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Show Cuar.24, Theatrum Botanicum. : ina huske,flat at thebottome , the roote perifheth every yeare, and mutt benew fowen againe, oases 3s Seeen 1. Symphitam majut ier ie} Commongteat Comfrey, 6, Cerinthe minor flore albo. White Honywott. Cuar.24 The Theater of Plants. Trrpe. 5. Comftey with knobbed rootes, This {mall Honywort hath divers weake and {mall branches, leaning orrather lying downe upontheground fer witli fuch like pale greene leaves, but lefler than the former, whofe white {pots are not fo eafie or con{picuons tobe feene as in manyofthe other: the flowersare white longand hollow, like them but fmaller, with dith circle about the middle of the flower, and ftanding with’ greene leaves, and in greene huskes astheared. reft AYLI a Oa wherein. after they are paft, come very likefeede, but not halfe fo greatas the laft ; the rooté likewifeis tonc. fiender, and white, perifhing every yeare after it hath givenfeede. ie The Place, Thefirft as C/u/ius faith, groweth generally throughout Betica of Spaine plentifully, and in fome places of Portingall alfo ; the fecondis not knownefrom what place it came, but was onely obferved by Clufius, in Zohn ab Hogheland his garden : the third C/fivs faith he found in the Kingdome Valencia in. S;Paine, Gel ein hortis faith it-D. groweth i ALonte Palatino at Kome,as allo in Germany betweene of Dre/da and Mifena:and Cli fits faith he 4 tar : : : Afi foundit in diversfields of Au/tria and Stiria, where fometimesit would out-liveia Winter's and Dedonens faith; in Bohem'a and divers parts of Heengary : the fift and fixt gtow in divers placés ofSpaine, ftom whence we had them, by Gwilasme Boelhis diligence infinding them outthere. The Time, j IW wad adee 7p See x MYHt, sequen i" Theydoe all flower in July and Auguft, yet fometimes fo late, that we dot not gather good feede of any of thembut thered, ifthe yeare prove not warme enough, and wet with all to tipen them,or be not well w shed if the Sommerbe drie to bring them forward the fooner, The Names. Theophraftws among the ancient Greeke Writers, in his 6.Booke, and’7. Chapter maketh méntion of Cerinihe; and calleth it Kveir3@>, and Pliny and Virgilamong the ancient ashore alle to = their Cerinthe : Pliny {peaketh thereofLatines, make mention thereof likewife, and itis in his 21, Booke and 12: Chapter, and Virgil in gftarto Gergicorum in thefe words, —— Huctu juffos afperge fapores, Trita Meliphylla & Cerinthe iguobile oramen, j and not granum as fomereadeit ; wherebyis underf tood that itis a bafe or vile erbe, srowingev, where as grafle, for fo diversherbes are named grafle, Many learned men yareey etF ie,chae iI: about Par#, where theynurfeit in their garden s, havecalled it Telephium macwlofum, fuppof ing it tobe Lephitim of Diofcorides. Dodoneys and Clufius faith, that many tooke it to be the he; be Maru or Almar tie Te. a of Az 2a cea, whereof in his 464 Chapter, he maketh five forts, and this to be the fourth 3 but Claus faith that he tak ‘5 Avicento meane noother herbe but either our Borage or Bugloffe ; he faith alfo this may very well a the Lexcographis Pliny, whereof hee maketh mentio nin his 27. Bookeand 1 1. Chapter, becanfe hel ree ith She {potted white ; fome alfo hee faith tooke it to be A¢emitha of the Arabians, but Clufins fuppof ethCyzogl: site ‘Be time his mein : Glaucinm Grecorum : Gefner, as | faid beforeix hortis Germanic,faith it was called of fornein h i c t i ces thereuponcallethit CynogLolfvmmontanum ; but Clufive veferreth it ratherr to ieee montana ; and Bauhinus of Borage or Buglofle, whereof in temperaturehefaith itjs neareft. D alechampius tooke Calendulato be Cerin. the, a cereo ipfius florefe appellata : but the moft ufuall and common name, whereby it is general ly called now a The commongreat Com rey . he Eaarea Reena ode: pale eat Behe ead hairy or prickly, that if they touc ee “ie sr Sen tae ee cy tape dayesis Cerinthe, andPlinyadded, becanfe the moft and belt Herbarilts, doe thinkeit comes neareft unto his defcription. The firlt iscalled Cerinthe major by Lobel and Camerarius, and by (i us Cerinthe quorundam major verficolore flore, and Bauhinus Cerinthe feu Cynogloffum montanum majus : the {econd is Clufixs his fift kinde Berra! be maketh mentionin his other Appendix, whichis joyned to his Booke ofExoticke things; and Bari. hinus calleth it Cerinthe folio non maculato viridi ; the third Clufiuscalleth Cerinthe quorindam majorflavoflore, and ftalke thatrifeth up from among t —ng Soea eamee; a: he amean having many fuch like ae as grow low,bot feraneey fated dey Bowerei edeaieuemie is divided into many errae fecethat fong and hollow, like the finger ofa glove,of a pale Hee co fore above another, w pee<< feede rootes are greatnae and long fpreading great thicke branchesae under lour, or after which come{mal <: a: the NO ee chee Bauhints Cerinthe florefflava axperior : the fourth iscalled by Clufus Cerinthe quorundam minorflave flores b L*, 1 ground, blacke on the outfide and whit! Camerarius and Tabermontanus Cerinthe minor, by Lugdunenfis Cerinthe P4iny : thefife is the third Cae : Clafizsin his hiftory ofplants, and called by Baxhinus Cerinthe flore rubro perpurafcente : the lalt is not yet = juyce, oflittle or notafteat all. ‘i i as wal _ Se lore, Great Comfrey with purple flowers. 194 a ‘ ; ean v3 gt — aa _; tape= wa eSiry davkefrey: ercend IéavesIyiag bn th and This Comfrey di am oe ; : the the former, but in this thatit is fomewhatle ffer, and i Teena oc re . ieee age ey : are all of a temperate qualitie betweene cold and hot, but rather inclinin to cold, and fomewh ley entPrithallit i me sponse fay the peepee a theepee or nofe, to fay womens ceeeee aoa 9 of th juice ‘uxes or laskes of the belly, the herbe being boyled and given to drinke ;: the Juice : of the herbe with a little faffron diffolved therein, is good for bleared and wateri flowersare ofa pale we € rrsu subaaun Ciskiey FRIES rots ee a.Coreyeeke dened iontee Blip ie rune, , .s . ‘i The hearers aeexeDive_ paleies 8ee cymay ated of the fameform and reenetelle, ae con, fmaller leaves, a ge Seal eae ficht, to any that hath well marked the former; pt areclenfed, to helpe to incarnate them, efpecially fuch as arein the a, parts of the ae cies the places before menapp y- 2 a remedies whereunto Borrage and Bugloffe are good, Plixy and Urrgilin cider parts of the body | | ae a anne mates are ane slight a the Hewes being {weete, and from them as much, or lier t hollo of the fame andformer he fame manner, branches are in FeO i : ° é ang erefollowing eee ee i is like the wholfeedertvagihe wi am 3 the rootes ofamorefad i yel branch out into thicke ei 7 fomany other towers, likely, tooke the name of Cerinthe, doe gather both e Cuap, Hony and y Waxe a is more » and thereupon peradventureitete? and i g . well affured eeesib aan eee hereof,which I never faw, nor can be bin: imy sie et from the vifcous or flimybinEchiem, an Alkanet likeresi oleate han ‘etue : ae ait :ing Thisiand eotow hageragee ‘iy:( faith himfelfe) therefore Accomm’ceaas&Oeibe; eal ica fontbeCael wile icie see a Si : {odering XXIy. Symphitum majus. Great Comfrey. Hy Here are many forts of Symphitum called Confolida and ter, aleffer, and a middle one : as alfo another kinde fanre eeeae or flimie juice, as isin the former, but not fo glutinous, yetae render otea tobe roughtasss wi or nigerowinthe é -bao : ves pti dye downe every yeare eed as they doe inth ge ae warshenyy 3 broken Solidago,that is major 5 cal 2 bi $y; j agread media Nasirote iofcorides 1 #4) tall maketh mention,and anothercalled Con de ee Pyrtenmnich becanfe they areall e 2tl t arei herbes, gy feveI fhall fpeake ofthem feyerally in the I entend only to fer forth unto you the greater Comfrey, which is ofCha pters following:forinthis diy ers forts, fome otdinary by growing wild,b thefields and ditchesfides of our owne land, others nurfed up on ‘ , jes ? ¢ly in gardens : with 7us, x, Symphi- of the'plant might feeme to have ety eee se ate heads of narrow long leaves round about it pie a ¥ ninthha niet - +eAom it fundry finales long - nt in, w - endet fome of which rife reddifh ftalkes of a foote or morehigh, with ae a Ke pee = Seareaae the toppes whereof which turne rhentie = a niwone tale grows eres ’ ening at the brimmesintofiveparts, all of them flowring fer x long, yellow flowers, opening TA Oa ee foure blacktlh rowne abides Soothd each huske, th{eeds i i : them,a of middle the in pointell —— eae peo or remembred by any Author, we being the firft to whom it was brought out ofSpaine by Guillanme Boel b |