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Show Cuar.22 Theatrum Botanicum. Herba Paris. T ripe 35 2, Herba Paris Canadenfis rotunda vadiee. Hebetrue love or one berry, The TheaterofPlantes. Cuar.23. The Names, This herbe Paris hath not beene knowne, tocither antient Greeke or Latine Writers, that wee canfinde ty their writings. It hath found therefore divers names, by divers of the moderne Authors, every One according Herbe true love of Canada witha round roote, ashis opinion and judgement ledhim: for although AMdatthiolws, Cefalpinus, Anguillara, Camerarius,Dodmew, and Lugdunenfis following them, doecall it Herba Paris, as it isnow generally termed of all Herbarifts; yer in the former times, Fu/chiws tooke it to be Aconitum Pardalianches, and to be deadly. or at leaft dangerous, whom Matthiolas contradi@eth, and Cordis in his Hiftory ofplants, feemethto be ofFud{chvs opinion, calling it Aconi= tumfive Pardalianches monococcon, but becaufe it was found by good experience nottobe hurtful, bat belpefull, Tabermontanus calleth it Aconitum falutiferum, Somecalled it Uva ver[a. Tragus not knowing any Latine name, that otherscalled it by, giveth it the name of afer, from his owne countrie people, whocalled it Sternkranr, but he addeththereunto,/éd on Atticus, becanfe it might be knowne, he did not account it the e4ffer Atticus of Diofcorides, and others : he alfo calleth it Uva lupina, afier the Germane word Wolffibeer, whereby theyin other places ufirally call it ; as.alfo einbeer : the Italians call it Herba Paris ; the Spaniards Centelha ;the French Raifin de Reinard ,the Dutch Wolfebefien, and Spinnecoppen, Gefner in hortss Germanic, and Lebeland Pexain their Adverfaria, callit Solanumtetraphyllon, fromthe forme ofthe leaves and berries, or both, and Bauhinus as leaning unto Solanum triphyllam their judgement, calleth ir Solanum quadrifolinm Bacciferum. The fecond Banhinus calieth Brafilianum ; and \ Herba Paris triphyllos Brafiliana, becaule I doe not account the Herba Pare to be any kinde of Solanum, Thelalt Cornutus calleth Solanum triphylinm Canadenfe. The Vertues, Although fome formerly did accountthis herbe tobe dangerous, if not deadly, as by the name of Aconitum;it may be gathered, becaufe the formethereof bred in them {uch afufpition, yet havenot fet downe any evill Sym- & other creatomesthat it wrought, and therefore Pena and Lobel {ay,they made much triall thereof upon dogs, tures, to finde out whether it would worke any dangerous effeéts unto them, but did not fee any harme come to them that had eaten it,and therefore upon report ofthe contrary effect it would worke, they made trialllikewife thereof upon two dogs,to whom wasgivenofArfenicke and Sublimatumsofeach halfe a drammein meate,unto one of them,aboutan houreafter their taking of it,when their furions & foming fits were over,that they become more quiet, as if they were ready to die,there was given one of them,two drammes of the pondercalled Puluss Saxonicus, ( the receipt whereof hereafter followeth) in red wine, whoprefently therenpon grew well, the other dying without helpesthereceiptaf the pouder is thus.Ref.Radicwm Angelica fative & [ylueftris Vincetoxici, Phufive Valeriane majorit, Polypodij quercini, Althee & Urtice ana unciam dimidiam, Corticis Meferei Germanic, & cortice in drachmas duas, granorum herba Paridis numero 24.. Foliorum ejufdem cum toto sumero 36.6% radicibus aceto maceratis,fiecatis ut cateris @ mixtisfiat omnitempulvis: the leaves or berries alone arealfo effectuall, to ex pell poifonsofall forts, but efpecially that of the Aconites, asalfo the plague and otherinfections difeafes: it Author hath beene obferved faith AZatthiolus, as well from my owne experience, a8 from Baptijta Sardu, the that enlarged the Pandeds , that fome have beene holpen hereby, that havelyen long in 4 lingring fickneffe, and others that by Witcheraft (asic wasthought) were becomehalfe foolifh, 23 wanting their witsandfences; by them leffer then they ; inthe middle whereof ftandeth a round darké purplith button with eight {mall yellow mealy chives or threds, which three colours ey it the meee:aes to behold = this button or head in the middle, when the other leaves are withered, becommetha blacki@ pur ie berryfullofjuice, of no hot nor evill, nor yet ofany fweetith tafte, of the bicnefle ofa reafonable sag Fes ving within it many white feedes: the whole plantis almoft infipide, without any manifeft talte He the effGs, in reprefling humours and inflammations is accounted as cold as the Nightfhade Pate ee Herba Faris triphyllos Brafitiano, Herbs trac love of Brafil, ; ; The roote ofthis herbeis {mall and creepeth like the other,fending forth a lender ftalké of fouwé or five inches high, having th: ec broader and longer leaves fet thereon, then arein the foriner,the ftalke rifethabout three inches the taking adramme of the feedes, or the berries hereofin pouder, every day for twenty dayestogether, were have the like perfectly reitoredto their former good eftate, and health: the leaves dried and given in pouder, procure fleepe,being taken at night in drink: operation, yet in a weaker manner;it is thoughtalfo that the berriesbeing taken ig wine: the leaves are very effethe rootes in pouder eafe the paines of the collicke incontinently, to Qtuall,as well for greene wounds, as to clenfe and heale up old filthy ulcers and fores, and is very powerfull difcuffeall tumours and {wellings,andto allay all inflammations very {peedily,as alfo thofe tux oars thathappen and in the cods, privyparts, or inthe groine : the juyceor diftilled water ofthe leaves, taketh awayof alltheheate hands or inflammationin the eyes: the fame leavesalfo ortheir juyce applied to fellons, or thofe nailes {pace, fhort themina toes, that have empoltumesorfores gathered together arthe rootes of them, healeth above them,bearingat the top three machnarrowerleaves,as it were the huske to the flower, {tanding i aie mid- Cuar. XXIII. dle, confifting ofthree whi:e leaves having fome veines istthem, and are about three inches long pi broad 3. Herba P aris Canadenfis rotundaradice, Werbetrue love of Canada witha rand cRate ihe. Biftorta, Biftort or Snakeweede. This herbe groweth with three large leaveslike the laft, and at the toppeof the upper ftalke one flow fifting offixe leaves, three whereofare greene and mall, whichare as it were the huske to the other thr al my rfe forts of Biftorts, fomé being of late, others of elder account. 1, Biftorta major valgaris.CommonBiftorte or Snakewecke- bbe are OP - a eye colour, and in fome white, in the middle whereof seowreth Biea pesfull ee mall round blackifh berry, of {mall feedes like Nightfhade Nigh 4 i feede : the roote hereofcreepeth not z‘as the fore ie sean nt ralte,with divers blackifh dith within,a little crooked or turned together, ofan harfh oraftringe long foore —— fibres growing thereat, from whence {pring up every yeare divers. leaves ftanding upon The Place, 1¢ firit groweth in our woods and copfes, as alfo fometimesin the corners grounds, invery many places of this land, for befides thofe places which ncniesas moft all wafted and confumed, every onerunning thereunto, that isnext him, and gatherin it : it is fied in Etnbury wood, three mile from CMaideftone'in Kent, ina wood alfo called Harwarjh ate Rinks den heathy one mile from the faid AZuid-fFane, in a wood by Chiffelburft in Kent, called Long wood and dithe i t wood thereunto called I/eets wood, efpecially about the skirts of a hoppe garden bordering thereon ina woud alfo over againft Boxely Abbay a mile from A4aide/tone in great abundance, notfarre from the hedge fide of Tet Med- dow,through which runnesa rivelet,related by Mr.George Bowles a young Gentleman, GPetl knowledge in thefe things, The fecond was found as Bawhinws {aich in the woodsofBrafil but I had the knowledge thereof given me from Mounfier Loumean of Rochell Preacher ,who had it out of Canada Canada, and mentioned by Coruntm in his booke ofCanada plants. The laf was br A t out of ‘ fomewhet rede This commonBiftort hath a thicke fhort knobbed roote, blackith without; and ftaikes, being {ome what long and broad, very like unto a Docke leafe, anda little pointed at the ends, but thatit underneath, hais of a blewith greene colour on the upperfide,and ofan Afhcolour gray, anda litetle purplifh ving divers veines therein ; from among which rife up diverfe {mall and flender ftalkes, two footé high, almoft naked and without leaves, or with very few,and narrower, bearing a {pikie bn fh of pale fleth coloured flowers, whichbeing paft, there abideth {mall {eede fomewhatlike unto Sorrell feede but greater. rootese - 2. Bifforta magisintorta radice, Biftort with more crooked This Bitort differeth not much from the former, being a little leffe, both in leafe and rooté, which aré more writhed and crooked than the former ; the Spikie flowers, &c. are equall alfo, almoft untothem, andfo is the three fquare feede. 3. Bifforta Alpina majora, Great Mountaine Biftort rine i i o ° Pte ypingPi ;ieee ‘i Aprill, or May, and are in flower foone3 after, the berries aréFs ripe in the end of , The great Biftort hath many very long andpointed leaves, of the fame colour with the firft, both above and underneath, fome ofa cubite ora foote and a halfe long and but narrow in comparifonof the length, being about three inches broad, thefeftalkes rife almoft twife as high as the firft, almoit bare without leaves thereon, which The che firft, bur ger than the common fort, blacke’without, with ‘nany blacke fibres at thera,but not fo red withinas Tey focingapinte mid Te ae 1 ae foure times bigare much fmaller, bearing a {pike of blufh flowers, foure inches long at the toppes : the rooteis rather whitifh. ; 4. Biftorta 391 |
