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Show Lis. 2. “Of the Hiftorie of Plants. ui ae migare fineflorc, 1 Cyioglo{]um matt vile Hounds-coneve without the 1 Cynagloffvm mains cum flore cfemine, Bos Of the Hiftorie of Plants. , Hounds-tongue with theloure and feed, 2 Wehaue recciued another fort hereof from the parts of Italy, hauing leaves like Woade, fomewhat rough, and without any manifeft {meil,wherein it differeth from the common kinde the feed hereof came vaderthe title Cymogloffum Creticum, Hounds-tongue of Candy. + The flouresare leffer and oflighter colour than thofe of the former; the feeds alfo are rough, and grow foure together, with a point comming out of the middle of themasin the commonkind,but yet leffer; the rootis long and whitifh. C/ufiwshath this by the name ofCynogloffium Creticum i. 3 Thisfecond CynogloffiumCreticum ofClufivs hathleaues fome handfull long, and fome inch and better broad ; among which,the next yeare after the fowing, comes vp ftalke fome cubit of more high, crefted,ftiffe, and ftraight, and fomewhat downyas atealfo the leauesjwhich growvponthe fame,being fomwhat broad at their fetting on, and ofa yellowith greene colour. Thetop of the ftalke is dinided into fundry branches, which twine or turne in their tops like as the Scorpion grafle, and carry fhorter yet larger floures than the ordiharic kinde, and thofe of a whitith colour atthe firft, with many {mall purplith veines, whichafter a few dayes become blew. The feeds ate like the formerin their growing,fhape,and roughneffe, $ 4 Wehaueanotherfort of Hounds-tonguelike vnto the common kinde,fauingit is altogetherleffer : the leaues are ofa fhining greene colour, £ 4 Cynoglof[um minusfolio virente. q The Place. Small greene leaued Hound{-tongue, The great Hounds-tongue growesalmof euery where by high-wayes and vntoiled ground: the {mall Hounds-tongue groweth very plentifully by the waiesfide as you ride Colchefter highway ftom Londonward, bes tweene Eftetford and Wittam ih E flex. | The Time. They floure in Tune and Iuly; | The Names. Hounds-tongue is called in Greeke; £ 2 Cynoglofum Creticum 1, The firft Candy Dogs-tongue. kwipased: in Latine, Lingua canis : of Pliny; Cynogloffos ; and he fheweth two kinds there: £3 Cynogloffum Creticum alc. of:in Englith, Hounds-tongue , or Dogstongue, but rather Hounds-piffe, for in the world there isnot any thing fmelleth folike The other Candy Dozs-tong! vnto Dogs-piffeas the leaues of this Plant doe, @ The Nature. Hounds-tongue,but efpecially his root,is cold and diy. @ The Vertues. The toots ofHounds-tonguetofted in the embers and layd tothe fundament, healeth the hemorrhoides, and the difeafe called Jgnisfacer, or wilde-fire. Theiuyce boiled with honey ofrofes and Turpentine, tothe forme ofanvnguent, is moft fingular in wounds and deepevicers, Diofcorides faith, That the leaues boyled G that the | : ; inwine and druink,do mollifie the belly, and ~ “ : caules ftamped with old {wines greafe ate good againft thefalling away ofthe haire ofthe i ich proceedeth ofhot fharpe humors. sate maon a remedie againft fealdings or burnings,and againft the biting ofdogs,asthe D Cuap, 28 7- Of Comfrey, orgreat (onfound. @ The Defcription, ; % a 7 Ti ftalke ofthis Comfreyis cornered, thicke, and hollow likethat of Sow-thiftle :i¢ Stoweth two cubits OAs ora OF yard Yar high;: the leaues thatfj(prin Y ang g fromthe trom root,and Eee fone |