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Show , Cuar. 25. Theatrum Botanicum, 6, Ko/inarinam|yloc/fre ame, Trise i 9. Rofmarinum [jlveftre minus noftras, Voiavoty wilde Rofemary, Our wilde Rofemary, TRIBE lL The TheaterofPlantes. Cuar. 160 powerfully,asalfo the hypochondriack paffion,and winde inthe fplene : it helpeth alfo thofe ce: are liver-grown é by opening the obftructions thereof; by warming the coldneffe extenuating the grofineffe,and afterwards bindin, and (trengthening the weaknefle thereof’; it helpeth dimme eyes, and to procure a — fight, ifall the while itis in flower, onetake ofthe Howers fafting with bread and fale :both Dioftorides and Galen fay; that ifa decoction be Sy heart /and to expell the contagion of the peftilence, to butne the hearbe in Houfes and Chambers inthe time “of the infedtion to corre& the aire in them + both the flowers and the leaves.are very profitable for women that aretroubled withthe'whites, if they be daily taken s the dried leaves fhred fmall and taken ina Pipe'like as ae is’ taken, helpeth thofe muchthat have any Coughor Tifick, confumption; by warming and drying the ¢ gi diftillations, which caufe thofe difeafes : the leaves are much u(ed in bathings, and made into oyntments or oyles, is fin« Z (peeZS SS aaa Sy Faas EE Ey SZINS ita made thereofwith water, and they that have the yellow jaundife, doe exercife their bodies prefently after the taking thereof, it will certainely cureit, the flowers and the conferve madeof them;is rigaie good ito comfort*the SF Le LE? \ gular gondto helpe cold benummedjoynts,finewes or members. The chymicall oyledr awne from the leaves and flowers,is a foveraigne helpeforall the difeafes aforefaid, to touch the temples and noftrils with a drop, two or threeforall thofe difeafes of the head and braines, {poken ofbefore, as alfo to take a drop two orthree,as the canfe requireth for the inward griefes, yet muft it be taken withdifcretion, left it doe more harme thant good, for itis ve~ ry quick andpiercing, and therefore buta little mutt be takenat once. There is another oyle made by jniolation in this manner: take what quantityyou will of the flowers and pnt them into a ftrong glafle clofe ftopped, and digeft them in hot Horfe dung for 14. dayes, which then being taken forth and unftopped, tye a fine linnen cloth over the Patient to fit often in the decoétion thereof, and to bathe the affectedparts, x Wins downe into the lower glaffe, to be preferved as precious for divers ufes, both inward and outward, as a foveraigne Baulmeto heale the difeafes before {poken of, to clearea dimmefight, and to take away {pots; miarkes and {carres in theskin. The RofmaryofSi/e/a is by often experience found to bee good for the fhrinking of the finewes, for Cuarp. XX VIL Ledum Alpinum five Rofa Alpina. The {weet Mountaine Rofe. SESssss= X\ N ng 5 the month, and turne the mouth downeinto another ftrongglaffe, which being fet in the Sanne, anoyle will diftill 1. Eedum Alpiniumfive Roft Alpina, Thefweer Mountaine Role, 2Ecanfe both C/u/i#s and others,referre this plant for fh the {weetneffe thereof,to the family of the Ci/tus Ledum, as he did the laft in the foregoing Chapter, and “called it Si/efiacuns, neither of which I dare doe , not ; The ordinary Rofemary Stoweth : The Place and Time. in Spaine abundantly neare the Séa ¢ fide,the {cent whereofis by thofe in the Shippes that paffe by,many leagues off fromthe Land, thofe hot Countriés, bur will in Province alfo of France, many times fele not abide (unlefie kept in {tow and fundry other es)the Winter in divers place and thofe other Noitherly Regions: s of Germany Den he, the fiftin Stlefia, Bohemia, and the places with the fifty the lattin diver parts there abouts : te fi s places of Lancafhire, and Yorke he Ca fbire, bordering there ‘The Aprill and May withus, and fome fit A Wieth aa times in Auguft againe,the other s not untill Augutt. ; eee The Names. Tris called in Greeke AiCanorns Libanotis, & stoavoparims Step hanomatica is added thereunto, fromthe other Libanotides, that are to diftin umbelleferous plants 3in Latine Ro/m arinus ¢& Rofmarinum aah Rofa uith it Cordus on LDinfcoria “s calleth it n co Libanotis Corénaria according toth e Greeke: Dalechampins on pln be the Cafia nigra of Theophraftus, taketh hye and Anguillara to bee the Cafia of Hygi fowne neare their Hives, asalfo nus acceptable to Bees fe 1 : fe tobe thiolus hath confuted that errour,as the Cueorumnigrum of Theophraftis, and Lavender to be his d/ou is {hewedin the Chapter before: m fome as Bashinus noteth it v a Se tees tobee the Hebrewes Hifope, Id = k or asiftheir Hifope differed from the Hifope of all other Nations i wid cca judgement. Gefwerin hortis calleth the firlt Rofma sgnobilior, and Cordus in hiftor rinus minor five tenni folim, ashe doth the third pe. ee ae ia, Rofmarinus [yl. feu major = the fift is called Ra fimarcnae Teme n peomits [ylueftre & Bobeming “ re by Sewn nae Dutch Herba ll, narint alterum by Ledu ns Silefiacum by Clufius : Ladg Lobel, an lamepence by Cordus n Aestek > ? i i leaves being i ; C folded together,d ; dor aes o Fepiciae = as or C Piitch ee tree ies leave od the wih. not remembred s, s. The inhi fixti Se ? s calle le d bye Clafiue by any before. The Arabians s asit e (eé eatheti asit isin isi e tle: at i call it Elkia gaber, the Itali mero, the French Renarim,the ans Re{marino, the § aniar Germanes Rofzmaria, the Dutc ds Roh Rox/{ mariy [mar i n,and we in Englith Rofinary . arye The Vertues, _Rofinaryis an hearbe ofas grea t ufe withusin th efe dayes, as eokpmniess the ctvill anyother whatfoever, not ules as all know, are at Wedd onelyfor Phyficall, but ings ia itbelpethallele ea ners me many and , Funerals, &c. to beftow upon friends : the Phyficall wort ; hy, } re a eeson Mealies, for by the warming and comfortingh es, bott both of the head, ftomack, eate Siddhnetise lations ofthe . liver > aand e’ bell Denyy =: the the dec o@i deco on ctio braine into the eyes, &c. anda n thereof in i wine ine eee = ae ponte ll othe r cold dife afes ofthe head and braines, ashelpoe lly or duln he Pe seth the ngs poets the lethargie and falling fickn effe of the minde and fenfes like a ftupidneffe the dumbe efte tobe both drunke,and t elpeth the pain mes & teet eees inthe gum tee h by rheu 8 > j Hine i t h $j 4 mefalling intothem,or or bybyarpur re them Oe : {tinking breath: itit help si bathed therewith it factiar c , ora c helpe etha ins thalf lfo o aw. : we ke memoryb allo wea y yy heat braines, and quic heati inga ng and nd dry ine kning the fenfes zitislik ing ying drying uupt up the he ng cold hs amoif evil itureAme ewife very comfortable to s fro m of the to {tay the pron a the ftomack in all the cold enefle to cafti e ng, cauf e ine the ftom e eriefes th es d ha ack the bettterer toto cont contaaine i and dto to digeft di the g meate; mw * eithera t ls aremedy for the windineffe the de- in the ftommcke or bowels, and expellethit power- " thinking them(althoughfweet) to belong thereunto, elfe Thad not placed themhere,but with the other forts of Ledum. I thinke ic meet to {peake hereofamong the {weet hearbs, whofe defcriptionis thus.It hath fundry{lenderhard ftalkes, 2. foot long xr thereabouts, lying for the moft part on the ground, covered with an afh colonredbarke, at the ends whereof are fet without order manyhardleaves, like unto thofe of the Italian dwarfe Bay ning greene colour on the upperfide, and paler underneath, t cs pointed, and fometimes roundat the ends, and fomewhat hairy about the edgesas the young fhot ones are likewife, of tringent tafte;at the ends ofthe branches breake forth a tuft 1 owers like Bells hanging downe their heads, and diimmes into five parts, ofa deepe red colour on the outlide, {princkled with manyfilver-like fpots, as the ftalkes of themarealfo, but of a paler red colour on the in-fide with divers i ith feed ddle, and of'a pretty {weet fcent, after which heads, containing within them very{mall brow- like duft, which being rubbed while they are greene, are of fo {trong a {cent that they offend the fences : but Lob¢/{aith his beareth red berries like Afparagt » Which (7a/iws faith his doth not oot is long hard,and wooddy:the branches doe often take roote as they n There is t the d,andabide greene all the Winter. Clafins faith he obferved ,that had t leaves, harder and longer p vinted, not hairy and of a yellowith darke rufty colour underneath, ? /pon thefe branches &the all excreflénces or knots, s Hafell Nuts, rugged or un- fometimes paler colour and in tafte, which {upplieth rhe nd Time. ts are found on the © toppes andon the declining i j Hillsin Ger aedober amongthe {tones as Clufisis faith, and on thé’ Hills neare Trent and Verona, «faith, They flowerin Iune and Inly, their feedis ripe in the end of Auguft. The Names, 23 a ef plants being lately found and made knowne tous, have received fundry names, as every one in his opiniH3 om 9 |
