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Show Cu ap.2t. 1, Ajclepits flere alto. Sveallove-wort with white flowers. a. ias faith and long as it cetoxicum, Forfirft concerning the leaves,to be like Ivyejas Diofcorides peradventure as he faith, by the fight Oribafins as he faith hath it notfo ; and (Marcellus doth thereunto agree,led had no Se SEWsie = Cuwar.22. It is generally by the moft Dutch Swalnwe wortel, andin Englifp Swallow-wort,and of fome filken Cicely: tobethe trite Afclepias of Diofcorides, ale writers, and moft judicious Herbarifts nowadayes, acknowledged F xchfius that faid it was Vinthough Anguillara doubtethofit; and Matthiolus denieth it and contefteth againtt isinfome copyes, but ft Swallow an ne ie pe >» The Theater ofPlants. Trine. Theatrum Botanicum, copies, the leaves being like unto Bay leaves,butfharperpointed ;fecondly that the flowers of fomeancient laitly ,che feede was nor like thofe (trong or evill fent; thirdly that the leaves and rootessdid not {mell {weet ; and and reafons are oN Sige SN) exceptions ofPelecinum Securidaca,the Hatchet Fetch;all which D odonzm retorteth faying,all his unto ; for inthe de~ but I may {ay all Diofcorides his comparifons are not fo ftricktly to be ftucke nothing worth, as all know they are morelike the cods {cription of the cods of Apocynum,he {aith,they are like Beane cods;when like thofe of Ivy,unto whom QL) SY are of Oleander +. and in the deicription ofthe leaves of Periclymenum hefaith they things : Concerning the rootes, they arein all mens judgement very little like, and foin a number of other re772s tenxes, but whichofthem Marthiolw {aith,chat an ancient Manufcript hath not the word 72s multas,but hathhis fence of fmelbothis taken doth not much alter the matter + bucthat they are not {weete, no manthat for the evill fmell he feele their fent, as they grow naturally in the Mountaines ; and ling perfect, canfay fo, if : and for the feede aithough of the flowers, the word 6: puo7# virus redolens, is not inall thingsofone equality like it, Pains ( olamna as it 1s fer itbe notas {quare asthe Securidaca, yet is flat, andin colour and bignefle Apocynum of Diofcorides:and Lobel alfo caldownein the Chapter before,tooke the /talian Afclepias, to berather clambereth like a Periploca, or teth the blacke Swallow-wort Periploca mimor,belike becaufeit rifeth higher,and the chiefett note, more then the white : or peradventure becaufe ofthe blacke flowers,but I {hewed you before ons of thefe plants by toknow A/elepias from Periploca or Apocynum. Thereis little variation in the denominati fome by the other name, and thereanywriters, morethenis here expreffed, fome calling them bythe one, and xy a ih Py Hi fore not worthy further trouble, \ ; The Vertues, as is faid before, againit thé The footes havea mot foveraine quality againft all poyfons, but in particular venemous bealt, or ftunge by any Apocynum or Dogsbane; It is effe@ually given to any that are bitten by any halfe thereof taken in Serpentor other Creature ; asalfo againft the biting ofa mad dogge, a dramme andaagainft the Plagne oy PeCardus Benediélys water, for divers dayes together : Itis taken alfo in wine everyday il iy a> —> is very effeétuall againft all the paffions of the {tilence: adramme thereof takenin Sorrell or Bugloffe water and meafure, it eafethall the-griping heart, if a few Citron feedes be taken therewith, taken in the fan¥e manner white wine, taken for divers dayes together, a paines in the belly : thedecoction of therootes, made with < the fame alfo helpeth the jaungooddraught ata time, and fweating prefently thereupon cureth the dropfie lunges: the powder of the rootes ofthe cheft and dife, provoketh nrine, andeafeth the cough and all defects feede or the rinde of Pomecitrons taken wich Peony feede, is good againft thefalling fickeneffe, or with Baffill or Fraxinella, ballard Dittany, will is good againlt Melancholy : and taken with the rootes of Di&tamnys albus things, made for kill and expell the wormesofthe maworbelly «the rootes are very effectually ufed with other the de- them, like darke couple but ffomewhat h fmaller then they :_ the flowers ‘ ¢ havingfuch ing 1 greene ene leaves fet byy couples, liké-; — in the fame fafhion, bat fomewhatfmaller alfo and of fo darkea purplifh ore that Cee - acke, and are {carfe difcerned unleffeone looke very catneftly upon them: after which come more plen_a a - the — _ like ae. ve a white filver downe, and feedes in themas in the former: the roc eofare not fo bufhye asin che other, neither {mell fo ftrong, nor dothit give iki ; juice whenit is broken, fo farreas ever I could obferve, “4 ENS Eva tects abies: Cretica, Swallow-wort of Candy, 1s Candy Swallow-wort, rifeth up in the fame fafhion that the former doe, with many flend it 4og eer with leaves fet at the joynts, on citherfide, a3 the white kinde hath, and ate varylikeco " mM; enema ofa paler greene colour ; the flowersftand in the fame manner, three or fonte together — alke, but are fomewhat ofa paler white colour, not fo white as they, to. whomfucceede fometimes es oe but moft afnally two podstogether, which are thicker and fhorter then thofe ofthe white kinde, ftrae = along, and double forked at the ends, wherein lye feedes and filke asin the former : the rootes have not any ftrings asthelaft, and have as wellas the reft ofthe Plant, a ftrong fmell refembling Boxeleaves The Place. | The :twofirlt grow inn rough i mountaines iadt 7 b ;‘Marfriles and 4 g ghuuntilled Pp places sandt in ; uneanes in divers Pp places, 9» both in in Fra: France about Narbone, = They all f ompelier, and in Italy alfo, andin other places. The laft grew in Candy from whencethefeed The Time, sei and rt ae' the moneths of Tune and uly, and fometimesnotuntill Aucuft, ifthe yeare be backeward, the feedeis ripe about a moneth after :_ the empty huskes abiding on the dry branches, 2 when s With feed and and fil fhed ont, and fallen on the ground, or blowne away with the wind, filkeis ; ; The Names, Tris called in Greeke d dottores medicing antigno the n or from n Greeke dmnavmtis Afclepiasab eifculapio, qui deanmas Gracis diciturand thereupo fome baftard kencea —_ it hath alfo, as “on quae hederula, and woesin07bedevefolinm : A/élepias and Vince~ cae sie likeunto Ivy: Ruelliys calleth it Hederalis, in Latineitis called ufually wibichisasa generall word to denominateany Counterpoiton, for Uincetoxicum quali Alexipharmacim eezicwm, ofCheMae ee acerfps venena vis infitsit was anciently called Hirundinaria,(although boththe kindes ipa Air wine: bealfocalled Hirundsnarias ) offome, quia acute & aperte ¢jus filique, cum cana led Swalloes SOanEe fhee imiforefimilis est, ali, vero.alemine lanugine pinnato, itadiciainnt: that is, itis cal« are open ; and the filke appeareth out of thems loe GaetaecticbiesS. nen the pointed cods when they of the feed, fethered as it were with likenefle the from fay others flying; Swallow ea :i 'aboutit thedowne ut it it is called in lealian Venti. taffica & Afclepidde, in high Dutch Schwallen wurtz, in oud d the Date their courfes: bathes for women tofit in, or over, to eafe all paines ofthe mother, and to bring downe to helpe thofe thar cottion likewife of the rootes hereof,and of Cumfrye made with wine,is much commended the powder of the are burlten or have arupture, alfo for them that haye beene bruifed by a fall, or otherwife: wherefoever, then ulcers and fores rootes ot leaves, is no leffe effe@uall to clenfeall putriderotten and filthy Unguents and Lotions, made for the rootes ofAri/Polocbia or Birchwort, and may fafely be ufed in all falves, and made intoa pultis, fuch purpofes, in the ftead thereof, the onefor the other : the leavés and flowers boyled asalfo fuch evill fores and applyédto the hard tumoursor fwellings of womens bréafts, cureththemfpeedily, is found in the cods of as happen in the matrix, although theybe inveterate or hard tobe cured: the downe that pillowes or the like, thefeherbes, as well asin the Dogs bane, doe makea farre fofter ftuffing for cufhions or purpofes. like the fomeplacesfor in ufed much is which then Thiflledowne, Crap. XXII. Herba Paris. Werbe True love or oneberry. 96 Gdes the ufualland knowne Herba Paris, |havetwo othér herbeslike thereunto, to bring to your 4 up the roome here. ) confideration, whichI thinkeis fit to take love hatha {mall creeping roote, of a little binding, but The ordinary Merba Paris,or Herbe true of the ground, fome9 unpleafant loathfometafte, running here and there, under the upper crult the. roote of the white r then ” what like a Couch graffe roote, but not fo white, and not muchleffe fhooting forth ftalkes creeping: in, thereunto like much but colour, darkea as of t wild Anemone, andalmof ftalke being fmooth without joynts, with leaves, fome whereof carry no berries, and others doe, every, if it beare berries (for moft commonlythofé and blackifh greene, rifing to the height ofhalfe a foote at the moft, ferdirectly one againft another in that bearenone, doenotrife fully fo high) bearing at the toppe fonre leaves, knot, whichate eachof them a part manner ofacroffe, oralace, orribben, tyed asitis called, inatrue Loves as in others, s twice as broad fomewhat like unto a Nightfhade leafe, but fomewhat broader (yea in fomeplace and fometimes forit will much vary,) fometimes having butthree leaves, fometimes five, and fometimes fixe, {mallet and fometimes larger, either by a quarter or halfe, oras I faid before, twife as great:, I have feene it haye beene dented in, both sat the alfodegenerate, that the foure leaves being twife as large as the ordinary, greater berries then the ordinary ) all . edges and points, which have beene parted orforked, (and have borne of thofe foure leaves, there rifeth whichare of a frefh greenecolour, not dented about the edges: in the middle openlikea ftarre, conup fmall {lender ftalke about an inch high,bearing at the toppe thereofone flower f{pread greene colour,and foure otherlying between; fiting of foure fmall and narrow long pointed leaves,ofa yellowifh then 3 . |