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Show ——— aksnines oe % The names. 1 Taftlagoflorens. Coltes foote in flower. 2 folag i Folefoote iscalled in Greeke Biysor: of the Latines likewife Bechson, and Tufiligo+inlhops Pay fora, and Vngula Caballina, of diners Pata equina: inItali nenghia di Caualo: in Spanith wnhad? Chap.277. OfColtesfoote, or Horfefoote. 667 HISTORIE OF PLANTS. THE SECOND BOOKE’ OF THE Tufolagi “ foi Tufsiaginis folra. | The leaues ofColtesfoote, 40: in French ps a afpe: in Englith Folefoote , Coltes foote, Horfeh sofe., and Bulfoote ° Thefameis allo Chamaleuce,which Plinsein his 28.booke15.chap.reporteth to be likewife called Furfugium,and Farranum, (if ithere be not an errour in thec ¢) which thing alfo C4etiwsin his fitbooke afirmeth,pretermitting the name of Bechiwm,and attributing ynto it all the vertues and faculties of Bechium,or Coltsfoot,whofe opinion Oribafins feemeth to be of in his 1 5. booke ofhis medicinable collections , making mention of chameleuce: onely Plinie alfo acteethwith them, fhewing thatfome thinke , that Bechiumis called by another name Chameleuce , in his26.booke 6chap,and it may be that Dz0/cor/des hath written of one andthe felfefameherl in fundrie places, andby divers names. Bechiumand Tuftlago ( which mayalfo be Engli Coughwoort ) focal\fe leauescl ldofthe effect,and Farfara, ofthe white poplar tree, .to wl oleleaues e itislike, which was named oftheancients Farfarwsas Plintus writeth in hisCome¢ lie called Pawulus: =---vifeum legioni dedi fundafque,cosprofternebam vt folit Farfari : Tothe company I gaue both lime buth and fli Thatto the ground asPoplarleates I might them fing. The white Poplar tree is calledin Greeke atv, and heereuponBechionzor Coltesfoote,was alfo called Chamaleuce. i ; % The temperature and vertues. ofColtes foote,as yet frefh andgreene, are fomething cold, and!haue witha] 2 Theleaties Thek ingqualffe :they are good for vicers andinflammations ; but the dried leaues are hot an fomvhat biting. ; Adkcottion made ofthe greene leaues and rootes,or elfe a fyrupetherof,is good for the cough, Uatproceedet h of B athine theume. Thegreene leau liste Baws one Folefoote pound with honie,docure and heale the hot inflamniation cal- C onies fire,and all other inflammations. we ofthe dried leaues taken througha funnell ortunnell burned vponcoales, effectually D “Pet thofe thatare troubled with the fhortnefle of breath,andfétchtheir winde thicke and of- oo withoutperill the impoftumes of the breft, bide plaxcninmanner as they take T'abaco, it mightily preuaileth againit the difeafes afore- E % The defeription. a fomewhat fat: fio white and long creeping tototes, many hath , e Folefoot ot V{elago outa {pan long, be Aprill)ab d Marchan of g beginnin the ftalkes(in naked yp which rife te Z & caried ‘ aiwae with tne; andate downe,, into change which flowers ring at the top yellow earth manygr Bist : the outof faite {pringing appeere there winde ; whenthe ftalke andfeedeis perifhed, ‘ 1 fhione: ‘ 9 - o'our.fa > ever tha ofa white hoarie or grayifhe aboue,and next the ground broad leaes,etecne ‘7 a fae fe re orne an horfe foote,for which caufeit was called Folefoote,and Horfehoofes feldome ' the el firide leauies and flowetsat once butthe flowers are paft before the leaues come — . 4 flowe and ftalkes naked the foorth piGture,whichfetceth firft as may appeere bythe cond whichpourtraicechthe leaues onely. fn Wweele + % Theplace.. oe riuers. Peer ee : : c, ad 7 pwnels $ e onthe brinkes of brookesand This groweth ofit felfe neere vnto {prings,and every’ aie rowes,by ditches fidesiandin other midift and watrie places neere ynto the fea almofteueh ft alendse se The time. The Gowers which quickly fade:; are abe dire inthe endiof March,and abit ini Aprill which {peedily wither togieher with the ftems, after themgrowe ee a thou reniaine gtcetic all former long4 and heereupomit came ‘that Coltsfoore ™ booke, ae 7 without dowers,which thing alfo P/mie hath mentioned in’his fixe-and twente 1 is Chap OfButter Burre. IB Chap 278. se The defeription. Viter +s a‘ ‘ eee a in like maner bring foorth flowers before the leaues, as doth Coltesfoot, Ee 2 ote Fite i be eyareima big care, a vpinto 1, moffie, tendingto.a purple colour,which being made ey Sitwere.do au) : +L ele odie Bet of 3 fub{tauncestan ‘Hila andbrickle, nd fall cat aicely togither with the {tem whichis thicke,, full : : €aues are verie greatlike toa rounde caporhat,called in Latine Peta/us, hawid * y:the as h as tk thatof it felfeit is bigge and large inoughto keepe amans head from raine, t cnefle, Tom ithe the leaues of the ClotBurre, and therefore they. be greater thenas ; foloutfomerhi, >. = funne; wh; Hemmalrot. : = : inewhire.ver of ftemmeis leafe:the bearethhis Heatwithe ftemme whiter viderneathyeuery \. -DES 2: Cubite cub; ia let eees ; acs Ic oWhitesvet emo par pBathicke, fullof fabftaunce; vpon whichftandeth the leafein the center or (1 ms (but bartot the circumferenceor verie necte , like to oneof the z greateft Mufhroms Araaler..t atthe geeanedth about the ftem 5 efpecially when they arein perifhi ng and wi the- Yeinwitherins ~ Eppes fuperficiall, oroutfide oftheMufhroms ftandeth out, ane aes > ine fhallow boii “andeth morein,and euen fo the leafe ofButtet a Lee ae Crerns outlicea trandis. es :the rooteis thicke,long,blacke without, white within, of ralte lone~ Oftentimes woorme eaten. 1 Pentajites |