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Show Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 5, Filipendula aquatica, Natet Drop-wort. : Lis. 2 ~ OftheHiftory ofPlants. LiBe grow thofe branches) the leaties doe alfo te E thele kindes of Filipendulaare hot anddryinthe third degree, opening « ces and rilles in the North, where Paludapinm orwatet Sthallage groweth ; whereunto ig Jeaues it is not vnlike, but morelike Ruts Td tenfis - it hath manylarge branches, a naughty fauor,andin colour and fhapelike Cicuta, that is, Hemlocke. The ftalkes aie more than two cubits high, comming froma rootwhichex. it being full ofa inyce,ar firtt milkybutafter. wards turning yellow. The {pokycufts or rundles growing at the toparelike Citta y. yea, it muchrefembleth Hemlockein propertie and qualities , and fo doe they affirme that have proued and feene the experience ofit: for being eatenin fallads it did wellnigh poyfon thofewhichateof ir, making them giddie in their heads, waxing verypale, flaggcring and recling like drunken men. Beware and take good heedofthis and fuch like Simples ; for there is no Phyfitian that will giue it, becaule there = many otherexcellent good Simples which Godhath beRowed vponvs ee the preuenzing ateSaccs eae ane notexcufableis the ignorance offome ofourtime, eo pea * probabiy comecture) vfed the roots of this plantin ftead of now they are dayly by the ignorant women in Cheape-fide fold to peo- ple mer ert than themfelues, by the name ofwater Louage 5 Caveat Emptor. Thedanger takentofhetread oegeed Ythacwhichour Adthr bat eon a x ‘a oat y “ that i 5 Thefifth and lait kinde ofFilipendula, which is the fourth according to Matthiolus his %count,hath Ieaues likewater Smallage,which Pliny calleth Sylaus,the leauesvery muchrefembl ing thofe of Laver Cratene : among which rifeth vpa {mall ftalke deepely furrowed orcrelted, bearing at thetop thereof fjpokie or buthy rundles ofwhite floures dicke heh ft together. The roots are compact ofvery manyfilamentsor threds, ; among which comefortha few tuberous or knobbie rootslike wnto the fecond. @ The Place and Time The firft growth plentifully vpon ftonic rockesor mountaines , paftures.I found great plenty thereof growinginafield adioyning and roughplaces,and in fertile to Sion houfe,fomtimea Nuonerie,neere London, on the fide ofa medow called Sion Medow. j Ss ape hath been fafficiently {poken of in the defcriptio n. Thethird groweth neere vote eaeeenpene fourth growethbetweenethe piowedlands in the moift and ee ee ping to Batterfeyby London. + It alfo groweth in great aboundance # many places by the Thamesfide 3 asamongft the oyfiers againft Yorke houfe,a little aboue Horfe-ferrey, againft Lambeth, &c. + The fifth groweth neere the fides ofrinersand #8 the B about and fields, $,Georges in Tems,as or Thames of riuer the fircames, efpecially neere fhop of Londons houfe at Bulham,and fuch like places. ; “5 Theyfloure from Mayto the end of Lune. : @ The Names. 4 They are commonly called Filipendule. The fir is called of Nicolaus Myrep/is, Philipenae’s offorme, Saxifragrarubra, and Millefolinmfilueftre ; ofPliny, Molon : in Italianand Spanith,F“* and Drop-wort,. Water Filipendula is called Filipendula ager” Deacichedibaa?5 uepoe ilaus Pliny. The q The Nature. the fame vitnalitleaftriction or binding. All the kindes of Oenanthes haue facultie we haue formerly touched. jouthyvhole pernitious ce gq The Vertuess Theroot of common Filipendula boiledin wine and drtinket;is good againftall paines of she bladder, cauferh one to make water, and breaketh the ftone. The like Diofcorides hath written ' of Oenanthe ; the root,{aith he, is good for them that pi fle by d ops. Thepowder of the roots of Filipendula often vfed in meate, will preferue a man fromthe fal- linglickeneffe. is che fourch place the ou deferibed in in thethe fifth plant deferibed g’gen yyouin Aftt places + T have giuen_ t wereformerlvin the fourth and fifth places, were r both of Fthe theplane , Ae|yet given forthe plant there deferibed, butir isnot well expreftsor the leame> are large bike thofe of Smaliage,theitulke bran SUaliiery largeand ike chofe of Hemlucke,but rather bigger. teedingly multiplies it felfe into bulbes, like Alphodelus albus. The fmell of this plant is ftrong and grieuous;; the taftehor and biting, Peionie ; an a Thefourth, Whole leaues are liketo Homlocks; is as fomethinke called of Cordws,0lfenichinm: dry armesor branches : from the hollow lace isEnglifh Homlocke Filipendula, or bofomeofcuery ioynt (out ofwhich de ftrange a plant as the former, efpecially with vs here in England, except in the waterje la. of 1091 ~ high, diuiding it felftoward the top into fet ceed, vety much cut or iagged like Fennell : at the top of thofe branches come forth fpoki« rundles of white floures fathioned like ftars, t 4 The fourth kinde of Filipendula is . t 2, Cuar. 429. Of Homlocks,or herbe Bennet. @ The Defcription. 1 "Hefir kinde of Hemlocke hatha longftalke,fiue orfix foot high, great and hollow, Titofjoines like the ftalkes of Fennell,of an herby colour ; poudered with {mall red hotsglmoltlikethe (lems of Dragons. The leaues are great, thicke, and {mall cut orjagged like thelduesof Cheruil!,but muchgreater,and ofa veryftrong and vnpteafant faaor. The floures are vhitegroning by tufts or {pokie tops, which do change and curne intoa whiteflat feed ; the root wshort, and fomewhat hollow within. ¢ 1 Cicuta. Hemlocks, 2 The Apothecaries in times paft not knowing the right Sefeld Peloponnenfe, haue erronioufly taken this Cécta latifolia forthe fame. Theleaues whereofare broad, thicke, andlike wnto Cicutaria,yet notthe fame, they called it Sefeli Peloponnen(e cum folio Cicute, the faculties whereofdenyand refute thataffertion and opinion, yea and the plant it felfe, which being touched, yeeldeth or breatheth out amoft virulent or lorhfome fmell: thefe things fufici- ciently argue,thar it is nota kinde of Seflé,befides the reafons following : Sei hath a rea. fonable good fauour in the whole plant, the root is bare and fingle, without fibres, like a Carrot ; but, Cécutahathnot onely a lothfome f{mell,but his roots are great, thicke,and knob» by, like the roots of Ciyrrhs : thewhole plant doth in.a manner refemble the leaues, Ralkes and floures of Myrrhis odorata, whofe fmall whitefloures doe turne into long and crooked feeds, growing at the top of the branches three cubits high. + 2. This in leaues, ftalkes,and roots is larger than the laft defcribed , the ftalkes equalling or exceeding the height ofa man;the {mell is ftrange and greiuous, and in all the parts thereofit is like to the orher plants of thiskinde. Lobel figures it by the name ofC?cutaria maxima Brancionis, and queftions whither it be not Thapfia textia Salamanticenfium of Clufius , but Clufins denies it {0 tobe. + Vuuu the G& the |
