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Show Theatrum Botanicum, JRipeE 5- Pe 2. Scabiofa Hifpanica minor. Thelefler Spanish Scabious. The lefler Spanifh Scabiowsis altogether like tHe former greater, but chat itis leffer in every part ; and that the _— area little {maller, or finelier cut in, and the flowers not white as the former, but of a blewith purple colour. *. Scab ofa Hifpanica major. The greatersspanifh'Scabious, 3. Scabiofa arborea Cretica Pone, PonahisShrubbe Scabiows of Candy, but of a pale recdifh colour; the feede conteined in thofe ftarre like huskes, are fmaller, and {mell a little fweeter then otherforts of Scabious doe; the roote islong and hard, divided into divers parts, abiding the W inter bothin the naturall and other warme Countries, and holding his greene leaves alfo, but is more tender, not able to endure the fharpeneffe of onr Camerarij froftsand colds, Camerarivs maketh mention of a Scabiofa by ftaying their terthereof, dothnot onely heale all greene wounds, but old fores andulcers alfo, both alfo braifed and applyed to any theherbe ; afterwards up them healing and clenfing and qualities, ranning or ia the flefh, doth infhore place, wherein anyfplinter, broken bone, arrow heador other fuchlikethingS lyeth time loofenit, and canfethit to be eafily drawneforth. 4. Scabiofaftellata minima. Small Starrelike Scabious, This {mall Scabious is very like the {maller Spanifh Scabious, having divers narrow leaves, about two inches long, much Cuap. X, cut in and divided on theedges,theftalke is {carce halfe a foot long, with fuch like leaves thereon, and {mall pale blewifh flowers as in the Spani/> kinde ; the huskes likewife have di- Morf{us Diaboli, Divelsbit. an efpeciall YAM Here reftertr yet this kinde of Scabious toe entreated of, being of all Herbarifts accounted knew but ON) diferent kindethereof, yerfomereferre it to the Jacea’s, but not properly; the former ages one fort, we have in thefe times found out fomeothers, as they fhall prefently be fhewed you, 1. Morfus Diaboli vulgarisflore purpsreo, Common Devills bit. fer with Devils bitrifech up with around greene {mooth,andnothairy ftalke, two foote high or thereabouts, the edges for the moft divers long, and fomewhat natrow,{mooath, darke greeneleaves, fomewhatfnipt abouttoppes of the branches, part, being elfeall whole, and not divided atall,. or but very feldome, even to the yeeld not fuch which yet are {maller chen thofe below, with one ribbeonely im the middle, and being broken vers points, ftanding open fpread like a ftarre, fromthe middle whereof comeforth five {mall long reddifh threds, like Z// ae omen out ofthe huske ; the feede is {mall, but like “aA yeare, ZF} ZI, The two firkt fortsC/fius faithie found in the borders of Zy : the Vineyards, and in the paths of the fields abéut Salamanca in Spaine, and in otherplaces ; the {maller ofwhich Bauhinus faith he found upon the fhoreneere Venice, The thitd'in' Candy flowers, fet togetherin the threds as the Scabionsdoth; atthe endof each branch ftandetharound head of many as Pond faith, who had it from Signior Contarini of Venice. The laft Banbinus faith, groweth inProvence of France, The e two firlt alf that ofCandy, monn firlt Spanifh Spanifh kindes kindesas alfo flower fo | . feldome give good feede with ts, and ceteforewe are Rill soneneneemeseieionswee The Names ‘i Thée'twofirkCufiescalleth Hifpanica, and fo doe all others i peregrina; and Bauhinus calleth the firl /tellatalaciniatofolio ieHee eee iolen bi Pondin his Italian Baldus, callethby the fame name is in the title, Lobel, Lu dunenfis, and Ger he I Scabiofa peregrina folis non dilfe Ein Os4B obit . is ih : g 1God alfo Scabiofa peregrina; Fiabermontanus a Sat ati woven+ Thelaft Bawhinus onely fetteth forth under ie title erate Gan ae max and Prodromus » and f faithhe accountethiti to differ i , from the leffer $pavifb kinde, in = fome notable S Nowy 'that I have ave deferibed deferibed unto you all Ache mPstabin the fforts of Scabious, whofe variati iff : i oe leaves a flowers, being yet in tafte, not fo much differing the one fron ark a paeeei = otheeee. alfodrunke gainktthe biting or ftinging of any venemous beaft : the fame decottion or the powder of them, to the inthe fides ; the decoction of the rootes taken for forty dayes together, alfo in greater body, asfreckles, pimples, and other {mall eruptions therein, yet it prevaileth {pots inthe whi:e of the eyes, the Morphew, and Lepry , thefame decoétion doth alfohelpe the rednefle, and decotion clenfeth it from ufedeither of it felfe, or with the juice of Fennell ; the head wathed withthe fame tents alfo dipped in the juice or wawarme; ufed being thelike, and itches, fores, {cabbes, {curfe, dandraffe, fretting whichhe calleth Gallica like hereunto,but that he faith it hath {mall long blackifh leaves, whereas this hath white and woolly, elfe it might be judged the fame. a certaine by good experienice,to diffolve herbe alfo bruifed, and applyedtoany Carbuncle or Plague fore,is found application, is very availeable aor breake it within the {paceof three houres : the fame inward and outward , helpeththe painés and flic- A Syruppe made ofthe juice madebythruft or ftroke, by the drying, clenfing,and healing quality therein. of the herbe and flowers made water diftilled the fois and orefaid, purpofesaf the all o effectuallt Sugar, is very ; the decoction of the herbe taken tobe force in not herbeis greene whenthe ufed be to in due time, efpecially or fwellings im any tumours, cold or hard of forts helyeall ly wonderful doth applyed, and rootes outwardly of Scabious madé juice e anyplace:th in veine ot w fhrunkefine any for effectuall as alfo is and body; part of the part of the other any or face the skinneof the nfe notablycle doth Camphire, and Borax of up with the powder deformities, as of the branches comeforthfall naked ftalkes, bearing ahead of flowers, very likeunto the former great Spanifb Scabious, The Place, CHA P.10, Agh ET DCA OI ches faith; wonderfully helpe thofe that are quantity ofa dramme atatime, taken in whey, doth as Matthiolus s, yea although they proceed of ringworme or tetters, {cabbes, {preading or running troubled with dangerous uice or the decoétion drunke,doth the French pox,ash imfelfe faith, he hathfound true by certaine exp -tiencetthej thejuice alfo made upinto an oyntment wonderfully helpe thofe that are broken out into {cabbes,and itcheszand helpeth all inward wounds, be they ly wonderful alfo fame The purpofe. fame the and ufed, is effectuall for and This Candy Scabious rifethup with a wooddy ftalke, from whence {pring divers hard and wooddy branches, white or hoary all over, as the leaves are alfo, which are thicke fet thereon, without any divifion or denting at the edges, being whole like unto the great Cyanus or blew Bottle: at the ends the others, the rooteis {mall and perifheth every The Theater of Plants. er ea aE fe fo that the vertites in any one are not fo pecnliar,but that they may be referred walite ee nich are t! oY : eee hot and dry, is of an opening, clenfing, digefting, and atvenuating the breftand Ten iGpening coddieting salt meee ieden ae and all other the difeales of coughing and fpitting. It ripeneth alfo all forts ofinward is ra id SemeVoy mine thetforth iby cottion of the dry or greene herbe being made with wi < be d a pes ae eiaial fa. Vib thee: Sethi beg eta ax oA a mae ae with wine be runke fome time together, thereby voyding it 2 aies 5 you would have it moree ce thi ipt,vix atiaac— an ounceofLicoris {craped and cutinto thinne lices:adcpettfians wie, white O77 i de, ieee oe : ee and as much of Fennelfeede bruifed, and halfe an ounce of boyling them the next ey meeranigbe. aaatas thele ¢ aes poedo ; ’ 1 the leaft, whereof takea draught every ing much ps) =eps SPaewena warme, well {weetned with Sugar or Hony, which worketh Beoderfally ie helpeal pieieee a — ounces ofthe clarified juice of Scabious taken inthe morning fafting, with a fiaan eaitheeaking DeleCeaeae ae thereofthey Imestwichoncsithch I I a €alt, yetafter the firft teenSOAR i i thatare infected take the fame proportion againe, and againe ifneed e for feare of auntae: herbe ( but not darkered fame manner, or more neatly orfaccin@ly then the Seabious, and ofa more blewith purplelike unto the Seabions as Gerard faith, for fuch I never faw any ) colour, whichbeing palt,there followerhfeede with many ftrings, that falleth awayinthe fame manner : the roote is fomewhat thicke; but (hort and blackifh and Fryers as 1 fuppofe, faltned thereto, abiding after feede time many yeares: Fabalons antiquity (the Monkes do to;mankinde, being the firft inventors of the Fable )faid,that the Devill envying the good that this herbe might and fenflefiea relation, bit away part ofthe roote,and thereofcame the name Sécci/a, Devils bit whichis fo grofle fome doe make a that | merveile at the former times flapidity, to recive as true furcha fi@tion. OF this kinde the nature of the plant. greater anda leffer, which I thinke rather commethfromtheplace of growing, thenfrom fet forth in my former booke; Voto this plant in my-opinion belongeth the Scabiofarubra Auftriaca ot Clufus, this Devils bit, and may bea for the leaves thereof being all whole, and the flowers red, doe notably refemble hai{pecies theréof, proper to Germany, edufiria, ee, Banbinus maketh mentionof oneof this kind, that hath ix bortis Germani« 5 who as ‘hee faith ryleaves not differing inanything elfe, and for his author nameth Ge/ner forts of Scabiow, one called it Aforfus D iaboli bir[utararior which I cannot finde in.Ge/wer, but of the three he fhould meanethis £ ofthe leffer he calleth Scabrahirfitaque, having leaves without divifions, which whether the truth thereof. declare totimeto it leave I therefore Diabol:, Afor/us not ir nameth knownot: for he 2, Morfws Diaboli flere albo, Devilsbit-witha white flower: ; is of a pure. white colour This fort differeth not from the former inany other thing, then inthe fower, which as fome other forts of the Scabioufes are, and thatthe greene Jeafe isnot altogether offo darkea colour. 2. Morlys Diaboli flore carneo. Devils bit with bluthcoloured flowers. er fort likewife differethneither in roote ftalke or leafe, fromthe former,, oncly the flowers which arnate ot blufh colour,makeththe difference from both the other, 4, Mor[us Diaboli alter flore cerulea,. f Strange Devilsbit. one feyerally herbe whichI place here for.fomelikeneffe, hath divers leaves rifing from the rooté, every is ona lonefooteltalke fomewhat like unto Betony or Sage, dented about the edges, the ftalke rifeth up among{t thema foote or more high, bearing onelarge flower atthe toppe,hanging downethe head and madeall of blewifhthreds. The Place, two The fitlt groweth as well in dry meddowes and fields as moift, in manyplaces of this land, but the other forts are more rare and hard to meete with, yetthey are both found growing wild about Apple dore,neere Ryein j Kent, The laf groWethinthe fields that are on - mountaines beyond the Seas, TheTime. Theyflower fomewhatlater then the Scabionses, asnotufually until Ange, ah e |
