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Show Seia mcreias Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lisi. Theyare effe@tuall againft the cough; they eafily digeft and confumethe groffe humors whichatehard. ly conco&ed :they purge choler and tough flegme: they procurefleepe, and helpethe gripings within the Xyris. Stinking Gladdon, belly, ; “ It helpeth the Kings Euill, and. Buboes in the groine,as Play faith. Ifitbe drunke in Wineit pro. uokeththe termes, and being put in Baths for women to fit ouer, it prouokeththe like effets moft exquifit- ly. The root putinmannerofa peflarie haftheth the birth. They couer with flefh bones that be bare,being vied inplaifters.. The roots boyledfoft,andviedplat fterwife,foften all old hard tumours, and the fivel lings ofthe throat called Stryme., thatis, the Kings Euill; and emplaiftered with honey it draweth out broken bones. The meale thereof healethall therifts of the funda ment, and the infirmities thereofcalled Condilomatas and openeth Hemorthoides. The juice fniffed’ or drawnevpinto the nofe, prouoketh {neefing,and draw: eth downeby the nofe great ftore of filthy excrements, which wouldfall into otherparts by fecret and hidde waies,and conuciances ofthe channels, It profitethbeing vfedina peffarie, to prouoke the termes, and will caufe abortion. It preuaileth muchagainft all euill aifeGions ofthe breftand lungs, being takenina little feet wine, with, fomeSpiknard ; or in Whay witha little Mafticke. The Root ‘of xXyris or Gladdonis of great force againft wounds and fraGtures ofthe head; forit draw- I Lipset Of the iiaeas of Plants, doubted piétureal{o,which I receiued from Lobelivs his owne hands at the impreffion hereof. The caufe of whofe former errour, as alfo the meanes whereby hegot the knowledge of the true Ginger, may appeare by his one words fent vnto mein Latine, which I haue here inferted. His words are thefe ; Howhardandvncertaineit is to defcribe in words the true proportionofPlants, (having no other guide than skiifull,but yet deceitful formes of them,fent from friends , or other meanes) they beft do know who haue deeplieft wadedinthis fea of Simples. About thirty yéares paft or more, an honeft and expert Apothecarie William Dries, to fatisfie my defire, fent me from Ant: werpe to Londonthe picture of Ginger, whichhe held tobe truly and livelydrawne : I my felfe gaue him credit eafily,becaufe Iwas not ignorant,that there had bin often Ginger roots brought reene, new, andfull of juice, from the Indies to Antwerpe; and further, that the fame had bud- ea and growne in the faid Dries Garden. But not many yearesafter,I perceitied that the pidiure whichwas fent me by my Friend was a counterfeit, and before that time had been drawne and fet forth by anold Dutch Herbarift. Therefore notfufferingthis error anyfurther to {pred abroad, (which I difcouered not many yeares paft at Flufhing in Zeeland, inthe Garden of William of Naffau Prince of Orange,of famous memoric,through the means ofaworthy perfon, ifmy memorie faile me not,called Vander Mill ; at whattime he opened, and loofedhis firft young buds and fhoots aboutthe end ofSommer, refemblingin leaues, and ftalkes ofa foot high, the young and tender fhoots of the common Reed, called Harundo vallatoria) I thought it conuenient to im- part thus muchvnto Mafter John Gerard, an expert Herbarift,and Mafter of happy fuccefle in Surgetie, tothe end he mightlet pofteritie knowthus much,inthe painefull and long laboured trauels which nowhe hath in hand,to the great good and benefit of his Countrey. The plantit felfe brought me to Middleborough,andfet in my Garden, perifhed through the hardneffe of the Winter. Thus much haue I fet downe,truly tranflated out ofhis owne words in Latine ; thoughtoofas uourably by him done to thecommendation ofmy meaneskill. x Zinziberisfila Icon, The feigned figure ofGinger, X ZinXiberis verior Icon. The true figure ofGinger; eth out all thornes, ftubs, ptickes, and. arrow-heads, without gricfe ; which qualitie it effecteth faith) by reafon of his tenuitie of parts, andofhis attracting, drying , and digefting(as Gales facultic, H_ whichchiefely confifteth in thefeedor fruit, which mightily prouoketh vrine. Theroot givenin’ Wine, called in phyficke Paffum, profiteth much againft Convulfions, tures, the paineofthe hucklebones, the {trangury, andthe flux of the belly. Where Rup- note, That whereas it is faid that the potion aboue namedfayeth the flux ofthe belly, hauing a purging qualitie ; it muft be vnderftood that itworketh in that manner as Rhabarbarum that they concoét andtake awaythe caufeof the laske; otherwife no doubt itand A farum do,in moueth vntothe ftoole,as Rheubarb,_A farum,and theother Irides do. Hereof the Countrey people of Somerfetfhire haue good experience, whovfetodrinke the decoétion of this Root. Others do take the infufion thereof in aleotfitch like, wherewith they purge themfelues , and that vnto very good purpofe and effeg, : _ Thefeed thereofmightily purgeth by vrine, as Galen faith, and the countrypeople haue found ittruc, Se Cuar. 44. Of Ginger. g The defiription, Ingeris moft impatient of the coldneffe of thefe our NortherneRegions, as my felfe haue found byproofe 5 for that there haue beene broughtvntomeat feuerall times fumdry plants thereof, freth, greene,and full ofjuyce, aswell from the Weft Indies, as from Barbary andother places ; which haue {prouted and buddedforth greene leaues in my garden in the heate of Sommer, buras fooneas it hath been but touchedwith thefir tharpblaft of Winter, it hath prefently perifhed both bladeand root. Thetrue formeor pi@ure hath not before this time beenefer forth by anythathath written ; but the Worldhath beenedeceiuted by #counterfcit figure, which thereuerend and learned Herbarift Matthias Lobell didfet forth in his Obferuations, The formey hereofnotw ithftanding I haue here exprefled, with the true and vn- 61 Gq The place. ich Ginger groweth in Spaine, Barbary,in the Canary Iflands,and the Azores) Our men whic facked Domingoin the Indies, digged itvpt herein fandry places wilde, a; The |