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Show Cuar.53. Tbeatrum ‘Botanicum. 1, Buplexrum anguftifolium. Narrow leafed Hares eares. : The narrow leafed Hareseares, rifeth up with a roundftiffe greene ftalke two foote high; at the feverall joynts whereof, grow. feverall long and narrow very darke greene fhining fmooth leaves,broadeft at the bottome, and narrower by degrees unto the ends, with divers ribbes tuning thorough them,the middlemoft_ whereof is greatelt, yet nothing fo narrow as graffe leaves, as divers doecompare them, as any that I have feene of this fort, which {tand one above another up to the top, growing {maller and {maller, at the joynts likewife ; from the middle ofthe ftalkes atthe leaft, upwards if itgrow inany good ground, come forth {mall branches, bur fometimes with few or no branchesat all, atthe tops whereof ftand many {mailtufts or umbells of yellowith flowers, which turne into fmall feede, like Parfeley {eede, but of a darker colour, and fomewhat longer ; the Foote is fomewhat long, but fmall,and white-onthe outfide, like unto a-Parfley roote, with divers fibres thereat, perifhing yearely with me,as the nextalfo. 2. Bupleurumlatifolinm, Broad leafed Hareseares, This other Hares cares groweth in the fame manner that the former doth, withftalke,branches,flowers,feede, and roote,andherein chiefly ifnot onelydiffereth from it,that it beareth broader and fhorter leaves, {malleft at the foote, broadeft in the middle, and ending ina fmall point, fomewhat hollow, and bowing downewards -with divers fong Nervesor ribbes therein, as in the former, and the middle moft eminent,orraifed higheft, 3. Pupleurum Anguftifolium Alpinum, Mountaine narrowleafed Hares eares, This mountaine Haires eares, from round thicke roote, about a foote long fet with knobs or bumches inftead ofbranches, and with athicke barke, of adarke red on the outfide, and pale within, dividedat the headin- to manyparts, arife divers long and narrow greeneleaves, lying on the ground, compaffing one anotherat the bottomelike aftarre, for the forme ofthem like untothe firft Hares eares, but narrower 3 fromdivers of thefe tufts of leaves, arife darke round ftalkes, about an handbreadth high, bearing at the toppes many pale yellow flowers, made of feaven pointedleaves a peece, andin the middle ofthem divers fmall feed fer thicke together, fomewhatlike unto the Thorowwax,fet forth in the next Chapter, oras the former Haires cares, which fmelf very {trong; the whole planrelfe,tafteth like an Artichoke. : i 4. Buplenrum minimum, The leat Hareseares. ‘Theleaft Hares cares, is alfo like the firft defcribed hares cares inall things,the {malneffe of the plants, both in ftalkes,narrow long leaves,andall other partes making the difference. The Place, Thetwoformer Lobel faith grew about Mompelierin Frauce, in the dryftony places,and in Germany, as Tra- gus faith, and are alfo found in our Land,in divers places : the third upon Mount Bal/dws, as Ponainthe defcrips tion thereoffaith : the laft Co/wmna faith he foundin the borders of the dry fieldssneare Cirinola in Naples. The Time. Theyall owerlate,thatis not untill the end of Iuly,and in Auguft,and their feede is ripe in September. 2. Baplewrum Latifolium, Broad leafed Harcseares, 3. Trips 5. Cuarsge 579 Il The Theater of Plants. The Names. ¢ It is generally taken to be the peracueby Buplenrum,that Pliny mentionerlin his 22, booke, and 22, chap, out of Hippocrates, and Nicander in Theriacs, and was ashe there faith ufed in meates in Hippocrates his time and others; and reckoned among fallet and pot hearbes,bnt ufed in Phyficke and medecines, by Glarcus and Nicander, Divers have diverliy referred thefe herbes, as fome tothe Bupreft7s ofTheophraflys, in his 7. booke, and 8. chap, whercof Pliny alfo {peaketh, inthe fayd booke, and chapter before fayd : Gefner in bortis faith, that with the French, it was called Elaphobofcum and Gratia Dei, Some alfotooke ittobethe Panax Chironinm, of Diofcorides fome to be Ammi vilgativ, and {ome Sanamunda, Banhinus inhis Pinax faith, that Panax Chironium Plinii doth more rightly agtee unto the Valeriana campeftris fivelatluca agnine , Lambes Lettic€. or Corne fallet: thofe about*Mompelier as Ge(ner in hirtisand Lobel fay, called it Auricula leports, efpecially the Latifolium, for the refemblance thereof ynto Hares eares, Cordys in hishiftory of Plants, calleth it }/ophyllon.Tracus calleth it Herba Vulneraria,Woundkrast not underftanding from any ofhis nation,by what‘other namethey called it,and therefore he himfelfe referreth it, to the Panax Chirontum of Theophraftus, who faithit hath theleafe of 2 Docke;but that of Dioftorides & Nicander have the \¢aves ofAmracus or Marjerome,! finde a great miltake, and forgerfulneffe in Bashinus as w ellas in Lugdunenfs, this in fetcing forth, and he in admitting the errourto paffe concerning the Bupleurum which Lugdunenfis calleth Lapathum fylveftre 4% genus Dalechampit in one place, and Bexhinus Lapa- thumacutum flore aurea, and yet Lugdinenfis {aith there, that fome called it Pasaces Chitonizm folio Lapathi flore anreo Pliny, which was {ufficient I thinke, to make him underftand it to be this Bupleurum, andnot a Lapathum, and yet both he & Bawhinus in their proper places,call it Bapleurnm notwithlianding, The thirdis called by Pona, in his Latine edition of Mount Baldus, Sedutis petranm Bupleurifolio, autpotins Bupleurum petreum gramineofol; bueC/yfivs in {etting forth the defcription ofthe fayd Mount Baldw, givethic this note, thar ie is fire verine, quam folio Bupleuri. Bauhinus inthe fayd Latine edition of Poxa, is ferdowne tocallit then Bupleurum Alpin num, Bupleurifolio (which I have thoughtfitteft to follow, asit isin the titles but afterwards in his Pizax, hee referreth itto the Perfoliata, calling it Perfoliata Alpina gramincofolio, five Bupleurum axguftifotinm Alpizum,herex by judging the Perfolsataand Buplearum tobe congeneres, for inthe heads of feede, the one is fomewhat like che other, as any thar hath feene them both may well obferve. Fabis (olumna maketh mentionof thelalt, and callechit, as it isin thetitle: and Bauhinus Bupleurum anguftiffimo folio, : ; The Vertues, Thefe herbesare mioderately hotand dry, and therefore may well:be accounted Panaces, or Wound herbes; and have the fameproperties that they have, and which P/iny and-othersattribute unta Bupleurum : if the feede or the roote in powder takenin wine, or boyled in wine be drunke; and fo are the leaves: 4lfo good againtt thé bitings, or {tingings, of any ferpents or venemous creatures, the hurt place alfo bathed withthe fame, andis of great efficacy to provoke Vrine,and womenscourfes being (topped:they are alfoto very good purpofe,either ufed alone,ot with otherthings;to heale svounds inward-or outward, whether theybe frefh and greene,or old cancres and fores, of evill difpofition, and bad curation. Bupleurum opie Alpinum, Mounraine narrow leafed Hares cares. Cuap, Perfoliata, LIIII. Thorough wake, PSECTSZz> Here are divers forts of Thoronghwaxe, fomegreater, fomelefler, fome of the fields and Med. dowes,other of the hils and mountaines, &c.al of neere affinitie one unto another;and with them Ithinke fit to joyne another herbe, which fomehave referred to another family, becanfe of the long cods withfeede thatit beareth. 1. Perfoliata vulgaris, Common Thoroughwaxe. The common Thoroughwaxe, fendeth forth one ftraight round ftalke, and fometimeés moré, nigh and better, whofe lower leayes being of a blewith greene colour, are {maller and narrower than thofe up highier, anddoe ftand clofe thereto, not compaffing it, but as they grow higher, they doe more and more encompafle theftalke, untill it wholly as it were paffe through them, branching toward the toppe into manyparts, where the leaves grow {maller againe,every one flanding fingty,and never two ayanyjoynt:the Aowers are very fmall, and yellow {tanding intuftsat the heads of the branches Where afterwards growthe feede; fmall and blackith, many thicke thruft rogether: the roote is {mall, long, and wooddy, perifhing every yeere, atter feede times, and rifing plentifully of ic owne fowing, if itb¢ fuffered to fhed it felfe. ; 2, Perfoliataflore multiplici, Double fiowred Thoroughwaxe, This differeth in nothing from the former, burin the heads of fowersy whichare thicker fer together, and larger, which give no feede, buris wholly a degenerate kinde, riling fiom the feede of the former, {pending his fruite and encreafe in. the plentifall heacles,of flowers. 3. Perfoliata montanalatifolia. Broad leafed Mountaine Thorough waxe, The leaves of this Mountaine throughwaxe, arefomewhat larger and longer, and moré pointed chan the ormer, many growing together, from the heads rifing from theroote, every one ftanding on afmall fuoreftalke; from among whichrileup ftalkes with fhorter leaves, which compaffe the ftalkes, that are branched at the toppes, whereon {tand yellow flowers, fomewhat larger than thé former, many in \ike mannerfet together in the mid{t of the under greene leaves, which are asa cup to conteine them, wheremafterwards ftand thefeede, like the former bur larger: therooteis thicke atid reddih on the outfide, lyingdong wile under the face of the ground, fhooting forth-heads of leaves in divers places,and with{mall ftrings and manyyeeres, and not perifhing like the former. Bavbinys maketh another fort fibres downeward senduring hereot with fimaller fowers, afro yet giveth node({criprionthereof. 7 4. Perfoliata Alpina latifolid minor. The leffer broad leafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe, This leffer Throtghwaxeis fomewhatlike the firlt or commo nfort, buctharit is {maller, Tifine-not fo high,and bearing on the ftalke s fiich like leavesbut {maller, which are divided at the bottome of them inta.rwoparts, the Ralkes fo paffing through them, but are not whole and eet as the former ate, and branching at 3 the toppes, where out |