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Show & Cuakote heatrum Botanicum. Noapellus Verase The true Helmet Bower, Tris E.3 ‘Antboras The countespoifon Monkes hoode. The Theater ofPlantes. T rise 3 Cuap.1. blackifh with Larkes heele flowers: the podsare greater and ftand three: or foure togethet, with larger tough and {eede in them : the rooteis thicke andlong, fomewhatlike unto the rootes of the greater Helmet flowet, byit in the fame manner. encreafeth fch like heads 8. Aconitum purpurenm alivd. Another purple Helmetflower. ' and fhining This other purple Helmet flower hath larger leaves then the other, of a fadder greene colotir {preadeth into withall,but incifed after the fame manner: the ftalke likewife groweth very high,and often rootes be much and fundry branches,bearing large purple blew flowersin longerfpikes thenthe other ; the feedes like thé other Helmet flower. Aconitum hyemale, Winter W oolfes bane. This is defcribed in my former Booke. in my former booke, for that nto thele kinds of Aconites may bereferred the Anthora or Antithora, {et forth ic made C/vfivs thinkeit that in the outwardface and forme of growing, it doth fo nearely reprefent them, importit to be the remedy a< mutt alfo be of the fame deadly quality with them ; and although the name doth to gainft the poyfon of the herbe Thora, which fhall be fhewed in the next Chapter, and fo might challenge , yet becaufe both itis as I faid folike unto thofé be rather inferted among the Alexipharmaca,C ounterpoifons as well as of that former Aconites inthe flowring,andyetis the remedy againtt the poyfon of thefe Aconites, properties thereof likewife, Thora, \thinkeit fitter to mention it here thenthere, and give youthe figure and amongthe vertues, although J have {aid fomewhat of them formerly: The Place. 3 T could certainly learné, although Doétor None ofthefe plants grow naturally wilde in our country that ever their kinds growing oncertaine hills in Northam. Penny in his lifetime, feemed to affirme, that he fawfome of places. in /taly,Germany, and other berland : theyall grow in woods and fhadowieplacesThe ‘ Time, r titles teftifie ; the reft ower in the Someof thefe flowerearlier and fomelater then others,according as their end of May or beginning of June. 4449 ? The Names. nafcitur, quas aconas nomiq Iris called in Greeke énsrov Aconitum,ita dittum faith Pliny, quia in nudis cautibus booke of his A4eramorphofis nant, ubi nullojuxta ne pulvere quidem nutritur, which Ovid expreffeth in the feventh in thefe verfes, Que quianafcnntur dira vivdcsa cote Agreftes Aconita vocant - m, guiad Theophrafivs faith it tooke the name ab Aconjs ubi plurimum nafcitur, Ts autem vicus eff Peryandinoru dirt. Heracleans Ponti eft, which Pliny faith againe in his{ixt booke and firlt Chap, Ports Acone veneno (conito fi eam ab herba [ucco, velraBut Pena mifliking thefe derivations faith, Aptior fuerit Nomenclaturainterpretatio, fe adferrent, quam dice,quibus quali cote [picula a venatoribus affritta & fubatta, celerius [ubirent, CG perniciem 8. Aconitum purureuns altud. it iscalled Lycottonon tuiv. Neque enim jaculari neque in hominem collimare pesmitrebamus vobis aime of becaufeit killeth Woolvesand Dogs; in Latine ecomitum & luparia,for the fame canfes ; But the in face, though not Aconitum was referted to manyforts afpoyfons, and poyfonous herbes, one much differing be hereafter more quality from another, as hath beene (hewedbeforein the white Ellebor'and.others, and may ofthe Italians as accafion fhall ferve ; Itis called ofthe Arabians (hanach adip or adib, id eft, frangulatorem lupi, fthe eAconito & Luparia, ofthe Spaniards Yerua matta lono, ofthe French Tue loup, of the Germans Wolffswurtz,o flore primum The firt kind here fet downe is called by Ge/ner in hort Ger, Aconitum very albo. Camerarius sn horto under the name of Aconitum Lycoltonum flore luteo diftinguifheth both the kinds later then the other, it is well, faying the greater hath the largeft leafe and fairelt greene colourandflowreth cal- The fecondis thoughttobe thefixt kind of Aconite that AZattbiolus giveth onelythe dumbe figure thereof: Delphinii: of GefAconitum flore led of Clufius Aconitum Lycottonum flere Delphinii jm, Sile fiacum;of Camerarius cerulenmhirfutnm flore Confolide rega~ nerin hortis Germaine eAconitum ceruleumaliud, of Bauhinus Aconitum ( [Ft x EF d) OF Lycottonum caq third isthe Aconitum flore Delphinii of Dodonens and Lobel: of Dalechampins Aconitum lis: the Matthiolus, Baubinuscalleth it Aco~ raleumj™, flore Delpbinii Dodoneizit is probable to be the fourth Aconitumof BezLi, a,LTD re 2 parvam nitum cerulenm glabrum flore confolide regalis: the fourth is called Aconitum Lycottonum tertium cé ruleim Aconitum of Clufius, who faith of Dodonens, of Lobel Lycottonum ceruleum parvumfacie Napelli : it is the tenth U5 Bauhinus and fo doth Ge/uer alfo, that is called jn /taly Thora Itabica, and of the Chymijtes there herba tora: of Clufinss Aconitum ceruleum minus, fise Napellus minor, The fiftis called eAconitum Lycottonnm 4. .Tauricumby MITTSoin yt trrermerrrnrrne QjDyDS mmm deduci, qnemadmodum robixar a cautibus, at apagt cognomine deducas : yet faith he poffit etiam dmdz dxoy nce ESE duovrilesyavlowmoy Sze TpemoMAy aabroo ToFeudy @ non taxo,For even fo Xenophon in Cyripedia faiths pele Todiet, o Cynottonum Dutch Woolfwurtel, oN Le eas : AINS le; Winter Wallebase: sp=Zeya CP Another purple Helmetflower, Aconita: Lycottonum alterum of Doand by Bashinus Aconitum violaceum feu Napellus fecundus, The fixt isthe Aconitam doneus, and is the feventh Aconitum Lycottonum of Clufius, whichhefaith 1s called alfo Avtumuale : The feventh coma maximum:the is the eight Aconitum Lycoftonum coma nut ante of Clufius, Bauhinus callethit Aconitum inflexa laft is called by Clufius Aconitum Nenbergenfe and by Banhinus Napellus tertins, \call all thefe kinds W oolfes are in face banes and Helmet flowers, not onely for a diftinétion from the otherforts that follow(forall thefe ) but another and forme of growing, and inleaves, rootes, fowers and feede one, not much differing one ftom faith his diftinétion, who maketh this his Aconitum alterum, which he to fhew youthat it is even Diofcorides wascalled Lycottonwm and (ynattonum, although his former Aconitum called Pardalanches did kill W oolves as wellasthis, and tha tfach different herbes fhould not goe in Englifh‘under one common nameof Woolfes bane, is meant. wherebyit fhould bee hard to underftand in the naming of them what kind The Vertues. Allthefe plants aré poifonous and deadly to mankinde, to be taken inwardly any mannerof way, 4s that fealt, pucasa fallet herbe withothers, at Amwerp: (heweth,where by ignorance the leaves of /yparia or Napellus being manythat did eate thereofdied,after the violent paffions they endured for the time : it is alfoas deadly to Dogs, herbe or Wolves, and other crearures, whofhall take thereof, either the juyce of theherbe or rdote, or the rooteit {elfe, putinto flefh, and given them to cate+ in the je ofthe rootes efpecially, the hunters praia eatts, ea |