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Show 982 Of the Hiftory ofPlants. Liss, tena patelcatbioaaeleetnieaateeonaat & Peoniafeminapolyant hosflore albo. The double white Peionie. “Lis,OFtheHiftory of Plants: q The Place. + 5 Pewonia promifin Maiden Peionie, | All the forts of Peionies do grow in our London gardens,except that double Peiony with whire floures, which we do expe& from the Low-countries of Flanders. The male Peionie groweth wilde vpon a-cony berry in Betfome, being in the parifh of South- fleet inKent, twomiles from Graucl-end,and in the ground fomtimes belongingto a farmer there called foha Bradley. + Lhauebeentold that our Author himfelfe planted that Peionie there, and afterwards feemed tofinde it, there by accident: and I do belecueit was fo, becaufe none before or fince haue euer feen or heard ofit growing wild fince in any part of this Kingdome. ¢ G The Time, They floure in May: thefeedis ripe in Iuly. q The Names, ThePeionieis called in Greeke ne: in Latine alfo Peoniaand Dalcifida : in {hops,Pivia + in high Dutch,9eonien blumen ¢ in low Dutch, MPaft bloemen s in French,Penoine: in Spanith;Rofaddmonte: in Englith, Peionic: ithathalfo many baftard names, as Rofafatnina, Herba Cafta : of fome,Lunaris,or Lunaria Peonia:becaufeit cureth thofe that hauethefalling ficknefle,;whom fome men call Lunaticos,or Lunaticke. It is called deus Daé#ylus : which agreethwith the female Peionie; the knobbie roots of which be like to Dacfyli Idei,and Daéyli Ide: are certaine precious ftones ofthe forme of amansfinger,erowingin the Ifland of Candie: it is called of diuers Ag/aophotés, orbrightly fhining, taking his name ofthe fhining andglittering graines,which are of the colour offearler, There be found two ¢laophotides, defcribed by e#ianes in his 14.booke ; one of thefea, in the 24.Chapter : the other of the earth,in the 27.chapter. That ofthefea isa kinde of Fucus, orfea moffe,which growethvpon high rocks,ofthe bigneffe of Tamarisk,with the head of Poppy;which opening in the Sommer Solftice doth yeeld in thenight timea certain ficrieand as itwere {park ing brightneffe orlight. That ofthe earth,faith he,which by another nameis called Cyofpaftus, lieth hid in the day time among other herbes,and is not knowneat all,and inthe night timeit iseafily feene : for it fhineth likea ftar,and glictereth with a fierie brightneffe. And this Ag/aophotes ofthe earth,or Cynofpaftus,is Peonia ; for Apuleius faith, that the feedes or giaines of Peionie thine in thenight time likea candle,and that plenty of itisinthe night feafon $6 Peoniafamine pumila. Dwarfe female Peionie. $7 Paonia Byzantine Turkith Peionie. found out and gathered by the fhepheards. Theophrastus and Pliny do thewthat Peionie is gathered inthenight,which eAi/ianus alfo affirmeth concerning, C4glaophotss. This 4¢/aophotsof the earth,or Cyno/paftus,is called of Iofepbus thewriter of the Iewes warre,in his feuenth booke,2 5 .chapter, Baaras,ofthe place wherein it is found; whichthingis plaineto him that conferreththofe things which ~#/ianws hath written of4glaophotis ofthe earth,or Cyno/pa/tus, with thofe which Zofephus hathfet downe ofBaaras : for Aili anus faith,that Cyno/pa/tus is not plucked vp without danger, and thatit is reported how he'that firft touchedit, not knowing the nature theteof,perifhed. Thereforea ftring muft be faftnedtoit in the night,and a hungrie dogtied therto, who being allured by the {mell ofrofted flefh fet towards him,mayplucke itvpby the rootes, Tofepbus a\fowriteth,that Baaradoth thine in the eucning like the dayftar,and that they who come heere,and would plucke it vp,can hardly do it,except that either a womans vrine, or her menfes be poured vponit, and that fo it maybe pluckt vp atthe length. Motcouer, it is fet downe bythe faid Author,as alfo by Pliny and Theophraftus,that ofneceffitie itmutt he gathered in the night; for if any manfhall pluck off the fruit in the day time,being fecne of the VVood.pecker,he is in danger to loofe his eies; and if hecut the root, itisachanceif his fundamentfall not out. Thelike fabulous tale bath been fet forth of Mandrake,the which I haue partly touched in the fame chapter. But all thefe things be moft vaine andfriuolous.: for the roor ¥ Peionie,as alfo the Mandrake,may be remoued at any timeofthe yeare; day or houre whatfoeJef, 5 Butit is no maruell,that fuch kindes oftrifles, and moft fuperftitious and wicked ceremonies are found in the books ofthe moft antient writers; for there were many thingsin their time veric vainly feined and coggedin for oftentationfake, as by the Egyptians and other counterfeit mates, as Plany doth truly reftifie:an imitator of whomin times paft,was one Andreas a Phyfition,who,as Galen com“#en faith,conucied into the art of Phyick,lies and fubrill delufions. For which caufe manded his Schollers to refraine from the reading ofhim,andof all fuchlike lying and deceitful ‘Yeophants. [tis reported that thefe herbes tooxe the nam: of Peionie, or Pez, of that excellent ition ofthe fame name,who firkt foand oatand taught the knowledge of this herbe vnto pog Th |
