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Show ~go4: Cu ari4, Theatrum Botanicum. feven to womenandchildren;but this, as many other aré idle amaulets of no worthor value Tris Bas :'y finces h beene reported’ unto me for a: cettaintie, that the leaves of Bucks-horne:Plantane laid masfiled an anague, will fuddenly eafe the fit, asif it had beenedone by witcherie:\ the leavés:and rootes alfo b i with fome bayfalt, and applied tothe wreftes worketh the fame effects, which I hold to be mor. fae fonable and proper: the herbe boyled in Ale’or Wine, and given morning and evening for fome ang ther, helpeth all forts of fore eyes, that come'by the deftillation of hot and fharpe or falrrheumes, falling fr ths head upon them, by cooling and tempering the heate and fharpeneffe, and ftaying the deftillations. TlGinessous Reelliy or creeping Buckshorne being as I faida falleth i i away warts bya {pecificall propertie of the fede, aeeeen one Jtetere Guar. yetleffeby white: thirdly in the {pike offlowers, which although ofthe fame fafhion andcolour or very neare,whichis not deceived, forthe fuperfluitie of leavesin this, isno otherwife than i n ; which upontranfplanting every one'ma knowthat will criutheecates . . i i retehe Mar{h kinde notremembred byany before. eshteae 3 1. Bifelium {ylveftre (; vulgare, gare, Ordinar'y wood Bifoile ifoi or Twayb a o —rene roote fomewhat {weete, whofe head or toppe is Reeaesthicke which fome havé cal ee a iv : ( or forts which wereiendleffe aswell as needeléffe to repeate) fome alforeckon uptwofpecies place.) both in thar ter and aleffer (but none of them mention the Palzstre whereof J fhall fpeake in. the next poftoriores mentioneth which beareth but two; aSakfo in that which beareth three leaves ; and Clufivs in his Cure all which Daccount to be burthe variaone very {inal fore, that theCapuchine' Frier Gregoris de Reggio found, fo many feverall forts asthey dozthe tion of the foyleand-aireand therefote kdo not here diflingnith them into as'it were, fomewhat flowers at the toppeof the ftalkes are many {mall longwhitith greene fhapelefleibadies, afterTike untofome of the Orchides or’ Satyrions which pafle away, having {mall heads with dult in them wards. a. Bifolivm palustre. Marth Bifoile. The Marth Bifoile hath fcarfe beene obferved by any, or at leaft hath deccived many that fuppofedit not! to be i i We pee “vapanie — sec : wine leaves, asif it were a ehceta eene eenrains ae : I but ofone of this kinde, yet mention thefe other om are but..as a pi Leet other plants flalke, yet oftentimesdivers falkes are found;that beare fourc leaves and the like. ‘ina numberof hereof, a grea- in the {mallneffe, bediffering from the former,although differing in the fite,, yet the differenceis manifelt, firit more hoary ing much; lefler and having fometimes three leaves alfo: fecondly in the greenefle; the other being XIV. Oplhrisfive Bifolinu.' Tway-Blade or Herbe Bifoilé: SB axe, Omehave made twoorthree forts ofthe upland Bifoile, one grea Cakes : env) Cma ris. 505 TheTheater of Plants. e 5. FRriv Tetaa Ihave therefore given youit: in another figure by it felfe) fhooting ma I fib) oo es = s, rai a up a roundgreeneftalke, bare or naked next unto the ground, for an incht “2 ak saath le eae ; -the sar isin age and growth, asalfo fromthe middle upward unto deffo es he Nore ma on ftatk fhort ribbed pale greene or hoary leaves, very like unto Plantane de of the i e ~oneach fide, and compafling it at thé bottome, fometimes leaves but whiterf rt oie it will et sietedap meaet e oona—= bea rs fort, which is as we call it, but /u/us nature the eae r > apneth to very many other plants, (as to the Herd, J i Sos baring weot - fein fixe or feven; and once, a neae soodune aac foure, and fo likewife in the ordinary field Trefoile, which as all know ufnally hath but shies “ea ten Bifoliam[ylveftre vulgare (eu Opiris, Oxdinary wood Twayblade or Bifoide, ie, vehofe Pifliabulbous cto ratice balboa Twayblade head is more con{picuouss place fatre ¢ foutthly, in the rootes which in this doe runne or creepein the ground: andlaftly, the the Woods; buc Moores, Bogges, and wet Marifh grounds, ? The. Place, and. Hamp/teede, and in The firlt isnfuallyaninhabicant of Wood-Copfes an dtheliké, asbetweene Highgate and St. Albones; manyotherplaces ofthis land : the other not onely in the low wet grounds betweene Hatfield : The Time, untill the middle or end They are in Hower ufually untill the later end of May at the fooneft; and fo continue but in divers places of Rozey marfp. in Izly, ofIune, and then wholy will be withered and gone The Names, in his Thefirlt is generally thoughtto be the Ophris (quod aliquifupercilium reddunt) of Pliny, whichhefaith but what 26, Booke, and 15. Chapter, is an herbe like unto the dented or toothed Pot-herbe withtwoléaves; two that dented Pot-herbeis, isnot well knowne,and therefore it is but {uppofed asI faid, that this herbe with the more probabjleaves fhould be it; but becaufe we know no other herbe, thar hath buttwo leaves it carrieth Gramen Cordusand Gener inhortis Germaniz, have thonghtit to be Aly/ma or Damafonium, others to be litie, ar Purnafi :Brunfelfivs would make ita kinde of perfoliata, becaufe the two leaves doe fo compaffe the ftalke to be the bottome,as if ir were but oneleafe; and that the ftalke went thorough them, and others have thoughtit orchis, five Biz akinde of Helleborine, becaufe the flowers are fomewhat like untoit ; Dodoneus calleth it Pfeudo folium, and Tragus makethit his tenth Satyrivm, calling it Bifoliam; by which nameit is now generally called it Donbje and knowneof all Herbarifts, the other hath not beene by any before remembted: the French call Eucille, the Germans Zweyblat, the Dutch tweeblat, and we Twayblade, or herbe Bifole. The Uertues, Ic isnot much aftringentin tafte, but rather clanimie or glutinous ;and fomewhat fweete, whereby itmay bé judged tobe hot and drie,it is much andoften ufed by many and to good purpofe for wounds, both greene and old, and for to confolidate or knit ruptures. Pliny faith Ophris is good to make the haire of the eye browes blacke; but this hath not beenetried by any in our dayes, to have any fuch effec that I know. Cuap XV. Moxophy ton Monophytonfive Unifolinm. One blade. ae Hisfmall plant never beareth more than oneleafe; N butonely whenit rifeth up with his ftalke, which S& thereon beareth an other, and feldome more, which like 3 FH are of ablewifh greene colour, therein very unto the leafe of a {mall Lilly Convally, but fomewhat broa- der at the bottome, and pointed with many ribbes or veines therein like Plantane ; atthe toppeof the {talke grow many s {mall white flowers farre fathion, fmelling fomewhatfweete after whichcome fmall reddifh berries when they are ripe : the roote is {mall of the bigneffe ofa Rufh lying and creeping under the upper cruft of the earth, fhooting forth in divers places. The Place. Itgroweth in moift fhadowie and graffie places of woods; in manyplaces of the Realme. The Time. if ifolitim. One tei - é Tt flowreth about A4ay, and theberries be ripe in Juve, and then quickly perithethuntill the next yeare, it {pringeth from the fame roote againe. i i \ The Names. Tt may be called in Greeke poroge'anovs aftér the Latines /#i= Author, Folium, for it is not mentioned by any ancient Greeke noryet by any ancient Latine,as is thought, unleffe as Pale us D iofcorides fappofeth, it may be the Cyclamin champiss upon tertiaok Pliny inhis 25, Booke and 19+ Chapter, which hee |