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Show eae ~OftheHiftoryofPlants. ace = Confolida: recalis{atina. r SATete odsac 2 eeea. ee Crnfolida Seine cay Garden Larks heele. = 3 Lis.2. _ ini ae ek Of the Hiftory of Plants: “1083 ; agreat deale leffer, fometimespurple, otherwhiles white, and often ofa mixt colour, Therootis finall and threddy. § The Place 5 Confolidaregalisfylucftris Wilde Larkesheele. F Thefe plantsarefet and fowne in gatdens: the laft groweth wilde in corne fields , and where corn hath grown, +but not with vs,that I haue yet obferued ; thoughit be frequently found in fuch places in many parts of Ger+ Manic. ¢ G The Time. They floure for the moft part all Somme long, from Iune to the end of Augutt,and ofttimes after. The Names. Larks heeleis called Flos Regius - ofdiuets, Confolidaregalis; who make it one of the Confounds or Comfreyes. It is alfo thought to be the Delphiniumwhich Diofcorides de{ctibes in his third booke ; wherewith it may agree. Ic is reported by Gerardus of Veltwijcke,whoremained Lieger with the great Turke from the Emperor Charles the fifth, Thatthe faid Gerard faw at Conftantinople a copy which hadin the chap, ofDelphinium, not leaues but floures like Dolphines : for the floures,and efpecially before they be perfected, haue a certaine thew andlikeneffe of thofe Dolphines , which old eas and armesOfcertain antient families $3 Confolidaregalis flore duplict. Double Larks fpur. » 1: ep Bight HUA: ¥ 4. Confolidareg.tia 4 3 Great double Lasksiput ay p aue expreffed with a crooked and bending fi- ; Ff) gureor fhape; by which figne alfo the heauendy Dolphineis fet forth. Andit skilléth nor, thoughthe chapter ofDe/phiniumbe thought tobefalfified and counterfeited ; for alrhough it be fone other mans,and not of Diofcorid:s, itis hotwithftanding fome one of the old Writers, outof whomit is taken, and foifted into Po/coris dshisbookes: of fomeit is called Bucinus, or Bucinum : in Englith,Larks fpur,Larks heele,Larks ties, and Latks claw : in high-Dutch, Ridder {poozen ; that is, Equstes calcar, Knights {pur: in Itaian, Sperone = in French,pied a’ alonette. , G The Temperature. Thefehetbes are temperate and warme ofnature. q TheVertues. ’ ; ‘ _ We findelittle extantof the vertuesof Larks heele, either in the antient orlater writers, worth Me Noting, of tobe credited for it is fet downe, that the feed of Larks fpurdrunken is good aRain the tingines of Sco BiGns - whofe vertues are fo forcible, that the herbe onely thrownbe- isthe Scorpionor any other venomous beaft,caufeth them to be without force or ftrength to fartfomuch that they cannot moue otftirrevntill the herbe be taken away :with manyother Loch trig ‘ ‘utling toyes not worththereading. “se Cuap. 443. Of Gith, or Nigella. H q The Kinds. ee Stebe diuers forts of Githor Nigella, differing fome in the colour ofthe floures, others 19 thedoubleneffe thereof, and in {mell of the feed. oh @ The Defcription, Z i ; THe firftkind of Nigella hath weakeandbrittle ftalks ofthe height ofa foot, full of branMach one befet withleaues very muchcut or iagzed,refembling the leaues of Fumiterie, but ] top ofthe branches, an ~~ 8feener: the flourres growat the of awhitifh blew colour,each fi oure bein |