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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE OfBindweede Nightfhade. Chap.s9. Circea Lutetiana, Inchaunters Nightfhade, % The defeription, Nchaunters Nightfhade hath leaues like vnto | Petimorell, fharpe at the point like ynto Spi. nage. The ftalke is ftraight and vpright veri brittle, of halfe a foote high. The flowers ar white tending to carnation , with certaine {inl browne chiues in the middle. Thefeedeis conte nedinfmall roundebullets roughand very haite, The roote is tough and very many in number, thrufting it felfe deepe into the groundeand d {perfing far abroad , wherebyit doth greatly in cteafe , infomuch that when it hath once tala faftrooting,it can hardly with great labour be rootedoutordeftroied. % The place. Irgroweth in obfcure and darke places, abot dunghils and in vntoiled groundes, by pathwats andfuchlike. % The time ’ It fourifheth fromIune to the ende ofSy tember. % The names. Tis called in Latine of Z'Qbelins Circea lit: ana: in Englifh Inchaunters Nightfhade,orBint weede Nightfhade. % The nature and verines. i There isno vfofthis herbceither in Phulice ! : or chirurgerie that I can read of, which hath hip ned bythe cortuptionoftime, and the errour offome who haue taken Mandragorasfor Circe, in whicherrour they haueftill perfifted ynto this daie attributing ynto Cércea the vertues of Mas dragoras : by which meanesthere hath not any thingbeen€ faideofthe true Circea, by reafonss! hauefaide,that Mandragorashathbeene called Czrcca : but doubtleffe it hath the vertue ofga Nightfhade, and may feruein fteede thereofwithout errour. HISTORIE OF PLANTS. 281 of, They addefurther, that itis Ailifull aboue others were the firft brochers ofthatert neueror verie feldometo be founde growing naturally but v1 g where the matter that en it the fhape of a man:and the matter of awoman,the allen fromthe deadbodie, hat fafemaleplant; with manyother ftch doltifh dreames, Theyfable further and afhrm, tilde take vp a plant thereof mulft tie a dogge thereunto to pull it vp whichwill giue aoreat fhrike atthe digging vp; otherwife ifaman fhoulddoit, he fhouldcertainly die in fhort ceafter :belides manyfables oflouing matters,too full of {currilitic to fet foorthin printwhich rbeare to {peake of : all which dreames andolde wiues tales,you fhall from hencefoorth caft out f your bookes and memorie knowing this that they are all and euery part of them falfe and moft vittue, For Imyfelfeand my feruaunts alfo haue digged vp, planted , andreplanted veriemany: Syetneuer could cither perceiue fhape ofman or woman, but fometimes one ftraight roote,fome~ times tivo ,and oftenfixe or feauen braunches comming from the maine gteatroote ; euen as na- titelifttobeftowe vponit as to other plants. But the idle drones that hauelittle or nothingto do buteate and drinke, haue beftowed fome oftheir time in caruing the rootesof Brionie, forming them tothe fhape ofmen&¢ women; whichfalfifying practife hath confirmedthe errour amongft the finple and vnleamed people, who haue taken them vpontheir report’ to be the true Mandtakes, The female Mandrakeis like ynto the male , fauing that the leaues hecreof be of amore fwarte ordarke greene colour; and the fruiteis long like a peare,and the other is roundelike an apple. Mandragoras mas &famina. The malé and feinale Mandrake. % The place. Mandrake growethin hot regions , in woodes and mountaines , asin mount Garganus in Apulia,and fuchlike places; we hane them onelyplanted in gardens, andare not elf{ewhere to be found inEngland, s The time. ‘They {pring vp with their leaues in March, and flower in tke ende ofAprill: the frnite is ripe in Augutt. & The names. Mandrakeis called of the Gracians x2rSeope: ofdivers xpxgée: and Circes of Circe the Witch, who byArt could procure loue :forit hath beene thought that the roote heereofferueth to winne loue: offome artunacy, Adnthropomorphos, and Atorion {ome ofthe Latines haue called it Ter- Of <Mandrake. re malun, and Terrestre malum, and Canina ma- Chap.60. % The defeription. ofa deepe greene colour,fat en eeeaneie hath great, broad,long.{moothleaues} — on apt gong which comevp the flowers ofa pale whitifh colour, ftanding ifh ereen olour in their places gow weak footftalk,ofawhit eimal &{mooth, yello iecolour, apples ofaa yellowith fofr & glittering,of aftrong Giiel: tovitdebrake conteine and{mooth {eedes,in fathion afi : : thick ywhitith, died “ee of alittleskidney like thofe of the Thorne apple. The root is :f imesinto two : ‘ 1 bers ; 2 gs 0 ino the legs ofa ma parts,re orth parts of his bodie adioining't bhHETELOWAS the priuie ns tee " fembling parts,as it hath beene reportedsw hers itis nootherwife thenin the ir ormore parts which nature . of carrots, parfneps, and fuchlike,forked ot devided it wpet his hae any ao noaccount of. There haue been many ridiculous eales ee ’ swhe olde wines orfo é : phifick epi (a titlebad inoughfor them; ) famous‘2 fome ers, famo {¢ make themfelues ro phifickmong foughtor ormoethatfurgeons onerunnagate re fome but fire s tus: {hoppes and other nations alfo do receiue the Greeke name. Daofcorédes faith that the maleis called of diversv:anddefcribeth‘alfo another Mandrake by the name ofAZorion: which is geverally holden to be Solanum Horten/é, bat of fomeCércea lutetiana,but not properly:in Englifh we callit Mandrake, Mandrage, and Mandragon, # The temperature. Mandrake hatha predominate ‘coldefacultie, as Galen faith , that is tofaie colde inthe thirde degtee: but' the’ rodté is colde in the fourth degree. } % The vertues. ’ ; Disleorides dott 1 particularly fer downe many faculties heereof,ofwhich notwithftanding there A hone Dt it. fauing fauj thofe thar depende vponthe drowfie and fleeping ; powerthereof, t Opervito eStvntoit, _which |
