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Show 356 HISTORTE COF PLANTS. THE SECOND BOOKEO OF! THE Speculum Veneris. Vents Lookingglaffe. %& Theplice. Tt growethin ploughed fields among the come in aplentifull andfruitfulfoile. I founditin afeld among thecore by Greenchithe , as I wentfrom thence toward Dartford in Kent, & in manyother laces therabout,but not elfewhete : from whence Abrought of the feedes for my garden,wherethey come vp of themfelues from yeere to yeereby fal ling of the feede. : % The time, It fowreth in Iune and July, and the feed isripe in the end of Auguft. , % Thenames. Itiscalled Campana Aruenfis, and of fome On brychis, but vnproperly : of other Cariophyllus dum, or Corne Gilloflower, ox Cornepinke, Speculum eneris,or Ladies glaffe.The Brabanacts intheir toongcallit Toten Spiegel, % The temperature ana vertues. We haue not found any thing written citherol his vertue or temperature 5 of the ancient orlater writers, SH) and not valikethe leaues of the great Plantai | » oreat Gentian,bur much broader, garmenrpleated to pleateslikea rifeth vpa ftalke cubite lon tobelaide vp in acheft; among thefe leaues colourte thetop full oflittle flarlike howers,of an herbie greene g t towardes hich being with many feede. heroote is paltthere come finall huskes containing the finall j thredshanging thereat. eth in that, that this hath black reddith§ ddiffer firlt,an the like very is ndkinde + Thefeco ldome in my garden commeth to andfe kinde, other the before g flowrin andcommeth to % The place. where Gentian doth grow. ThewhiteHellebor groweth on the Alpes, andfuchlike mountaines or groweth in a wood of his Itwas reported vnto me by the Bithop of Norwich, thar white Helleb mountaines of ownenecre to his honfe at Norwich. Some faylikewife tharit doth growe vpon the Howbeit Idare affure Wales; I fpeake this yponreport, yet 1 thinkenot, but that icmay be true, feedethi very well. th and flowre inde firftk ,wherethe London Jouithatthey grow in my gardenat se The time. Thefirft fowreth in Tune,and the fecondin May. se 7 he names. ’ adude: in Latine Veratrum album, Helleborusalbus, and Neelewoortis called in Greeke é» the IraliSogui Herculens, The Germans callit Waters melswurt + the Dutch men Hiefwagtels e: and we of blanco: the French Ellebore blanch . Elkber bianco: the Spaniardes Verdz gambre Enolandcall it white Hellebor, Niefwoort, Lingwoort, andthe roote Neeling powder. se Thetemperature. ; Thetoote ofwhite Hellebor , is hot anddrie in the thirde degree, % The vertues. vertue, A letoote ofwhite Hellebor procureth vomite mightely, wherein confifteth his chiefe OfNeefing roote,or Neefewoort. i Helleborus albus, White Hellebor, % Thede [eription hath leaues | I Pinata Hellebor (hap.105- 2, Helleborus albuspr200x. Timely white Hellebor: the falhatmeanes voidethall fuperfiuous {lime and naughtie humours. Itis good againft Rabelgenet segue del colde difeafes that be of hard cura: nes,phrenfies,{ciatica, dropfies, porfon,and againft all to be given inwardly vnto delicate B oeoag medicine madeof white Hellebor, ought not whichfeece ae rout great correction,but it may more fafely be giuen vnto counttle people Beeoieandtrongbodies. ¥ Fiftdses Detas, {mall peeces,fuch as may aptly . a and conuentently be conucied os toc matter which hindereth the curation, ndahervard ve eet a ae S taketh away the callous ,fit for the purpole. ae vnguent atitc incarn {ome vpwith realed ee ine fromgroffe and D thebra h purget and , g neefin caufethf nofe the into vp ven ae : . the fits of agues, killeth E the waight of two pence, taketh awaie a Haee Ree era's meaicin a titis addeththa 2 P/inée : wi wheate vp w ithhonie and flowerof being made de vp “Ltes $Seingma : dri Siuento drinkein ote te el ¢ Lowtie enil! Ofwilde white Hellebor. (hap.106. % The deftription. name of and for that caufe we haue giuien ithe Ri “ea “a or white Hellebore, to the tuft of bottome fromthe fet high, foote ofa ftalke Nithen, ie ftraight greene cothofeofwhite Hellebor, of a datke mck be oe bed andchamfered like the toppe of the ftalke, hollowe within, and middlejto fromthe placed orderly se purple, in fhape like the flowers of Satirion, € tede i f SNe and there witha dathof The rooteis{mall, full ofiuice, and bitter in funne. the in motes or duft like nall t , and the flowers white, without any Cure at alt islike voto thefirft , but alrogither greater ™Wherein confilteth the difference. 1. Helleborine na bos * |