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Tripe 3. «Bento ‘Botanicum. other fort ofmale Mandrake whoft leaves were of a more grayith oreene colour and ) ital toge. forerecited kinde which grew shese a ' ato ale5 aoereBhonlded herein ther differing : NRUL fromthe ATS Miruit it bore could not be affared having never borne any as they faid. «1 Mandragoras feminets, The female Mandrake, The female Mandrake hash likewife many leaves lying on the ground, but {maller; narrower, more led and of adarker greene colour, refembling thofe of Lettice as Diofcorides coms areth them: the flowers crum alf r . fh o rife from amongtheleaves,each onhis {lenderfooteftalke as in the former, tt of a blewilh pikplec that followeth is much fmaller than thofe of the male, but : oe! fe hig Mandragoras mas & feminens. roundlike them, and notpeare fafhion as fome have Themale and female Mandrake, thought,(for Clufins who faw diverfe of them, growing, naturallyin fundry places in Spaine deniethit ) of a paler yellowcolour when theyareripe, and of a morepleafing, or rather of a Jefe heady fent, than the apples of the male, wherein are contained fuch like feede bat fmaller and blacker, the roote.alfo is like the former, blackith without and white within, neere unto the fame forme, parted into more ar fewer branches, as naturelifeth, The. Place, They grow in woods\and fhadowie'placés, and the The Theater ofPlants. Cuar.6, an experimentof his owne, that upona fuddaine became drowfie, fitting at his booke in his ftudy, and mufing whatfhould be the caufe, found thatit proceeded from the fent of one ofthefe apples, which he had: laid on afhelfe therein, which being removed he found no further inconvenience :the barkeor the juice taken therefro, is given to thofe thatin their fickeneffe cannotfleepe, the decottion of the rootein wine alfo doth the fame, andis exhibited to thofe (as is aforefaid) that are to be feared, or a limbe or memberto bé ent off, to induce the leffe {ence of paine : the condenfate juice taken to the waightof one fcruple in fweete wine, purgeth flegme and melancholy by vomit like unto Hellebor,but taken ina greater quantity irkilleth: it is ufed alfo in peffaries, either ofit felfe, or with other emollient thinges to take away the hardneffe of the matrix, to procure their courfes, and to expell the dead birth. But fee that not above halfe a ferup'e beufed at atime: the faid juice is alfo ufed with thofe ocular medicines that coole inflammations inthe eyes : the leaves are likewife ufed for the fame purpofe, asalfoimpoftumes, anddifcuffe, all hardneffe, knotsjand kernels inthe flefh, and take away the {cars of burning,being often rubbed therewith : the roote beaten with vinegar and applyed to thofe inflam mations, called Saint Authonies fire, doth heale them,and applyed with honey or oyle, taketh away the fting of Serpents. It is {aid rhat if Ivory be boild with the roote hereof-fix houres together, it will fo mollifye it, that ir will take what formeor impreffion you will give it: the apples and efpeciallythe feeds in them, doe purge and coole the hot matrix, as Serapio Avicen, and Paulus eAigineta after Diofcorides have fet downe, which peradventnre Rachel knowingtobe availeable for her hot and dry body, which was the caufe of her barennefie, (and her beauty arguetha probability of fuch a conftitution ) defired the more earneftly the Mandrake apples that Ruben Leahs {onne had broughthis mother, asit is Gevefis 30.v,14. the {trong fent ofthefe apples is remembred alfo Cant.7,13, although fome would divertthe fignification ofthe Hebrew word 2474, (which is the fame fenale by rivers fides, in diyerfe countries beyound the Alpes,but not onthis{ide naturally ,as in Grecia, the Iles of in both places)unto Violets or fome other fweete flowers,that Rachel, defired and the fruite of (Aufa or Adams apples to that inthe Canticles : Hamilcar the Carthaginian Captaine is faid to have obtaineda famous victory, Candy, and othets in the Mediterranean: fea, Italy alfo over the Libians by infecting their wines with the apples of Mandrake,whereby being made drowfie they lefe their wals unmand. and Spaine:withas they are nourfed up as rarieties in Gardeng,the male im fundry places; but the female onely with the curious,as being both farre’morerare toget, and more The Time. tendertokeepe.. (/ Cuap. VI. The male fowreth in Match and the fruit is ripe in Tuly the female/as C/xfii#faith, he found in fomeplacesin Solanum. Nightfhade. Spaine in flower in Febtiary, and in the fame monethin c« therplaces of Spgiveit had ripe frnit,but with us whereit is belt preferved, ic lowrethnotuntill Auguft or September, and the fruit{eldome.or never tipeneth, Hereare diverfe forts of Night{hades, properly foto be called, and there be fome otherthat are referred thereunto, for the likeneffe of the leaves, howers,or fruite, or for the properties in the The Names, Tis called in Greek ver}ap402¢,and ALandragoras alfo in St) my former booke, whereunto I referre them, that would be enformed of them, not meaning to repeate their defcriptions, but denominationsin this place, which are Mirabilia Pervana, the operation, Of thofe chat are referred unto the Nightfhade, Ihave already fpoken ofdiverfe in Latine; quod ad mandras pecorum aliafque fpeluncas proveniats Mervaile of Persor of the world.Pomum amorisfruttn majore, Apples of love the greater forte fome alfoas Diofcorides {aith in his timecalled it d:7uaaor, Stramonium five Pomum {pino{um majusflorefimpli albo, & purpureo, & Datura Turcarum flore albo fimplici Ge flore duplici purpureo, Thorne apples the greater, witha fingle-white, or fingle purple flower,andthe lefler with a fingle white flower, or a double purple flower. Solanum arbore/cens or fintscofim, called alfo Pfendocapficums and Circea, becaufe Circe the great enchantrefle ufed it as is thoughtin love matters; Pythagoras called it ¢vSpontyop925 a forma humana, becaufe the roote hath fomelikenefle of amansbady with two legges,bnt without atmes- they ate called alfo (Wale canina e terre[fria. Diofcorines faith Dodonei, or AmamumPlinij, Solanum Americanum, & Cerafa Indiana, Tree Nightfhade, the Mumme tree, or Winter Cherry tree: ¢ Solanum veficarinm or Alkekengi, Winter Cherries, Potatoes of Virgwia called of many, apples ofyouth, and of Bauhinus in his Matthiolus Solanum tuberofum efculentum,and thought by Clufits, the female was called zeide'm25 tradacias of the Letice like leaves; and niger,as the male wascalled Candidys, the fruit of oe is ee but ofthe female as Dio/corides (aith, like «ots not ts ovis, elanod as RuellinsDicerCe his Tranfati coteoo Qi forbys, Sainkandoilyae a ; — — to figureit : peare fafhion, . js ¢{pecipeares ; but you here before Clius his deniall thereof as an Bias ee ee acradibus as wild fall out otherwife, it might be rather accounted lnfie glehoe h Hi . aisles mes aio el his thirdfort called Morion, not TIheophraftus his (Mandra; sn the ordinary propertie in nature,= a0 Eitbeh Dia/corides sine, Lilbongis Gina nba ragoras as Cardus thought, which’ 46, 6, cap. 2» hee Knowne wharherbe is, and peradventure Be alfonot doth diary anesit aesa Ae jc ee be oanto Di ee ers himfelfe, for he ee ey relateth it but by hearefay, as rus aeainkt Brafavolus and Fachfius, who judged th Ried Metolud defendeth Hermolans Barbe. Diofeortdes his Moriou,which he defcribeth iar e Poe thoughtthe Melongena or Afalainfanato be leffer white leaves than thofe of the white Mand A 8panne ee hi iBh unto caves in paneeas ah white, longer otek per then clin ones hand, +, ‘and thi fect Seen and of the ene: ee the thickneffe Becan of ones thumbe tradunt acaine the roote be given any manin bread or broath {aj s Womrissennreand i it will : Baine faithhe, that if-adramme fleepe for three or foure houres, after the fame : caher'oh eeeee when thereis'cdnfe ta baitne OF die of an en,Bee He enon and fenfe, caufing himthis to difpofition as when he tooke it : Phyftians ufe Baities may noc begs fenfble: by thf oh Sep Cae is, tocaft him into a deepe or dead {leepe, that the anotherfpecies ofthe former which hath ees the’ ground about the head »ib Vie a ftalk. appeare tome, that Aforin is but i+ pot the leaves hePidinely faith(and peradventure the his fruite alfo lie on thofe of Theopbraftur aud Dirtor a iny hath faelted foulely in deferibing the Mandrakes, making ther, Thefandry fables Medavesiieeds to bs rates transferring that whichis proper to the one unto the ofirons to know them, may fedeth in ee 1olus and others are not fit hereto be related - whofo are defile Praline Aoaebaryns hem in thir, Authors or Relators, The Arabians call it Tabor. brebach ; gora sthe Spaniards Moavdyécola « the Freach Afand: rns Lert Alraum ; the Dutch Mandragoras and we in Encl; Bitidtaiea: anaragere and Mandagloire ; the Germans _ The Mandrake as Galen faith je oP wea teraatni tiat at inthebarke of¢he ce is {ome dineaneth Gene Cuan Seprce yet hath inie fonne heates ome moiftare, whereby it is of a foporiferous proPertieJ caufing fleepineffe or drowfinerte,: aS a5 Peas m4 ‘Lemnis inhis Herbal to the Bible maketh mention of an chat it did in manythings refemble the Pycnocomon of Diofcorides, moved chiefely thereunto fromthe likeneffe ofthe figure thereof, which he faw ina written copy of Dio/corides, that had figures ; as'alfo that it might be Arachidna of Theophrafius ; but fetterh it downein his Hiftory of Plantes, by the name of Papas Peruvianorum, and calledby the Zndians, or Spaniards Papas,as Gomara and others fay + and although the common wild Nightfhade, isnot dangerous, as divers othersare, nor planted in Gardens with us as it was in formertimes, tobe as a potherbeor falletherbe ufnally eaten, (but now adayesutterly refufed, ) and therefore called Garden Nightfhade, yet let mefet it with the reft of the familye and not disjoine it from them, 1, Solanum vulgare, CommonNightfhade. The CommonNight(hade,hath an upright round greene hollow ftatke, about a foote, or halfea yard high, bufhing forth into many branches, whereon grow manydarke greenc leaves, fomewhat broad and pointed-ar theends, foft and full.of juice, larger than the leaves ofBaffill, elfe fomewhatlike,and little unevenly dented about the edges, at the toppes of the ftalkes and branches, come forth three or -foure or more white flowers, made offive {mall pointed leaves 4 peece; ftanding ona ftalke together, one by or above another, with yellow pointels in the middle, compofed of foure orfive yellow threds fet rogether, which afterwards turne into fo ma- ny pendulous greene berries, ofthe bignefie of {mall peafe, fullof greene juice, and fmall whitifh round flat {eede,lying within it : the roote is white anda little wooddy, when it hath givenflower and fruite, with many {mall fibres at ic: the whole plant is of a waterifhinfipidetafte, but the juice within the berryes, is fomeWhat vifcous, like unto a thin mucilage,andis of a cooling and bindingquality, 2, Solanum vulgare baccis rubris. Red berryéd commonNightfhade, T call this commonNightfhade, becaufe it is in all thingslike the former commonNight(hade,except that the leaves hereof are fomewhat harder and rougher, and theberries when they are ripe, .areeither of ayellow, -or of a yellowifh red colour, the wholé plant growing alfolittle bigger then the other: this fort we have had our of Spaine, but endured not a winter withus, being more tender as comming outof a hetter Country, where ic abideth many yeares, and it may be; that it is but a degeneration by reafonof the climate,as it hapeneth in fweete Fenell feede and divers other things which changeby tranfplantation. Solanum Somniferum. Sleepy Nightfhade. Sleepy Nightfhade rifeth up,with divers thicke round foft woolly ftalkes,divided into other branches,where= on grow many foft woolly, but greene broad round leaves, very like unto Quince leaves, two alwayesfetata joynt one againftanother, of fomewhat a hot talte as C/ufive faiths the flowers come forth at the joynts wit the 345 |