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Show Cu aris Theatrum Botanicum. Trina pies at the top, wherein is conteined fich like {mall blackifh feed, as the former wild kind hath, but bigger the roote is {mall and long, with manyfibresthereat, and perifhethin the like manner after feedetime, ~° ” Crap, XVI. 2. Argemone capitulo longiore, Long headed Baftard wild Poppy. Hypeconm, The herbe Hypecoum of Diofcorides ; This is inal! things like the laft, bothfor leaves, flowers, and {eede, the chiefelt difference in this from the former coniifteth in the head with feede, whichislonger thenthe other, {maller below then above, yet having a little round headarthe top, butno crowne,and is rough and hard like it, m amerarius, Dodonews, Lobel, and others doe reckon this {mall plant as a fpeciés, Tehienge ald Cumin; and have referred itto with them, yet I dare notfo call it, becaufe I doe 3. Argemone Alpinalutea, Yellow mountaine baftard wilde Poppy. The yellowoutlandith mountaine baftard wilde Poppy, hath many{moothgreeneleavés, fet on fomewhat hairy long footeftalkes, an handbredth long, whichleavesare very much and finely cucon the edges, verylike unto tholeof the Coriander leated Crowfoote, from among whichrife up divers bare or naked ftalkes, yet hairy withall, of halte a foote high, at the toppes whereof ftand one flower a peece, of ameane fize, confiting of oure yellowleaves, with manywhitith threds in the middle tipt with yellow, ftanding about a {mall round and head, like the former kinde, wherein is contained {mall blackith feede ; the roote is {mall and long, and hreddyat the end. F = 4, Argemone Cambro-Britanica lutea. Yellow wild Baftard Poppyof wales. This yellow Poppy hath many winged large fpreade leaves,lying uponthe ground,that is, manyléaves fet together oneachfide of a middle rib,each divided leafe being fomewhat deepelycut in,in fume places of the edges more then cthers,of a dee; e,but faire greene colour:among thefc leaves rife up,divers branched ftalkes two foote having fome fuch leaves thereon, but {maller,at feverall diftances,and at the tops ofthe flalkes and branches yellow fomewhatlarge flower,confiling of toure round leaves, with manyyellow threds in the middle, anding about a long greene head in the middle, which whenthe flower is fallen,and the head ripe,is then larger then the former long headed wilde Poppy,but in the like manner {maller at the bottome and bigger at the toppe witha final head thereon,containing much {mall blacke feed lying within feverall cels, in the fame fafhion thar the other Poppies doe: the roote is long,and brownith onthe outhide, {preading into fome branches, and divers {mall fibres thereat,whichperifheth not every yeare,as the other forts before {pecified doe. The Place, The two firit are often found as well in Corne fields, in Semmerfet/bire,Kent.and other Countries ofthis land, as in the comnersand bordersofheldes, and bythe way fides, The third was found upon Sweberg a hill in Aufiria, as alfo onfomehils in Iraly. The laft groweth in manyplaces of Wales, in the valleyes and fields, at the foote of the hils, and by the water fides, abouta mile froma {mall village called Aé/ar,and in the midwayfrom Denbigh to Guider, the houfe of a worthy Gentleman Sir Joba Guin, as alfo neerea woodd enbridge,that giveth paffage ouer the River Dee, toa {mall village called Balam, whichisin North-Wales » and in going up the hill that leades to Ba ghor, asalfo nere Angle/ey in the wayto the {aid Sir Tohn Guiahis} houle, The Time, All of them doe flower aboutthe end of Ize, a nd in Z#/y, and the {ced isripe in Auguft,in fome placesearlier; andin others later. The Names, fre eaiied in Greeke WM pyeets ty Guia argemas, id eft, cculorum nubeculas tollit, in Latine alfo Argemone, after the Greeke word, P/iny in his 25. booke,and 9, Chapter calleth it Argemonia, and faith that theyin his time made three forts hereof, -whereof the beft was that, whofe roote did {mell like Francum/ence but a fome places he maketh mentionof foute forts,as in his 21. book, & 23. chap. hefaith,that Anemoneis called Avicme ne in his 2 book, & 19.chap. he faith that Lappa Canaria,whofe roote {melleth of Francumfence,was called Arrewees and i his 26 .book,& 6.chap. he faith Ingvinaria was called Argemone + in former times our ordinary Aovitllan "was ta ken for Argemonc, bucnowa darsall our moderne writersdo agree,that our Argemone is the {fame catDifcorides wrote of, notwithftanding that he giveth toit, around roote which ours hath not - fome coy ies have another fort of Argemone, which moft doe not holdright : the firlt of thefe is called by Lobel to ne s jal torulis canulato, wcalleth it Argemone capitulo treviore, and thinketh it tobe the fame Aha Lobel and , z,call Anemone minor Coriandri folio, flore Pulfatille capitulis hir[utis Ga i P apaver tosatis: The fecondis called by Lobel Argemone capitulo longiore,as Bauhinus doth alfo but he a keth it ethe Anemone Narbonenfis major corniculata of Eobeland Pena,in their Adverfaria whe b the judge ment ofthe beft, that 4xemone of theirs, is 7 Apavercorniculatum violaceum of Clufius Dodon LU 3 8d ‘ h ss a doth muchdiffer from this Argemode, both in bigneffe and colour of the ower and o the besd of Gade “that being much longer and f{maller-then this : Cordus jnhis Hiftory ofPlants, and 45 Chapter Gaiety cite forth by the name of Argemone, which Gefner who fer him forth knew not, becaufe Cordws faith ae gj oa yellow juice like Celondine: Thethird isfet forth by Pona in his Italidn'Baldus. and by Bauhinus in hie Pobane s and Pizex, under two titlesas twoforts, when asafluredly they are both but one: Thelaft was found as I fhewed you before in many places of Wales, by Lobel inhislife time, and therefore entituled jufily according to the Country, 4 The Vertues. 4 Diofeorides and Galen give unto this kinde of Poppie,a clenfing qualitie and fharpe, that it is able to clearethe {pots that happenin the eyes, and fuch miftes,filmes and cloudes, that growin them to hinder the fight, as alfo to affwage anyinflammations ; but others fay, that it helpeth the bloudy fluxe, the deco@ion ehereolboing made in water and drunke, as alfoif it be boyled in wine and drunke,is a prefent remedy againft the ftinging orbiting of any venemous beaft, and that twodrammes thereof taken in wine, wafteth the {pleene that is {wollen : being beaten whileit is freth, and applied to cuttes and woundshealeth them {peedily : applied alfo to any member vexed with crampesor convulfions, toany fores,cankers, or fiftulas, to any blackeand blew {pots in theface oron the eyes, by ftrokesor falles,doth helpe and heale them all: being bruifed and applied with vineger to the throat, healeth the quinfie,and applied to the place grieved with the gout taketh away the paine dhsear uickly: being rubbed upon Wartes, it doth in a fhort time confume them, and take them away. There is s rie remembred belongingto any of the two laltforts, Ms Roe CuaPe Cuar.16, The Theater ofPlantes. TRIBE 3 not finde either the face, or outward refemblanee thereof, nor yet the remperature and qualities, thoughtit to be any way anfwerable thereunto, but rather untothe Poppies, I have therefore to C/ufius, account fitteft to joyneit next unto them, and doe rather incline to the judgement of this plant to be the true Aypeocum of Diofcorides ; unto which I will alfo adjoyne another {mall that it ig plant, reckoned alfo by Lobel tobeof the kindes of wild Camin,which Imuft call another Hypeocum,in extravagant place, that kinde of {o like unto the other: And let me crave leave withall to infert here, asin an it alone. in regard it may not wild Cumin, whichis fo accounted ofmoft Writers, as not having a fit place tofet be joyned withthe true Cumin, which muft be intreated of among the umbellifers, and becatsfe this is in other d 7 ith the former, joy f to Clap, Ane ; ov,Mee legitimumClufi, The true Hypecoum of Diofcorides according 4 This fall plant hath diverfe long leaves lying on the ground,very much divided,and cut into many parts,of fomewhatnecre in the pale or whitifh greene colour, fo like unto Fumiterry in the colour of theleaves, as alfo regard it, but is {miller but flightly many divifions and parts thereof,that it will foone deceive one that doth recordeth 3 Inthe middle and thinner and more gentle in handling, yet is larger in Spaine than with us as Clufius brand diverfe ofthemrifech up a ftalke or two, with fomeleaves thereon, and divided towards the toppeinto than ches: at the toppes whereof {tand {mall yellow flowers, confifting offixe leaves, two whereof arelarger Hower is the reft,andftand one.oppofite unto another,thereft being very {mall and fcarfe difcerned,but whenthethe huskes blowen openzafter which doearife long crookedflat huskes or codsfull ofjoints, fomewhat oe {quare yelofthe Scorpioides of Marthiolus, but greater and longer: in the feverall joints leah4 everall {mall, and a lowifh {eede, very hardly to be taken forth, and feparated from the huskes or skinnes: the rome is very hardly made to fpring, but by an little ftringy, dying every yeare at the firlt a of Winter, andis fowing 3 ofthe plantis unpleafant. bre and nereofare are not foo btoad but that tthe the leaves hereof te the former, Epevamalirim: )is very like untopees et re ‘i eit hi i of Afarfeilles or wild Chervill ; the iarrenoe Headed ghalate unto the Sefeli or Hartwort flowers leaves, pointed made of = forth yellow ftallces are{mooth, full of leaves and branches, whereat come like the former, but joyn< andafter them long pods, which hang downe and ftand not upright: norare crooked Galega or Goates Rue. ted and with greater and yellow feedes within them,like unto thofe of Jen2 finely den2 v seach whereofis wing ed leaves,¢ach he eaten eearts ti long rough, or fomewhathard iverfe i i divided at the toppe inte eaeaeCo which rifeth upa flender weake bending ftalke, ftalkes pona {mall foote manyparts, each whereofhatha round we ee ost and woolly head or ball el like unto thofe of the Plane tree heads or balls, wherein 1s con5eeesciher cdl {mall feedes : the roote is {malland white and quickly Hypec © perifheth, with the leaftblaftes or dewes of cold nights, and feldome commeth to maturitie inour countrey, as Ihave often feene the experience my felfe. The Place. : 2 The twofirft groweth as well in Province, in the way to ‘Arles, Mompélier, and other places in France, asin diverfe Pro vinces ofSpaine as Clufins faith : the other as Lobel faith, groweth in the fameplaces in France, that the former doth ; the Taft he faith likewife groweth plentifully in Narbone about Aquas Sextias,and other places of Fraace. The Time. All thefe flower withus, not untill the midftof Sommer, and give their feede late, but the laft worlt as Ifaidg and feldome good althoughlate. The Names. 4 Diofeorides calleth an herbe in Greeke ¥enand vtecHype~ coum and Hypopheum, for whichthe Latines have no other name Hypecoum, after the Greeke ; yet there is great doubt among{t many, whatplant fhould be the right, fomethinking the ThaLiflrum minus to be it, others thinking the Argemone minor of Tragus ( which is the lefler Papaver Rheas) tobe it : Mate thiolus ( according to his manner, that whatfoever was obtruded unto him, and was not manifeftly contraditory, wasprefently prefented for right; no markes there of wanting) maketh the Alcea veficaria or Ueneta, which Lobel calleth Peregrina Solifequa tobe it, which have fet forth in my former Booke: And laftly C/zfzs, and from him Dodoneus propotnd this firft plant, for the true Hypecoum of Diofcorides; Clufias affirming that ofall the plants that he knew, there was not any that came nearer thereunto than this, unto whom rE mutt alfo confeut,for that neither the face nor the qualitie, as I |