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Show 348 Cu AP.6, Frise 3. Theatrum Botanicum. blackifh round feede, foure ufuallyfet in one huske: yetit eldome commethto ripeneffe in our country: the roote is white and growethgreat withus, but perifhethifit be not defended from the frofts in winter, whichufaallyrotit, but inthe naturallplaces it groweth as big as a mans legge,(for fuch hath beene fent me, with many circles to be feene in the middle whenit wascut like unto a Bryonye roote ) and abovea foote long. 8. Solasum Mexicanum parvo flore, five Mirabilis Peruana minor, The {mall Mervaile of Pern, This fall Mervaile of the world, or of Perv, groweth in the fame manner, that the greater kinde, fhewed you in myformer booke doth, but nothingfo great or high, having fuch like leaves fet on the ftalkes, but much lefler and rounder:the fowers likewife being ofared colour for the moft part,and made of one leafe,opening into five parts at the brimes, like the other, are fo {mall, that che whole flower of thisis {carce {0 bigge as the one part, ordivifionof the greater flower, the feed that followeth; and the roote likewife are anfwerable in proportionto the reft of the plant. The Place, The firft groweth wild with us, under old walles, andin rubbifh, the commonpaths and fides ofhedges and fieldes as well as in other countryes,either hot or cold, asalfo both intheir and our gardens, without any planting. The fecond growethonely wild in the hotter countries of Spaine, italy, Gc. The third Cls/fius faith he foundnotfarre from A4alaga in Spaine, and Afatthiolus {aith in Italy alfo. The fourth Alpinus faith, groweth in Gandye, Thefifth as Matthiolws faith, growethonthe hill Sa/vatino in the County of Goritio in Italy, hard by Trent, andas {ome thinke in Syria, and the Eaft Countries thereabouts. The fixth groweth wilde not onely in many,and divers woods of Germany, but in divers places of our owne Land, as in the Caftle yard of Framingham in Suffolke under Iefis Colledge wall in Cambridge,and in many places of that Country :alfoat I/ford in Effex, at Croydon among the Elmes, at the end of the Towne: in Moore Parke in the Parke of Sir Percivall Hart at LEelling fone in Kest,on the Connybutries,in Burling Parke likewife.as alfo in the waythat leadeth from S, AZa= ry Cray to Footes Cray over againft the gate of'a great field called #enaell, The feventh is declared in the de{cription. The eighth growethin Virginia, NewEngland, ec. from whence the feed and Plants, were firlt broughttous. The laft came as the greater fort did from the W<ft-Indies, The Time. Theydoe all dye downeto the groundin winter, although fome doe fhootea frefh in the fpring, as the 3. 42 5~7-8.9-doe, yet the third being more tender as comming ont ofa warmer Country, doth hardly endure, but perifheth utterly,by the extremities ofour winters, efpeciallyif it be not houfed or well defended, and even the twofirft that dye every yeare, and rife oftheir owne fowing, doe not {pring out of the ground, untill it be late in the yeare,as not untill the latter end ofAprdl/at the foonelt, The Names, Tris calledin Greeke of fome 7pix9G- & rpx1@-, but morenfually =7pvx/G- quod vitenm, capreclum, vitem vel acinumvel tale quiddam fignet, at Pena,in Solanorum claffe, quibus canta proprium acinos plures velpanciores han bere, wifi qiis siti ye. Theophraftofujpicari malit ant Bospiyvioyin spixver mutatum.In Latine Solanum & Solatrum Una lupina & Una vulpis. Pliny faith it was called alfo Stremumand Cucubalus, but they are thought to be r, 5 ther baftard names, and nottobe proper to this plant; the Arabians call it Hameb athomaleh, Hameb alchaich i aa Hameb althaleb, the Spaniards sYerva Mora,and Morella, the Italians Solatro, The Brevch (Morelle TI nae mans Nacht{chadt, and the Dutch Nafcaye; and Natchfeade. In Englifo Night{bade, Morrell, Pett Morrell yé aoe fome places Hounds berries, Diofeorides teckoneth up foute forts, KijaniG- hertenfe Maisie sapien ml ie Somniferam.and varinssfuriofam or manicum. Theophraftus in his 7 booke and 1 4.chapter, maketh but three (ott folanum edule,frucum velutimitem, velacino{umferens; Sunt aliaduo guorsm alterumfomnium,alterumi nfaniem adfert. The firk is generally called byall writers Solanum Simply, or vulgare, ox hortenfe, becanfe it is motnaa The Theater of Plants. The Vertues, The ordinaty or comphon Nightfhade is wholly ufed to cooleall hot inflammations, either inwardly or outwardly, being no way dangerous to any that fhall ufe it, as.moft of the reft are ; yet it muft be ufed moderate~ coldandbinding in the fecond degree, thediftilled water onelyof the, whole hetbeis fitreft and faly, for being feft to be taken inwardly : the juyce alfo clarified and mingled with alittle vinegar, is good to wafh the mouthand throate that isinflamed ; buf outwardly the juyce of the herbe or berries, with oyle of Rofes, anda good to.anoint all hot inflammations, { ceruffe, laboured together in aleaden Morter, is very Jittle vine Saint Axe sfire, and all other grieved places, that are molefted with heate, as the head ache and frenzies, anointing the temples and forehead therewith, as alfothe heate anid inflamimationin the eyes : it doth alfo much good for the (hingles,ringwormes,andin all running, fretting & corroding ulcers,and in weeping ot moift Fiflu. iaes,if the juice be made up with fome hens dung,andapplied thereunto: a peflary dipped in the juyce.and put up into the matrixeftayeth the immoderate fiuxe of womens courfes; a cloth wet therein and applied to the tefticles or cods,uponany{welling therein giveth much eafe : as alfo to the goute, that commeth of hot and fharpe humours ; the juyce dropped into the eares, eafeth thofe.paines that arife of heat or inflammation; Play faith moreover, that it is ood for hot fwellings underthe throate:the fleepie Nightfhade of bothforts,areof one and the famequalitie, being cold inthe third degree, and driein the fecond, comming neere unto the propertie of Opiumto procure fleepe, but fomewhat weaker, if a drammeof the barké of the roote be taken in Wine, but not to exceede that proportion for feare of danger : the feede dranke doth powerfully expell urine, andis alfo good for the dropfie; but the often taking thereof in too great a quantite, ptocureth frenzie ; the remedy whereof is, to take good ftore of warme honied water : the roote boyled in wine, and 4 little thereof held in the mouth, eafeththe painesofthetooth ache: Phy faith it is good to faften loofe teeth: the juyce of the roote mingled with hony, is goodfor the eyes that are weake offight : It is more efteCtuall inall hot {wellings and inflammations than the former, in regard it iscolder in qualitie, the juyce of the herbeor rootes, or the diftilled water ofthe wholeplant beingapplied : the deadly Nightfhadeis held more dangerous than any of the other, foritis thought tobecoldin the fourth degree : the juyce of the leaves, and a little vinegar mixed together, pro- fits of curethreft and fleepe, (when upongreat diftemperature, either in long ficknefle, or in the tedious agues, reft and leepe is muchhindered ) if the templesandforehead be alittle bathed therewith : as alforaketh awaythe violent paine of the head, proceeding ofa hot caufe + the leaves bruifed or their juyce may be applie ) firch hot inflammations, as Saint —Zathonies fire, the (hingles, and all other fiery or running cankers, to coole and {tay the { x : the danger is very great, aud more in the nfe of this inwardly, than in any ofthe for~ d therefore there had neede ofthe more heed andcare, that children and others doe not eate of the bers hereof, leaft you fee the lamentable effets ic worketh tipon the takers thereofas it hathdone, both in our owne land, uponfandrychildrenkilled by eating the broth wherein the leaves were boiled, ot the berries, and beyondthe fea in the fame manner: yet {ome doe hold that two ouncesof the diftilled water heréof is effe@uall tobe taken inwardly without any danger, againft the heart burning, and other inflammations ofthe bowells, and asainft all other hot inflammations of the skinne or eyes, giving eafe to the paines. It hath beene often proved, that one fcruple ofthe dried roote hereofinfufed ina little wine fixe or feven houres; and thenftrained hard throngh a cloth, that ifthis wine be put into a draught of other wine, whofoever fhall drinke that wine, fhalf not be able to eate anymeate for that meale, nor untill they drinke-fome vinegar, which will prefently difpell that qualitic, and caufe them fall to their viands, with as gootl a ftomacke, astheyhad before this is a good jeft, for abold unwelcome gueft, The Virginia Nightfhade is a familiar purger with them in Virginia, New land, 8c, where they take a {poonefull or two of the juyce of the roote which workethftrongly ; bat we having triéd to give the dried roote in powder have not found thar effect, and generally every where tobe had, and was plantedin gardensas other herbes for foode, but now isno where ufed, but Phyfically + the fecondis called of Cordys in his Hiftory of Plants Solanum puniceum, and of Gefnerin hortis Germanie Solanum rubrum & luteum, andisremembredby othersalfo, The third is generall taken to be the true Solanum (cmaniferum of Diofcorides, for {o Matthiolus, G.efuer ,Guilandinus, Lacnna, Guar C lufius, Dodonews. a lignofumfive Dulcamara, Wood Nightfhadeor Bitter {weete. Label, Czfalpints, Caftor Durantes, Camerarius, and Lugdunenfis doe fet it downe. Profper Alpinus Sal contelte ethagainft it,and fheweth that the fourth here fer downe,whichin his booke de plantis exoticts, he {z ich, hath red this plant hath no dangerous quality therein, nor yet is properly any Nightfhade, more than ward conformitie in fome fort, yet becaufe many learned Authours have reckoned itasa fort bladders,and {mall red berryes in them,is the right fort, as Dio/corides, Theophraftus and Plin doe deferibe their Solanumfemniferumtobe. Thefifth Alatthiolus calleth Solannm fomaiferum alterum ane£6 doe Camerariu; Gefwer, and Lugdunenifis, Dodoneus calleth it Solani lethali alindgents, The fixth is generally by the ISabian oi ca led Bella Donna; either per Antiphrafin, becanfeit is blacke, or as the CMobres doe a¢count them faireft, that havethe finefi blacke skinne,or as fome have reported, becanfe the Italian Dames, ufe the juice or diftilled water thereof for a fucus, peradventure by the exceffive cold quality, to take away their high colour, and make them looke paler. AZathiolus calleth it Solanum majus, and {o doe Cefalpinys,and Camerarius : Ty ous Solanum bor= tenfe nigrum: Puchfius, Lobelyand Lugdunenfis, Solanumfomniferum, Dodoneu and Clufivs Sigur 5 stbale and fodoth Thali; Gefner Solanum (ylvaticum; Anguillara, Guillandinus, Dodonavs, Fuchfius Cordus atid others doctake it tobe Mandragoras morion of Theophrastusbut not of Diofcorides, for they are fo much differing one from another, as thongh they hadlived in two feverall worlds, to give names to herbes the one not knowing of the other. The Germanescallit Schlaffbeere and Dolwurtz: it is called in Enghih,Divale or deadly N ichtbade.. Thefeaventii Clufivs maketh mentionof, in the fourth bookeof his Exotickes,by the nameof Solani Indici genut and Basbhinin thereupon calleth it as I doe in the title, Solanum Indice hirfutum corymbiferum, The eighth we have referred as I faid before, tothe kindes of Solansim, for the likeneffe of the leaves, althou h ails larger; - and call itrxbrum, both for the colour of the ftalke, and from the colour that it giveth, for he Indians therewith doe both colour theirskinnes, and the barkes of trees wherewith they make fheir baskets, and fuch like things, as weare informed: the Indians them({elves call it d di ee caants ginia, call it Red weede, but we according to the Lati d Nigh ald Seitennpumas fetreth fort in his Prodomus and "Pina *, er under nd _ the hgtideher a title here eraeded,ied exprefled, not beingcenaaatty mentioned by any other coro The VII. and called it by thatname, let me alfo placeit with them, and fhewit youin thisplace, thus: it growethup with many{lender windingbrittle wooddy ftalkes,five orfixe foote high, with< out any clafpers, but foulding it felfe about hedges, or any other thing that ftandeth next unto it, i h rough barke, and having pith inthe middle, fhooting out many branches onall fides, t ung; whereon grow many leaves without. order, fomewhat like unto the are f{omewhat broad, long, and pointed atthe ends, withtwo fmall leaves, bottome of moft of them, fomewhatlike the Sage with eares, and many of ne peece onthe onefide, fometimes alfo thofe peeces are clofe unto. the leaves, mare jagged,or cutin on the edgesinto fo manyparts,and fometines feparate there from, e winged or made of. manyleaves. and are ofa pale greene colour: atthe toppesand branches come forth many flowers, ftandingin fafhion of a long ambell. upon fhort foote ftalkes ove another, which confit offive narrow, andlong violec putple coloured leaves, not {pread like a : 2, but turning themfelves backwards to the ftalkes againe whereon they ftand, with a lin the middle fticking forth, which afterwardsturne into round and fomewhat long {t,and yeryred, foft and full of juyce when they are ripe, of an unpleafant bicter afte, thefirft ; wherein are contained many flat white f{eedes: the roote fpreadethit felfe into nd, and not growing intoany great body:the barke alfo ofthe branches,being chewed, aitech bitter at thefirf {weeter afterwards, , 2. Dulcamara flore albo., Wood Nighthhadeé with’ white flowers. / Of this kinde there is another that differeth not from the former, more than inthe flowers, whofe onter Hh leaves |