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Show Liga Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 762 wockie gla and Auguft, and growe' in tafte. This floures in Iuly ite fibres, an Jan aromaticke \ Dorenicum 9, Cli ns (thefirftand onely deferiber thereof) calls it e Alpes.s. Glufi the hig vpone e ,ces ove Of the Hiftorie ofPlants. = Aconitum vllo modo effe wvenenatum homini, Canibus autem letiferam off [cio, non folum fi drachmarum 4: broader androunder fed etiam fivaius ponderefumant. Andbeforehe faid, quafi non alia multa canibus fint venena, que hominifilubria [unt ; vt de afparagofertur, Ofthe fame opinion with Ge/ver, is Pena and Lobel, whto, thy efur face cend not down,but run onth sure re is like that ofthe former, but much larger ThisgrowThe flou ent. ifhm nour & ttra them anda rd floures at the fame timeas the former. Clufins yonitim here mentioned is not that mentioned andwritten of by Serapio and the Arabians ; neither isitthe Aconitum Pardalianches of Diofcorides, nor of fo mali; a qualitie as watth les would fine aad I. “ Lins 2 higher than the laft deferibe d,and hath much 6 This growes fomewhat lof veines,andfnipt about the edges. Theknots andoff-fets of the roots def. Jeaues, andthofe ful ofthe grouid, and fo fendforth fibres on each fide,to faften, es of Stiria,at eth inthe high mountainous plac calls this Dore 4. Stiriacum. its or more high ofthe ba This is the larseft ofall thereft,and hatha ftalke twocub fundry ane im — into diuided top the ards andtow of oneslittle finger, crefted, rough, 1 @ of and faftned to a long ftalke :thofe cewrgae next to the root are round, wrinkled, hairy, oe ie the ftalke at their ferting on. The re theftalke are longer and narrower,and ingirt the feed alfo is catried away wit vel ew oo kinde this of plants other the to like ow, andyell is knottyorioyntedlike to a little Shrimpe.and ofa is longifh, and ofa greenifl 5 colour: the root Iuly,> and growes vpon the like places as the foror ; lune in floures his Th whitifh greene colour. 3, mer. Clufius calls this Doronicum7. Auftriacum Al are q Thea Place. , : ; + 9 Doronicum maximum, teft Wolfe-banc. 3 The place is fufficientlyfet forth in the de- fcription ; yet you fhall vaderftand, that I haue the twofirft in my garden, the fecond cole hath beene found and gathered in the mountaines of Northumberland, by Ds lately of London deceafed,a man of anuch a perience and knowledge in Simples, 48 be death myfelfe and many others do greatly waile. : @ The Time. They floure in the months of Iuneand Iulye t The Names. Concerning sett namesI bane alfeaty {poken ; yet fith I would be glad aie : u glifh women may know how tocal mayterme Doronicum bythis name, floure 1s like Da Piffe-a-bed, becaufe the lion, whichis called Pifle-a bed. + Our Author certainly att ebeg of this chapter did not well, vne he faid,when he affirmes, That the a the notwel knowing the Doronicum 0’ :, jaf Hee gi 7 tients was, rides Md The nicum,&c.| Now it thefe Authors, nor any 0 ithe ant; ich euer fo much as named uerf-7.290,0° 29t.dolargely handlethis matter, &exceedingly deride and{coffe at Matthiolus,for hisvehement declaiming againft thevfe thereof. Nowbriefely my opinionis this, That the Dohaueit; for I my felfe alfo haue often eaten of it, andthat in a pretty quantitie, without the leaft offence. ¢ ; GQ The Nature andVertues, Thauefufficfently fpoken ofthat for whichI haue warrant to write,both touching theirnatures A and vertues ; for the matter hath continued fo ambiguous andfo doubrfull, yea, and fo ful ofcontrouerfies, chat I dare not commit that to the world which | haue read : thefe few lines therefore hall fuffice for this prefent ; the refewhich might be faid I referre to the great and learned Do- (tors, and to your owne confideration. Thefe herbes are mixed with compound medicines that mitigate the paine of the eyes,and by B reafonofhis cold qualitie, being frefh andgreene, it helpeth the inflammation or fierie heate of the eyes. It isteported and affirmed, that it killeth Panthers, Swine, Wolues, and allkindes of wilde c beafts, being giuen themwith fleth. Theophraftus faith, That it killeth Cattell Sheepe,Oxen,and allfoure-footed beafts, within the compafle ofoneday, not by taking it inwardly onely, but ifche herbeorrootbe tied vnto their priuy parts. Yet hewritethfurther, That the roor being drunke is aremedie avainft the ftinging of Scorpions; which fheweth,that this herbe or the root thercof is tot deadly to man, but to ditiers beafts onely : which thingalfo is found out by trial and manifett perience ; for Courade Gefner (a man in our time fingularly learned, and a moft diligent fearcher ofmany things) ina certaine Epiftle written to Adolphus Occo, theweth, That he himfelfe hath of. tentines inwardly taken the root hereofgreene,dry, whole, preferued with honey, and alfo beaten topouder; and that euen the very fame day in which hee wrote thefethings, hee had drunke with watmewater two drams of the roots madeinto fine pouder, neitherfelt he any hurt thereby : and thathe oftentimes alfo had giuen the fameto his ficke Patients, both byit felfe,andalfo haixed with other things, and that very luckily. Moreouer, the Apothecaries in ftead of Doronicum dos vle (though ami fle) the roots thereofwithout any manifeft danger. S medoe Se it is se ee and found Out bytriall: which thing Matthio- D ment eleeue, but that at length he foundit out to be true by a manifeft example, as he is Commentaries. , : Seeeeda oft _ very gece Metelle prekeaen ittomyPatients,bothalone,as EB Seva ae ee Lede sae int ae ee and fallingfickneffé : fomtimes alfo I inthe Eo entian,the pouder of Mifle-toe, and 4/tramtia: thus it workes admirable effects Pilepfie, ifthe vfe thereofbe continued for fome time. + Tt Pormerlythe fie . . y igure that was in the felt place fhould haue beenein thefecond,andthe firft and fecond were confoundedin thedelcription, eet:2 Cuapr. 265. Of Sage. Doron which he fhould haue faid, was, t of exa Theop hraft ws, and # onicum) hath ve oftorides, (whichare iudged tobe the fame plant and all one with our Dor not be 1 s fiewhich Atatthiold and others haueof late rat caufe, that the controner © termined ; whichis, Whether that the vulgar Doronicum fed in fhops,and ter, be the Aconitum Pardalianches 2 matthiolus affirmes it is,and much andveb againft the vfe thereofin cordiall Ele Quaries, as that which is of a moft pernt whom qualitie, becaufe that(as he affirmes) it will kill dogs : now Dodonaus alfo ey . opinion : butothers(and not without good reafon)denyit, as Gener 1D his ne ee ( eing after by out / ys ee yet ten triall of it vpon himfelfe: part ofhiswords are fet downehere Be fhall finde added in the end o ve t flated out ofDedonews) and fome part alfo you thefe are other fome ; Plura alia nunc omitto, quibas oftendere liquido pofferm, mec Dorenicns @] The Defcription. : re Stcat Sageis very full offtalkes, foure fquare, of awooddy fubftance, parted into OSagetines the which grow broad leaues, long, wrinckled,rough, whitith, verie tovroollen cloath a ag leaues ofwilde Mullein, but rougher, and notfo white,like in roughneffe dead Nettle or | iat :the floures ftand forkedin the tops of the brancheslike thofe of “uth feeds, A final} atie, of a purple blew colour; in the place of which dothgrowlittle blac Brings, huskes. The root is hard and wooddy, fending forth a number oflittle the atestS2Be is alfoa fhrubby plant, fpred into branches like tothe former, but iefler: Mere do oroyy fn. wee tenderer: the leaues be long, leffer, narrower, but notleffe rough ; to which fideone rioht a, the place wherein they are fixed to theftalke, twolittle leaues (fanding on either out againft another, fomewhatafter the manner of finnes orlittle eares: the Houres are SCL 2 eared |