〉 Nesselen that is Italica vrtica Italian Nettle because it is rare and groweth but in few places and the seed is sent from other countries and sowne in gardens for his vertues it is also called of diuers Vrticamas and of Dioscorides Vrtica syluestris or wilde Nettle which he saith is more rough with broader and longer leaues and with the seed of Flax but lesser Pliny maketh the wilde Nettle the male and in his 21 booke chap. 15. saith that it is milder and gentler it is called in English Romane Nettle Greeke Nettle Male Nettle The second is called Vrtica foemina and oftentimes Vrtica maior that it may differ from the third Nettle in English Female Nettle Great Nettle or common Nettle The third is named in high-Dutch Heyter Nessel in the Brabanders speech Heijte Netelen so called of the stinging qualitie in English Small Nettle Small burning Nettle but whether this be that or no which Pliny calleth Cania or rather the first let the Students consider There is in the wilde Nettle a more stinging qualitie which saith he is called Cania with a stalke more stinging hauing nicked leaues ¶ The Temperature Nettle is of temperature dry a little hot scarse in the first degree it is of thin and subtil parts for it doth not therefore burne and sting by reason it is extreme hot but because the downe of it is stiffe and hard piercing like fine little prickles or stings and entring into the skin for if it be withered or boyled it stingeth not at all by reason that the stiffenesse of the downe is fallen away ¶ The Vertues Being eaten as Dioscorides saith boyled with Perywinkles it maketh the body soluble doing it by a kinde of cleansing qualitie it also prouoketh vrine and expelleth stones out of the kidneyes being boyled with barley creame it bringeth vp tough humours that sticke in the chest as it is thought Being stamped and the iuyce put vp into the nosthrils it stoppeth the bleeding of the nose the iuyce is good against the
like those of the last described And the seed also growes like vnto that of the Water 〈◊〉 last described 5 There is also another kinde of water Milfoile which hath leaues very like vnto water Violet smaller and not so many in number the stalke is small and tender bearing yellow gaping floures fashioned like a hood or the small Snapdragon which caused Pena to put vnto his 〈◊〉 this additament Galericulatum that is hooded The roots are small and threddy with some few knobs hanging thereat like the sounds of fish 2 Millesolium aquaticum Water Yarrow 3 Millesolium siue 〈◊〉 flore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aquatici 〈◊〉 facie Crow-foot or water Milsoile ‡ 6 To these may we adde a small water Milfoile set sorth by Clusius It hath round greene stalkes set with many ioynts whereout come at their lower ends many hairy fibres whereby it taketh hold of the mud the tops of these stems stand some handfull aboue the water and at each ioynt stand fiue long finely winged leaues very greene and some inch long which wax lesse and lesse as they stand higher or neerer the top of the stalke and at each of these leaues about the top of the stem growes one small white floure consisting of six little leaues ioyned together and not opening themselues and these at length turne into little knobs with foure little pointals standing out of them Clusius calls this Myriophyllon aquaticum minus ‡ ‡ 4 Millefolium tenuifolium Fennell leaued water Milfoile ‡ 5 Millefolium palustre galericulatum Hooded water Milfoile ¶ The Place They be found in lakes and standing waters or in waters that run slowly I haue not found such plenty of it in any one place as in the water ditches adioyning to Saint George his field neere London ¶ The Time They floure for the most part in May and Iune ¶ The Names The first is called in Dutch water Uiolerian that is to say Viola aquatilis in English Water Gillofloure or water Violet in French Gyroflees d'eaue Matthiolus makes this to be also Myrophylli 〈◊〉 or a kinde of Yarrow although it doth not agree with the description thereof for neither hath it one stalke onely nor one single root as Myriophyllon or Yarrow is described to haue for the roots are full of strings and it bringeth forth many stalkes The second is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Millefolium and Myriophyllon and also Supercilium Veneris in shops it is vnknowne This Yarrow differeth from that of the land the rest are sufficiently spoken of in their titles ¶ The Nature and Vertues Water Yarrow as Dioscorides saith is of a dry facultie and by reason that it taketh away hot inflammations and swellings it seemeth to be of a cold nature for Dioscorides affirmeth that water Yarrow is a remedie against inflammations in greene wounds if with vineger it be applied greene or dry and it is giuen inwardly with vineger and salt to those that haue fallen from a high place Water Gillofloure or water Violet is thought to be cold and dry yet hath it no vse in physicke at all CHAP. 301. Of Ducks meate Lens palustris Ducks meate ¶ The Description DVckes meate is as it were a certaine greene mosse with very little round leaues of the bignesse of Lentils out of the midst whereof on the nether side grow downe very fine threds like haires which are to them in stead of roots it hath neither stalke floure nor fruit ¶ The Place It is found in pounds lakes city ditches and in other standing waters euery where ¶ The Time The time of Ducks meate is knowne to all ¶ The Names Duckes meate is called in Latine Lens lacustris Lens aquatilis and Lens palustris of the Apothecaries it is 〈◊〉 Aquae Lenticula in high-Dutch Meerlinsen in low-Dutch 〈◊〉 and more vsually Enden gruen that is to say Anatum herba Ducks herbe because Ducks doe feed thereon whereupon also in English it is called Ducks meate some terme it after the Greeke water Lentils and of others it is named Graines The Italians call it Lent 〈◊〉 in French Lentille d eaue in Spanish Lenteias de agua ¶ The Temperature Galen sheweth that it is cold and moist after a sort in the second degree ¶ The Vertues Dioscorides saith that it is a remedie against all manner of inflammations Saint Anthonies fire and hot Agues if they be either applied alone or else vsed with partched barley meale It also knitteth ruptures in young children Ducks meate mingled with fine wheaten floure and applied preuaileth much against hot swellings as Phlegmons Erisipelas and the paines of the ioynts The same doth helpe the fundament fallen downe in yong children CHAP. 302. Of Water Crow-foot 1 Ranunculus aquatilis Water Crow-foot ¶ The Description 1 WAter Crow-foot hath slender branches trailing far abroad whereupon grow leaues vnder the water most finely cut and iagged like those of Cammomill Those aboue the water are somwhat round indented about the edges in forme not vnlike the smal tender leaues of the mallow but lesser among which do grow the floures small and white of colour made of fine little leaues with some yellownesse in the middle like the floures of the Straw-berry and of a sweet smell after which there come round rough and prickly knaps like those of the field Crowfoot The roots be very small hairy strings ‡ There is sometimes to be found a varietie of this with the leaues lesse and diuided into three parts after the manner of an Iuy leafe and the floures are also much lesser but white of colour with a yellow bottome I question whether this be not the Ranunculus hederaceus Daleschampij pag. 1031. of the hist. Lugd. ‡ 2 There is another plant growing in the water of smal moment yet not amisse to be remembred called Hederula aquatica or water Iuie the which is very rare to finde neuerthelesse I found it once in a ditch by Bermondsey house neere to London and neuer elsewhere it hath small threddy strings in stead of roots and stalkes rising from the bottome of the water to the top wherunto are fastned small leaues swimming or floting vpon the water triangled or three cornered like to those of barren Iuie or rather noble Liuerwort barren of floures and seeds 2 Hederula aquatica Water Iuie ‡ 3 Stellaria aquatica Water Starwort 3 There is likewise another herbe of small reckoning that floteth vpon the water called Stellaria aquatica or water Star-wort which hath many small grassie stems like threds comming from the bottome of the water vnto the vpper face of the same whereupon do grow smal double floures of a greenish or herby colour ‡ I take this Stellaria to be nothing else but a water Chickeweed which growes almost in euery ditch with two long narrow leaues at each ioynt and halfe a dozen or more lying close together at the top of the water in fashion of a starre it may be seene in this shape in the end of
Setter-wort and Setter-grasse The second is named in the German tongue Lowszkraut that is Pedicularis or Lowsie grasse for it is thought to destroy and kill lice and not onely lice but sheepe and other cattell and may be reckoned among the Beare-feet as kindes thereof ¶ The Temperature Blacke Hellebor as Galen holdeth opinion is hotter in taste than the white Hellebor in like manner hot and dry in the third degree ¶ The Vertues Black Hellebor purgeth downwards flegme choler and also melancholy especially and all melancholy humors yet not without trouble and difficultie therfore it is not to be giuen but to robustious and strong bodies as Mesues teacheth A purgation of Hellebor is good formad and furious men for melancholy dull and heauy persons for those that are troubled with the falling sicknes for lepers for them that are sicke of a quartane Ague and briefely for all those that are troubled with blacke choler and molested with melancholy The manner of giuing it meaning the first blacke Hellebor saith Actuarius in his first booke is three scruples little more or lesse It is giuen with wine of raisins or oxymel but for pleasantnes sake some sweet and odoriferous seeds must be put vnto it but if you would haue it stronger adde thereunto a grain or two of Scamonie Thus much Actuarius The first of these kindes is best then the second the rest are of lesse force The roots take away the morphew and blacke spots in the skin tetters ring-wormes leprosies and 〈◊〉 The root sodden in pottage with flesh openeth the bellies of such as haue the dropsie The root of bastard Hellebor called among our English women Beare-foot steeped in wine and drunken looseth the belly euen as the true blacke Hellebor and is good against all the diseases whereunto blacke Hellebor serueth and killeth wormes in children It doth his operation with more force and might if it be made into pouder and a dram thereof be receiued in wine The same boyled in water with Rue and Agrimony cureth the jaundice and purgeth yellow superfluities by siege The leaues of bastard Hellebor dried in an ouen after the bread is drawne out and the pouder thereof taken in a figge or raisin or strawed vpon a piece of bread spred with honey and eaten killeth wormes in children exceedingly CHAP. 378. Of Dioscorides his blacke Hellebor Astrantianigra siue 〈◊〉 nigrum Dioscoridis Dod. Blacke Master-worts or Dioscorides his blacke Hellebor ¶ The Description THis kinde of blacke Hellebor set forth by Lobel vnder the name of Astrantianigra agreeth very well in shape with the true Astrantia which is called Imperatoria neuertheles by the consent of Dioscorides and other Authors who haue expressed this plant for a kinde of Veratrum nigrum or blacke Hellebor it hath many blackish green leaues parted or cut into foure or fiue deepe cuts after the maner of the vine leafe very like vnto those of Sanicle both in greennes of colour and also in proportion The stalke is euen smooth and plain at the top wherof grow floures it little tufts or vmbels set together like those of Scabious of a whitish light greene colour dashed ouer as it were with a little darke purple after which come the seed like vnto Carthamus or bastard Saffron The roots are many blackish threds knit to one head or master root ¶ The Place Blacke Hellebor is found in the mountains of Germany and in other vntilled and rough places it prospereth in gardens Dioscorides writeth That blacke Hellebor groweth likewise in rough and dry places and that is the best which is taken from such like places as that saith hee which is brought out of Anticyra a city in Greece It groweth in my garden ¶ The Time This blacke Hellebor flowreth not in Winter but in the Sommer moneths The herb is green all the yeare thorow ¶ The Names It is called of the later Herbarists Astrantia nigra of others Sanicula foemina notwithstanding it differeth much from Astrantia an herbe which is also named Imperatoria or Master-wort The vulgar people call it Pellitorie of Spaine but vntruly it may be called blacke Master-wort yet 〈◊〉 a kinde of Hellebor as the purging facultie doth shew for it is certaine that diuers experienced physitians can witnesse that the roots hereof do purge melancholy and other humors and that they themselues haue perfectly cured mad melancholy people being purged herewith And that it hath a purging qualitie Conradus Gesnerus doth likewise testifie in a certaine Epistle written to Adolphus Occo in which he sheweth that Astrantianigra is almost as strong as white Hellebòr and that he himselfe was the first that had experience of the purging facultie thereof by siege which things confirme that it is 〈◊〉 his blacke Hellebor Dioscorides hath also attributed to this plant all those names that are ascribed to the other black Hellebors He saith further that the seed thereof in Anticyra is called Sesamoides the which is vsed to purge with if so be that the Text be true and not corrupted But it seemeth not to be altogether perfect for if Sesamoides as Pliny saith and the word it selfe doth shew hath his name of the likenesse of Sesamum the seed of this blacke Hellebor shall vnproperly be called Sesamoides being not like that of Sesamum but of Cnicus or bastard Saffron By these proofes we may suspect that these words are brought into Dioscorides from some other Author ¶ The Temperature and Vertues The faculties of this plant we haue already written to be by triall found like to those of the other blacke Hellebor notwithstanding those that are described in the former chapter are to be accounted of greater force CHAP. 379. Of Herbe Christopher 〈◊〉 Herbe Christopher ¶ The Description ALthough Herbe Christopher be none of the Binde-weeds or of those plants that haue need of supporting or vnderpropping wherewith it may clime or rampe yet because it beareth grapes or clusters of berries it might haue been numbred among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or those that grow like Vines It brings forth little tender stalkes a foot long or not much longer whereupon do grow sundry leaues set vpon a tender foot-stalke which do make one leafe somewhat iagged or cut about the edges of a light greene colour the floures grow at the top of the stalks in spokie tufts consisting of four little white leaues apiece which being past the fruit succeeds round somwhat long and blacke when it is ripe hauing vpon one side a streaked 〈◊〉 or hollownesse growing neere together as doe the clusters of grapes The root is thicke blacke without and yellow within like Box with many trailing strings anexed therto creeping far abroad in the earth whereby it doth greatly increase and lasteth long ¶ The Place Herbe Christopher groweth in the North parts of England neere vnto the house of the right worshipfull Sir William Bowes I haue receiued plants thereof from Robinus of Paris for my garden where they flourish ¶ The
and the rocke asoresaid this hath been thought good to eat ‡ The figure of this our Authour formerly gaue yet vnfitly it not agreeing with that description for Oreoselinum it may be he thought it the same with that of 〈◊〉 his description because he sound it vnder the same title in 〈◊〉 This is the Selinum montanum pumilum of Clusius and the Peucedani facie pusilla planta of Pena and Lobel whersore 〈◊〉 was mistaken in his Pinax whereas he refers that of Lobel to his third Peucedanum the root of this is black without and white within but short yet at the top about the thicknesse of ones 〈◊〉 the leaues are small and green commonly diuided into siue parts and these againe subdiuided by threes the 〈◊〉 is some sixe inches or halfe a foot high diuided into sundry branches crested 〈◊〉 and at the toppes of the branches euen when they first shoot vp appeare little vmbels of white floures very small and consisting of fiue leaues apiece The seed is blacke shining and round two being ioined together as in most vmbelliferous plants It floures in May and ripens the 〈◊〉 in Iuly I receiued in Iuly 〈◊〉 some plants of this from Bristow by the meanes of my 〈◊〉 mentioned friend 〈◊〉 George 〈◊〉 who gathered it 〈◊〉 Saint 〈◊〉 Rocke whereas the Authours of the Aduersaria report it to grow ‡ 1 Peucedanum Sulphurwoort 2 Peucedanum maius Great Sulphurwoort ‡ 3 Peucedanum pumilum Dwarfe Hogs-Fennell ¶ The Place The first kinde of Peucedanum or Hogs Fennell groweth very plentifully on the South side of a wood belonging to Waltham at the Nase in Essex by the high-way side also at Whitstable in Kent in a medow neere to the sea side sometime belonging to Sir Henry Crispe and adioyning to his house there It groweth also in great plenty at Feuersham in Kent neere vnto the hauen vpon the bankes thereof and in the medowes adioyning The second kinde groweth vpon the sea coasts of Montpellier in France and in the coasts of Italy ¶ The Time These plants do floure in Iune Iuly and August ¶ The Names The Grecians call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines in like manner Peucedanos or Peucedanum and also Pinastellum most of the shops and likewise the common people name it Foeniculum Porcinum of diuers Stataria of the Prophets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say a good Angell or Ghost in high-Dutch Harstrang Schweffel wurkel Sewfenckel in Italian and French Peucedano in Spanish 〈◊〉 in English Hore-strange and Hore-strong Sow-Fennell or Hogs Fennell Sulphur-wort or Brimstone-wort It is called Peucedanum and Pinastellum of the Greeke and Latine words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Pinus ¶ The Temperature These herbes especially the yellow sap of the root is hot in the second degree and dry in the beginning of the third ¶ The Vertues The yellow sap of the root of Hogs Fennell or as they call it in some places of England Horestrange taken by it selfe or with bitter almonds and Rue is good against the shortnesse of breath it asswageth the griping paines of the belly dissolueth and driueth away ventositie or windinesse of the stomacke it wasteth the swelling of the milt or spleene looseth the belly gently and purgeth by siege both flegme and choler The same taken in manner aforesaid prouoketh vrine easeth the paine of the kidneyes and bladder causeth easie deliuerance of childe and expelleth the secondine or after-birth and the dead childe The sap or iuyce of the root mixed with oyle of Roses or Vineger and applied easeth the palsie crampes contraction or drawing together of sinewes and all old cold diseases especially the Sciatica It is vsed with good successe against the rupture or burstings in yong children and is very good to be applied vnto the nauels of children that stand out ouer much The decoction of the root drunke is of like vertue vnto the iuyce but not altogether so effectuall against the foresaid diseases The root dried and made into pouder doth mundifie and clense old stinking and corrupt sores and vlcers and healeth them it also draweth forth the corrupt and rotten bones that hinder the same from healing and likewise splinters and other things fixed in the flesh The said pouder or iuyce of the root mixed with oyle of Roses causeth one to sweat if the body be anointed therewith and therefore good to be put into the vnction or ointment for the French disease The congealed liquor tempered with oyle of Roses and applied to the head after the manner of an ointment is good for them that haue the Lethargie that are franticke that haue dizzinesse in the head that are troubled with the falling sicknesse that haue the palsie that are vexed with convulsions and crampes and generally it is a remedie for all infirmities of the sinewes with Vineger and oyle as Dioscorides teacheth The same being smelt vnto reuiueth and calleth them again that be strangled with the mother and that lie in a dead sleepe Being taken in a reare egge it helpeth the cough and difficultie of breathing gripings and windinesse which as Galen addeth proceedeth from the grossenesse and clamminesse of humors It purgeth gently it diminisheth the spleene by cutting digesting and making thin humours that are thicke it causeth easie trauell and openeth the matrix A small piece of the root holden in the mouth is a present remedie against the suffocation of the mother CHAP. 427. Of Herbe Ferula or Fennell Gyant ¶ The Kindes DIoscorides maketh mention of a Ferula out of which is gathered the Gum Sagapene and 〈◊〉 he declareth that the Gums Galbanum and Ammoniacum are liquors of this herb 〈◊〉 but what difference there is in the liquors according to the clymat or countrey where it groweth he doth not set downe for it may be that out of one kinde of Ferula sundry iuyces may be gathered that is to say according to the diuersitie of the countries where they grow as we haue said for as in Laser the iuyce of Laserwort that groweth in Cyrene doth differ from that liquor which groweth in Media and Syria so it is likely that the herbe Ferula doth bring sorth in Media Sagapenum in Cyrene Ammoniacum and in Syria Galbanum Theophrastus saith that the herbe Ferula is diuided into mo kindes and he calleth one great by the name of Ferula and another little by the name Ferulago 1 Ferula Fennell Gyant ‡ 2 Ferulago Small Fennell-Gyant ¶ The Description 1 FErula or Fennell Gyant hath very great and large leaues of a deepe greene colour cut and iagged like those of Fennell spreading themselues abroad like wings amongst which riseth vp a great hollow stalke somewhat reddish on that side which is next vnto the Sun diuided into certaine spaces with ioynts or knees like those of Hemlocks or Kexes of the bignesse of a mans arme in the wrest of the height of foure or fiue cubits where it groweth naturally as in Italy Greece and other hot countries notwithstanding
yearely which they sold at a great price vnto our London Apothecaries and gained much money thereby one of the men dwelleth by the Bagge and Bottle neere London whose name is Cornewall into whose garden I was brought to see the thing that I would not beleeue for being often 〈◊〉 that there it did grow I still persisted it was not true but when I did behold this 〈◊〉 quantitie of VVormwood it was nothing else but common Amcos How many 〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉 deceiued how many they haue robbed of their money and how many children haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the better for taking it 〈◊〉 refer it to the 〈◊〉 of the simplest considering their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue sold many hundreth pounds weight of it the more to their shame be it spoken and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wit or skill in the Apothecaries therefore haue I set downe this as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those that buy of these seeds first to taste and trie the same before they giue it to their children or commit it to any other vse ‡ Certainely our Author was either misinformed or the people of these times were very simple for I dare boldly say there is not any Apothecary or scarce any other so simple as to be thus deceiued now ‡ ¶ The Time It floureth and bringeth forth his seed in Iuly and August ¶ The Names The French men call it 〈◊〉 the Italians Semen Zena whereupon also the 〈◊〉 name 〈◊〉 came the seed is called euery where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy-seed and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English VVormseed the herb it selfe is also called 〈◊〉 or wormseed wort some name it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zedoarie seede because it hath a smeil somewhat resembling that of Zedoarie ¶ The Temperature The seed is very bitter and for that cause of nature hot and drie ¶ The Vertues It is good against wormes of the belly and entrailes taken any way and better also if a little Rubarbe bee mixed withall for so the wormes are not onely killed but likewise they are driuen downe by the siege which thing must alwaies be regarded The seed mixed with a little 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and brought to the forme of a plaister and applied to the nauell of a childe doth the like CHAP. 452. 〈◊〉 and Bastard Wormewoods 1 〈◊〉 album VVhite wormwood 2 〈◊〉 Aegyptium VVormwood of Aegypt ¶ The Description 1 ABsinthium album hath straight and vpright stalkes a foot high 〈◊〉 with broad leaues but very deeply cut or clouen in shew like vnto 〈◊〉 of the great 〈◊〉 but white of colour at the top of the stalkes out of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in an vmbell grow floures compact of six small white leaues the 〈◊〉 is long with some fibres annexed vnto it 2 This kinde of Wormwood 〈◊〉 and that learned 〈◊〉 Valerandus Donraz called Absinthium Egyptium the leaues of this plant are very like to the leaues of Trichomanes which is our common Maiden haire of a white colour euery small leafe standing one opposite against another and of a strong sauour 3 This VVormwood which Dodonaens calleth Absinthium inodorum and Insipidum is very like vnto the sea VVormwood in his small and tender leaues the stalke beareth flowers also like vnto the foresaid Sea 〈◊〉 but it is of a sad or deep 〈◊〉 hauing neither bitter taste nor any fauour at all whereupon it was called and that very fitly Absinthium inodorum or Absinthium insipidum in English foolish or vnsauory wormwood ‡ 〈◊〉 saith not that his Absinthium insipidum is like the sea wormwood but that it is very like our common broad leaued VVormwood and so indeed it is and that so like that it is hard to be discerned therefrom but onely by the want of bitternesse and smell ‡ 3 Absinthium inodorum Vnsauorie VVormwood 4 Absinthium marinum Abrotani 〈◊〉 facie Small Lauander Cotton 4 This kinde of Sea-wormwood is a shrubby and wooddie plant in face and shew like to Lauander Cotton of a strong smel hauing floures like those of the common wormwood at the first shew like those of Lauander Cotton the root is tough and wooddie ¶ The Place These plants are strangers in England yet we haue a few of them in Herbarists gardens ¶ The Time The time of their flouring and seeding is referred to the other wormwoods ¶ The Names The white wormwood Conradus Gesnerus nameth Seriphium foemina and saith that it is commonly called Herba alba or white 〈◊〉 another had rather name it 〈◊〉 for as Dioscorides saith Santonicum is found in France beyond the Alpes and beareth his name of the same countrey where it groweth but that part of Swisserland which belongeth to France is accounted of the Romans to be beyond the Alps and the prouince of Santon is far from it for this is a part of Guines scituate vpon the coast of the Ocean beneath the floud Gerond Northward therefore Santon Wormwood if it haue his name from the Santons groweth 〈◊〉 from the Alps but if it grow neere adioyning to the Alps then hath it not his name from the Santons ¶ The Temperature and Vertues White Wormwood is hot and somewhat dry Vnsauorie Wormwood as it is without smell and taste so is it 〈◊〉 of any hot qualitie much lesse hath it any scouring facultie These are not vsed in physicke where the 〈◊〉 may 〈◊〉 had being as it were wilde or degenerate kindes of Wormwood some of them participating both of the forme and smell of other plants CHAP. 453. Of Mugwort 1 〈◊〉 mater Herbarum Common Mugwort ¶ The Description 1 THe first kinde of Mug 〈◊〉 hath broad leaues very much cut or clouen like the leaues of common Wormewood but larger of a darke greene colour aboue and hoarie vnderneath the stalkes are long and straight and full of branches whereon do grow small round buttons which are the floures smelling like Marierome when they wax ripe the root is great and of a wooddie substance 2 The second kinde of Mugwort hath a great thicke and wooddy root from whence arise sundry branches of a reddish colour beset full of small and fine iagged leaues verie like vnto sea Sothernwood the seed groweth alongst the small twiggy branches like vnto little berries which fall not from their branches in a long time after they be ripe ‡ I know not how this differeth from the former but only in the colour of the stalk and floures which are red or purplish whereas the former is more whitish ‡ 3 There is also another Mugwort which hath many branches rising from a wooddie root standing vpright in distances one from another of an ashie colour beset with leaues not much vnlike sea 〈◊〉 about the lower part of the stalkes and toward the top of the branches they are narrower and lesser and cut with great and deepe iagges thicke in substance and of a whitish colour as all the rest of the plant is it yeeldeth a pleasant smell like Abrotanum marinum and in taste is somewhat 〈◊〉 the floures are many and yellow which being vaded there followeth mossie
my garden ¶ The Time It floureth in Iuly and August ¶ The Names The Italians call it 〈◊〉 and Ruta Capraria diuers name it corruptly Gralega Hieronymus Galega Goats Rue Fracastorius calleth it Herba Gallcca the Hetruscians Lauanese and it is also called by diuers other names in sundry places of Italy as Gesner saith as are Castracane Lauanna Thorina or Taurina Martanica Sarracena Capragina Herbanesa Foenum graecum syluestre and as 〈◊〉 witnesseth Giarga It is named in English Italian Fitch and Goats Rue Some iudge that the old Physitions were wont to call it Onobrychis others Glauce diuers would haue it to be Polemonium but not so much Petr. And 〈◊〉 in his commentaries as euery one of the descriptions mentioned by Dioscorides do gainsay them as also those who thinke that Galega is Polygalon that the name of Galega came of Polygalon the very description also of Polygalon is against them for Galega is higher and greater than that it may be called a little shrub onely of an hand bredth high ¶ The Temperature This plant is ina meane temperature betweene hot and cold ¶ The Vertues Goats Rue is a singular herbe against all venome and poison and against wormes to kill and driue them forth if the juice be giuen to little children to drinke It is of like vertue if it be fryed with Lineseed oyle and bound vpon the 〈◊〉 nauell It is ministred vnto children which are possessed with the falling euill a spoonefull euery morning in milke Being boiled in vineger and drunke with a little Treacle it is very good against the 〈◊〉 of the plague especially if the medicine be taken within twelue houres The herbe it selfe is eaten being boiled with flesh as we vse to eate Cabbage and otherwoorts and likewise in sallades with oile vineger and pepper as we do eate boiled Spinage and such 〈◊〉 Which is most excellent being so eaten against all poison and pestilence or any venomous infirmitie whatsoeuer and procureth sweat It also helpeth the bitings and stingings of venomous beasts if either the juice or the herbe stamped be laid vpon the wound Halfe an ounce of the juice inwardly taken is reported to helpe those that are troubled with convulsions crampes and all other the diseases 〈◊〉 The seedes do feed pullen exceedingly and cause them to yeeld greater store of egs than ordinary ‡ The juice of the leaues or the leaues themselues bruised and applied to any part swollen by the sting of a bee or waspe mitigate the paine and are a present remedy as Mr. Cannon a louer of Plants and frind of mine hath assured me he hath seen by frequent experience ‡ CHAP. 530. Of Pliny his Leadwoot ¶ The Description DEntaria or Dentillaria hath offended in the superlatiue degree in that hehath hid himselfe like a runnagate souldier when the assault should haue been giuen to the plant Lepidium whereof doubtlesse it is a kinde But if the fault be mine as without question it is I craue pardon for the ouersight and do intreate thee gentle reader to censure me with fauour whereby I may more boldly insert it in this place rather than to leaue it vntouched The learned of Narbone especially Rondeletius haue not without good cause accounted this goodly plant for a kinde Plumbago Plinij Leadwoort thereof because the whole plant is of a biting taste and a burning faculty and that in such extremity that it will raise blisters vpon a mans hand for which cause some of the learned sort haue accounted it Plinies Molybdaena or Aegineta his Lepidium but the new Herbarists call it Dentaria or Dentillaria Rondeletij who made the like vse hereof as he did of Pyrethrum such burning plants to appease the immoderate pain of the tooth-ache and such like This plant hath great thicke tough roots of a wooddy substance from whence spring vp long and tough stalkes two cubits high confusedly garnished and beset with long leaues in colour like Woad of a sharpe and biting taste The floures grow at the top of the stalkes of a purple colour which being past there succeed close glistering and hairy huskes wherein is contained small blackish seed ¶ The Place Pena reporteth that Dentillaria groweth about Rome nigh the hedges and corne fields it likewise groweth in my Garden in great plenty ¶ The Time It floureth in Iuly and August ¶ The Names Leadwoort is called Molybdaena 〈◊〉 Plinij Dentillaria Rondeletij in Italian Crepanella the Romanes Herba S. Antonij in Illyria Cucurida in English Leadwoort ¶ The Temperature Dentillaria is of a causticke quality ¶ The Vertues It helpeth the tooth-ache and that as some say if it be holden in the hand some small while CHAP. 531. Of Rue or herbe Grace ¶ The Description 1 GArden Rue or planted Rue is a shrub full of branches now and then a yard high or higher the stalkes whereof are couered with a whitish barke the branches are more green the leaues hereof consist of diuers parts and be diuided into wings about which are certaine little ones of an odde number something broad more long than round smooth and somewhat fat of a gray colour or greenish blew the floures in the top of the branches are of a pale yellow consisting of foure little leaues something hollow in the middle of which standeth vp a little head or button foure square seldome fiue square containing as many little coffers as it hath corners being compassed about with diuers little yellow threds out of which hang pretie fine tips of one colour the seed groweth in the little coffers the root is wooddy and fastned with many strings this Rue hath a very strong and ranke smell and a biting taste 2 The second being the wilde or mountaine Rue called Ruta syluestris is very like to garden Rue in stalkes leaues floures seed colour taste and sauour sauing that euery little leafe hath smaller cuts and is much narrower the whole plant dieth at the approch of winter being an annuall plant and must either stand till it do sow himselfe or else must be sowne of others ‡ This second is a variety of the garden Rue differing from the former onely in smallnesse ‡ 1 〈◊〉 hortensis Garden Rue 3 Ruta syluestris minima The smallest wilde Rue 4 Ruta 〈◊〉 Mountaine Rue 5 Harmala Wilde Rue with white floures ‡ 6 Ruta Canina Dogs Rue 4 There is another wilde Rue growing vpon the mountaines of Sauoy and other places adioyning hauing a great thicke root from which do arise great shoots or stalkes 〈◊〉 do grow leaues very thicke and fat parted into diuers longish sections otherwise resembling the leaues of the first described of a strong and stinking smell the floures grow on the tops of the stalkes consisting of foure small yellow leaues the seeds are like the other 5 Harmel is one of the wilde Rues it bringeth forth immediatly from the root diuers little stalks of a cubit high whereupon do grow greene leaues diuersly cut into long pieces
boyled in oyle Oliue and kept therein kill the wormes in children if you anoint their bellies therewith and the leaues poudered and giuen in milke or Muscadell do the same The leaues dried and beate into fine pouder and strewed vpon those kindes of excrescences sub praeputio called Caroles and such like gotten by dealing with vncleane women take them away perfectly curing and healing them but if they be inueterate and old and haue been much tampered withall it shall be necessarie to adde vnto the same a small quantitie of Auripigmentum in fine pouder and vse it with discretion because the force of the medicine is greatly increased thereby and made more corrosiue CHAP. 51. Of Tamariske 1 Tamariscus Narbonensis French Tamariske 2 Tamariscus Germanica Germane Tamariske ¶ The Description 1 THe first kinde of Tamariske groweth like a small hedge tree couered with a reddish barke hauing many branches set and bedeckt with leaues much like vnto Heath among which come forth small mossie white floures declining to purple which turne into a pappous or downie seed that flieth away with the winde as that of Willow doth the root is wooddie as the roots of other shrubs be and groweth diuers waies 2 The Germane Tamariske hath many wooddie branches or shoots rising from the root with a white bark hauing his leaues thicker and grosser than the former and not so finely iagged or cut The floures are reddish and larger than the former growing not vpon foot-stalkes many thick clustering together as those of the former but each a 〈◊〉 distance from another on the tops of the branches spike fashion and begin to floure below which do turne into seed that is likewise carried away with the winde ¶ The Place Tamariske groweth by running streames and many times by riuers that breake forth and not seldome about fenny grounds commonly in a grauelly soile for it best prospereth in moist and stony places it is sound in Germany Vindelicia Italy Spaine and also in Greece The Tamarisks do also grow in Egypt and Syria as Dioscorides writeth and likewise in Tylus an Island in Arabia as Theophrastus noteth the wood wherof saith he is not weak as with vs in Greece but strong like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or timber or any other strong thing this Tamariske Dioscorides doth call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say tame or planted and saith that it bringeth forth fruit very like to Galls in taste rough and binding Petrus Bellonius in his second booke of singularities reporteth that hee saw in Egypt very high Tamarisks and great like other trees and that sometimes in moist places by riuers sides and many times also in dry and grauelly grounds where no other trees did grow which now and then did beare hanging on the boughes such a multitude of Galls that the inhabitants call Chermasel as being ouer loden they were ready to breake Both these grow and prosper well in gardens with vs here in England ¶ The Time These trees or shrubs floure in May and in the later end of August their seed is carried away with the wind ¶ The Names They are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine also Myrica and Tamarix in shops Tamariscus of Octautus Horatianus Murica Dioscorides maketh that which groweth in Greece and Italy to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 orwilde Tamariske it is named in high Dutch Tamarischen holk and Pork in low Dutch 〈◊〉 Tamarlschboome in Italian Tamarigio in Spanish Tamarguira and Tamariz in French Tamaris in English Tamariske ¶ The Temperature and Vertues Tamariske hath a clensing and cutting facultie with a manifest drying it is also somewhat astringent or binding and by reason of these qualities it is very good for an hard spleen being boyled with vineger or wine either the root or leaues or tender branches as Galen writeth Moreouer Dioscorides teacheth that the decoction of the leaues made with wine doth waste the spleene and that the same is good against the tooth-ache if the mouth be washed therewith that it bringeth downe the Menses if the patient sit therein that it killeth lice and nits if the parts be bathed therewith The ashes of burnt Tamariske hath a drying facultie and greatly scouring withall and a little binding The floures and downie seed of the greater Tamariske doth greatly binde insomuch as it commeth very neere to the Gall named Galla Omphacitis but that the roughnesse of taste is more euident in the Gall the which floures are of an vnequall temperature for there is ioined to the nature therof a great thinnesse of parts and clensing facultie which the Gall hath not as Galen writeth These floures we fitly vse saith Dioscor in stead of Gall in medicines for the eies and mouth It is good to stanch bloud and to stay the laske and womens whites it helpeth the yellow iaundice and also cureth those that are bit of the venomous spider called Phalangium the barke serueth for the same purposes The leaues and wood of Tamariske haue great power and vertue against the hardnesse and stopping of the spleene especially the leaues being boiled in water and the decoction drunke or else 〈◊〉 in a small vessell of Ale or Beere and continually drunke and if it bee drunke forth of a cup or dish made of the wood or timber of Tamariske is of greater efficacie CHAP. 52. Of Heath Hather or Linge ¶ The Kindes THere be diuers sorts of Heath some greater some lesser some with broad leaues and some narrower some bringing forth berries and others nothing but floures ¶ The Description 1 THe common Heath is a low plant but yet wooddie and shrubby scarce a cubit high it bringeth forth many branches whereupon do grow sundry little leaues somewhat hard and rough very like to those of Tamariske or the Cypresse tree the floures are orderly placed alongst the branches small soft and of a light red colour tending to purple the root is also wooddie and creepeth vnder the vpper crust of the earth and this is the Heath which the Antients tooke to be the right and true Heath 1 Erica vulgaris sive Pumila Common or dwarfe Heath ‡ Erica vulgaris hirsuta Rough leaued Heath There is another Heath which differeth not from the precedent sauing that this plant bringeth forth floures as white as snow wherein consisteth the difference wherefore we may call it Erica pumila alba Dwarfe Heath with white floures 2 The great Heath which Carolus Clusius at his being in England found in the barren grounds about Windsor which in his Spanish trauels he maketh the first kinde groweth to the height of two cubits seldome higher full of branches couered with a blackish barke whereon are set in very good order by couples small rough square leaues finer than those of Tamariske or Cypresse The floures inclose the little twiggie branches round about at certaine distances from the lower part to the top fashioned like little bottles consisting of foure parts of a shining
on the outside the meate likewise about the stone is of a gallant red colour These kindes of Peaches are very like to wine in taste and therefore maruellous pleasant 3 Persica praecocia or the d'auant Peach tree is like vnto the former but his leaues are greater and larger The fruit or Peaches be of a russet colour on the one side and on the other side next vnto the sun of a red colour but much greater than the red Peach the stones whereof are like vnto the former the pulpe or meate within is of a golden yellow colour and of a pleasant taste Persicaalba The white Peach 4 Persica lutea or the yellow Peach tree is like vnto the former in leaues and floures his fruit is of a yellow colour on the 〈◊〉 and likewise on the inside harder than the rest in the middle of the Peach is a wooddy hard and rough stone full of crests and gutters in which doth lie a kernell much like to that of the Almond and with such a like skin the substance within is white and in taste something bitter The fruit hereof is of greatest pleasure and best taste of all the other of his kinde although there be 〈◊〉 this day diuers other sorts that are of very good taste not remembred of the ancient or set downe by the later writers whereof to speake particularly would not be greatly to our pretended purpose considering we hasten to an end ‡ 5 There is also kept in some of our choise gardens a kind of Peach which hath a very double and beautiful floure but it is seldome succeeded by any fruit they call this Persica flore pleno The double blossomed Peach ‡ ¶ The Place They are set and planted in gardens and vineyards I haue them all in my garden with many other sorts ¶ The Time The Peach tree soone commeth vp it beares fruit the third or fourth yeere after it is planted and it soone decaieth and is not of 〈◊〉 continuance it floureth in Aprill or a little while after that the leaues appeare and hath his fruit ripe in September ¶ The Names The Peach tree is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Malus Persica and Persica in high Dutch Persichboum in low Dutch Perse boom in French Perscher in English Peach tree The fruit as Galen testifieth is named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also without any addition in Latine Malum Persicum and Persicum in high Dutch 〈◊〉 in low Dutch Persen in Italy Pesche in Spanish Pexegos in French Pisches in English Peach ¶ The Temperature and Vertues Peaches be cold and moist and that in the second degree they haue a juice and also a substance that doth easily putrifie which yeeldeth no nourishment but bringeth hurt especially if they be eaten after other meates for then they cause the other meates to putrifie But they are lesse hurtfull if they be taken first for by reason that they are moist and slippery they easily and quickly descend and by making the belly slippery they cause other meates to slip downe the sooner The kernels of the Peaches be hot and dry they open and clense they are good for the stoppings of the liuer and spleene Peaches before they be ripe do stop the laske but being ripe they loose the belly and ingender naughty humors for they are soone corrupted in the stomacke The leaues of the Peach tree do open the stopping of the liuer and do gently loosen the belly and being applied plaisterwise vnto the nauell of young children they kill the 〈◊〉 and driue them forth The same leaues boiled in milke do kill the wormes in children very speedily The same being dried and cast vpon greene wounds cure them The floures of the Peach tree infused in warme water for the space of ten or twelue houres and strained and more floures put to the said liquor to infuse after the same manner and so iterated six or eight times and strained again then as much sugar as it will require added to the same liquor and boiled vnto the consistence or thicknes of a syrrup and two spoonefulls hereof taken doth so singularly well purge the belly that there is neither Rubarbe Agaricke nor any other purger comparable vnto it for this purgeth downe waterish humors mightily and yet without griefe or trouble either to the stomacke or lower parts of the body The kernell within the Peach stone stamped small and boiled with Vineger vntill it be brought to the forme of an ointment is good to restore and bring again the haire of such as be troubled with the Alopecia There is drawne forth of the kernels of Peaches with Peniroyall water a iuice like vnto milke which is good for those that haue the Apoplexy if the same be oftentimes held in the mouth it draweth 〈◊〉 water and recouereth the speech The gum is of a meane temperature but the substance thereof is tough and clammy by reason whereof it dulleth the sharpnes of thin humors it serueth in a looch or licking medicine for those that be troubled with the cough and haue rotten lungs and stoppeth the spitting and raising vp of bloud and also stayeth other fluxes CHAP. 95. Of the Aprecocke or Abrecocke tree 1 Armeniaca malus maior The greater Aprecocke tree 2 Armeniaca malus minor The lesser Aprecocke tree ¶ The Description 1 THis tree is greater than the Peach tree and hath a bigger body it lasteth longer 〈◊〉 if it be grafted or inoculated the leaues hereof are broad and sharpe pointed like those of blacke Poplar but lesser and comming more neere to the leaues of birch 〈◊〉 in the edges the floures are somewhat white the fruit round like a peach yellow within and without in which doth lie a browne stone nothing rough at all as is that of the Peach shorter also and lesser in which is included a sweet kernell 2 We haue another sort of Aprecocke whose trunk or body is equall with the other in greatnesse it is like 〈◊〉 in leaues and brittle branches his time of flouring flourishing and manner of growing accordeth the only point wherein they differ is that this tree bringeth forth lesse fruit and not so good in taste in euery other respect it is like ‡ Of this also Mr. Parkinson hath set forth diuers varieties and my forementioned friend Mr. Millen hath these fiue sorts the common the long and great the Muske the Barbary and the early Aprecocke ‡ ¶ The Place These trees do grow in my garden and now adaies in many other gentlemens gardens throughout all England ¶ The Time They floure and flourish in Aprill and their fruit is ripe in Iuly ¶ The Names This tree is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Malus Armeniaca in English Abrecocke tree and Aprecocke tree The fruit is named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of diuers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which be words corrupted from the Latine for
Corallina montana Corall Mosse or mountaine Coralline 5 There is found vpon the rocks and mountaines of France bordering vpon the Mediterranean sea a certaine kinde of Coralline which in these parts hath not been found it groweth in manner like vnto a branch of Corall but altogether lesser of a shining red colour and of a stony substance ‡ I know not what our Author meant by this description but the plant which here is figured out of Taber namontanus and by the same title he hath it is of a Mosse growing vpon Hampstead heath and most such places in England it growes vp some two or three inches high and is diuided into very many little branches ending in little threddy chiues all the branches are hollow and of a very light whitedry substance which makes it somewhat to resemble Coralline yet is it not stony at all ‡ 6 There is also found vpon the rocks neere vnto Narbone in France and not far from the sea a 6 Fucus marinus tenuifolius Fenell Coralline or Fenell Mosse ‡ 7 Fucus-ferulaceus Sea Fenell ‡ 8 Fucus tenuifolius alter Bulbous sea Fennell ‡ 9 Muscus marinus 〈◊〉 Branched Sea Mosse ‡ 7 This growes also in the like places hauing many small long Fennell-like diuided leaues vpon stalks some foot long with some swelling eminences here there set in the diuisions of the leaues this is by 〈◊〉 called by the name I here giue you it 8 This also hath fine cut leaues like those of Fennell but much lesse shorter of a faire green colour these grow vp from round tuberous roots which together with the fibres they send forth are of a blackish colour the stalks also are tuberous and swolne as in other plants of this kind It growes in the sea with the former Dodonaeus calls this Fucus marinus virens tenuifolius 9 This kinde of sea Mosse growes some foure or more inches long diuided into many branches which are subdiuided into smaller set with leaues finely iagged like those of Cammomill at first soft flexible and transparent greene below and purplish aboue being dried it becommeth rough and fragile like as Coralline It growes in the Mediterranean sea 10 This Sea Mosse is a low little excrescence hauing somewhat broad cut leaues growing many from one root in the whole face it resembles the mosse that grows vpon the branches of Okes and other trees and is also white and very like it but much more brittle This by Dodonaeus is called 〈◊〉 Marinus tertius ‡ 10 Muscus marinus 3. Dod. Broad leafed Sea mosse ‡ 11 Abies marina Belgica Clus. Clusius his Sea Firr 11 Vpon the rocks and shels of sea fishes are to be found diuers small plants hauing resemblance to others that grow vpon the land and Clusius saith vpon the coast of the Low countries he obserued one which very much resembled the Fir-tree hauing branches growing orderly on both sides but those very brittle and small seldome exceeding a handfull in height and couered as it were with many small scales He obserued others that resembled Cypresse trees and other branches that resembled Tameriske or heath ‡ ¶ The Place These Mosses grow in the sea vpon the rocks and are oftentimes found vpon Oister shels Muskell shells and vpon stones I found very great plenty thereof vnder Reculuers and Margate in the Isle of Thanet and in other places alongst the sands from thence vnto Douer ¶ The Time The time answereth the other Mosses and are found at all times of the yeare ¶ The Names Sea Mosse is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Muscus marinus of the Apothecaries Italians and French men Corallina in Spanish Malharquiana yerua in high Dutch 〈◊〉 in low Dutch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English Sea Mosse and of many Corallina after the Apothecaries word and it may be called Corall Mosse The titles distinguish the other kindes ¶ The Temperature Corallina consisteth as Galen saith of an earthie and waterish essence both of them cold for by his taste it bindeth and being applied to any hot infirmitie it also euidently cooleth the earthie essence of this Mosse hath in it also a certaine saltnesse by reason whereof likewise it drieth mightily ¶ The Vertues Dioscorides commendeth it to be good for the gout which hath need to be cooled The later Physitions haue found by experience that it killeth wormes in the belly it is giuen to this purpose to children in the weight of a dram or thereabouts That which cleaueth to Corall and is of a reddish colour is of some preferred and taken for the best they count that which is whitish to be the worser Notwithstanding in the French Ocean the Britain the low countrey or else in the Germane ocean sea there is scarce found any other than the whitish Coralline which the nations neere adioyning do effectually vse CHAP. 166. Of Corall 1 Corallium rubrum Red Corall 2 Corallium nigrum sive 〈◊〉 Blacke Corall 3 Corallium album White Corrall 4 Corallium album alterum The other white or yellow Corrall ‡ 5 Coralloides albicans Whitish bastard Corall ¶ The Description 1 ALthough Corrall be a matter or substance euen as hard as stones yet I thinke it not amisse to place and insert it here next vnto the mosses and the rather 〈◊〉 that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do shew themselues as well in the maner of their growing as in their place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like vnto the Mosses This later age wherein we liue hath sound moe kindes hereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowne or mentioned among the old writers Some of these Corrals grow in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stony matter others in a straight forme with crags and ioints such as we see by experience the which for that they are so well knowne and in such request for Physicke I will not 〈◊〉 to describe only this remember that there is some Corrall of a pale yellow colour as there be 〈◊〉 red and some white 2 The blacke Corrall groweth vpon the rocks neere to the sea about Massilia in manner of 〈◊〉 former herein differing from it in that this is of a shining blacke colour and very smooth growing vp rather like a tree than like a shrub 3 The white Corrall is like to the former growing vpon the rocks neere the sea and in the 〈◊〉 parts of England about Saint Michaels mount but the branches hereof are smaller and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 finelier dispersed into a number of branches of a white colour ‡ 6 Coralloides rubens Reddish bastard Corall 7 Spongia marina alba White Spunge ‡ 8 Spongia infundibuli forma Funnell fashioned Spunge ‡ 9 Spongia ramosa Branched Spunge 4 The fourth and last groweth also vpon the Westerne rocks of the sea and in the place aforenamed and varieth his colour sometimes waxing white sometimes yellow and sometimes red ‡ 5 This growes vp with many branches some two or three handfulls high the inner part is a hard wooddy substance which is couered ouer with a white and hard stony matter so that
trees grow in some few gardens of Egypt whither they haue bin brought out of Arabia and Ethiopia This plant hath this strange qualitie that the leaues alwaies follow the Sun and when it sets they all contract themselues and open out themselues againe at the rising thereof and there is obserued to be such force in this motion that they closely shut vp and hold their cods if any be on the tree and then at the rising of the Sun they forgoe them againe But I haue obserued this folding vp of the leaues to be common to diuers other Egyptian plants as Acatia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Sesban Thus much 〈◊〉 of Alpinus The figure I here giue in the first place out of Lobel is of a plant some six moneths old arisen of a seed and such by sowing of seeds I haue seene growing in the garden of my deceased friend Mr. Tuggy but they still died at the first approch of Winter The other figure expresses the cods and some of the seeds apart taken forth of the cods now the cods are neuer brought whole to vs but the vtter rindes are taken off and the strings or nerues that runne alongst the cods the pulpe and seeds in it are close thrust together and so are brought to vs in pots and such like vessels ¶ The Temperature and Vertues The fruit or pulpe of Tamarindes is cold and dry in the third degree it is of good vse in cholericke diseases as burning Feuers Tertians and the like it is a lenitiue and very gently purging medicine and therefore vsed to be put into medicines seruing to that purpose They vse saith Alpinus the leaues of Tamarindes to kill wormes in young children and also their infusion or decoction to loosen the belly the leaues are acide and not vnpleasant vnto the taste The Arabians preserue the small and yet greene cods of this tree as also the ripe ones either with sugar or the honey boiled out of the fruit of the Carob tree they also mix the pulpe with sugar which trauellers carry with them in their iournies through the desart places of 〈◊〉 wherewith they being dry or ouerheated may quench their thirst coole and refresh themselues and also euacuate many hot humors by stoole In pestilent and all other burning putrid feuers they drinke the water with sugar wherein a good quantitie of Tamarinds haue been infused for it is a drinke very pleasant to such as are thirsty by reason of too much heate for it powerfully cooles and quenches thirst They are also vsed in all putrid feuers caused by cholericke and adust humors and also against the hot distempers and inflammations of the liuer and reines and withall against the Gonorrhaea Some also commend them against obstructions the dropsie iaundice and the hot distempers of the Spleene they conduce also to the cure of the itch scab leprosie tetters and all such vlcerations of the skin which proceed of adust humors They are not good for such as haue cold stomacks vnlesse their coldnesse be corrected by putting to them Mace Anise seeds Squinanth or such like CHAP. 17. Of the Mamoera the Male and Female ¶ The Description THe historie of these two trees together with the figures I here giue you are in the Curae Posteriores of Clusius from whence I will take as much as concernes their history and briefely here giue it you That of the Poet saith he is most true Non omnis fert omnia tellus for I thinke there is no prouince to be found which produces not some peculiar plant not growing in other regions as they can testifie who haue trauelled ouer forrein countries especially if they haue applied themselues to the obseruation of plants Amongst such I thinke I may reckon that honest and courteous man Iohn Van Vfele who returning out of that part of America called Brasile shewed me in the yeare 1607. a booke wherein he in liuely colours had exprest some plants and liuing creatures for as he told me when he purposed to trauell he learned to paint that so he might expresse in colours for his memorie and delight after he was returned home such singularities as he should 〈◊〉 abroad Now amongst those which hee in that booke had expressed I obserued two very singular and of a strange nature whose figures without any difficultie he bestowed vpon me as also the following historie These two trees whose figures you see here exprest are of the same kinde and differ only in sex for the one of them to wit the male is barren and only carries floures without any fruit but the female onely fruit and that without floure yet they say they are so louing and of such a nature that if they be set far asunder and the female haue not a male neere her shee becomes barren and beares no fruit of which nature they also say the Palme is Now the bole or trunke of that tree which beares the fruit is about two foot thicke and it groweth some nine foot high before it begin to beare fruit but when it hath acquired a iust magnitude then shall you see the vpper part of the tree laden with fruit and that it will be as it were thicke girt about therewith for some nine foot high more the fruit is round and globe-fashioned of the shape and magnitude of a small gourd hauing when it is ripe a yellowish pulpe which the inhabitants vse to eate to loosen their bellies this fruit contains many kernels of the bignes of a smal pease blacke and shining of novse that he could learne but which were cast away as vnnecessary the leaues come forth amongst the fruit growing vpon long foot-stalkes and they in shape much resemble the Plane tree or great Maple Mamoera mas The male Dug tree Mamoera 〈◊〉 The female Dug tree What name the Brasilians giue it he could not tell but of the Portugals that dwelt there it was called Mamoera and the fruit Mamaon of the similitude I thinke they haue with dugs which by the Spaniards are called 〈◊〉 and Tetas There is no difference in the forme of the trunke or leaues of the male and female but the male only carries floures hanging downe clustering together vpon long stalks like to the floures of Elder but of a whitish yellow colour and these vnprofitable as they affirme Both these trees grow in that part of America wherein is scituate the famous Bay called by the Portugals Baya de todos los 〈◊〉 lying about thirteene degrees distant from the Equator towards the Antarticke pole CHAP. 18. Of the Cloue-Berry Tree ¶ The Description I Must also abstract the historie of this out of the Works of the learned and diligent Clusius who sets it forth in his Exoticks lib. 1. cap. 17. in the next chapter after Cloues Amomum quorundam fortè Garyophyllon Plinij The Cloue-berry tree I receiued the same fruit some yeares before but without the stalks and with this question propounded by him which sent it An Amomum And
801 c 1141 a. 1408. g. 1608 f. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To helpe the Infirmities of the Liuer 527 d. 619. c. 632 a. 991 b 1408 g. 〈◊〉 Liner Good for Infirmities of the kidnies 527. d. 619 e. 801 c. 859 g. 8 74 b. 877 h. 1081 e. 1437 d. 1529 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good for Infirmities of the bladder 877 〈◊〉 1408 g k. see Blader Good for 〈◊〉 of the Chest. 51 d. 776 〈◊〉 See Chest. Good for Infirmities of the 〈◊〉 681 d. See Fundament Good against Infirmities of the sinewes 783 c 1055 h. See 〈◊〉 Against Infirmities in the 〈◊〉 154. f. To helpe the Inflammations of the almonds throat and other parts adioyning 876 a. 1274 a. 1478 a. 1508 b. see Almonds To help 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 95 c. Against Inflammations newly begun 276 b. 1394 m. 1413 d. 1460 g. 1508 b. A remedy against the Inflammation of the stones 95 c. 355 a. 1211 q. To dissolue Inflammations of the breast lungs and rough 〈◊〉 395 f. 853 l. 855 b. 911 c. 1303 k. To helpe or eale Inflammations of the 〈◊〉 99 b. 284 f. 411 b. 421 〈◊〉 626 b. 852 〈◊〉 1107 f. 1225 o. 1413 c. See 〈◊〉 Good against all inward Inflammations 306 b. 637 g. 921 d. 1263 g. 1420 a. 1533. b. Against the Inflammations of the raines 64 〈◊〉 395 f. 821 d. 1533 b. 1608 c. To coole the Inflammation of the liuer 572 b. 637 g. 853. k. 1400 d. 1431 b. See Liuer Good for Inflammations of the fundament 490 b. 807 k. 1225 o 1257 〈◊〉 1349 b. To take away or cure all Inflammations 37 c. 66 b. 250 c. 〈◊〉 a 301 c. 308 g. 117 d. 340 a. 352 g. 447 o. 511 a. 529 a. 719 a. 653 b 674 b. 678 b. 719 f. 792 b. 813 a. 825 a. 829 a. 852 a. 852 〈◊〉 1012 1121 b. 1187 b. 1197 f. 1201 a. 1325 f. 1396 2. 1408 k. 1426 c. 〈◊〉 c. 1460 c. 1478 a. 1488 h. 〈◊〉 l. To cure members out of Joint 196 d. 782 a. 794 h. 845 k. 876 e. 906 d. 916 m. 1007 e. 1134 d. 1148 a. 1388 f. To cure the shakings of the Joints declining to the palsie See Shakings To helpe aches and paines in the Joints 874 b. 1053 b. 1180 a 1232 c 1257 b. 1533 g. 1612 c. To strengthen the 〈◊〉 532 a. To asswage or dissolue swellings in the 〈◊〉 770 b. 935 g. 1257 b Good for weeping wounds of the Joints 634 b. To helpe the long continuall paine of the Joints 861 2. To cure the 〈◊〉 See 〈◊〉 For mans in voluntarie Issue See 〈◊〉 To stay or stop all Issues of bloud 355 c. 421 b. 565 〈◊〉 631 b. 935 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a. 〈◊〉 a. 1012 b. 1043 a. 1047 〈◊〉 1069 a. 1237 b. 1264 m. 128. 5 a. 1368 a 1413 b. 1443 f. 1451 n. 1475 a. 1491 c. 1499 g 1578 b. See Fluxes of bloud To be laid vpon Issues 859 f. To helpe the Itching in the corners of the 〈◊〉 509 f. To take away the Itching of the 〈◊〉 1043 d. 856 〈◊〉 1527 b. To cure the Itch 〈◊〉 the body 〈◊〉 h. 497 c. 794 l. 823 a. 855 b. 1226 l. 1298 c. 1333 a. 〈◊〉 m. 1608 f. K To take away the inflammation of the 〈◊〉 vnder the eares iawes necke arme-holes and slankes 704. a. 1211 m. 〈◊〉 c. 1499 c. To consume or waste away hard swellings of the Kernels 518 a. 1245 a. 1362 r. 1511 g. Good against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 46 d. 135 d. 359 i. 529 a. 811 〈◊〉 845 k. 1225 p. 1226 l. 1584 b. To open stoppings of the Kidnies 421 d. 534 b. 661 e. 885 f. 1023 d. 1025 a. 1045 a. 1053 a. 1112 b. 1314 b. 1431 c. To clense the Kidnies 〈◊〉 e. 574 b. 623 a. 626 d. 841 a. 1032 f. 1041 b. 1364 a. 〈◊〉 a. 1511 〈◊〉 1594. c. Good for the vleers of the Kidnies See Ulcers and Ulcerations To strengthen the Kidnies 33 c. 1065 c. 〈◊〉 k. 1303 e. 1612 c. To 〈◊〉 and driue forth the stone and grauell in the Kidnies 1437 d. 1444 b. 1511 n. See 〈◊〉 and Stone Good for to all wage the paine of the Kidnies 〈◊〉 a. 714 c. 874 b. 877 h. 584 b. 〈◊〉 a. 1032 c. 1055 b. 1145 k. 1206 c. 1315 n. 1437 d. 1444 b 1502 a. 1517 b. Good for the dugges of 〈◊〉 that haue beene bit by a venomous worme or are chapt 789 a. To soften the 〈◊〉 51. g 6 〈◊〉 c. To consume and waste away the Kings 〈◊〉 518 a. 609. b. 619 a 704 〈◊〉 810 d 1145. d. 1211 s. 1218 e. 1315 m. 1362 d 1511 g. 1526 a. 1619 e. To dissolue and cure the Kings 〈◊〉 366 c. 692 i. 717 〈◊〉 783 h. 825 c. 845 h. 1007 a. 1012 d. 〈◊〉 see 〈◊〉 L GOod for 〈◊〉 1180. a. Good against the 〈◊〉 36 a. 395 a. 631 b. Good for those that are troubled with a hot 〈◊〉 36 a. 511 c. 820 a. 1326 c. To stop or stay the 〈◊〉 71 d. 79 g. 85 a. 116 b 276 388 b. 391 e. 〈◊〉 k. 398 f. 400 b. 522 h. 541 a. 671 b. 678 b. 774 b. 783 d. 876 a. 881 f. 883 〈◊〉 895 a. 935 h. 993 d. 993 a. 1012 b. 1027 d. 1035 â. 1043 a. 1046 b. 1069 a. 1073 a. 1131 e. 1109 a. 1145 a. 1150 a. 1194 a 〈◊〉 b. 〈◊〉 a. 1257 y. 1264 p. 1292 f. 1322 a. 1328 a. 1331 a. 1341 b. 1356 f. 1368 a. 1379 f. 〈◊〉 c. 1432 a. 1440 d. 1443. f. 1445 b. 1447 c. 1452 b. 1459 b. 1466 b. 1475 a 1491 〈◊〉 1494 c. 1501 b. 1508 a. 1538 b. 1564 a. Good for them that would be 〈◊〉 1123 d. 1423 c. 1472 g. To procure 〈◊〉 See Bodily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To take away swélling of the 〈◊〉 69 a. 1531 d. Good against the manginesse of the 〈◊〉 870 k. 1461 b. To helpe the old aches and paine in the Legs 281 b. To cure old and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Legges 700 d. 870 k. To kill Leopards 903 a. Good for such as haue the Lethargie 245 g. 572 a d. 1009 c. 〈◊〉 h. 1180 c. 1388 d To ease the 〈◊〉 79 d. 378 e. 506 d. 578 b. 688 i k. 801 a. 876 c. 1545 a. 1608 f. 1619 b. To take away 〈◊〉 57 〈◊〉 870 g. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 890 a. 977 a. 1353 〈◊〉 1511 h. Good against 〈◊〉 248 e. 366 c. 〈◊〉 c. To take away 〈◊〉 in the face 132 h. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To kill 〈◊〉 495 b 647 a. 858 d. 1379 b. 1492 b. 1549 b. To driue 〈◊〉 out of the beard head and all other parts of the body 495 b c. To heale 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 or ringwormes in children or young 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e. To preserue and prolong the 〈◊〉 of man 〈◊〉 n. For chaps of the 〈◊〉 see 〈◊〉 Good for the 〈◊〉 395 a e. 419 b. 434 b 649 f. 877 i. 992 e. 1032. f 1041 b. 1126 a. 1162 b. 1194 b. 1485 a. 1303. e. To coole the hot burning or inflammation of the 〈◊〉 284 a. 306 b. 852 a. 1172 d.
a. 870 c. 1331 c. To stay or heipe the Whites 631 b. 681 b. 692 k. 704 c. 811 〈◊〉 821 b. 883 l. 1035 a. 1118 a. 1264 k. 1282 c. 1294 g. 1341 b. 1364 h. 1379 〈◊〉 1393 f. 1413 b. 1475 b. 1491 c. 1494 b. 1558. b 〈◊〉 to be hardened against the paine of Whipping 248 d. To kill 〈◊〉 beasts see 〈◊〉 To raise grosse and slimy humors out of the conduits of the 〈◊〉 1145 c. For Wind in the bowels 766 d. 1008 a 1019 b. 1023 d. 1025 c. 1028 b 1032 e. 1033 a. 1035 a. 1257 x. For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 674 e. 901 a. Against 〈◊〉 in the stomacke and colicke gut 34 〈◊〉 71 c. 395 〈◊〉 577 b. 1017 a. 1027 d. 1049 c. 1053 a. 1081 〈◊〉 1388 b. 1626 c. see 〈◊〉 To breake expell and consume 〈◊〉 170 b. 178 c. 574 d. See 〈◊〉 To break or wast the Windinesse of the matrix 940 a. See Matrix To keepe 〈◊〉 from sowring 175 d. 1130 b. Moderat vse of Wine commended 881. To cause Wins taste well 1046 d. To restore spirit in Wine 1564 f. Difference of Wines 878. a b. To temper or 〈◊〉 them 881 882. For what persons Wine is fittest 881 k. and for whom not 881 〈◊〉 884 d. Choice of 〈◊〉 879 g. Against 〈◊〉 1001 〈◊〉 To kill 〈◊〉 903 a. Against poyson of 〈◊〉 527 d. 880 h. 1257 o. To clense the barren 〈◊〉 and make it fit for conception 1529 b. To cure fluxes of the 〈◊〉 639 e. Hurtfull to Women with hilde 833 k. To raise Women out of their fits being sicke of the Mother See Mother Good for the ouermuch vomiting of Women with childh see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For swellings in Womens brests 355 b. To make 〈◊〉 fruitfull 683. b. 766 a. To bring downe the naturall sicknesse of Women see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To dissolue the hardnesse of Womens brests or pappes See 〈◊〉 Good for Women with childe 1455 d. To cause easie and speedy trauell to Women that are with childe 845 e. 892 a. 909 a. 1029 b. 1058 k. 1095 c. See Birth and 〈◊〉 Good for Women newly deliuered 1445 g. To stay lusting or longing in Women with childe 876 a. 881. f. See Longing Good for Women not well clensed after their deliuery 350 〈◊〉 849 a. 984 a. 1257 s. To stay the Flux of Womens termes see 〈◊〉 To driue forth Wormes 793 c. 866 a. 916 h. 969 v. 978 k. 1012 b. 1086 b. 1353 n. 1367 g. To kill 〈◊〉 in yong children 3 b. 34 a. 204 a. 233 g. 242 g. 317 i. 359 d. 368 d. 522 b. 548 a. 574 b. 644 b. 649 g. 705 b. 715 i. 814 b d. 1097 c. 1100 〈◊〉 1107 a. 1110 b. 1172 c. 1218 b. c. 1246 f. 1253 a. 1373 k. 1378 c. 1441 c. 1447 〈◊〉 c. 1465. y. 1508 g. 1545 c. 1575 b. 1608. b. 1626. c. 1620 b. 1622. a. To driue 〈◊〉 flat and round Wormes 174 g. 239. g. 273 c. 336. d. 508 b. 651 b. 688. s. 1101 a. To void Wormes of the guts 178 d. 251 d. 360 x. 580 c. 647 a. 1130 a. 1158. a. To kill Wormes in the eares 688 f. 1353 g. To close vp 〈◊〉 without perill of inflammation 639 c. 692. c k. 697 b. 1005. a. 1047 h. 1073 a. To cure Wounds 24 〈◊〉 18 67 〈◊〉 195 b. 306 a. 356 a 360. y. 563 c. 373 d. 407. d. 409 a. 414 b. 447 d. 491 a. 509 d. 527. b. 〈◊〉 537 a 541 a. 629. a. 630 a. 632 b. 633 a. 635 a. 662 a. 700 a. 705 d. 712. c. 714. a. 718 f. 839 d. 938 a 939 a. 941 〈◊〉 943 a. 949. a 993 f. 1004 b. 1024 a. 1078 b. 1124 a. 1126 a. 1195 b. 1264 a. 1285 a. 1433 f. 1509 c. To glue together and cure greene Wounds 3 b. 24 a. 281 〈◊〉 329 b. 363 a. 403 a. 480 b. 546 b. 548 c. 799 a. 807 b. 906 a. 936. a 1005 a. 1070 g. 1116 a. 1132 〈◊〉 1303 f. 1315 c. 1361 c. 1366 b 1436 b. 1447 f. 1466 c. 1482 b. 1518 l. 1571 〈◊〉 1616 b. To comfort and heale Wounds in sinewy parts 196 279 d. 360 a 615 a. For Wounds in the head 60 g. To knit or loyne together great Wounds 132 a. 360. a. 363 b. 425 a. To keep green Wounds from inflammation or fiery swelling 363 h. 445. b. 557. o. 621. c. 718. b. 826. a. 828. 〈◊〉 935 g. Good to foment or wash deepe and perrilous Wounds with 541. b. To cure Wounds of the inward parts 409 b. 541. b. 631 c. 632. b. 633 a. 649. a. 712. c. 715. g. 787 a. 807 a. 939 b. 949 a. 986 a. 993 d. 1121 c. To stanch the bleeding of Wounds 18. 276 b. To heale and skinne vp Wounds that are made in the head 1364 c 1393 e. Good for Wounds made with a venomed weapon 541 b. 796 e. 1007. i. 1058. k. 1188. h. Good for Wounds of the dugs 939 a. For Wounds of the 〈◊〉 939 a. 993 d. For the burning heate of Wounds 363 h. 998 a. For Wounds made by venomous beasts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beasts For Wrinches of the ancles 132 c. To take away Wrinckles 870. c. Y TO helpe the swellings vlcerations and 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 349 b 1073 d. To take away the 〈◊〉 of the skinne 556 a. 845 c. To stay or helpe 〈◊〉 395. a. 682. l. 1027. d. 1033 a. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Errata I would wish the courteous Reader to take notice and amend these faults escaped in the printing and to pardon other such literall faults as he may perhaps here and there obserue Faults in Figures transposed Pag. 48. The two figures of Phalangium ramosum Phalangium non ramosum are put one for another Pag. 50. The two figures are put one for another And likewise in Pag. 808. the two first figures are transposed Faults in Words and Marks Pag. 9. lin 1. elegasis reade elegans p. 31 l. 32 Cyriacus r. Syriacus p. 84 l. 22 longissimo r. 〈◊〉 p. 186 l. 1. for 79 r. 101. p. 242 title Lepidium annum r. 〈◊〉 p. 228 l. 15 abortinum r. abortivum 229 l. 14 arbertiram 1. abortivum p. 245 l. 1. Wilde reade white p. 256 l. 1. in the title adde the figurea p. 282 l. 17. Itybus r. Jntybus p 289 l. 4. 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 p. 494. l. 43. 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 p. 604 l. 7 hath been absurd from r. had been absurd for p. 848 l. 15. Virginia r Virginiana p. 929 l. 21. 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 p. 935 l. 28. Lilly r Mallow p 941 l. 13 Arcus r. Acus p. 1011 l. 25. Strum r. 〈◊〉 p. 1016 l. 19. Macedonium r. Macedonicum p. 1051 l. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. Seseli montanum p. 1133 l. 37 Oken case r Oken leafe p. 1323 l. 7 Rest-Yarrow r. Rest. Harrow p. 1401 〈◊〉 51. Cnidicus r. Cnidius p. 1424 l. 17. vpon r. open p. 1524 l. 40 a pleasant r. pleasant a. p. 1628 l. 39. them r. it Pag. 169 lin vlt. put ‡ p. 184 l. penult †put ‡ p. 257