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Show otal eranania nmin as SSS THE SECOND BOOKE OF HISTORI®R (OF PEANTS. THE se The defeription. Scabious,but lower and finaller, hauing the mountaine SC Theni nth kind of Scabious is like vnto -broadleanes next the ground, fnipt confufedly & out of order at the edgestikethe fundriela it felfe into fundry otherbran. Okenleafe; amongwhich rifeth vpa item two cubits high,diuiding colours which being paft the whitith ofa ftalkes, naked ches. The flowers are fetatthe topofthe ach within, andr hollow fomewhat and round, feede at peereth likeatuft of{mall bucklers, : and within the bucklers there ate findry beholde to {trange very , parchment of were a diall, running vponthepoir OfDinels bit. g Chap.237. Morfius Diaboli. Diuelsbit, % The defeviption. SU the needle in croflesofblacke faftened to the bottome, as it were mutt be fowenin April, in goodand ofwinter, and ofancedle. Theplant dieth at ‘the beginning th long leayes fomewhat broade, verylittle or nothing fertill ground. roote, and flowers, and differeth xo. Thetenthis like vntothelaft before mentioned, in ftalkes, edges, butis fnipt about the edges, fomen at hairie and euch. The flowersare of a nedlike the flowers of are caried I cuts or iagges aboutthe in that, that this plant hath leaues altogither withoutany Diuels bit. finooth and plainelike theleaues of Marigolds, or grounde, Scabious hath {mall and tenderbranches trailing vpon the whereupondo Sheepes of an onerwome colout, gtowefinall leaues veryfinely iaggedor miticed cuen to the middleribbe, of much thrummie matter, hardthnft r,confifting colo blewith ofa thetop at growe flowers The grounde, tosither like a button: theroote is fmall andcreepeth in the ofleaues,otherwifealike, 42. The other Sheepes Scabious ditfereth not but in the hairienefie % Theplace. , corne fieldes, andbarrenfandie Thele kindes of Scabious doe growein paftures , medowes where. euery almoft grounds in England, ~ Theftrange forts do growein mygarden, yet are theyftrangers se Thetime. ‘They flower and flourith in the fommermoneths. se The names. namedwee whichfignifieth a feabbe, Scabious,iscomtnonlycalled Scabio/a divers thinke it is Barbarws, whetherit oe ir faftned thereto; TI meth to be bittenaw is fo berreficiall to mank % The place. Diuels bit growethin drie and about waies fi of it growing in’ don, at Leein Effex, and atRal woodecalled Hammerell, an ces, & The time: : Ido notknowe, faith Hermolaus anda certaine herbe fo called by _4ériis of which being burnt doth killcankers ot lil Scabious which étivs dothcall P/éra, the {macke his Stecbe* Disfarwortnes. Theauthor of the Pandedts dothinterpret Scabjofatobe Di orides and Galen in his irk commonly knowne in histime; all,being at markes no stebeby des deferibeth amoneft vsacertaine fhrubby herbe, hot, ve booke of 4tidetes faith thus :1 here is founde or fpicie {mell, which the inhabitants ‘et aromaticall of alittlekinde hauing fhatpe and biting, wine: but it feemeth that this snevedot preferue and keepe to good Colymbade and Stabe,fingulat of thefaculties of mediciries, Wie booke inhis mention made differ fromthat, ofwhich he hath binding qualitie without bitng+? ofa is this agreeth with that of Diofcorides: for he writeth that that it cannot bevery fharpe. we, 204 ; % The temperature. degree, orneere handeinthe thir oan Scabious is hot and driein the latter end ofthe fecond of thinne and fubtile parts: itcucteth, artenuateth, ormaketh thinne, and thorowly coneoe tough and grofic humours. A % The vertues. anold cough,fhortnes Scabiousfcoureth the cheft andlungs,itis good againft 4, i ofbreati P@ in the fides,andftrchlike infirmities ofthe cheft. ' W! _Thefame prouokethvrine and purgeth now and thenrotten matter bythe bladder, th ; neth whenan impofteme hath fome wherelien within the bodie. cerraine daies, 200! Itis reported that it cureth {cabs,ifthe decoction thercof be drunke © B vfedin ointments. g anal D_ Thelater Herbarifts do alfoaffirmethat it is aremedie againft the bitings of Serpent gings ofveneinous beafts being outwardlyapplied or inwardly taken. a heae theiuicebeing drunke procureth fweate, efpecially with Treacle and it speedily ns viedo plaguefores.ifit be givenin time;andfoorthwithat the beginning : but itmuttbe F tis thoughttobe forceable,and that againft all peftilent feuers. E medowes 8 w« Tt flowreth if Auguft,andist cabious,fauing whenit low % The names. Itis commonly cal - the fiperftitions peop , bit, of the root(asit 1 i le hold opinion ,that the diuell for the ennic ons tcaule it wou Ide be otherwife good for many, vies: it. is calledo ” ‘utils abit; + in lowe Dutch D ipuelles beet tin French Aéorsdu Diable in Ens “Ht, and Fore bit, Viale :Diylsbitis fometh *cond decree, st The temperature. ing bitter,and of a hot anddrie temperature,and that in the latter end ofche s ‘s The vertue om ert od There TCisno bett fips eis thine é pee parts of; the chrote that A almotnds,andvpper nes ofofrhe thé alrmo fellings againfkt oldold fwelli thing aeaing 1 ripened, er ¢ Schardly ; +{2 away f {lini < ° : eas e that, fticketh in che iawesay flimic ie bin, Gvel the flegm away Ket vay Mth and garoari, he * ” Tepotted to g hé itP. a Otted tobe Good for allt 1 e infirmities that Scabiousferuethfor , and tobe of nolefle C ns,andpeftilent difeafes, and to confume and s beafts,poifo a totes,being ftamnped and d laide vpon them. aces the paines of t the matrix or mother,? and todrive foorth winde ifthe decocWereofheedrunke, he ' Sines ingi ngs 38.ofnf venemor |