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Show ~~Of the HiftoryofPlants. 1 Dracanculus aquations, Water Dragons. | —a Lirsuk firetched or brokenafunder, there appearet the fruit, like toa bunch orclutter Of tapes; theberries whereof at the firft be greene, af. alfo peniasnine: peoans by reafonthat it is adjoine vith the two former qualities, that is rofay, biting and bitter, is is made inlike manner a fingular niedicine Ofvery gréat efficacy, terwards red and full of iuyce; in whichis | TheVertues, containedfeed that is fomewhat bard : The root continucth frefh, thicke,like toa knob, white, couered with a thin pilling oftentimes ofthe bigneffe of a meaneapple, full ofwhite little threds appendant thereunto, 2 Theleffer Dragonislike Aronorwake Robin, in leaues, hofe, or huske, peftell, and berries, yetare not the leaues fprinkled with blacke but withwhitith, {pots, which petith not {0 foone as thofeof wake-Robin, but en- dure together with the berries even yntilivin. ter : thefe berries alfo be nor of adeepered, but ofa colour encliningto Saffton, Theroot isnotvnlike to the Cuckow-pint, haning the forme of a bulbe,full offtrings ; withdiuers rude fhapes of new plants, whereby it greatly encreafeth. ¢ The figure whichour Authourheere gaue bythe title of Dracuntinm minus,wast other than of Aron, whichis deferibed in the firft placeof the next chapter: neither is the defcription of any other plant, than of that fort thereofwhich hath leaues {potted either with white or blacke fpots, though our Au. you thor fay onely with white. Thauegiuen Clufius his figute ofArum ByXantinum, in ftead ofthatwhich our Author gaue. A a aereed, 3 Therootofwater Dragonsnot round likea buIbe, but very long, mae (cand, and of meane bignefle ; out of the ioynts whereof arife the ftalkes of the cas 3sags, The {mooth, and {pongie within, and there grow downewardscertaine white and flea ng Fike be fruit {prings forth at the top vpona fhort ftalke, together with one of the leaues, ae cnet ginning couered withlittle white threds, which are infteadof the floures : aftet cackeit into a bunchor clufter, at the firft greene, and whenitis ripe,red, leffer thanthany thoteof lu but not Jeffbiting : the leaues are broad, greenifh, glib, and fmoothi, in fafhionlik on is alb yet Jeffer than thofe of Cuckow-pint , and that thing whereunto the cluftered eet leffer, and in that part whichis towards thefruit (thatis to fay the vpperpart) [ i F noland ole 4 Thegreat Dragon of cMatthiolus his def{cription is a ftranger not onTe fe meaty! elfewhere for any thing that we can learne: my felfe haue diligently enquite rion forthat skilfull in plants, that haue reforted vnto mefor conference fake, but no oe any ¢* cription, taintie thereof; and therefore I thinkeit amiffe to giue youhis figure or Itakeit for a feigned pi@ture. q The Place. 108 agons grow The greater andthe leffer Dragons are planted in gardens. The water Dr and marifh places, for themoft part in fenny andftanding waters. q The Time. The berries of thefe plantsare ripe in Autumne. q The Names. er is named SURE The Dragoniscalled in Greeke sseniao sin Latine, Dracunculus. The oe", Mos, and tariamaior: of fome,Bifaria,and Colubrina : Corduscallethit Dracunculus Be IPFrench Se t frum : in high-Dutch, Sechlangengraut sin low-Ditch, Sppeeriwogtele eason-wort. 4 in Italian, Dragontea : in Spanifh, Taragontia : in Englifh, Dragons, anc. ay‘ich whethet © fais calleth Dragon Dracontea, andfetteth downe manyfirange names thereof, W ae An gree with the greater orthe leffer, or both of them,heidothnot expound 5.48 i‘op nes, Saachromaton, Therion, Schenos,Dorcadion, Typhonion, 7heriaphonon,ane Emr eth, that Dragonis called Aronia,becauleitis liketo Avom, The Temperature, b Dragon,as Galen faith,hath acertaine likeneffe with czron or wa ke-Robia, vand of thi alfo in root, yet more biting and more bitter than itjand therefore hotter Abs! few $$ Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. The toot of Dragons doth clenfeandfcoureall the entrailes, making thine, efpecially thicke # and tough humours ; and itis fingular remedyfor vicers that are hard to be cured. named in Greeke wut, ; It fcoureth and clenfeth mightely, afwell fuch things as haue need of {couring,4s alfo white B and blacke morphew, being temperedwith vineger. The leaues alfo by reafonthat they are oflike qualitie are goodfor vicers and greene wounds : andthe leffe dry they are, the fitter they be to heale; for the dryer ones are of a more fharpe orbiting quality than is conuenient for wounds. The fruit is of greater operation than either the leaues or the toot’: atid thereforeit is thoucht tobe offorce to confiume and take away cankers andproud fleth growing inthenoftrils; called in Greeke Polypus : alfo the juice doth clenfe away webs and {potsinthe cies. Furthermore, D/oféorides writeth, that it is reported that they who haue rubbed the leaties or toot vpon their hands, are notbittenof theviper. Hee faith, that ferpents will not come neere vnto him that beareth Dragons about him, and oy,a are read concerning both the Dragons, in the two chapters of Diofzorides. Galen alfo hath madede mentior cot eon Drag razonon in in his hi booke ke ofthe the faculties f: ies ofof nourifhments,wh ift yhe ere ~valth, that the root of Dragon being twice or thrice fod,to the end it may lofe all his acria or fharpeneffe, is fometimes ginen as Aron, or wake-Robin isy when it is needfill to ri the more forceable thicke and clammy humoursthat are troublefome to the cheft and lungs : of i . . ‘ ae o o Cc D E E ‘ And Diofcorides a that the rootof the leffer Dragon being both fodde and roftwith G * taken of it felfe in nieate, caufeth the humours whichfticke faft in the cheft to be eafily ded . inice Ja ° a ' salraye. 2 : = 4 The juice : of the garden Dragons, as faith Dio/corides, being dropped intothe eies;dothelenfe 44 lem, and greatly amend the dimneffe of the fight. ; The diftilled water hath vertue againft the peftilence or any peftilentiall feuer or poifon, being I attnke bloud-warme withthe beft treacle or mithridate. The fmell of the floures is hurtfull to women newly conceived with child, Cuar. 304. Of Cockow pint, or wake-Robins | The Defcriptiors I A= or Cockowpint hath great, large, {mooth,thining, tharpe pointed leaues,befpotted here and there with blackith {pots, mixed withfome blewnefle: among which fhots, ‘Ip Mie Vpa ftalke nine itiches long, befpeckled in many places with certaine purple Middle of oa =eames long hofe or hood, in proportion like the eare ofan hare’: in the which beine n hood commeth fortha peftle or clapper ofa darke mutrieorpale purple colour : bunchore © paft, there fucceedeth in place thereof a bunch or clufter of berries in mannerofa Plth, wir re Greene at the firft, but after theybe ripe of a yellowithted like cotall,and full of Ome threddy additaments annexed thereto. ; “oth inAgypta kinde of C4rumwhichalfo' is tobe feene' in A fricaandin certaine’ ulitania,about riuers and. floods, which differeth from that which groweth in England thofe of the . Europe. This plantis large andgreat, and the leaties thereofare greater than’ tetand ome Lillie: the root is thicke and tuberous, and towardthe lower end thicker and th isby the A rc eaten. It is reported tobe without floureandfeed, but the increafe that it he which runne and {pread fromtheroots. + This plant hath al(o’ peftells and bat inedbone commonAron, but fomewhat different, the Ieaues are notcut into cad COf thisan the fetting thereto: rhe root alfo'is very large. Thofe that defire to'tce '£e,j,, 2 2b and the queftion which fome haue mooued, whitherthisbe the €0/eca/ia, ot 40f the Antients > let them: haue recourfe tothe firlt chapter of Fables Columine his “wn ftripium pars alters, and there they thall finde {arisfaciony # Poa ae a The |