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Show ee ET L1B. 2 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 834. i ion L18.2. $ 2 Arum Agyptiacum, Ofthe Hittory of Plants, 9. The Vertues. egyptian Cockowpint. Ifany manwould haue thieke and tough bumours which are gathered inthecheft and lungs to beclenfed and voided ounby coughing; then that Cuckowpintis beft that biteth moft. Itis eaten being foddendntwo or three waters, andfreth put to, whereby it may lofe his. acrimonies and being/fo> eatenjrhey cut thicke humors meanely,but Dragonsis better for the fame purpofe. Diofcorides Theweth, that theJeauesalfo are. preferued to be eaten; and that they mutt be eaten afterthey be dried and boyled’sand writeth alfo, that the root hath a peculiar yertue again the gout, being laid on ftampedwith Cowes dung. = Beares after they haue lien in their dens forty dayes without any manner of futtenance-butwhat they.getwithlicking and fucking their owne feet,doas foone as they come forth cate the herbe Cuckowpint, through the windic nature whereofthe hungry gut is opened and made fit againe to recéiue fuftenancé’: for by; abftaining from, food fo longa time,the sur is fhrunke ord rdwne fo clofe together, that ina mannerit is quite fhutvp,as Ariftotle, ilianus, Plutarch, Pliny, and others do write. Themoft pure andwhite ftatch is made of the roots of Cuckowpint; but mot hurtfull to the hands of the Laundreffe that, hath the handlingof it; for it choppeth, bliftereth, and maketh the hands rough and rugged, and withall {marting. Ci ap. yo Of Friers Cowle, or hooded (Cuckowpine. t Arifirumlatifolinm. Broad leaued Friers Cowle. 2 Arifarum anguftifolium. gupifCowleNarrow leaued Friers @ The Place. 7 e ia fhadowie hedges, euery wher Cockow pint groweth in woods neere vnto ditches vnder places. ; TheTime. : H of ber clutter fheath aohuskeor The leaues appeare prefently after winter:the peftell fheweth itfelfethe bun are gone, in Iune,whileft the leaues are in withering : and when they ries becommethripe,whichis in Iuly and Auguft. q The Names, nie ‘ Africa,am ica, and dalfo indere a inh from thot: There groweth in Agypta kinde of Aron or Cuckowpint whichis ie oul afer: 1 yOu likewife in certaine places of Portingale neere vntorivers and pean Manta — in eine be of our countries growing, which the people of Caftile call this not 10 the haue it tobe called Colocafiasbut Diofcorides faith that Colocafia is the ore5 + gant 18.18 Beane of Egypt. $ Fabius Columna (in the place formerly alledged) Ce ae a Siol forme in true Colocaffa,and yet Profper Alpinus fince inhis fecond booke de apne ‘ ach do oud rroublec Ae thefe, to recourfe haue curious the let : contrary the proue to bouts which this place to infift vponi it,Weing fo large a point of controuerfie, all the late writers. : 3 4 rae The common Cuckow. pintis called in Latine, Arum : in Greeke, #ev' : rhereisg Aron:ofothers, Pes vituli : of the Sytians, Lupha: of the men of eae “hat the as about mongthe baftard names. Plizy inhis 24. booke,16. chapter,doth witne rence betweene Aron and Dracontium, although there hath been me . called, 4ctet pt among the old writers, affirming them to beallone: in high Dute hPied dead vio Bf Italian,Gigora : in Spanith, aro : in low Dutch, Calfsuoet onl eae foot, and Ramp Cuckowpint, and Cuckow pintle,wake-Robin, Priefts pintle, Aron offome Stratchwoort. - petheroet ‘ q The Temperature. : etie of countries oe D n Ee to ing accord differ doe pint w The faculties of Cucko hments ¢ ot h ‘aemie,is gharpet Fa cit hereof,as Galen in his bookeofthe faculties of nourif ariwife in CY eee om pradee ting in fome countries than in others,almoft as muchas leaft inthe Africke,iris generally in all places hot and dry, at the 8 ¢ F @ The Defiription. ; ee leaued Friers hood hatha leafe like Iuy,broad and fharpe pointed,butfat lefle,apptochingneere tothe forme of thofe ofCuckowpint : the ftalke thereof is, fmall and the clite seeder the huske or hofeis little; the peftel fmiall, and of a blacké pusplith colour; oo TWAcNitis ripe is red , the kernéls {mall , the root white, hauing the forme of Aronof Punt, but leffer, whereofdoubrleffe it is a kinde. Aggie 2 The |
