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Show ee 74 _Cwmar.g. Tbeatrum Botanicum. ; T rise Ze The Vertues. The firltof thefe kindes, being ofno fharpe or biting tafte,is held robe harmeleffe; for the Gersianes as Tragus faith, ufe to eate it familiarly among other herbes : but the others are fharpé and doe exulcerate the skinne, efpecially the fift kinde more thananyof thereft, and therefore not to be ufed inwardly in any cafe; the fecond TR 152.3. 7 The Theater Plants. Renunculus Montanus bamilior albus fimplex @ duplex. Cuar.4. Ranguculus Montanns albus minor firplex, Theleficr fingle whise mauncains C rowteot, Single and double cow white mountaine Crowfoote, and third forts here expreffed, are oftentimes ufed to bé laid to the wrifts of the hands, to driveaway. agues, the leaves being bruifed, with a few cornes of bay falt, and a little glaffe of windowes, beaten finall and mixed to. gether, Cameramms faith that they in Germany wfed to apply the roote ofthe fift kindeto plague fores, todraw them to matutity and breake them, yet ie is nd other likely but the will breake tumiotits and draw impoltaimies being wifelyapplied other fharpe rootes will doe thellike, for they fharpe, doe difeuffe and diffolve hard tumorsin any part ofthe ; and Tragus faith, that even thofe that are not body, being-applied a peeceof the round Tootegd Crowfoote pur betweene thofe teeththat doc ake, or into an hollow rooth, taketh awaythe paine,bar nee} times, iveitherbreaketh thofe tharare hollow, rh@finger, bycaitfing more painetherein, thanis fele, by or caufeth themtofall out: fome write,that applied to the touthach, it taketh away the paine :.the decoction the leaves ofthe field Crowteere, healeth {cabs and of the places; itislikewife ufed to ftay the falling of the haire,itch, but they muft not be fuffered to abide long upon the the head being wathed therewith, being made Warme, butnotto reft thereon above twoorthree hout es, and then wafhed off with frefh warme water: itis alfo that ifthe roote be bruifed, and applied unto a faid foule ulcer, it will clenfe and take awayall the filthy and corrupt matter therein, leaving the fore faire tobe healed up with other convenient things, but it mut notlie long to the fore let it worke too forciblie:all thefe tharpe Crowfeete, have the fame Operation to take away the fcabbed ruggédneffe of nailes,markes,pots,and wartes, or blemifhes in theskin,and all the. other properties to<thefe forts “of Crowfeete, mentioned in the attributed former divifion : befides being ‘mixed with fwines dung, they breake Seropbulor, or the {mall kernells under the cares, and of the necke called the Kings Evill, and ape plyedto the Hemorrhoides or piles that {welland bleede hand mnift it be applyed to thofe that are openandbleede.not, helpeth to difcufle or take them away:but in no Thediftilled water of the herbe; whilft ic is in flower, worketh fafely to all the purpofes aforefaid, and as fome report is given with good fiicceffe fome Holland pouther,or the/pecies called inwardly, with Lithontribon, to provoke urine when it is ftopped, and to breake the {tone ; the dryed rootes of moft of them madeinto pouther,and putinto the nofe procureth necfing, Pivifio tertia, The third Divifion, 5 Ss 14 Ranunculi Montani, Mountain e.Crowfoote. O F fomeof thefe Crowfeete I have entre ated in my former Booké, by the name humitior, of two forts, and is the of Ranunculus montanus fimplici, which is the fecond figure here, firlt {mall figure fet here alfo, Ranunculus montanus albus minor lore and the doubl e fort among the other garden forts hereafter. Ranunculus Thalittriand Rutaceofolioboth in one Afphodeli radice the fourth:and Razun figure, being the third in placeand then Ransneulus Thal¥étrifolio minor culss Sratuineus lore Luteo mplici oan defcribed : but there are a gteat & duplici the fift, which are not here manyother forts which I will here bring to your confideration and {peake of them. VP. Ranuntalus montanus maximus albus, The greater white Monntairie Crowfoote. The great white Mountaine Crow foote differeth ftom theleffer fingle white fet forth in my former booke (whof mountaine Crowfeete that that the leaves ofthis Crow foote,beine figure I give you here in the fecond place ) chiefly in thefe thingsis g fomew hat hairy and very large, are dividedto the ftalke into and each ofthem fomewhat deepel five arts, ier but larger and ftanding uponfooteftalkedented about the edges, refembling the leaves of the Globe Chdwicon s, : thatar e : hairy anda foote longalmoft: the maine ftalke great and hairy,bare almoft ofleaves : is fomewhat unto the top, where it brancherh out the joynt three large leaves;much ‘into flowers, under whi more divided the footeftalk very large and white,confilt g as afingle ing ; i tet Tanches, each fuftaining about which ftand¢ eth the flowe r, contiiting of five round under fide, andabout the edge leaves of a pur lifh colour s of the infide, but pure whit onthe e on the reft of the infide threds in the middle, about a gree satin many ne head, which beareth yellow y Yi bee fet on pretty és, , bebéibs therein, but more poin long footeftalkés ted at the ends,not deving throughthe length ofthem, and confifting offive whiter ; head, which afterwards growiwee ng Tipe thé foote is compofed of many white firings or fibrés, faftned to a head which Biscwte hairy, and abideth many yeares, but the leaves perifh quite in the end of Summer, and are renewedin the brits 4. Ranunculns Pyreneus albvs duplex. Double white Crowfoote of the Pyreneanhills. i This Crowfootedifferethlittle from the laft butin the fowers which are not fo many together, and confift f white leaves, ; F ‘ ofa aeae montanus Betonice foliis, Mountaine Crowfoote with Betonylike pakiij del This {mall Crowfoote hath divers leaves rifing from the roote, fomewhat broad and long na: veines which makeit feeme rugged every one upona little fhort footeftalke, roundly dented al mae 3 .S acs and round at the point or end, very like nnto the leaves of Berony, but that they are fenaller, of a ie a greenecolour on the upperfide, and ofa filver white fhining colour underneath : the flender a f :a rifeth up in the middle ofthofe leaves, doth {carfe exceede the length of ones hand,. bare oe na 2 itee aay, row 6) hor! ler, confifting of five {mall whiteleaves, pointed at the ends with fome yellow threds in the mi — i mont a a Crow foote hathfoure or anus Pennai. The great purple mountaine Crowfoote. five or more very large and hairy leave arity Soe pas ote ene s, rifing fromtheroote, fet upon devidedinto five or tkewife about tthe t edges,and and o a darke ereene colour onbe more parts,deepely cut in unto the middle, dented ? upper fide, and gtayiith;or as it were neath, among which rifeth upa i hoar:y under= {trong round hollow fal e; hair y alfo, about a yard high, bear at thetop much diyided, and from thence {;preadeth into a or a ing a leafe onely 2 {mall leafe or two, or me 3 (a me Nk PSS Ieavesuntothe top, wheréit beareth one-flower onely, like unto the laft defcribedfingle about a greene head,w long, butasit were bitten off in the halfe, with many long black ae ifh rings hanging thereat 2. Ranunculus many feede : the roote is compofed ofma nylongfibres or ftrings, and flatti(h and blackifh 6 hairy atit were art : 3 os i ‘folio, Plantaineleafed Crowfo ote, oote e hath ha three or foure leaves a ifing e Co a five {mall sreene leaves under it, as a huske whereinitis fet : the feede is conteined in a {ma el ie ee unto other Crowfeete : the rooteis a {mall tuft of white Fibres, fomewhat like unto heee : ser ” whole plant both leaves and roores are bitter, with an exceeding aultere or aftringent bine ing3 = " re 1 is judged not tobe hurtfull or offenfive, butrather acceptable tothe ftomacke, and maybe profitable for moylt, and cold oid difeafes difeafes nsthereof, Ranunculus graminens oie bulbous, The bulbed grafleleafed Crowfoote, ; gts This bulbed eraffeleafed Crowfooté hath divers very long and narrow, fmooth,grayifh, gre Cr Le. what hairy atthe bottomeé, and with fome long veines therein ; from among whichrifer +J a oi aires about a foote high, with two fimall long leaves thereon, not branched atall, but bearing one jae 1 — five greene parts, onefall faire fhining yellow flower, like unto other Crowfeete, as nee : on ing ; i is fomewhattnd round 8 at manyfet together on a long head, and every one pointed with acrooked end :2 the rootte ear the bottome, with along necke upward, covered with a blackifhhairy coate or coreg: rose i ‘ ee and round Fibrés growing underneath, thicker at the endsthenat the heads with Gm od £pf RE ae end of them ; within thatouter hairy coateis found a rolnd bulbous roote, like nto that o Flagge the one fer uponthé other which was the elder,and feemedas sore are <, ig 7. Ranunculus gramineus perfoliatus, Thoroughleafed graffe towfoo ws eit This {mall thoroughleafed graffe Crowfoote oy a bai ate irpe) i er we2 preene graflieléaves, abouttwoincheslong, yes fomewhat bro 3 ft fe up chefalke.(carfe higher then thelcaves, havingtwolongleaves about peraeyrearssigagioweae finan : : 3 y yellowith ddl hath many fegdes fet together,threds iin th likeunto divers eran ofS eoeiiee! thé bottome and. compaffing the ftalke,like unto thar {mall kind of yellow Centory, that - effet, which brancheth it felfe atthe top, bearing twoorthree very fall greenifh yellow . * i offive broadd€aves,fomewhatfoulded inwartd,ahd not layd Pew ere aa 2 Ll, but likeunto fully open : the head of {cede is {miall, thé |
