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Show Lina ——aieb rae @© Lass, Of the Hiftory of Plants, aliEagan tas The Delcription. q The Time. Ogs-banerifeth vp like ynto a fimall hedge buth, vpright and Seat oe it have attained to acertainc heighth ; then doth it clafpe and climewith his tender bran. * They begin to bud forth their leaues in the beginning of May,and thewtheir floures in Septem. ber. q The Names. oe as do the Bindeweeds, taking hold vpon props or poles, or whatfoeuerfandeth Sat ; a Ma n do ee ce The deepe greene ae Ae white por eae yee Bee ues grow faire broadleaucs, f arpe pointed like thofe of the Bay tree, of'a foures come forth at the top of the ftalkes, confifting of fiue {mall ie coeedlong cods f evponaflender foot-ftalke by couples, a sie shed soint, and likewife at the ftalke, making oftwo pieser pek Et codus fultof fuch downymatter and feedasthat of Afdle- Dogs-bane is called by the learned of ourage Periploca:it is euident that the y are tobe referred tothe Apocynum of Diofcorides. The former ofthe two hath beenlikewife called areesugn, and Br af fica Canina, or Dogs-Cole : notwithftanding there is another Dogs Cole,whuch is akind of wilde Mercurie: ‘We maycall the firft Creeping Dogs-bane; and the other, Vpright or Syrian Dogs. bane. ces knit together Ee See aan codsate greater : whichbeing dryandripe,thefilkencot- pias, but morein quant ? oo ca lice! , thoddeth vntill thewholebefallen vponthe ground, ton hangeth SUNY + tink eee milky iuvce that the other doth, and fometimesit The whole pine ySceeth eye ote sate where it eroweth; for the more cold the country is, £ andfingle , with fome : ee waeis Ou eee “it hyhot, 2 oe t. The root is long yellower. the yellow ; and it the = more the iuyce he whiter ee kos threds anexed thereto. Bea pee heck aire tale ] BaD IPOCA TERENAS ETA Climing Dogs-bane. E q The Temperature. , Thefe plants are of the nature of that peftilent or poyfonous herbe Thora, which being eaten of Dogs orany otherliuing creature dothcertainly kill them, except there be in readinefie an Antidoteor preferuatiue againft poyfon, and giuen, whichby probabilitic is the herbe deferibed in the former chapter, called Vincetoxicum; euenas Anthora is the Antidote and remedy poyfonofThora; and Herba Paris againit Pardalianches, q The Vertues. $2 Periplocalatifolia, Dogs-baneis a deadly and dangerous plant, efpecially to foure footed beafts ; foras Broadleafed Dogs-bane. writeth, the leaues hereof being mixed with bread and giuen,killeth dogs,wolues, Foxes, inf the pards, the vfe oftheir legs and huckle-bones being prefently taken from them, and deathit fe! followeth incontinent, and therefore notto be vfed in medicine, Cuapr,337. Of Soloman) Seale. 1 Polygonatum. 2 Polygonatumminus, SolomonsSeale. fe ofthe Vine btlh aynto ¥ 2 Theteis another Dogssbane that hath long andflenderftalkes like tho Small Solomons Seale. It ofa browne reddith colour, wherewith ic windeth it felfe about fuch things 4s ftand putneete not fovit!> mu’ infoanner of a Bindweed : whereupon arefet leaues not vnliketo thofe of the i wers., Yee coriiered, ofa darke greene colour, andof a ranke {mell being bruifed berneae ort flit’ ding forth a ftinkingyellow milky iuyce when it is fo broken :amongft ne ns cous,vty Jit ye white floures,flanding fcatteringly vponlittle huskes : after the floures COs among Wile” vato Afclepias or Swallow-wort, but greater,ftuffed withthelike foft dow uy 1 all about downe is wrappedvp flat blacke feed. The roots are many and threddy, creepiNeFh. the ground, budding forth newfhoots‘in fundry places, whereby itgreatly incred fend ht The Place. - lowing ine They grownaturally in Syria, andalfoinItaly,as Matthiolus reporteth floure™as oaNe)5 oe other apes region Robin erbarift in Paris did fend meplants of both the kinds for my nea flourifh , but whether they growin France, or that he procured themfromtome yet Lhaue nocertaine knowledge. ‘ G] The Defiription. i mol part vw “Hefirft kinde of Solomons Seale hath long.round ftalkes,oefet forthe : aine. butt which forI th on: g leaues fomewhatfurrowed andfo:ribbed, not muchvalike Plantaine, but moi part ftand all vponone fide ofthe ftalk,and hath {mal white flouressefent |