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Show Theatrum Botanicum, Cuap.&. 1. Cyanps major vulgaris. The great ordinary blew 8otce, Trips 5. Trise 5. Cuar.8, Lhe Theater ofPlantes. 483 = eaail ah ey sy he Cyanus Baticusfupinns, The Spanifo\Corne flowery; 2 former, but This Spanift kinde hath many fquare ae ete talkes not Banding fo °9‘Nee angufPifolins, 2, Chanus minor vuigg ris diverforum colorum. The {mali ordinary Corne flower ofdivers colours, 6. Cyanus minions repens take upa ediverfly, fothat one-plant will ing Thefmalleft Corae Howerof Atompetier, isedeteobertstet the eves are fomewhat broader,fofter, and ofa paler greene colour, then of the common {mall.-kinde, a; but not muchor deepely gafhed on the edges; the flowers ftand in bigger heads alfo, and with fouré or five leaves under each, ofa light purple or bluth colour, after which come white feed like thereunto alfo, butnot fo plentifully, yet wrapped in, a more downy fubltance, the roote groweth downe deepe and perifhethlikewife every yeare as theydoe, N Wa <y'\ f §, Cyanus repens latifolins Lobely; deat & Broadleafed French Corne flower. ; This Cyanvs that Lobel and Pena in their eAdverfaria have fet forth, whofetalte is very bitter and unpleafant, hath divers weake hoary and trayling branchesnot ftanding upright, about a foote anda halfe high, whereon grow ¢ivers hoary. leaves, fomewhat long and natrows and fomewhatlike unto thofeof: Lavander, but harderin handling,at the topof the ftalke which is branched forth, grow feverall {caly heads like unto the other Cyani, whofe flowers are like nnto them, but of a fadder or deader purple colour, then in any ofthe otherforts ; the roote ieigi isabouta fingers length. G6. Cyanus repens angustifolins five minimus The {malleft Corne flower of AZompelier. i This fmalleft Corne flower,hath likewife divers weakeflender yet hard hoary and twiggedftalkes, whereonare fet divers {maller leaves then the Jaft, but hoary in the fame manner; at the toppes of the branchedftalkes,ftand many fcaly heads,much leffer then any of the, forts of Corneflowers; from whence grow fuchlike flowers, butofa fadder,or deader colour: the feedesare like the, fmaller ordinary kindeés, and the roote is = {mall,long and wooddy,. 7. Cyanus Creticus fpinofis. Prickly Corne flowerof Candy, The lower leaves of this Corne flower. are jagged and very 3. Cyanus Orientalis major @ minor. Thegreater and lefler Oriental Bottle or Sultaus flower; | S- Cyanusrepens iatifolius, Broadleafed French Corneflower: 3 hoary, but thofe on the hoary branches.of the ftalkes are lefle s) or not atall,they ending in long tharpe prickes or thornes with {mall blufh-coloured flowerslike the others forts but {maller, thé roote islong and fomewhat th icke enduring The Place, many yearess Thefirft growethnaturally upon fandyhils in Germany, biit isufually cherifhed eewheré in Gardens: The fecond withblew flowers in many.cornefieldes ofour owne land.and fome ofthe other colours alfo; The third uh ply “Up, asis faid in Terkie, and the fourth in Spaine, firft found and fentunto us by Doétor Boel, whois now refident ac Lifpborne. The fifth groweth underthe branches of the Se/eli pratengis by Sella nova neereunto (Mompelier, and the fixt thereabouts alfo, and by Ca/irum novum notfarre ftom (Mompelieras Pena and Lobel doe ferthemdowne SF intheit Adverfaria ; the three laft and the other woolly fort in Candy% : . = SAT nn! = EN AY )YAS, =KES Rey ' Wy TA The Time, They flower and feede in the Sommer Moneths when theotherdoe, a j The Names. fa St Tris called wWav@- Cyanus, a floris Cyaneovel ceruleocolore, In the Infancy of Herbatifts, Zrayas who knew not well what.to call thefirlt, referred it tothe Verba/ca, andcalled it Verba/culum, butnow.it As generallycal. led by all Herbarifts, Cyanus major 3 fome adde thereunto bortenfis, and othérs:ALontanus, yet Hermolaus taketh itto be Leucoium of Diofcovides,. and C2falpinus to bea kinde ot Struthinum, whéreot Theophrafius maketh men- tion: Fabivs Calamna judgethitto be that kinde of Papaver which Theopbraftus calleth Heraclenm, and Lobel maketh a doubt whether it may not be accounted a fpecies of (hondrilla, The fecond {fort that groweth in the Corneis called Flos Frumenti and Baptifecula or Blaptifecula,ofthe turning the edges of ficklés,in cutting downe the Corne for Sec#/a was taken for a Sickle in ancient time. The third was fent us ont of Txrkiel ‘by, the name of Ambrebot, which whether itbe a T#rkifh or Arabian namel know not; the Turkes themfelvesas I heare, doe generallycall it the S«/tans flower and fo doe I, but that I adde odoratys for the fweete fent of the flower, The fourth was fent by Bve/ander the name ofIacea Betica, but becanfeLfindeit better agreeing with Cyanus then Tacea; Lhaveinfertedithere, The two nextforts are called Cyamusfupinus & repens by Lobel in his'Adverfaria, The Candy kindes are mentioned by A/pinws in his Bookede excoticis, The Vertues, A ; The powder of the dryédleaves of the greater blew Bottle, or Corne flower, is given withgood {uccefle to thofe thatby fomefall are much bruifed, and for them alfo if they have brokena veine inwardly, and voide much blood at the mouth,, being taken eitherin the water ofPlantaine, Horfétaile, or the greater Comfrey: Ir is accounted a helpe or remedy againft the poyfon ofthe Scorpion and Phalanginm, and to refit all other vénomes and poyfons. Andtherefore P/acentizs affirmethit to be excellent goodin all peftilentiall-feavers,and of itsowne power, to be powerfull againft the plagueor peftilence, and all other infectious. difeafes, eitherthe feede or the leaves tdken in Wine, The juice is fingular good to putinto freth or greene wounds,for it dortiquickly foder , ui t2 4 t |