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Show Theatrum Botanicum, Cu AP. 34, ¢ ‘ Treo. 4 The Place and Time. Both thefe forts grow in low and wet grounds byrivers and waters fides, theit lowers, as 13 faid; rifine and decaying, thatis, in Fiebruary or (Marchbefore the leaves appeare in Aprile : : ? : ; a The Names, Tt is called in Greeke wdacizus, and Petafites alfo in Latine, deduced 4 Petafe, ideft,magno galero ita ut vicem galeri [upplere poffit. Some take it tobe Iphium ot Theophraftus » and {ome to be Perfonata or Perfolata of Plin Camerarins in horto calleth the more common mas, and the othe femina ; butin his Epitome upon AZatthiolvs ee and AfZatthiolus call thegreater fort Taffilago major, The Italianscall it Capellaxi; the Spaniards Samer :: the Freach Herbe aux tignenx 3the Germans Pefilents murtz 3 the Dutch Dockbladercn, * ; The Vertues, 4 ieee hereofare hotin the firft degree,butas Galenfaith drie in the third, and are by long experience abel : seria ads plague.and peftilentiall feversby provoking fweat,if the powderthereof in wine ; ite h the force of any other poyfon; the roote hereof taken with Zedoatia and Angea gelica of without them helpeth the fuffocationorrifing of the mother : the decoétion ofthe roore in wine being takenis fingular goodfor thofe that wheefe muchandare fhort winded : it provoketh arine alfo and wonidee courfes, and killeth the flat and broad wormesin the belly the powder ofthe roote doth wonderfullyhelpe a drie up the moifture offores that are hard to be cured and taketh awayall {pots and blemithes in the abana) Cuap. XXXIy. : with divers {mall fquareftalkes, {preading not much above halfe a foote long ,whereonare fet divers duskifh hoary greene leaves,fomewhat ruggedas it were with many veines.and {omewhat refembling the leaves oie {mall almoft as haires, which have both an aromaticall and reGinous {mell, wkenthey ie thie, more :et a they are greene, and of an aromaticall refinous aftringent tafte, without any great or manifgtt -giniana, {have kept the fame Eng/ifh name, untill another of better re{peét may be given untoit. But {choole forit. The Vertues, It is both a moft cértainé and prefent remedy againft the venome ofthe Rattle Snake, which is a Serpent of alargefife, farre greater then any Snake or Adder with us, havingnaturally under the throate; certaine loofe hard skinny fcales, which by motion grate one againft another, making a creking noife, which our people called arattle, not that ithath any rattle indeed, but this noyfeit maketh, ftirreit felfe never folittle, yet ufually it is fo quicke and waryin leaping at any, that it doth it not but {uddenly: Nowthe manner of the ufing hereof, is this (God ofhis goodnefle providing a remedy,ont of the fameplace and ground, from whences the evill doth proceed,) as foone asany is bitten by that creature, (for oftentimes it happeneth that fome are bitten, before they can avoid the Serpent, the mannerof them being to leape fuddenly upon one, that the rattle cannot be heard before theybe bitten) theycake of this herbe and chaw itin their mouthes, and fwallow downe the juice thereof, andalfo applyof the herbe to the wound or bitten place, which inftantly cureth them ; for being taken quicklyafter they bebicten, it doth fo defend theinward parts, that the party feeleth not fo much almoft as any outward paine, m uchleffe any of thofe inward Symptomes, are incident to thofe that doe not prefently ufe this e prefent helpe ofthe prefent hurt, but ifit fo happen that any being bitten, cannot get of this remedy, this nable time, he dyeth certainely, yet if within twelve houres after the biting; he doe ufe this herbe in affuredly recover him, but with more trouble andpaine, and with longer time, before it hath ec cure, for itis evident, that the poyfon ofthis Serpent pierceth the blood, whichrunneth with nto the heart, the chiefeft fortreffe of life and health, which being infected, death maft ne- y and {peedilyfollow, but if it be defended by the vertue and force of any medicine, it prefetveth the one, and expellech and untterly defeateth the intent ofthe other, The powder ofthe herbe and roote taken in wine orother drinke, hath beene found a cercaine and prefentcure for the biting of a madde dogge: as alfo to cure both the quartaine ague withinthree times taking, vix. halfeadramme, or ifneedebe a whole dramme at atime before the acceffe ofthefit, and anyother ague,or peftilentian feaver, or the peltilence it felfe, Cuarp. XXXV; Alestipha: nacum Tadicum five Contrayerve Hifpanorum,, Thé Indian Spanifh Counterpoyfon: =1Ecanfethe roote of this herbe alfo is of'as certainéa cure, to helpe allforts of venome and poyfor (as well of hurtfull beafts, as of herbes, rootes, &c, wherewith the Indians by dipping their ar)]row heads therein, did kill whomfoever they wounded, ) as the former Virginian Plant, thought fitto joyneit thereunto, although wehave no more knowledgethereof, then what we may ga« ther from feeing and obferving the'dryed.rootes and from therelation thereof by AZonardus, out of : Petrus de Ofmahis letter.tohim, which is extant in his booke of the fimple that are brought our of the new world, which C/#/u tranflated out ofthe Spanith into the Latine tongue,and hath publithed it with other of his workes and joynedit to is booke af Ewotickes, Contrayerva Hifpanorum five Drakena radix Clugi. Polyibizos Virginiana, The rattle Snakeweede of Virginia, Tt hath faith AZonardus, the roote of a Flower-delitce, andis of the fmell ofa Figeetree leafe: this is all the defcription A thmade of it: but O/meainhis Epiftle ma“the leaves to be like the Ribbewort Planlofua Ferrus alfo wrote thereof as he faith to (7Zo~ ; ir, and to Valdes, and inhis booke of feaketh mention thereof in two Chapters, the oneis of other he entituleth de Contrayerva Bexoar, meaneth the herbe or roote that is found in thé - whenitis broken, which he accoun10re vertue then the ftone it felfe, wher€onit is but wein viewing many dryed rootes that came , have obferved no good forme of any he roote, nor have feene any roote to ex fle of ones thumbe, and not one of many to be or the moft part of the bigneffe of a finger or long, butufually no longer then a joynt oft, not fo fmooth on the outfide as the roote Flowerdeluce,but more ruggedin all, 8 -d, (that is, with {mall knobs or bunches the roote) then in others, which are of againe are greater at the one end, an Teprowsth y 2 The Place, ery y fr frequent in the upperparts of our Virginian sates plantation, aein the fields and championcountries, the where ander Sratie ai nd herbes that c fhall Come neare i th, ready to bite * 2 ha venemousrattle snake lur keth and abide i Zt fowreth with us in Zune and nly, ‘ The This The Names. HAP.255 bour) Svagroel or Snagroel nothe Angliz, the envy was bafe, whereby he wrote fo, yet would colour it in that he couldnot write true, but fale Gxg4h and Latine too, it were not amiffe therefore that he were whipt at the ofPiffolochi ay whereunto it maybe referred but {maller,fet without order one at a joint:the flow ers stow more atthe bottome ofthe ftalkesnext the roote than on the branchesas the Piffolochia doth,and at enot eh iinlikeit but ofa darke orfullen yellowcolour, and fomewhatleffe alfo; after which come very {mall heades withfede, fomewhatlike to the Pistolochia but lefler: the rootes are a number of very {mall blackith gray fibres or The Theater ofPlantes. there isa cornuted Cornutus that amonghis Americaz plants, calleth this (a horne plague onhis head for his la- Rolyrbizos Virginiana. The rattle Snakeweeke of Virginia. His plant of Virginia fo certaine a remedyagainft the biting of that venemous rattle Snake, as the call it which breedeth in Virginia,muft not be forgo:ten among the reft; for it isa Counterpoifon a be compared, and I thinke preferred before anythe foreremembred molt foveraione plants againtt poyfons: whofe defcription as farre forth,as hath yet come to our obfervation, is this :Itrifeth up > V dividedas it werebylittlé fpaces, in the : Ti: e gréater Figgewort roote,or the roote s, being of a yellowifh browne colour eG e more blacke, but white on the ut by Meee referred to the Piffolochia I faid, but I have fevered it being fo notable an Antidote ; Tleaveit man ie an ae eee our pectle to igeveryserosa: 2 penises Uncles untill a hitter‘eae Latine title may be given oben it, ifi dient Sar people in Herginia doc there call it the Snakeweede, or Ekncce wed Geeeebetecies Colubrina t resor{trings growing from them, this hunderthe upper cruft ofthe grounds ower-deluce, Tormentill,Biftort, and the hk Oo TheIndian Spanifh Counterpoyfon, 424 |