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Show Ofthe Hittorie of Plants. niumfive Ceterach, Linn OftheHiftroyofPlans. Ly inet 2 Lonchités afpera, RoughSpleenewoort, 114i “2Rough Spleenewoort is partly like the other Fernes in fhew, and bearethneither ftalkenor feedhaning narrow leaues a foot long,and fomewhat longer,flafhed on the edges euen tothe mid= dlerib, fmooth onthe vpper fide,and ofafwart greene colour, vnderneath rough,asis the leaues of Polypodie : the rootis blacke, and fer with a numbet offlender ftrings. cae ¢ 3. This greater Spleenwoort hath leaues like Ceterach,ofa {panne long,fomewhatrefembling thofe of Polypodie, but that they are more diuided, fnipt about the edges,andfharpe pointed:the rootis fibrous andftringie. This growes on the rockes and mountainous placesof Italy, andisthe Lowchitis alperamaior of Atatthiolus and others. $ 4 This kindeof Spleenewoortis not onely barrenofftalksand feeds, butalfo ofthofe {pots and marks wherewith the others are {potted : the leaues ate few in number, growing pyramidis or fteepléwife, great and broad below,and (harper toward the top by degrees : the root is thick,black, and bufhie, as it were a Crowesneft, q The Places Ceterach stoweth vponold ftone walls and rockes, in darkeand (hadowieplaces throughout the Welt part of England ; efpecially vpon the ftone walls by Briftow,as you go to Saint Vincents vee likewife about Bathe, VVells, and Salisbaric , where I haue feene great plentie thereof, : Theroagh Spleenwoort growethvponbarren heaths,drie fandie bankes,and fhadowieplaces in moft parts of England, but efpecially ona heath by London called Hampftead heath, whereir goweth in great abundance. q The Names. Spleene-woort or Milt-wafte is called in Greeke,semim: in Latine likewife, A/pleninm, andalfo Sihpendria: ofGaXa, Mula berba: in fhops, Ceterach : inhigh Dutch, Stepnfatn ¢ in low Dutch, Steynuavenand Milteruyt : in Englith,Spleenwoort, Miltwafte, Scaleferne,and Stoneferne: it balled Ajplenion, becaufe it is {peciall good againft the infirmities of the Spleeneor Milt, and Sulpendriaof the likeneffe that it hath with thé Beare-worme, before remembred. Rough Miltwafte is called ofdiuers ofthelater writers4/pleninm(ylue/tre,or wilde Spleenwoort: obfome,dpleminms magoum,orgteat Spleene-woort : Valerius Cordus calleth it Strutiopreris:and Di- Wiwrides,Lonchitis ajpera,or rough Spleene-woort :.ih Latine according to the fame Authour, Lensimsand Calabrina : in Englith,ough Spleen-wort,or Miltwaftes + 3 Lonchits afpera maior. $ 4. Lonchitis Maranthas Great rough Spleene-woort, , G| The Temperature. Thefe plants are of thin parts, as Galen witneffeth,yet are they nothot, but ina meane, q The Vertues. Baftard Spleene-woort, avs Oe Y VIS SES SS VE 53 Pifivides teacheth,th at the leaues boiled in wine and drankb y the fpace offorty daies,dora ay infitmities ofthe fpleen;help the ftrangurie, and yellow iaundice,caufe the ftone inthe ke A blad- _ “tomoulder nnd paffe away,allwhich are performed by fuch things as be of thinne and fubtil} enteaddeth likewife that they ftay the hicket,or yeoxing, and alfo hinder conception, eitherin- ‘ sly taken,or hanged about the partie,and therefore, faith Pliny,Spleenewoortis not to be giuen owomen,becaufe it bringeth barrenneffe. Wyth ere be Empericks or blinde pratitionersof this age,who teach,that with this herbe notone- B /thehardneffe and {welling ofthe Spleene, but all infirmities ofthe liueralfo may beeffeQual— Ys and in very fhort time remooued, the fodden liuer of a beaft is reftored to his former con ftitution againe,that is,smadeinfomuchthat like vnto a rawliuer, ifitbee boyled againe with this hetbe, rithis isto be reckoned amongthe oldwiuesfables, and that alfo which Diofcorides telleth of, hereaae. the gathering ofSpleenewoort inthe night,and other moft vainethings,which arefound ~ mats there {cattered in old books : from which moft ofthe later Writers donotabftaine, who % inde~ vp their pages withlies and ftiuolous toies,and by fo doing donota little deceiue s, £1 FometyTrader thetitle of Lonchits Wtde, : . 4 "chaptervader thetileofFilceapeteSaBene ence‘ non Lig i plicheRee ‘ in the third place Aeee % Cun'rr |