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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIBE OF PLANTS , % The names. mr Diuers of the later herbarifts do call it Pigammum,as though it were marr, that is;Rues whetupon alfomoft call it Rutapaluftrés, or Fen Rue: others Pfexdo-Rhabarbarum ,and Rhabarlarum Monts éhoram,by veafon of the yellowcolour ofthe roote. Butneither of theit judgements is greatly tobe efteemed of: they iudge better that would haueit to be Thaletrum , which Dioftorides deltti bethro haue leaues fomeching flatter than thofe of Coriander,and the ftalkelike that of Rue; ypon which the leaues do growe, Pema calleth it Thalietrum, ThaliSram,-and Ruta pratenfis vin Enolith baftard Rubarbe,or Englifh Rubarbe : which names are taken of the colour andtafleofthe rootes, % The temperature. A Thefe herbes are hot and drie of complexion. % The vertues. Theleaues ofbaftardRubarbe,with other potherbes,do fomewhat mooue thebelly. B_ Thedecottionof the roote doth more effectually. C i Deforides faith, that the leaues being ftampeddoperfetly cure old vicersv Galen addeth,that they.drie withoutbiting. Of Goates Rue. % The temperituye, Thisplane isin ameane temperature betweene hor and cold, TE odie fincutert % The vertues, es oates Kue 1s a fingular Bi herbe againft a venom r 8 -all | ven ‘ ome and poyfon, a sf ee € given to little children to drinke, and againft wormes, tokilland A 4 like vertue tis1s of like vertue If f 1t be frie efeede oyle,and oy! ied with Linefeede y bound ypon the childes nauell B Itisminiftred vnto children’ which ate poficfled with the falling g euill, af full : 9 alpoonefu sgialke ; euery mor- C petboiled Being ty in vineger, eRe and drunkeke withvithallitel alittle? leitit j e Treacle; is very good againft the infeGtion of D me 5 ‘ ae y if the medicine be taken within twelue howers, heherbe w fethyas we vie to eate Cabbage andother : is eaten being be *yled eh it felfe yled with woorts. E andlikewife in fallads, with oyle, vineger, and pepper as we do eate boyled Space. a Ds 5 ap } as Nonth ate boy} o. 3 fitchlike. and pinage; pettilenceor se aoutia al eaten,agai fo Which is moft excellent,being ngt p { &p : s4Gainit ci any venemons infresri whatfoever, and procureth {weate, 5 3 oe ls wae Italfo healeththe bitings gsgs andand and tingin ftingi gs ftinging s off venemo venemousus beatts beatts.if either , ifeithe inj or the herbe ftam. r the inice pedbe laid vpon the wounds; F Halfe an ounce ofthe iuice inwardly taken is revorted Chap.509. to helpethofe that are troubled with conG mbonssetampes,andall otherthe difeates af refaid. Vee a lenex eleedes do feede p pullen i ceeda oly eaniferhhahier excee dine! eeding Galda ly, and caufet nrune themto yeelde greateee r ftore of egs Galeca. than H Goates Rue, % The defeription. ; cAlega or Goates Ruc, hath round hatde OfPlinie his Leadwoort; ftalksfet full ofleaties, difplaied orwinged abroad, cuery leafe confifting of fimndrie {mall lcaues, fet vpon a flenderrib, refembling the leaucs ofthe field Vetchor Tare, bur greater Aadwoort, and longer. The flowers growe atthe topofthe the feede is contained.The rooteis grear,thicke, tough,and of a white colour. %& Theplace. Tt groweth plentifully in Iealie enery wherein fat grounds, and by riuers fides : it growethlike. : % The dcfeription. Entaria ot Dentrllaria , hath offended it the fuperlatiue degree, inthat he hath hid himfelfe like a runnagate foldier, whenthe affaule fhould haue beene giuen vnto the plant Lepidiumvhereofdoubriefie iris a kinde, Bucif the fault be mine,as without quettionit is3l craue pardon for the ouerfight, and do intreate thee ftalkes , cluftering togither after the mannerof the wilde Vetch, of a light skie colour, which turne into long cods, {mall and round, wherein wife in my garden. (hap.sto. Plumbago Pliny. gentle reader to cenfure me with fauour jwhereby I may more boldly infert it in this place. rather : than toleane ‘ie vnrouched; ‘The leatned of Nar- se The time. It fowrethin July and Auguft. % The names. TheIealians call it Ga/eca, and Ruta Caprars bone, efpécially Xondeletins , haue not without Fracastoriascalleth it Herba Galleca: the Hertuls diuers ‘name it corruptly Gralega , Hieron good caufe zecounted this goodly »plant for a kinde thereof, bicaufe the wholeplant is of a biting tafte,and a burningefacultie, and chat in fuch extremitie, thar it will raife blifters ypon a mans cians Lawane/e; 8c itis alfo called by diue hand: for which caufefome ofthe learnedfort haueaccountedit Piinies Molybdena, ot AEge names in fundrie placesofItalie, as Ge/m7 neta his Lepedsums but the new. herbarifts call ic Dentarza,ot Dentllarta-Rondel.ty, whomadethe like vie hereof, as he did of Pyrethrum, and {uch asare Caftracane, Lananna, Thorits, or Tamim, MartanicaSarracena,Capragime peorbs nium crecu fylucsire, and as Bra nol feth,Grarza.Itis named in Englifh Iralian burning plants, to appeafe the immoderate paine of the-tag:hach andfuch like. This plant hath great thicke toughrootes ofa woodie fiibftance, from whénce' fpring yp. long-and rougly ftalkes and Goates Rue. ‘sae Some iudge,that the olde Phifitions were woontto cal it Onobrychis, others Glance, a ers ¥ haue itto/ be Pofemoninm, but not fo much Petr, And, Atbiolws in his commenta oncof thedefcriptions:mentioned by Dio/ferides do gainfay them; as alfo thofe, we Galegais Polygalon, and that thenameof Ga/ega came of Polygalon, the very ac" Polygalon isagainft them: for Ga/egais higher and greater, than thaticmay becalleda onely ofan hand breadthhigh, two cubites high, conifufedly garnifhed and befec Selalkes of withlong leauésyid'colonttike WV oad,ot a fharp. andbiting tate: The flowers pian rhe st Mise ac Patple colour's which being paftsthere fucceede clofe,gliftering and hairic huskes, Mtatned {mall blackithfeede, % The et PP Ee Ee 3068 |