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Show Theatrum Botanicum. Cuar.104, Trise om Taipe.5, Tbe Theater of Plants. Carol, 701 by the daily converfation among plants, the chiefelt Icangettoenable my judgement. I mutt likewifein this Chapter thew youanotherplantbeing like untoit, which Matrhiolus fetteth forth for another fort of: Lasrus The Vertues. : The roote of Salomons Seale is of chiefeftufesand hath a mixt property as Galen faith, having partly a binding. and partly a.fharpe or biting quality, :asalfoa kinde of Joarhfome bitterneffe therein, hardly to be expref= ted,wherebyit is of little ufe in inward medecines ; which fharpeneffe and loathfomeneffe we hardly perceive in thofe that grow with us: yet fome authors doe affirme that the powder of the herbe or of the feede purgeth Alexandrina, but Lentitle Chamedaphne vera Diofcoridis, being much controvertedalfo, for fuch reafons as you I heare by and by. : tbe ae y 1. Laurus Alescandrina gennina, The true Laurell of Alexandria, The true Laurell of Alewandriais very like the-Hippoglof[um of Diofcerides, Horfe tongue or double tongue; for the manner of growing, rifing up from an hard ftringy roore,knotted atthe head, with manygreenc ftalkes flegme and vifcous humorsvery forcibly,’ bothupwatdand downeward; itis faid alfo that the roote chewed in the mouth draweth downe much rheume ottt ofthe head, and putup into the noftrills caufeth {neefing : but ofleaves {tanding on bothfides thereof, the lowerbeing larger then the upper, which are fomewhat broad and round yet pointed at the end with manyribbes therein, and ofa paler greene colour then the Horfe tongue, but it ferveth as he and Dio/torides both-fay, andall experience doth confirme, for wounds,hurts and outward fores, to healeandclofe up the lippes of thoiethat are greene andfrefh made, and to helpe to dry up the moilture and almoft as hard in handline:rom the middle rib of the leafe about the midft of it on the upperfide, there fhoorerh forth a {mall whitithgreene flower ftarre tafhion; ftanding upon fo fhort a tooteltalke that ic'feemethto havé none, whichbeing pafla {mall round berrie {ucceedeth in the place, which will bee very red when it is ripe, wherein is contained a white hard feede liké unto thofe‘of the Butchers Broome. reftraine the Aux ofhumors ofthoferhat are olds it isfingular good to ftay vomitings and alfo bleedings where- foever,as alfo all fluxes in man or woman,whetheribe the whits or reds,or the running ofthe reines in men;alfo to knit any joyne thar doth grow by weakeneffe,to be often out of place,or by fome caufe ftayeth but finall time therein when itis {¢t;as alfo to knit and joyne broken bonesin any place of the body the roots being bruifed and applyed totheplace, yea it hath by late experience beene found that the decoétion of the roote in wine, or th 2. Chamedaphne vera Diofcorids, Thetrue Dwarte Laurell of Dio/corsdes, This dwarfe Laurell groweth up with diversftalkes.and leaves fer thereon one above another inthe fame man- bruifed roote put in wineor other drinke; and aftera nights infafion ftrayned hard forth and dranke, hath holpen both man and beaft whofe bones have beene: broken by any occafion, which is the moft affured refuge of nerthat the former doth,but the leaves hereof are not fo broadand fhort as they, but longer and narrower, and of alittle deeper greene colour on the upper fide, and paler underneach, full of ribbes or veinesalfo, withoutany {mall leafe or tongue fiich as the Horfe tongue hath,elfe fomewhat like to it this hath Howers and ted berries in the middle of the leafe,and upon asfhort a {talke as the former,but on the under fide of the leafe for the moft parr, helpe to the people in divers countries of this Land, that they-can have: itis no lefle effectuall to belpe ruptures and burftings, to be both inwardly taken, the decoétion in wine, or the powder in broth or drinke, and out~ wardly applyed to theplace : the famealfois availeable for inward or outwardbruifes,falls or beatings, both to which may well makeit feeme another fort ofthe Lanrus Alexandrina; and for that caufe { thinke Diofconides difpell the congealed blood, andto take away both the paines.and the blacke and blew markes that abide after the hurt : che fame alfo orthe diftilled water of the whole plant ufed to the face or other.part of the skinne, clenfech it from morphew, freckles, {pots or markes whatfoever, leaving the place freth, faire and lovely, which the align damesasitis {aid doe much ufe, i. Both théfe grow naturally on certaine hills in, Ita/y, and.-for their raritic and ufe brought into their gardens joyneth the Ru/cus, and Camedaphne fo neare unto the Lanrus Alexandrina, the one before it the other after; for the likeneffe the one unto the other, . The Place, ‘ . there, from whence we havereceived them:the firft I had by the meanes of D:.Fi/ad, one of the Phifitions of owr London Colledge, who among many otherrare plants he gathered in the garden of the great Duke of Florence at Pifa and elfe where hadthis alfoz the other I had by the meanesof my good friend Matter John Tradefcant with Cuaeooc ifih whom it groweth,having longer and notfo broad roundleaves as the former. The Time. Lasrus Alexandrina, The Laurel of Alexandria, S Theyfcarfe beare ower muchleffe fruit in our Land, but in the warmercountries, they flower in June, and the berricsareripe in the end ofSeptember. ; Here hath beene fo great varietie of opinions among our moderne writers concerning the Laurell of Alexandria, what plant fhould be the right of Diofcorides, fome {hewing one and fome another,and The Names, Diofcorides calleth the firltin Greeke Sdovn A’acEavS gers ~ there Daphne, Alexandria and Idea, and the Latines fcarfe one the true, that I much doube whetherthis that I fhall here thew you in this C hapter, will therefrom Lanrns Alexandrina and Idea,becauteit islikely.it grew, upon the mount Ida, which is nigh unto the Alexandria of Treas, Marcellus*thoughtit tooke that name, from e4/exander the great, who athis victories wore be taken and judged to be the genuine plant by many, who peradventure contemning my opinion may thinke me fooner toerre and be deceived, then fo manylearned men before me, that have had it on his head ; but thacis but his bare opinion without ground or reafon :theddea radix is another differing contrary opinions, but notwithftanding the diverfityofconceits in many, will endeavourto enrich the treafary of the Phyficall Commonwealth,with my {mall two poore mites, (cupiat qui capere pote/t reading and knowledge 1. Laurus Alexand:ina genuina, The crue Laurell of Alexandria, herbe fer before this many Chapters, which [have fhewed you in the laft Chapter, molt fitly to agree with’ the Polygonatnm latifolium quartum Clnfi, Divershave thought that.the Laurus Alexandrina and Hippogloffum of Diofcorides were both one plant, among, whom Cords on Diofcorides is.one, but (Matthtolus. and. Cornavigy 2. Chamedapbne vera Diofcoridis. The true Dwarfe Laurell of Dioforides, doe both confute that opinion, firft for thacit were a needeleffe thing in Diofcorides to write two Chapters of one herbe, then that Déo/corides makerh no mention of tongues in the Laarus Alexandrina, which hee {peaketh of inthe Hippogloffum, yet Afatthiols falleth into as foulean errour himfelfe, in taking that plant'to be Lawrus Alexandrina, which Clufius calleth Polygonatum latifolium quartum, as is fhewed, in the-Chapter before, but Clafus Theweth that whether he meane his Po/ygonatum oranyother plant by the figure whichhe: exhibiteth for it, ircannotbe Lanrus Alexandrina which by Diofcorides his Textis a plant whofe berries grow é xeCoi: in the middle ofthe leaves (and Marthiolus quoteth his owne Copiein the Margent to bee fo) which that planthath not, but Theophraftus lib.t cap.16. and /ib,3,cap, 17, exprefieth it morefully by the Grecke word émpuarcasonn's the figure ofthis Laurus Alexandrina is extant in no other author that I know of, bue in Lobe/ his, Appendix.to the Adverfaria, who as he there acktiowledgethhad ic from me (as he had many. other plants alfo) which he there fet forth, and Lam verily perfwadedis the true Laurus Alexandrina of Diofcorides, who maketh the leafe- there» of to be like thofe ofRu/ems, whereunto tht leavés of this is morelike then of the next : the fecond whichI here fer downe for the Chamadaphne vera of Diofcorides, isthe 1 anrus Alexandrina altera of Matrbiolis and Lanrius ot Columna, whom Lugdunenfis,Tabermontanus and Clufius follow, and Baubinus calling it fo alfo, eth that of Zobel and this to be both one, whichhis eyes might bee judges, the on¢ having a rounder the {lexandrina Alex other a longer leafe are divers, The Matthiolus of Banhinus {heweth for( hamedaphne that plant which hecalleth in his Pinax Lyfimachia Chamener on ditta latifolia or Delphinum baccinum of Lobel, but quoteth itthere to bee miffe fer. Camerarius his Epiteme ot Matthiolus fetteth forth another figure for his Chamedaphne which is much Sx SS Su Lafpetted bydivers to be counterfet, 4 fiction of AZarthiolus owne Nee {uch tricks he ufeth in his workes) fo fuch plant being knowne. Cefalpinus calleth it Rufco affinis altera. Guilandinus and Colamna tooke Chama daphne of Diofcorides and his Lawrus Alexandrinus tobe both one, when ashisde{criptions dee evidently vary, xpreffing two feverall herbs ; the leafe hereof he comparethto a Bayleefe,whereunto it hath morerefemblance then the former, for thisisnot fo broad and fhort asit, but longer and narrower.as the bayleafeis: further Dio= feorides faith, it beareth fra tum annekumfolijs, which cannot be better underftood| to bee joyned to the leaves, then growing upon them. I doe confeffe that in my former booke I.did fomewhat adhere to Lobels.opinion,thac Chamelea or Mefereon might be the Chamedaphne of Diofcorides, yet 1 there fhewed fomelet, therein. why it fhould dor, but now upon better confideration and examination of the particulars,boch forme and wertues,I can= notfinde any plant to agree betrer with Dio/corides his Chamedaphne then this : Let the criticke carper examine! this animadverfien,but ler the judicious convince me and I will yeeld. - T.¢ Vertnes. Galenin 6, fimp!l medic faith that Lares Alexandrina is of 3 hot temperature fharpeand fomewhatbitter in talty whjch being dranke provoketh Vrine and womens courfes,Dio/corides faith it haftneth thehard andfore savas Ooo 3 o |