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Doronicum Helveticum incanum, The hoary Helvetia {talke, a poate high . ee , see greene hollow round witha up rifeth Helvetia, of um Doronic The hoary er he Eee ’ Suax € is grow that thofe then pointed, more and tlonger thereondivers leaves fomewha P uppe es , wit 7 the edges,ofa pale greene co ce ee are round,and others long and round. yet all dented about h,as the footeftalke is . oO: : 1€ eve Z g) as ee a white rib inthe middle, and ofa mealie hoarineffe underneat he e Bess ue moot a leaves,not dente narrow long many th ftalke,wi yellow that ftandeth at the top’of the the roote 1s {mall, others unto e downe,lik the with away carried is compaffing the middle thrumme : = ae ; like the relt. {caled it wer j che Helveric and ¥ TDercvi um humile. ‘The low fuppofed Woolfes bane of Helvetia. joynted, rke, greene,hairy leaves, and aes paler This low Doronicum of Helvetia or Switzerland,hath many thicke,da about the edges ; poe as and dehted reene underneath, lying next the roote being fomewhat long and round very long and narrow leavesfet thereon, hich rifeth upa fhort hairy ftalke,~not halfe a foote high,with flowers, of a. meanefize or bigneffe like bearing yellow ee parted at the toppeinto twoorthree {mall branches, ; untothereft. 16, Doronicum Americanum. Suppofed Woolfes bane of America. rough and hairie,divided inThis ftrange Doronicum hath divers very large leaves nextthe ground fomewhat the ends,and deepely dented broad, pointed at to five parts,each part being five orfix inches long,and two inches fer with the like leaves, on the edgesinto three parts from among which rifeth up findry {mooth round ftalkes at the top of every ftalke ftandeth one large but fomewhatleffer and leffe divided,and fomelittle or notat all: being long and narrow,and the middle thrum by owyellow flower like unto the former,the bordering leaves with hard, faltned nifh,and madeas it were ofmany flowersfet thicke together : theroote is great thicke and the French. by manylongftrings, I have here given youtwo figures thereof,the one taken by us,the other Doronico gennino Arabam aPoua 12, Radices Doronici uulgo officinarnm,& Radices Mechinirarior#s Lobetiispro exhibite, The Apothecaries Doroxicum,and the true one of the Arabians as Pona thinketh. as they are fupThave here likewife particularly given youthefigures of the rootes’of twoforts of Deronicum ofe pofed tobe,the formoft generally received by all ormoft both writers & Apothecaries for their medicines,wh defcriptionis fer downebefore:the other Pana in his Italian Baldws {etceth torth {uppofing it to be more probably the true Doronicum of the Arabians then the former,which doth fot agree thereunto either in forme or quality, have for Avicen in the 200, Chap, ofhis fecond Booke, and Serapio in the 325. Chap. of his Booke of fimples of a yeldeferibed their Doronicum to bea roote ofthe bigneffe ofones thumb, ofa hard and heavy fubltance, degrees lowifh colouron the outfide and browne within, with fome white veines,andis hotand dry inthe third thus Serapio, but faith Pena, know no other roote more properly doth reprefent that Doronicum,then this fort Brafit, of cMechinuswhichis often found amongthe Adechinus or blacke Ginger,thatis brought us chiefly from which Lobell calleth Adechini rara varietas,having divers circular knotted:lines as it were like joynts on theouts 10, Doronicum Americatm. The fuppofed Woolfes bane of America. 12. Doronicum antiquorum Pone. Lobel his rare varieties of Mechinus and the Atd= bians Doronicum by Pona. The Theater ofPlants. TR 1B E.3. a Cuar.3. fide; andisfirmé and heavy full of white veines therein whenit is broken : it is alfo very tharpe, quicke, biting andaromaticall intafte, and therefore faith he, having all the notes of their Doronicum,it can be no other then the true and legitimate Doronicum; trom whom the reafons being fo pregnant, I know not well how to dif= ‘ fent,yet leave it to others to judge as they fhallfinde caufe, The true rootes ofthe Doronicum inthe Apothecaries fhops are miffet; which fhould have beene in2 this table; but are exprefied in thefift igure. The "Place, Thefirft groweth on the hills in Savoy, béyond the lake Lemanus; atid in other places, both of Fraace and Germany : the fecond growethnotfare from Burdeanx in France, The third on the wooddy hills about T7err, andin Auftriaalfo as Clufins faith + the fourth C/xfims faith he found on divershills in’ Auftria. Thefift likewife about Newberg in Styria, Thefixt is found in manyplaces of Germany, in the medowes and elfewhere, and asitisthought, on the hilly grounds in Northumberland, The feayenth groweth in many places, both of Av- ftriaand Hungary, as Clufius faith : the eight upon the A/pes in Swit/erland : the ninth alfo on the famehills about Valefia, and the la{t came ftom the French colony abont the river of Canada and nourfedup by Vefpafian Robin the French Kings Herbarift at Pars, who gave Mr. Trade{cant fome rootes that hath encreafed well with himand thereofhath imparted to me alfo. The Time. They all flowerearly for the moft part,that is in ay, and fomeofthem inthe Astimne againe, The Names, The name Doronicum which is givento all thefe plants is derived fromthe Arabian Doronigi or Darungi; for itis notremembied by any ofthe ancient Greeke or Latine Authots, except Aéiwarins who calleth it Carnz= badion ; divers have accounted it among the Aconites; as Matthiolus (calling it Pardalianches, and referrethit to Pliny and Theophraftws their Aconstes, whofe tootes are like Scorpions, as the outward face or forme of thefe are, which bred the fufpition; whenasthe properties of thefe.are not like their Aconites,to kill wilde beafts fpeedily with their Darts, or Arrowes dipped in the juice thereof ; or robé a cauftike herbe, ablé to eate awaythe fleth of a wound, and canfeit to fall away :) who havingreceived it from Cortu/i of Padoa, defameth it toall the world, tobea poyfonnotfit to be ufed inwardly in mans body, and that thofe Phyfitians that follow the Arabians to putit into Cordial! medicines, doe veryill, andlittle refpect the health of man, becaife both as Cortu/é writethuntohim, and himfelfe upon ttyall madeas he faith foundto be trie, that it will kill dogs, the rootes being given them in flefh, which report oftheits how foeverbe true in dogs, may notwith{tanding be not true, being given to other beafts, and may be fafely given and without dangerto men fordivers things that are wholfome to man, and which we often ufe without fcruple, or doubt of danger, as Aloes andbitter Almonds, yet giventoa Fox,either ofthem will quickly kill himjvas P/#tarch reporteth; and the Cameleon Thiftleas Fabivs Columna fetteth itdowne, will kill dogs and fwine, &c. and yet is a moft foveraigne Antidote again{t the poyfon ofSefpents,the roote being drunk in wine,and befides killeth the wormesin children without any further harme, as alfo even Muske, Saffton,and other things being taken in two great a quantity will kill any man: others hold them to be wholfome,asit hath beenecertainly and often found true by good experience,thatdivers of thefe forts are very effectuall to helpe many difeafes in men, as you fhall heare by and by, and thereforeit is not probable, that there lyeth any yenemousquality hid underneath thofe good ones ; and bee fides, Gener faith that he had taken much and oftenthereof, and had givenit to others without any danger or harme; and Pena and Lobel reporteth that lohannes de Vroede did eate many rootes thereof without any danger, or fenfe ofpaine thereby : and therefore doth advifeBthers, not to abdicate the plant wholly from mansufe, nor to difcredit fitch famous Arabian authors, that have appointedit to be put into E/eétuarium de gemmu, Elettuaae rium ex Aromatibus,and Diamofehum dulce, and others, as the moft Cordjall medicinesofall other, and where- of there was never harme taken whofoeverdid ufe them, of to fay that any that followed their prefcriptions, were guilty ofthe death ofany man, Dodoneus wasalfo of the fame minde with Vatthiolus for a while, but afterwards found his owne errourand reclaimed it ; butit ismuch doubted, whether this be the Doronicum of sorno; for Francifeus Pona inhis Italian defcription of (Mont Baldus, as I {aid before, refufeth it, accounting it an auncient received errour, and therefore giveth us the figure of Lobels Adechinus, for the true Doronicam; the faculties of thefe being quite contrary to their Doronicum, for befides little fweeteneffe and clammytafte in the roote ; it hath little or no other tafte, except that being frefh, fome of them havé anaromaticall,and fome a bitterifh {weet tafte,like unto juice of Licoris:but the roots ofthis AZechinus aré ofan aromae ticall ,fharpe &biting tafle:the joynts in the roots ofthe ordinary Doronicum,very likely might cafe thelater age of the world to erre,in taking it to be the right:but leave we thefe controverfies,and attend the vartetie of names and properties ofthefe forts of Doronicum, which may Better perfwade us ofthe good to be reaped from thems The firft is as I faid,the moft: common, both in the Gardens of our country and others, and is moft ufially called ds m ofall writers,or with afweete roote. The fecond Clufixs and others call Doronicum minus um, Banbinuscallethit Doronicum plantaginy folio, The third (Varthiolus calleth Aconitum Par, Dodonzus Pardalianches alterum Pena and Lobel,Doronicum Rrachiataradice ; bur Clufius {ere ¢ more truely, &calleth it his feeond Doronicum Auftriacum.The fourth is Clufixs his firlt Dosicum Auftriacumfive minus,and BauhinusD oronicumlongifolinm hir[utie afperum,The fift is C/afizs his fourth Doronicum which he calleth Stiriacum,and Bauhians Doronicum latifolinm flore magno, Thefixt is called diverfly, by divers: ~Marthiolus callethit Aly{ma ox Damafonium, and thinketh ittobe the right AG/ma of Diofcorides, andfo doe (amerarius and Gener, (whocalleth it alfo Caltha Alpina) Pena and Lobel call it Nardus Celtica ale rera, as Rondeletins didtake ittobe. Lugdunenfis fetreth it forth under the name ofPrarmica montana, as divers did call it there abouts.as he faith, and yet fecteth ir forth againe under the ticle of Aly/ma M€datthioli, Gerard lik hath ferir fo wo feverall places, under twofeverall titles, the one under (alendula Alpina, the der Chryfanthemumlatifolium, Clufus calleth it Doronicum Germanicum, and faith his Pannonicum or ‘Mm fextum,is the fame or very like, for both he and divers others doefet it forth, with {mooth,and hairy foasit is found fo growing in divers and fundry places. The feventhis (Zufius his Doronicum Axfiriae tamtertinm, which Bashinuscalleth Doronicum maximum foliis canter amplexantibus : The cighth = a . anhiing |