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Show Lheatrum Botanicum. liet ee os aie Pris BeA, Trise 4. The Vertues, Thethree firlt kindes are hot and dryinthe are both moft (and I thinke onely)ufed,the fecond degree, as all diureticke things for the. moft part are, and reft either nor atall or very feldome, which not found to be halfe fo efteCtuall,as if-they. Should, they are any of them,which are accounted to be ofas fingular force to breake the ftone, and to avoidit and the gravell, engendred either in the reines or bladder, as alfo to provoke mine andto helpe the Rtrangury or making of water being flopped, greatelt ufe,and chiefly ufed to be bruifed and by drops, as anyother herbe or feede whatfoeyer : the feede is of boyled in white wine, or in broth or the like, orthe powder ofthe feede takenin white wine. or in brothor thelike,as a barley creame or Amond milke,made with the kernells of the foure greater cold feedes,and the feedes of Gromell boyled in the Barly-water,is both a pleafant, feGtuall medicine for the ftone,to bedrunk in fafe, andef. the morning fafting,for three dayes together, withthe fits thereof, this is probatum upondivers; whenyouare troubled Afatshielus faith, that if a dramm and a halfe of the feed ofcach of the Gromells(the greater and the lefler he meancth, )halfe a dramme ofSpleenwort or Miltwalt,and two feryples of white Amber,being alkmade into powder,mixed together and takenfor many dayes together fatting, in thejuice of Plantane,Purflane, and Lettice, is fingular good to helpe the Gonorbea or tunning of the reines.: two drammesalfoofthe feedein powder, taken with womens breafts milke,is very effe@uall to Procurea livery,toifach womenas have fore paines {peedydeintheir travaile,and cannot be delivered faith ALattbiolus,he hath holpen many women ; for in thofe cafes:the herbe it felfe,when the withthis onély medicine ther boyled,or the juice thereof drank, is efecual feede is not to be had,eitoall the purpofes aforefaid,but not fo powerful peration,the deco¢tion alfo,to be bathed or or {peedy in ofomented, asalfotofitin, is much commended medy. for an outward re- The Theater ofPlants. a 1. Filipendula major. \ dula aide, 3 + Filipenae The palercommonFitiperdala, The keffer Fitipendula, f HN AD Es SAW Pas Yh s RUS O4) \ sa ia “ WS OKAe y a‘ wu Se eca Uy Cu ap, 9, v4 iehf yeshee 28S5 Cuap IX, Filipendila. Filipipendula, ox Droppewort. F this Filipipendula or Droppewort, there -hath fetteth forth one greater, and Baxbinvs hath beene formerly knawne but one k ind, Lugduneups added thereunto another much lefler 3 Dodon € and others, have called another plant Filip eusLabel endula montana, whichClufie calleth elett y pinasasa {pecies thereof,butI dare not orolophos Alin rootes,or flowers, or feede, and buta allow oftheir opinions therein, not finding them to agree, little in leaves: I will therefore {peak the ordinaryforts, and of the other sinth e in this Chapter of e next, but for the Oenanthes (as they are fo calied) and by that name knowne tous in thefe dayes, becau fe they be rather umbelliferous plants, I thinke it that Claffis of umbelliferous plants, with the to ipeake ofthem in other Saxiffages that are of that Tribe, fitter then joyne them together withthefe, 1. Filipendula vulgaris. Common or ordinary Filipendula, This Filipendula Chooteth forth divers long wingedleaves, that is, many {mall leave Icfier, fer on each fide ofa middle ribke s, {ome bigger and fome , and each of them dented about the edges,fomewhar refem and wild Tanfy, orratker Agrimony,or ber up one or moreftalkes, alfo divided into other branches, {prea ding at i y i five leavesa peece, With fomethreds in the ing f Ss, middle ofthem, ftanding together ina {mall footeftalke, which after they have abiden a good while open and blowne,do tuft or umbell, cach upon a ces appeare {mall round chaffyheads like e falla ns, wherein are the chaffy feed {et and placeway, and intheir plaofmany {mall blacke tuberous peeces,fattbutto d, the roote confifteth ened together by many {mall long blacki(h one unto another, firings, which runne from 2. Filipendulaaltera major. ; Another great Filipendula, This other Fil, pendulais {o like the former flowersat the toppeofthe ftalke, are of a in the leaves, that it can fearfe be dif erned from the other, the white enclining toa parple, madeof five after which the heads beare round and leaves a peecelike the other, blackith feede within them,the rootes are v. ry many,and fomewhat longet and whiter, enclining to redneffe, bntfaf tned togetherbylong ftrings and fibres.as the former, 3. Filipendula minor, Small Filipendula, The {inal Filipendula hath twoor three fuch and more neerely refembling the wild Tanfy like leaves asthe former,tifing from the roore,but much fmaller, Jour with the former ; from among which leaves, but not whiteas they are, but of the fame darke greene co, the ftalke that is {carfe an handbredth Withoutdivifion therein, and fometimes alfo high,a parted into twoor three other branches 3 rifeth up fometimes {maller white fweeter Sowers then the whereon {tand many former, but with thred s therein likethem, and fet together in an umbell in the fame manner; after whichcom e the feede, many fet together, formed almof grapes, the rootes are many, and glandnlouso unto a fmall bunch of r tuberouslike the former, but {mallter like therby ftrings like them, and redder, yet tyed togeThe Place, The firft iscommonin many places ofthi neare Sicin the meddowthere, asalfo in thes Land, as well upon and about St. Vincents rocke, by Bristow,and cond as Lugdunenfis faith, groweth on the corners of dryfields and meddowes, and their hedges fides, the fe toppes ofverycold mountaines, the laft was stoundsabout ALompelicr, foundin the {tony rough The Time, intaine opinion proving as he thinketh, every Puchi soet ini tilagainit ime ane = Fu/chiws i Matthiolus, i ¢ I of Did/torides His helen part i AZaithiolus his affertionsi will hold good ne ee and Lobel that oe Fil; aes bs not with Dio/corides his Ocnanthe, efpecially in the feedes, forf is fac a Pen. take Barieee canalter or ainefay, Itis called waters Eph, i pene: aeiefSs spayit ofall lnc modernebecaule os te Nun, sal ex dere videantur, fome write Philipendsla, Nicholaus Adyrep fat eeehePhe Aiken of. Pliny, whereof he maketh mention in his 26. booke, and i; tistsbet itis ane fll: the Italians and Spaniards callit Fihpendula, andthe French Filipende and Fnee ts Be ‘ men§ cist nh aa shatis, red breakeftone, ‘fee from whence camethe Latine name among them Saxi, fraga rubra, ve aes, i thatis Millefolizom {ylveftre: we callit Fee and Fae ee sia A he alia Mycyni, becaufe he faith it is fo like the ordinary Filipen- Se p tal thinsinne outwa ree face ofFecoeri growing, in i rootes and leaves, an dininthe the taft taft and ar rellith alfos allo, and z not citer ape ernie rca oa occert, but ang slaret i ules to Fes net res ‘ any réafon, for in ontana, whereot I cannot{ee i my opinionitis inion iti the fame wit the former, andnot a {cieaot pec denet 5ginal be judge hereth that are judicious, The lalt Baxhinus fetteth forth by the name of Filipen 2 dula minor. beeslie : ane The ordinaryor vulgar Filipendula is fomewhatbitter intalte, and théreapon judged to be mee ty . the thirddegree, itis very eft-€nall to open the paffages of the pre aireta isyes ealte ae t ZSag gury, and al ines dder and reines, helping mightily to breake and ex; ; » eith _2kidneyes analp the ega pic or bladder,and gravell alfo thatisi not as yet ] condenfat denfate into into a ftone, sw whether youwillufe a vee the leaves, flowers, or feede, but the rootes; are moftufuall and moft effectuall, c -tuall, either taken in powder 4or in a Rope deco@ion with i white ite wine, wine, whereuntoalittl i e honeyisis added: :the fame alIfo helpeth Pp dence to expell the /econdine mei orvem afterbirth, ken i f. anner: an ancient copy of Diofcorides faith, it helpeth alfo the ye ’ | ‘ gin ak it fapod for thofe that Ravethe falling fickneffe, and that sak a them,.~ u . ;cic TOotes made into powder and mixed up with hony, into the forme of an electuary, much | whol maken heal breaking aa diffolving the winde which wasthe caufe thereof, as alfo is ey oa feGtuall for all the difeafes of the lungs, as fhortneffe of breath, whecfings, hoarfeneffe of the throate, and the cough, and to expectorate cold flegnfe therefrom,or any other parts thereabouts, : They flowerin Zune and Iuly, and their feede ripencth ine Zugu /t. The Names, This is taken by many learned Write which he defcribeth inhis third bookers, and herbarifts in thefe dayes, to be the Otvay2n Oexanthe ofDiafcorsdes; isthe flower ofthe wild Vine,that beareand 132, Chapter, and not that Oenanthe whichhe faich in his fifth book againtt Fufchiw, to whom Branfelfiw th onely Aowers and not stapes, and becaufe that (HMatthiolys contéftethe and Tragus doe agree, for fo holdingit, Lobel in his Adverfaria would feeme Ppa HAPs |