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Show \ Theatrum Botanicum. Trine 30 Banhinus ferret forth in his Predemus and Pinax, under the fametitles they doe here beare: thetenth Robinue 1. Ranunculas nemorofar albus firaplice, The fingle white Wood Crowfoore of Paris called Aconitum Amcricanum, and Cornutns Aconitum Helianthemum Canadenfe ; but the upper leaves onthe ftalke,with the flowers and roote, declare it to come nearer to the forts of Doronicum ; thelaftare as the Cuar.4, ~— Lhe Theater ofPlantes. : TRIBE } titles declare them, They mayall be called in Eng/i/2,either Doronicum according to the Latine name,for fo dog both Italians, Spaniards, French, Germanes;and‘Dutchmen ; or asl haveentituled them fippofed Wolfes banes, ee 5. Ranunculus nemorofusflore tusco, The yellow Wood Crowfoore, We both that che name may differ from the former Wolfes banes, and togive you to underftand that they ate but Sa \ fuppofed to be dangerous; becaufe as I faid before the outward forme of therootes,like unto Shrimpes or Score pions,andtheleaves roundlike untothe leaves of Sow bread or Cowcumbers, have caufed many to thinke them tobethe Aconites of Theopbrajtus and Diofcorides ; but Columna hath treated very learnedly hereofin the18, laces The Vertues. The trixé Doronicum is {aid to bea foveraigne Cordiall, and to refift the poyfon bothofbeafts and other deadly SSSsos P Sim Chapter ofhisBookeof Plants; whereuntoI referre you, for it were too tedious y torelate his fayings in thig medicines, to clenfe the breaft and ro helpe the cough, andto rid thofe humors, that canfe paines in the fides : but our Doronicum, although it be not the true of Serapioand Avicen, yetitisno Aconite, as Atatthiolzs and others ZS have fttppofed ; for as is before faid, both Ge/zer tooke it often, andagood quantitie at a time, eventwo drammes in powder, that he might find the operation ofit, yet foundno harmethereby ; and Vroede, ss Lobel SS faith tooke of it many times, without any harme ; but what efpeciall good they found byit, is not remembred for Ge/ner maketh not any merition thereof¢ yet the juyce thereof is found to be good, for thofe eyes that be hot and red, and full of paine,by reafon ofhot and fharpe rheumes,falling into them, to allay the heate, to take ae " way the redneffe, and to give cafe ofthe paines and prickingsin them. C/ufius faith that the hunters, and fhep= heards that live in the mouintaines of Auffria, doe noleffe ufe and commend the rootes of the third and fourth forts,here fer forth,( which grow with them morefrequently,thanthe others,at the leaft beft known untothem,) then they doe the rootes of the yellow Awriculaurfi, againft the {wimming or turning in the head, whichis a difeafe fubjeét to thofe places, rifing from the feare and horrour, offirch fteepe downefalls and dangerousplaces, which they doe and muft continuallypafle, in feeking for and hunting the wild Goates, and therefore théy therecall them Genffwsrtz, that is, Rupicapraria radix, as Clufins doth interpret it; and theré hath beene found their mawesa certaine ftone, called by Baxhinus, in his Treatife thereof Bezoar Germanicum, in thé middeft in of whichftones, fomeof the rootes have beene found almoft whole, which fheweth thatthey feede thereon wile lingly, without taking any harme thereby, and that the {tones bred thereon are Cordiall, and foufed : And ¥ doé not thinke but anyofthe other forts({eeing theyareall in forme,andplaces ofgrowing,one fo like unto another} iN INTE BISA ifttiall were fufficrently made,would performe the fame effe@. For the fixt fort here exprefled (whichas faid is called Caltha Alpina of fome, Aly/ma or Dantofoninmof others, and Doronicum Geranicum of.others, ofthe people inthe Alpes Adutterwurtz , as Iofias Simlerus faith, in his Commentarie ofthe Alpes, that is A4atricaria,Mother wort,which they have found,and do continually ufe to procure worhens courfes,andto eafe the paines and difeae fes of the mother)is very effectualagainft the poyfonofthe fith called Lepus marinns,as alfo the venemous biting of the Shrew, and the poyfon of a Toade;andis alfo profitable for them that have eaten Opium,in any dangerous ‘quantitie it is given with goodfiicceffe,to them that have the blondy flixe,or any other paines body or bowells, by reafon offharpe humoursgathered therein:it is alfo helpefull to thofe or gripingsin their that have convulfions Or crampes, and ach or paines in the joynts and finewes,. and is very powerfull to be taken with fome wilde Carrot fede, to expell gravell, or the {tone in the reines or kidnies,ifthe deco@tion thereofin the powderof the herbe and rootes be takenzit is applied alf outwardly, toeafe the paines wine or water, or and inflammations of apoftumes and fores : the flowers hereof dee procure neefings. Cuarm Ranunculus, Crowfoote? ipjHere are fo manyforts of Crowfeete, fome of the Woods, fome of the Med é Mointaines, fome ofthe Water, fome of the Rockes, and proceede in a methodicall manner, and to eafe myfelfe and fome of (RSagmare the Reader of too much prolixitie, and intricafie, Ithinke itbeft to diftineuith or divide them into feverall fo they may be the better oe and underftood, for otherwife formes or orders, that it would be toogreat 2 confufion, to huddle {o many together : and becaufe I have already fet forth in my former Booke. many forts, whofe flowers being moft beautifull and rare, werefittelt to adorne that Garden ; Ifhallnot needeto defcribe any of them againe in this worke, but referre you thereunto tobe informed of them: but in fhewing you the relt, I will give you thefigures offome ofthem, and of the every of them into their feverall order, and begin firft withAnemones which are neareft unto them, and fo bring thofé of the Woods, : Devifio prima, The fir Divifion. high : at the toppe ftandeth a white flower, confilting of*fixe white leaves, witha few yellowifh threds in the middle : the rooteis {mall and long like unto the other, 3. Ranunculus nemorofus florecarneo, The fingle bluth wild Crowfoote. The (ingle bluth wilde Crowfoote, is both for forme,of growing, inftalles, leaves, flowers, and rootes, like unto the former, fo that untill ic be in flower, there can hardly be any difference difcerned, but when the, fower appeareth, it fheweth it felfe much more reddifh on the outfide, and ofa faire pale purple, or blufh colour on the infide, which makethit a diltinét {pecies of it felfe, differing from the reft. 4. Ranunculus nemorofus flore purpureo ceruleo, The fingle purple Wood Crowfoote. rple kinde is alfo like the other, and differeth from themchiefely in the ftalke which is fomewhat he flower, whichis.of a pale purple blewifh colour, like untoa pale violet flower;none of thefe great fent, but yeta little, and more thanthe yellow kinde which followeth next. 2 Ranunculus netnorofus lyteus, The yellow wood Crowfoote, The yellow Wood Crowfoote groweth inthe fame manner that the former doe, and with fuch like (talkes of ey are not fo broad, norfo hard in handling, and are more deepelycut into more long andnarrower yet each alfo dented about the edges, efpecially towards the ends ofrhe leaves, and of a darker greene coIr; from berweene thefe ftalkes eaves, fhooteth forth fometimes but one, and fometimes two or three Ranunculi. nemorof, Wood Crowfeste; cut een edges into three parts, 2. Ranunculus nemorofus m'niwns albus, The lealt white Wood Crowfoote. This fmall wood Crowfoote, hath firch like leaves as the formerfingle white kind hatn dévided into three parts, andeach of theminto other againe, ftanding uponlittle long foore ftalkes, but they are much lefler, fo ves 1. Ransnculus nemorofiss albus Simplex, The finglé whité Wood Crowfoote: Baseat we wood ot wilde Crow foote, rifeth up with twoorthree ellesgheeas hand breadth high aciees che oe out into diverfe {mall knobs like branches, of a darke browne colour on the outfide, and white within, and of a fharpe biting tafle, enflaming the mouth, that the whole leafe hereof, is not muchbigger than one of the Divifions, or parts of the other: the {talke is verie {mall witha fewleaves thereon, intwo places more devided than the lower, little more than two inches Iy. outthe middle whereof,come forth ufually three ftalkes of leaves, middle,tipt with yellow, {tanding about a greene head,which in time growing ript,is fomewhatlike other heads of Crowfeeté, compofed ofmany {mall feedes fet together : the roote is ulually of the bignefle of a wheate ftrawftalke, not growing downedeepe, but creeping longwife under the upper cruft ofthe ground, {preading each being formewhat broad, ofafad greene colour, and dened alfo . the ftalke. rifech i= ee inches high,bearing at the toppe onefin ao e caves, fomewhat broad and almoft roundpogle flower, hanging downethe head for the moft parts inted, of alight blewith colour on the oufide, beforé AE be Dlowne open, but white afterwards, and mote white on the infide, having a few white thréds in the middle, lkes, with every one a flower thereon, fomewhat {maller than the former, confiftingof fixe ufually or of feaven, and fometimes of eight leaves, which are ofafaire pale yellowcolor, with manyyellowthreds in the midd eede and rootes are like the former : this hathas I faid leaft fent at all. Vnto thefe belong rhat fort Anemone gwfoote that Dadoneus callech Trifolia having theleaves parted into three, {nipt about trifoba ith bluth flower. bodonai, nculus nemorofus CMofchatella dittus, The Muske Wood Crowfoote. ote, hath three or foure flender pale greene {talkes ofleaves, fomewhat devided ar the a foote high,and not of halfe that height in oa places,very like unto thofe of the hi Ff ow |