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Show 684 THE SECOND ‘BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF PLANTS, alfo fomthing binding, whichbyreaion that itis adioined with the two former Ualities, that ist I Arun mins, =i Great Cockow pine, {aie biting and bicrersttis made in like'maner afingular medicine of very ereacellicacic, , " & The wertues. A Therooteof Dragons dothclenife and{couire all the entrailes; making thinne; efpecially thicke (Arun minus, Little Cock and tough humours; and itis a fingularxemedic for vicers that'are harde'to be curedtianied in Greeke xaxein B_ Itfcourethandclenfeth mightily,afwell uch things as haue needeoffcouring,as alfo whiteand blacke morphewe,being temperedwith vineger, C Theleauesalfo by reafon that they arcof like qualitie, are good for vicers and greene woundes and the leffe drie they are,thefirter theybe to heale; for the drier ones are of amore fhaip ot biting qualitie thenis conuenient for wounds. D The fruiteis of greater operation then either the leaues or the roote: andtheteforeitis thought to be offorce to confume and take awaycankers andproud flefh growing in thenoftrils, calledin E Greeke Po/ppus; alfo the iuice doth clenfe away webs and {pots in the eies. Furthermore Diofeorideswriteth that itis reported that they who hane rubbed the leanes orroot vpontheir hands,are notbitten ofthe viper. EF Plinie faith that ferpents willnot come neere ynto him that bearéth Dragons about him, and thefe things are read concerning both the Dragons in the twochaptersofDioféorides.: G Galen ai{o hath made mention of Dragoninhis booke of the faculties of nourifhments, where hefaith sthat theroote of Dragon being wife orthrife fod, to the ende it maylofe allhisacrimonic or fharpenefie, is fometimes gitien as Aronor wake-Robin is , whenitis neédfull toexpell the more forceablythicke and clammie humours that are troublefome to the cheft andlungs, H And Djofcorides writeth that the roote of the lefler Dragon being both fodde androfte with honie, or taken ofit felfe in meate , canfeth the humours which fticke faft in the cheft to becallle voided. I Theiuice of the garden Dragons, as faith Dioféorides, being dropped into the cies, doth clenle _ them, and greatly amendthe dimneffeofthe fight. K Thediftilled water hath vertue againft the peftilence or any peftentiall feueror poifon, being drunke blood warme with the beft Treacle or mithridate, L. The fmell ofthe fowersis hurtfullto women newly conceiued withchild, Of Cockowpint, or wake Robin. (Chap.290. %& The kindes. é Here be diuers forts ofwake Robin or Cockowpint differing in names, titles, andallo es and figure. % Thedefcription. befeitd rum ot Cockow pinthathgreat,large, fmooth, fhining, fharpe pointed eaves, aa heere and there with blackith {pots, mixed with fome blewnefle :among ee i beat ftalke nine inches long , befpecked in many places with certaine purple {por ‘enti alfoa certaine long hofe orhood > in proportion like the eare of an hare: in the midd di being hood commethfoortha peftell or clapper of adatke murrie or pale purple colout: _ its % Theplace. Cockory ppat int gtowethin stoweth in w.woods neere ynto ; ; €s ditches vnder hedge: Places, , euetie where in fhadow Theleanes ap; a i ae iaThe tin Mune whilett peere prefently after winter : the pe ¢} ne leau es are in withering 3 andwhent Décon methpe whichis in Iuly and A Th in A : iwy Stoweth ie + Seypta kinde of * or Cx “aie places of Portingall Aron ne : ties§oroy I ic the ncre vaitoCe, titobecalled 2'of ev » which pees Which the people eof Aen threddie additaments annexedthereto, : ine? facesot 2. Thereisin Aegyptakind of Arum,whichalfo is to be feene in Aftica, and incerandottet Lufitania, about rivers and floods,whichdiffereth fromthat which growethin Englan patts of Butope, ‘This plantislargeand great, and the leaues thereofare greater then tholeot™ waterLillie: the roote is thicke and tuberous, and towatd the lowerend thicker an dbroadet, a maybeeaten. Itisreportedto be without flowerand feede, but the increafethacithathis*) e fibres which runneand {pread from the rootes, am of Ca %cafi2, but Dioftorddes faith tha Pintis calledin Latin Aras: it i 4nn& 1p, 1ans Lupha: ofthe men 4.booke 16,chapterdoth paft,therefucceedethin place therofabunchor clatter ofberries in manner ofa bunch anfom greene at thefirft, butafter they be ripe ofa yellowith red like corall andfull ofpith" se. hewethit felfe out of his husk /are gone, the bunchorclutter of low Di che: Wal obin. Prank: : 7 Robi n,Priefts pintle, Aton,C a fes fo ; Vv pint doe e The ti is booke of the faculti ‘ Ice o the vatietieof coun j Other : esthenNin Sit cenny : ; E + seacrally in all places hot anddrie |