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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Lay, —— — —... it groweth in the mountaines of Rhetia, andin fundryplaces of the’Alpswhere you fhall find ihe grafle that growethroundit eaten vp with cattell, but no part of the herbe it felfe touched, except by certainflies, whoin fuch aboundant meafurefwarme about the fame that they couerthewhole Lis Zo Ofthe Hiftorie ofPlants. £ 5 Aconitum lycoc?, hirfatam flo. Delphing . Rough Larks-heele Wolfes-bane. + 6 Aconitum violaccum, Violet coloured Monks hoods plant :and (whichis very ftrange) althoughthefe flies dowith great delight feed hereuponyetof themthere is confeéted an Antidoteor moft auailable medicine againft the deadly bite ofthe pj. der called Tarantala, or any other venomous beaft whatfoeuer ; yea, an excellent remedie notonel againit the Aconites, but all other poyfons whatfoeuer. The medicine ofthe forefaid fies is thus made: Take of the flies which haue fed themfelues as is aboue mentioned,in number twen. tie, of Ariffolochia rotunda, and bole Armoniack, of each a dram. 4 There isakindeof Wolfes-bane which Dodoneus reports he foundinan old written Greeke booke in the Emperors Librarie at Vienna,vnderthe the title of Aconitum lycoftonum, thatantive. reth in all points vnto Dzo/corides his defcription, except inthe leaues. It hath leaues (faith hee) like vnto the Planetree, but leffer, and morefull ofiags or diuifions ; a flenderfalkeas Feme, of acubithigh,bearing his feed in long cods : ithath blacke roots in fhape like Creanifes,Hereunto agreeth the Emperors pictureinall things fauing in the leaues,whicharenot fo large,nor fo much diuided, but notchedor toothed like the teeth ofa faw. 3 Napellus verus cerulens. £ 4 Aconitumlycoctonumex CodCefwte. Blew Helmet-floure, or Monks-hood. $7 Aconitumpurpureum Nenbergenfe. Purple Monks-hood of Newburg. ing this ¢ 5 Befides thefe mentioned by our Authorthere are fundry other plants belofe pernitious Tribe, whofe hiftorie I willbriefely runne ouer: The firft ofthelcis that " tome? hath fet forth by the nameof Aconitumlycoctonum flo. Delphing Silefiacum : it hath a certail orthree cubits high, f{moothand hollow, ofa greenith purple colour, and couered witF che velo" mealineffe:the leaues grow vponlongftalks, being rough,and fathioned likethofeo "fates . Wolfes bane, but ofa blacker colour : the top of the ftalke ends in a long {pike of, Pl alles which before they be open refemble locufts orlittle Lyzards,with their long an ak in? butopeningthey fhewfiue leaues, two on the fides, two’ below, and one aboue, W ia ctooked taileor horne: all thefe leaues are wrinckled,and purple on their outfides,b4 thes Aer . ofan elegantblew within. After the floures ate paft fucceed three fquare cods 9 a8 sack anda brownith wrinckled feed : the rootis thicke,D4°™, is contained an vnequall nites, wherein a : 3 Augutt berous. This growes naturally in fome mountaines of Silefiaand floures in Tuly an a6 1 $8 Aconitummaximum Indenbergenfe. Large floured Monks-hood, |