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Show 182 Of the Fiitorie of Plants. 5 AlineAlpinumlatifolium,feuVicorialis, Broad leaued Mountaine Garlicke. Line t @ The Place. The great mountaine Garlicke growes about Conftantinople, as faith Clufus. Lreceined a plant ofit from M. Thormas Edwards Apothecary of Excefter, who foundit growing in the Welt parts of England, Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 2 Moly Serpentinum. i Moly Diofcorideum. Dioftoriaes his Moly. Serpents Moly. Vicorialis groweth inthe mountainés of Ger. many, as faith Carolus Clufivs, and is yet a ftran. ger in Englandforany thing thas I do know, + @ TheTime + Moft ofthefe plants flourein the months of Tune andIuly. q The Names. Ofthe firft and fecond I hauefpoken already, The thirdis Scorodopraffum minus of Lobel. The fourth is Allium fativum fecundum of Dodoxans, and Scorodoprafum fecundum of Clufius. The fifth is Alliumanguinum of Matthiolus ; Ophiofcoridon of Lobell,and Victorialis ofClufizs and others, as alfo Allium Alpinum, The Germanes call it Solge iourts, @ The Temper. Pate. ofa middle ma diesen Theyare temper between Leckes and Garlicke. @ Their Vertues. Scorodoprafum, asit partakes of the temper, fo alfo ofthe vertues of Leckesand Garlicke ; that 1s, It attenuates groffe and tough matter, helpes expectoration, &c. Vitiorials is like Garlicke in the Operation thereof. Some (as Camerarius writeth ) hang the rootthereofabout the necks oftheir cattell beingfalne blinde, by what occafion fecuerit happen, and perfuade themfelues that by this meanes they will recouer their fight. "Thofe that worke in the mines in Germany affirme , That theyfind this root very powerfu ll in defending tk Z bis of impure fpirits diuels whichofteninfuchplaces are troublefome vnto hemfromthe them Cinf, aflaults + pure {pirits or or diuels, ———$———____ C waP.ioo, Of MLoly,orthe Sorcerers Garlicke. GQ The Defcription. Zz a He firft kinde of Moly hathfor his root a little whitith bulbe fomewhat long, notvi- like to the rootofthe which fendeth forth leaues like the blades cornec le::among>vnfet whi Leeke, 17 = 0! cor grafle which dothrife vpa flender weake ftalke,farandfulkof inyces We ofmilke ofan -wwhite : floures, not vnliket nie knen kinny filmea bundle at the top whereof conamethforth ofa skinny i thetaa (a nfons, The° whole2 : ee : : plant haththe fmell and tafte of Garlicke, whereofno doubt it isa 2. och Serpen: se? a fall . ge aeMoly hathlikewife bulbous root with fome fibres faftned to the bottom, i P.weake sraffie leaues ofa fhining greene colour.ct Okedly themfelues towardthe pointlike the taileofa Serpent w windins-and nerookedly winding tarmine : erpent, where ae 3 and turns alke is tough, thicke, andfull of iuyce, at the to : pentwhercofittooke bis name: the ftalke # the fmalleft cloue of Garlicke dol - mpmecoFtaniath a clutter offmallred bulbes,like wnto there do thrut oS forthfinal! andweake foot-falke fe nies aeCaring tending pnrplecoi pete ec. ‘ark Wyierabics: at the aeceastole end one fmall er we where theywithouthelpe dotake hold and ayas rs : “ fall downe. vpon the ground, 5@ eby greatly encreafe, as al{o bythe infi- nite bulbes that the root doth ¢: : of it isalfoa kinde, toot dothcaft off zal] the whole plant doth fmell and tatteof Garlick, > where33 Homers Moly thick hathvery ty} hathvery ‘very thicke thicke ae ; prea leaye leaues, broadtoward the bottome, fharpe at thepoint, and 3Moly Homericum, Homers Moly. hollowed like atroughor gutter, in the bofomeofwhichleaues neeré vnto the bottome commethforth @certaine round bulbe or Ball of a goofe-turd greene colour: which being ripeand fet in the ground groweth and becommethafaire plant {uchas is the mother. Amongthofe leaues rifeth vp a nakedfmooth thicke ftalke, oftwo cubits high, as {trong as a {mall walkingftaffe : at the top ofthe ftalke ftandetha bundleoffaire whitith floures, dafhed ouer witha wath ofpurple colour, fmelling like the flouresof Onions. Whenthey be ripe there appearetha blacke feed wrapped in awhite skinne or huske. The rootis great and bulbous, couered with a blackifh skinne onthe outfide, and whitewithin, and of the bigneffe of a great Onion. 4, Indian Moly hath verythicke fat fhott leaues, and fharpe pointed, in the bofome wherofcomiethforth athicke knobbybalbe like that ofHomers Moly. The ftalkeis alfo like the precedent, bearing at thetopa clufter of{caly Gules includedina large thinne skin or filme. The rootis great, bulbous fafhion, andfull of iuyce, 5 Cancafon,ogwithering Moly,hath avery greatbulbous root, greater than that of Homers Moly,andfuller ofaflimic inyce ; from whichdoarife three or fouregreat thickeand broad leaues withered alwaiesat the pomt; whefcia |