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Show Crar.85. Theatrum Botanicum. 4e> Vlmaria vulgaris, Common Medelvwecte. Tripeis The Theater of ‘Plants. Tris R.5; 593 Cuar.59: the flax of the little honey taken ware, it dothopen the belly, but boyled inred wine and drunke, it ftayeth it healeth old VIcers,that belly, &c. it helpeth the Bottes in horfes as you heard before ; sbeing outwardly applyed commendedjasal{ofor the fores are cancrous or eating,and hollow or fiftulous,which many have ufed and muchuponthe skinne, will after a {mall layd in the month, and fecret parts:the leaves whentheyare fulligrotyne¢ being ionin the eyes:the andinflanimat heate the h thereofhelpet water the : faith Tragms as thereon blifters time, raife {eede as Camerarins faith being taken ,caufeth paines inthe head; and becanfe.borh lowers and herbesareofjfa d Queene Parlars,8¢c,an Chambers, their in layd ieafing a {weete fent,many doc muchdelight therein,to have it her Chambes withall: 4 leafe él. zabeth offamous memory, did moredefireit then any other fweetherbe to ftrew 2. Pimaria major five altera, Thegreater Medefweete. will,as | fayd before, or cwo hereof layd in'acup of wine,will give as quick and as finearellifh theycto,as Burnet Cuap. Potentilla, Wilde Tantey. a round aboug ms) ilde Tanfeycreepeth upon the ground, taking rocté at the joynts, every. w heré(hooting forth the place where tt groweth;. that it will quickly take up a great compaffe, fet | fundry winged leaves made ofanany, fet on both fides of a middle ribbe,fome {maller,being Tanfey,from \Y\/ (9,3 among the greater, fomewhatlike unto Agr#mony or Medefweete, and likealfo unto the edges. and denced about ats eN294i whence ittooke the name; for it partakethin forme with chemall, Wiles Taatey. Pedestals and ofa filfide, upper the on colour greene faire a of but : it beareth no «alk, ver fhining white colour underneath > ftand upona but the flowers every one ofthem byit felfe the {mall (hore fooreftalke, rifing from the joynts with pointed leaves, which confift of five {mall yellowround or Fiveleaved leaves, verylike unto thofe of Cinkefoile, like the grafle : the prime roote fhooteth downeward Cinkefoile. The Place. Tr growethalmoft every where wilde abroad in moft places. : Z 4 The Time, Ie fowreth in Lune and lsly. Di, ; The Names, ( nh ET—VY pollet,and Itiscalled Potentilla ab eximijs viribus quibus Argentina a foliorum argenteo [plendore, fome takeit to bee Stephanomehs of Pling, lib. 26, ¢. 43. others referre 1t to pees eigenftalkes,having long footeftalkes upon them,each being divided ufuallyinto three parts,the two ed one again another, and everypart alfoconfifting ofthree orfive {maller leaves then the othcr, feparate a rom the other,being hard crumpled andfinely dented aboutthe edges : at the tops of the flalkes grow the a etsin longer {pikes more {parfedly and not fo thicke thruft together, turning downe their heads whichare w ite like the former, and {melling very fweetealfo , more nearely refembling a Goats beard, whereof fome ake piven it fiename ire atag the roote is more wooddy, with many blackifh ftrings which ng,and talte omewhat fomewhat harfhly k and leavesdye wholly downe every yeare, andrife ife againe agi ne oe harfhly ; the {talkes [ylueftre, of agrefte, Argemone : Iris alfo called Tanacetum it An/éerina, as Branfelfius doth. Tabermontanus calleth Gener in hortis Germania Argemone alteras and fo doth éalled alfo Milli ‘D8 Tragus, and withall faith, ir might be Italians call lings majus, and {ome Agrimonia [yluefiris, the the Germancs it Petentilla, the French Argentine fannages Grenfich and Genferich, the Dutch Ganfericke, weein Eng~ Lif Silverweede,and wilde Tanfey. The Vertues. sic if dy ; The Place. hefirt groweth in moy{t Meddowesthat lye muchwet,or neare the the courfes of water, v later aCie ene and the later is found a ey me and The Time, ey are found in flower;in fome place or other allthe three $ n is, ts 161 and their/feedeis ripe’quicklyafter. F meaee a : 5 yng The Names, hey are not fround 5 mentioned byanyof the ancient Greekes, or Latines, = onely {ome thinke ¢ i j b , a = fered to Rodora of Pliny. It iscalled bythe later writers Uleaaréa, afoliorum Ulmfonilitudine of thelikenetle a Elme leaves, of Dedonans Regina prati,and Barba, and Barbula Capre, or Barba Caprina of Treg, and b us ees alfo that itmight be Ricnocomon of Diofcorides, as Gefner in hortis and Lonicerus doe. Eufehie calleth i: arbacapri, and LobelBarbi capra, Cordus Medefufinm from the Germaine word Medefuff, that is, Meddow—_ Someas Lugdunenfis faith, tooke the later to be Afelandrinm Plinis, and {ome alfo call it Drymopogen : : nguillara calleth them Potentilla major prima and fecunda, and Thalius the greater fort Argentina major noni lara faith the Icalians call it ( briftoforiane, the French call it Barbe de Chenure, and Roine des press, the Gaon) oo and the greater Wielde Geifbart ; and Camerarius faith Wermkraut, becaufe as he faith the roote is ae Se ound, asifit wereeaten by Wormes ; but it is morelikely for that it helpeth horfes of the Bottes, and ormes, and fo he faith the countrey people ufed it; the Dutch Reinette, andas Lobel {aith Gheytenblade and Camecruidt, in Englifs Mede{weete or Meddowfweete,and Queene of the fields or Meddowes The Vertnes : ; Being¢ néare little in tafte and {mell with Burnet, » the they are moft : i likely to bee neare of the fam 7 ie, y area oe them more hot and dry, they are alfo ufed in the fam mannerand for i. ta oe “4 ay al a of fluxes, bleedings, and vomitings,and womenscourfes, as alfo their whites :it is fa se alter : take awaythe fits ofquartaine Agues,and tomake a metry heart,for which purpofe fomeufe the ect & lomethe leaves:it helpethalfo {peedily thofe that are troubled with the Collicke,being boyled in wine ca with a little c withall, Wilde Tanfeyis cold, and dry, and binding or fo that it Rayethche laske,and all fluxesof blood in men fome fay it will doe fo ifthe greene herbe women, it be but worne inthefhooes, foas itbe next the skinne, the powder ftayerh alfo(pittings or vomitings of blood; ofthe dryed herbe taken in fome ofthe diftilled water, Hf 1 ifa helpeth the whites in women, but more efpecially little Coralland Tvory in powder be put to it: it isalfo and much commended to helpe children that are burften, j is alfo have a Rupture: being boyled in water and falt, it like,to diffolve the blood, as it is fayd doth helpe the fall,or any by bruifed bin have that thofe for good tobe fayd the griping paines of che bowels, and is good to breake the ftone ; being boyled in wine and drunke, it eafeth Allome gargled in the mouth eafeth for the Sciatica and joynt aches : the fame boyled in Vinegar and Honyand fore and {pongic, and ferteth the Uvula the paines of the toothach, faftneth loofe teeth, and the gums that are or inthe and healeth thofe VIcers that are therein, or Pallate of the mouth when it isfallen downe; it clenfeth thelips of greene wounds, fecre: parts, and is fingular good alfo for inward wounds, and to confolidate or clofe or elfewhere : being bruifed and applyed as alfo to heale the old moyft and corrupt ranning fores, inthe legges of Agues,be they never the hot fits rothe foles of the feete, and to the wrefts of the hands, it wonderfully cooleth &c._asalfo all difcolourings therein,as morphew,funburning, fo violent:the diftilled water clenfeth the skinne of che or wet cloathes applyed unto them, taketh away freckles and the like, and-dropped into the eyes, i hie fammations in them. |