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Show 198 Cu aPp.20. Theatrum Botanicum. Tri B Eee ; iti the branches; but whetherit were purging was not fignified: this declaraanagtic ae Ian fontheye plant was fent : butifI may be boldto give my cenfure, what Hippephaes TRIBE, The Theater ofPlants. Cuap.20, 3. Alppunas Monfpelienfium five Herba7erribilis, fa 4 ete Terrible, 1 Hippoglo ‘alentinam Clu fi gg bg eeabe éi aah cn . be tobe found or no,l would furely conjecture,that the plant called Galaftivida (retica,which the 15 chapterofthis part,under the title ofTithjmalus maritimus Creticus(pino/ns,andas I fay Thy Thave: ie% fehin ‘d by Honorius Bellus to bea kinde of Tithyneall, or Spurge having thornes, andgiving milke, whofe po:thickesnd flefliy, might as neere refemble Hippophaes,both for forme,for giving milke and purging quae ea any other plant whatfoever, and even the relation of the leaves and flowers fet downein thatplace,is not ay dering. let others judge hereof as they fee canfe. Now concerning Hippomanes lecme thew you alfo, Clee diverfe authors have written thereof, Firftitis imputed to Tiheophrastus to fay, asfome corrupt (ast thinke) greeke copies haveitas I fayd before, and Camerarins as I thinke was the firft that did fo caufeit to bee read, that Hippomanes is made of Tithymall, but»is miftaken for Hippophaes as I fayd before, Theocritus faith in Pharmaceutria, that Hippopmanes is a plant; whereby horfes are made furiousmadde, Callumella faith that Hippomanesis a poyfon, which kindleth luft in horfes like to thatof men, but what itis, or whereof it is made or taken, he dothnotexprefle. Pénye alfo in his 28 booke and. 1 1.chapter affirtheth, that Hippomanes was of fo ftrong poweror force in witchery or forcery, that being butlayd to thebrafen figure of the mare at Olympus, it would drive the horfes in extreame fury to cover its. which Paxfanias before P/inye histime, doth fet downe maoreat large in his fift booke :_but Anftotle in his.6 booke and 18 chap. of the nature of beafts, faith that the mares doe let pafle from thema certaine thine humour, like unto their {perme; when they are inflamed with luft to be covered, which is called Hippomanes by fome, and in the 23. chap, ofthe fame bookehefaith, that there ftickethto,the forehead of the foale, new fallen; a certaine round, and fomewhat broad blacke of fleth or skinne, of the bigneffe of{mall dryed Figge, which the-marelicketh up with the fecondine, peece as forte as thee hath Vy” q‘) foaled, which if any fhall take awaybefore fhe hath devoured,and afterwards offer it her to finell there- unto, fhe not knowing the fent thereof, will be ftirred in to great futy or madneffe,but will not fafferher foale to facke her that hath it taken therefrom; which thing Jusins Solinds Pelybifter confirmeth inthe 48 chapter of his booke, onely he varyeth.from rifforle,in faying itis ofa brownith yellow cuiour, which hee faid was blacke. And Péinye writeth alfo the famething in his 8 booke and 42 chapter,although he faid alfo, it wasan other thing as you have heard before. Virgil/ in his third bookeof Georgickes hath thefe verfes,to fhew what itis,and whereto ity S aim ua 2. Tartonvaive Ma/tilicafium, Gutworte or Trouble ‘belly, ufed; taken asit fhould feemeftom 47i/fot/e, Hine demum Hippomanes, vero quod nomine dicunt Paftores, lentum diftillat ab inguine virus Hippomanes, quod [ape male legere noverte, : t ae ; And Tibullus the Poet in his2..bookeand 4. Elegie, hath the famealfoin effe& in thelé verfes : Et quod, ubi indomitis cregibus Venus afflat amores 2: Lartonraire Uaffilienfium, Gutwort Ok Trouble belly? : The herbe Gurworte or Trotible belly, hath véry many hoa= ty, or filver white {lender and very tough branches, two high, divided into many other {maller, whereon grow foote many 4mall white hoary Icayes round about them, {maller than Hippomanes, cupide fillat ab ingnine eqne, s Anguillarais ofopinion that the. Hippomanes of Theocrit Cratevas, whom Theocritws his interpreter doth cite faith,us is the leffer Stramonium, or thorneapple, and that cumber.fruits, but full ofthornes: Nowifthe ancients havethatit isa plant whofe fruite is like the wilde Cowleft thefe doubts, whether Hippomanes be an herbe or made of an hearbe, and fhew thofe of Alpum : the flowers are white and {mall, fet clofé togeth not certainely what the hearbe is; ordoe notall agree thatitis the {perme of mares, how fhall we in thefe times compound the controve rfie, er, ina long tuft, but fo covered with the white wool linefle that they can {earfe bee perceived: after whieh come {mall biacke feede, bitter and unpleafant, and fo The Vertues; ; Diofcorides faith that the pure jayce of Hippophaes it (elfe being dryed, andthe weight of halfe thereoftaken, orthe weight of two feruples, ifitbemade fcruple up withthe meale ofthe bitter Vetche, atakenin meade or honyed water. pargethdownewards flegme, braifed and putinto meade, and abouta quarter ofa choller; and water : the wholeplant rootes andall being pint thereoftaken; worketh in the fame manne taken from boththe plant and the roote,asitis r: the juyce ufedto be done with Thap/ia,a drammether eof taken at a time, ed out of the rootes , leaves , and heads, of Hi "p= yed aiid halfe a drammethereof given to whom youwill, in meade orhonyed water eth forth flegme and water : principally and , ow bled withthe falling fickenefle, fhortnefle chiefely this purgation is fit or convenient, for thofe that are trouof breath, and aches in the joynts and finew es, fiery hot, that if any fhall either chew of them or the leaves, a little in their mouth, they will {o heate the mouth,lippes, and jawes, thatno wafhing ‘will for along time take itaway: the Toote is {mall long: and wooddy, with many fibresa tit, yello« with on the ot unpleéafantas the léaves orfeede, yet leaving a fmall hot outfide and white within, nothing fo hot, bitter taftea any milke : itis faith Pena,very like unto the onl of Alexan t the end, without any fent, and not giving dria,orof the fhoppes,in the formethereof, The Place, The fir groweth on thé monntaine or hill, called Ce/tivs or hard by Mar(eilles in France, as alfo in diverfe places in SpaineCap decefte, and in other rockés and ftony places, as Clufius faith. The fecond doth likewife grow neere Mar/eslles by the Seafide, on a {mall hill Cuap, XX, Alypum Monjpelienfium five Herba terpibilis Narbonenfium, Herbe Terrible. —— Hey ay] Ecaufe this herbe is ofa moft Viole nt purging quality, fharpe and exulcérati 5 BB | unto the former Tithymalls.. ng withall, very like 1 & | which by Pena his judgement isthinke it fitelt to joyne itnext unto them and another with it, very like thereunto, bothfor face A and quali ty. 1. Alypum Monpetienfium, S—)) Herbe Terrible, Thisterrible herbe hath man a y wits fall r ifing twoor thre : malle e foote r branc hish hes, dividing itfelfe into . a thinne barke,thi d 2 cover coverd ed with v Seersnee e yh - thicke fad ras fet with {mall hard and dr : Li * >, fonsead ad ae © fomewhat i whatl ; uuto {me ll Mi ofeveike . rybranchftanee > green 2 ana tharpe Pointed, fomede, and whitit h underneath : at the top inthe middle than round : : ; panyp urpli th thrum aitty fingers thickn threds paler effe longw oetat like unto the head of a Soabiows or rather Knapwemesor a dtin c ke any ce ede : the roote is 0 D colour, fome iter what Seatie fame obstg Sea watey and ofa brownifh i f falt, i t o r a e if it eee te the h fea fhore r, or elfe not fale at all, but bitter if it grow furtheroff the leave , where s alfo talting 2, Tarton thereunto, called ALondrond, the coaft of Liguria, and the Ifles of (orfica, andneere Sardinia, as Lugdunenfis faith, as Pena faith, and alla tong The Time, They flower notuntill it be laté with us 3 but Clafiu s found the firkt in flower, in the moneths of Februa (March, as he faith in §'paine, ry, and The Nanies: Aaumy in Greeke,quafs indolens inoffenfumaue remedium wl?dvrivesci, per contrarinm enimfe haber, quemadmos dum in alits,Grace Scilicet fella yrrius five dulcia onbcov, Holoftium tora offea,cum herba fit tenera appellans: except it might rather be faid to come from ansoy, sdeft, (alfum velmar itimum,becanfe it groweth neere the fea: in Latine itis called alfo Alypum & herba terribilis, accord ing asthe common people of Provence doe callit, the effects it worketh. It is called allo Alypia from s by Afwarius, yet fome thinke that his 4/ypia: , which as he faith purgeth flegme, doth differ from his Alypum, which purget h blacke cholle r: but Paulus reconcileth this doubt in his feaventh booke; and fourth chapter, where hee faith, that the feede of Alypum, purgeth downewards blacke choller, taken witha little falt and Vinegar, inthe fame quantity that Epithymum doth: butif we credit D iofcorides, faith he, it doth lightly exulcerate the guts : butisth fame e in my judgement faith Paulus, which isnowcalled Alypias : the rooté hereof, as I faydin the chapter of Tithymalls, is called by AGuarius Turpetum aloum, asthat of Efula minor, Tiurperum nigrum : There is fome doubt with many, whe ther we havethe true Aljpum of Diofcorides or no, for that fome copies differ from others in the defeription of the forme of the plant, fome having the word udegreys thatis like fennell,and tnipuress fomew hat red s ae . whereupon |