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Show LEEED gerneTL THE SECON D‘BOOKE 622 HIST ORIE O OF THE iE A EL ANTS. 1 Saluiawmaior. The time. Theydo flower in the moneths of Iune andIulic. % The names. . Concerning their names I haue alreadie {poken, yet fith I woulde be gladthat our Englithwo. menmight know howto call it,they mayterme Doronicum by this name, Crayfith,Piffe inbedsi. caufe the flower is like Dandelion,which is called Piffe in bed. Que quianafcuntur dura Vinatiacaute, Aavreftes Aconitavocant. This froth(as men fuppofe)tooke roote andthriuing in the batling foile in burgeons foorthdidfhoor, Tobane and mifchiefe men withall: andfor bicaufe the fame did growe pon the bare hard flints,folke gaue the forefaid name of Flintwoort thereunto. © The nature andvertues. A. Thaue fuf ciently {Shokenofthat for which I haue warrant to write,both touching their natures& yertues, for the matter hath continued fo ambiguous & fo doubrfull; yea,& fofull ofcontrouerfis, that Idare not commit that to the world which I haue read: thefé fewlines therfore fhal fufficefor this prefent:thereft which mightbe faideI referre to the great and learned doétors, and to your owne confideration. B Thefe herbes are mixed with compoundmedicines , that mitigate the paineof the cies, and by reafon ofhis cold qualitie,being freth & green,ithelpeth inflammations,or fierie heat ofthe cies cr NM Itis reported and affirmed,thatitkilleth Panthers,fwine,wolues, andall kindes of wilde bells oxen, andall fowe being giuen them withfleth. ‘Theephra/fw« faith that itkilleth cattle, fheepe, onely, butif the herbeot footed beafts, within the compafie ofone daie, not bytaking it inwardly roote be tied ynto their priuie parts : yet he writeth further,that the roote being drunke,i die againft the ftingings of{corpions:which fheweththat this herbe orthe root therof lyto man, but to divers beaftsonely, which thirig alfois foundoutbytriall, and manifeftexpetence :for Conradus Gefyerws amanin ourtime fingularly learned , and amoft diligent fearcher a manythings fheweth,that he himfelfe in a certaine Epiftle written to —4dolphus Octo, hathofteandalfobeaten times inwardlytaken the roote heereof greene,drie,whole, preferued with honie , topowder, andthat even the very fame daiein which he wrote thefe things, he had drunkewith wartme water two drams of the rootes madeintofine powder,neitherfelthe any huretherbysané that he oftentimes alfo had giuenthe fame tohis ficke patients , both by icfelfe 8 alfo mixed otherthings,and that very luckelie. Moreouer, the Apothecaries in fteede of Doromicum, cove ; (though amiffe)the tootes thereofwithout any.manifeft danger. D Thatthiszconitekilleth dogs,itis very certaine and foundeoutbytrial, which thing Mathie lwscouldhardlybelceue, but that at length he foundeit out to.be true by a manifeftexample,as!* confeffeth in his Commentaries. Of Sage. Chap.252« Se t % The kindes. . have rs aus Here be diuers forts of Sage, two efpecially obferued of the auncients. The later wit found more, % The defcription, + tobtt I Hegreat Sageis very full of ftalks, fower {quare, ofa woodie fubftance, parted een tt ches,about the w hich growbroad leaues,long wrinckled,rough, whitifh, very ets _Ieaues 6f wilde Mullein, but rougher, and not fo white, like in roughnes to woo" thread bare;,the flowers ftande forked in the tops of the branches like thofe ofdead Nett®, Clarie,of a purple blewe colour,inthe place of which groweth little blackifh feedein mau athe aa r ' ¥ : = . : Theroote is hard and woodie,fending foorth anumber of little ftrings. ; lei braunches like tothe former,butle plant, {predinto fhrubby alfo athe is ee fftalks : Ene aelefler‘Sage 5S : nartower, but notleffert rough (0? 310" heereofare tenderer: leaues be long;lefler, el do a Lal jafferst groweih the place wherein they are fixed to the ftalke, twolittle leaues ftandingon® | again{tanother,fomewhat Annet oe after r the maner of finnes or little ' we the the flov fowel. eh eares, e blewelike thofe ofthe former : theiroote alfo is woodie, bothofthem are of a certain “ but nothing at all offenfiue,and that whichisthelefferis the betters ps. ; ene tan Sage, 4 Saluia Moun |