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Show “3088 Of the Hiftory of Plants, I Fumaria purpurea. Commonorpurple Fumitory. Lip.2 + 2 Fumariaalbalatifolig Chaui cy lata, White broadleafed Eumitoy Ie, Lis. 2. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants! 1089 . The yellow Fumitoric hath many crambling threddy roots, fomew hat thicke, groffe, and fatlike thole of Ajparaeus : from whichrifediuers vpright ftalkes aeabit high, dividing: them: {eluestoward the top into otherfimaller branches ; wheronaie contufedly placedleaueslike thofe ehalicirum, or Englith Rubarb, bit leffer and thinner : along{t the.tops of the branches grow. wlowfloures, refembling, thofe.of Sage: which being paft, there followeth fimall. feed likeynro sa @ The Place. TheFumitories growin ‘corne'ficlds among Barley and other Sraine ; in vineyards,pardens,and fiichlikemanured piaces. I found the fecond andthird growing ima gorne field betweenea {mall villagecalled Charleton and Greenwich, | The Time, ‘ Fumitorie is found withhis floure in the beginning ofMay,and fo continues to the end of fommet, When it is in floure.is rhe beft time to gather it to keepe dry, or to diftill, ; q The Names. Fumitorieis called in Grecke remtsandxemie, and often temine: in Latine,Fumaria - of Pliny ,Capwis inthops, Fumys terre »in high-Dutch, €rdtrauch s in low-Dutch,@rijfecom,zoupuen Ker= wel; in Spanith, Palomi/ha : in French andEnglith, Fumiterre. q] The Temperature. Fumitorie is not hot, as fome haue thought it tobe, but cold and fomething dry ; icopeneth aiclenfeth by vrine. _ @ The Vertues. ktisgood forall them that haue cither {cabs or any otherfilth growing on the skinne, andfor them alfo that haue the Frenchdifeafe. ; Itfemoueth toppings from the liuerand {pleene: it purifieth the bloud, andis oft times good forthem that haue a-quartane ague. Thedeco&tion ofthe herbeis vfed to be giuen,or elfe the fyrrup that is made of the iuyce: the difilled water thereofis alfo profitable againft the purpofes aforefaid. Itis oftentimes boyled in whay, and in this mannerit helpeth in the end of the Spring and in Sommer time thiofe that are troubled with feabs. 3 Fumariatenuifolia. Fine leafed Fumitoric. %& Fumaria lutea, — Yellow Fumitorie, Pails gineta faith that ic plentifully prouoketh vrine, and taketh away the ftoppings. of the tiuet,and feebleneffe thereof; that it ftrengthneth the ftomacke, and maketh the belly foluble, Diofearides affirmeth, that the iuyce of Fumitorie, of that which groweth amongBarley, as-e4- {mtaaddeth, with gum Arabicke, doth take away vnprofitable haires that pricke the eyes, grow- Mg vponthe eye lids, the haires that pricke being firft plucked away,for it will not fuffer others ‘ogTOy intheir places. a8 coction ofFumitorie drunken drivethforth by vrine and fiegeall hot cholericke burnt andhurtful! humors, and isa moft {isgular digefter offalt and pitwitous humors, t The adagetrmery fix figures and de(riptions cl NaNache 95 Iara inthis chapter ; whereof the two firlt figares terevofthe common Fumitorie, the one with purple, the woaris|stsfolia clauiculata,differing’ onely ia the largeneffe and {mallnefie of theleafe. ‘The defcription in °e figgee whe fx Dazed to the Fumaria which if wasagaine deicribed ia the afth and fixth places, yet not to. much puspofe ; wherefore I haue pat Sond, and omittedthe otheras fuperfluous, Cuar.4 46. Of bulbous Fumitorie; or Hollow-root, g The Defeription, , es leaues ofgreat Hollow-rootare iagged andcut in fander, as be thofe of Coriander, ofa light grecnithcolour, that is to fay, like the gray colourofthe leaues of Coand fender lumbine; whereunto they bealfo in formelike,but leffer: the ftalks be fincoshrounds langre oo handfull long ; about which, on the vpper part ftand little floures orderly places Colour: the perpen atthe endlike the floures of 7 ode-flax, ofa light red tendingtoa purple lng tine fe €ed lieth in flat cods, very foft andgreenith whenit is readyto yeeldvp his black thi Smewhat f. ithe rootis bumped or bulbous, hollow within,and.on the vpperpart ae al ‘Sandofa pecocred ouer with a darke yellow skin or barke, with certaine ftrings fafined there- ; # Oitter and auftere afte. : i Clonr.a « fecond is likevnto the firft ineach refpect, fauing that it bringeth floures of a white . - the other notfo, dee,pea purple Hollow-root hath roots, leaues, ftalkes, floures, and feeds likethe precePeciall difference is, that this plant is fomewharlléffe. Yyyy 3 4 The |