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Show Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lip. "OF theHiftory of Plants, and liues many yeares : it floures ina May, oa fr de(cribed wi: theFe root is like that of ‘the Nettle,and fee hit Pah tc oa, tf arse Sine Th tue + feeds are ripe in Iune. I haue not found nor heardof this w ildew ith vs,but feen it flourifhing the Pannonicwm exotiinthega rden ofmy kinde friend M*. Zohz Parkinfon. Clufius calls it Laminm 2,cmehic ‘ Crar, 245. Of Great Figge-wort, or Brownewort. Cum: and q The Defcription, : by the nameof ¥ Scrophularia flore luteo : whom inthis I follow. $ Bawhine hathferit forth + 3 Scrophulariaflore lutea. G The Place, Yellowfloured Fig-wort, 7 I ‘| He great Fig-wortfpringeth vp with ftalkes foure fquare, two cubits high, ofa datke purple colour,and hollowwithin: the leaues growalwayes by couples,as itwereftom one ioynt, oppofite, or ftanding one right againft another,broad,fharpe pointed,fhip. ped round about the edgeslike the leaues ofthe greater Nettle, but bigger, blacker, and nothing ; i The great Scrophularia groweth plentifully in fhadowie VWWoods, and fometimes in moift medowes, efpecially in greateft aboundance inawoodas you go ftom London to Harne- fey,and al fo in Stow wood atid Shotouer neere at all ftinging when theybe touched; the floures in the tops of the branches ate of a darke purple colour,verylike in forme to little helmets : then commeth vp little {mal feedin pretty round but. Ox ford. The ftrange Indian figure was fent me from tons, but fharpe atthe end : the root is whitifh,-befet with little knobs and bunchesasit were knots and kernels. 2 There is another Figge-wort called Scrophularia Indica, that hath manyandgreat branches Paris by John Robix the Kings Herbarift,andit nowgrowethinmygarden, q The Time. trailing here and there vpon the ground, full ofleaues, in fafhionlike the wilde or commonThi- They flourein Iune and July: q Then. ftle, but altogether without prickes :among the leaues appeare the floures infafhion like a hood, on the out fide ofa feint colour, and within intermixt with purple; which being fallen and withered, there comie in place fmall knops veryhard to breake, and fharpeat the pointasa bodkin: which containeth.a {mall feed likevnto Time. The wholeplant perifhethat the firft approch of Winter, and muft be fowen againe in April, in goodandfertile ground. + This isthe Scrophule ria Cretica 1.0£ Clufius. I Scrophularia maior. leffer Celandine,which is likewifecal phularia, with this addition minor,the | is called of fome Millemorbia, and caftr. t: in Englith,great Fig-wort,or Kernel-wort,but moft vfually Brown-wort, t2 pene Great Fig-wort. Indian Fig-wort. q The Vertues. Fig-wort is good againft the hard kernells which the Grecians cal] sete: the Latines, Strumas,and commonly Scrophulasthat is, the Euill:andit is reported tobea remedy Hofe difeafes whereof it tooke his ae, as alfo the painefull piles and fwelling ofthe hemorrhoides. Diuers do rafhlyteach,that if it be hanged about the necke,or elfe carried about one, it keepeth a manin health. Some do ftampe the rootwith butter, andfetit in a moift fhadowie piace fifteene dayes together: then they do boyleit, ftr2 keepe it,wherewith they anoinethe hard kernels,and the hemorrhoideyeinésof the piles whichare in the fundament, andthat with good fucceffe. Cuar. 246. Of Veruame. ° @ The Defiription. I He ftalke of vpright Veruaine rifeth from the root fingle, cornered, a foot high; feldome aboue a cubite , and afterwards diuided into many branches. The leaues h are long, greater than thofe ofthe Oke, but with bigger cuts and deeper : the floures along ne {prigs are little, blew, or white, orderly placed :the root is long, with ftrings growing onit, I Vetitaine fendethforth ftalkes like vnto the ge’ now and then a agp £ 3. The ftalke ofthis isa hofe of the hedge Nettle, bur fomewhat] fofquare, and fomeyard high, fer withleaueslike t DOM : © thefe leaues come little roug argerand thicker, and a littledecper cut in :out of the bofomes hontbalkes fomeinchor two fong,carrying fomefourc ot - holaa lowround floures of a erce ni 2 , eee oe ( . * ke ee ath heethe ssfeeds colour,with fome threds in them,veflels beOe and cutinwith fiuelittle pathes: are blacke,and containedin like tho’ of the fut . shirkdane, lender, for the moft part lying vpon the ground, The leaues are like ne rd purplewithalywand more in number. ‘The floures at the tops of the fprigs ate Sit otder. Ta {mall as thofe of the laft defcribed, and placed after the fame ies ye ~<T0otstoweth {traight downe, being flender and long, as is alfo the root former, O00 3 q TH |