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Show 538 Cuar.jo. Theatrum Botanicum. Trips 5 port, Ofthe ) t juiceC or wateri ofthe flowers ofCowdlips,divers divers Gentlewomen know how to clenf{ in f os=oeee©7“ atake aayha wrinckles thereof, and caufe the deinhe nAboone don s the $ ni ecoéction and taken, eafeth the paines of the backe and bladd i ‘ paflages ofurine which was the caufe thereof; they are likewife oft i ier precioolf and that to very good purpofe. The Beareseares BiasA icitoiaie¢ ne igharabeSatie ding totheir nameSanicle, are noleffe fall i i Spe reptaaars as ato for the palfie and trembling ofthe joynts, C/ujivs faith that the getenecitaeat Se tance rece:cer atteanesfebenieascues tohelpe either paines in the head, orthe giddineffe at r ; offuch fearefull precipices or ft le i lowingtheir game, and are admitted as good Weund herbes btnana‘retin neeie Cuar. XXX. Alchymilla, ie é o eit, that itis place this néxt unto it, becaufe i sani 4 W ill adde thereunto anotherfort thereof, akich hath NLOchicaeRitcestyel Biggest on Ghee oe: . wert major vulgaris, Common Ladies Mantle. ; the roote, Randingray upon long2 hai S footeftalkes, Mantle 1s verylike rifing hairy beingto the former Sanicle, Ich having j manyleaves j hon almoftround, bur a little cut in on the edges, into eight \Gederte Mane: or tenne parts.more or lefle, making it feeme like a ftarre naa with fo manycorners and points, and dented round a bout, ofa light greene colour, fomewhat hardin hand- ling, and as ifit were fouldedorplaited at the fir, ahd then crumpled in divers ¢lices, anda little hair i th ftalke is alfo which rifeth up among them, ‘to the hei he of two or three foore, witha few fuch leaves thereu fs but {maller,and being weakeis not able to ftand apie he but bendeth downe tothe ground, divided at the oe into two or three {mall branches, with {mall yellowrith greene heads, and flowers of a whitith greene colou breaking out of them, which being paft,there coach aps yellowithfeede like unto Poppy feede, the ioe Sai) , I GN f s KS Sf, ZT j e. Ps DN Ze ¥ e iY CS aoe 5 si Cindeefeile Ladies ie ‘ in winter, but abide, althoughthe ftalkes dry away, and and unpleafant, and fo is the {mell alfo. 2. Solidago Saracenica major. See Thefirft fowreth in Ayzyand and LIvuve, the other not ee. untill Anguft, butbothabide after feede time,greene all rhe The Na Tt was not i al Mice eee EpSameunts ieancient Writers, as can be gathered, and although Brunfc/ 5 it, froma,ae rep : me — foote, deceived by thename, becaufe divers natior ‘ia ene a2i ah fo called fich commendations ofit, I vescalled aotselec were Bepaic ++ fone chinke theAlchymisgave » Lugaunenfis and others Stellaria, from the forme ofthe leafe > that with 10 the corners refemble a ftarre, but there are divers other herbes called Stcllaria by diy ers rs au \and alfo call this bidefomehaoe i Pes ae NY d P. is : de plan 0. > 4 and Cuar. 2XXI. {trong noleafe appearethin Winter ; the tafte hereofis other groweth on St, Bervards hill among the Switzers, . d Chepjfow, andin otherplaces ofthis tad he ; now quite worneout, as I thinke. th browne colour, wrapped in downe, is therewi of many ed away with the wind, the roote is compof perifh not ftrings or fibres, fet together ata head, which The Flace, n hiftoria that it fuffereth for frefh or greene wounds orcuts, it fo quickely healeth them up, any corruption to remaine behinde: it hath therein, but con(olidateth the lippes ofthe wound, yet not fuffering the juice hereof will conftraine the voaffirmedthar have who Chymifts, by of accounted formerly beene much name, but thefe idle fancies are tookethe thoughtit itis whenceas from fixt, it make and lubility of Mercury, the feed e heads, which whentheyare fallen, and The fir groweth naturally i manypaftures y in and wood fid Pee : n wils/bire, K. a {bire, andinin Kent alfo> as i" Kingwood neere Feverfham, in the paftures nigh Tidnam,2 both in Hartford and Gdpdondet ue Pai ° i 4 ay yet is it not that of Diofcorides, as may plainely the humours thereinto, which wonderfully dryeth upall the humidity ofthe fores, or of as often happen unto fores: but although they be filtulous and hollow, and abateth alfo fuch inflammations, not any quittufe to grow ingreen wifh ripe, which isfomewhatlong, {mall, and of ayello carryed doerife, not halfe a foote high: the flowers shir ne = ae are fmaller, but alike according a dic Gaohe ofthe plant, andofthe fame ae. herby or greene Cor more fit and able their bodies to fo good and conformable an eftate,that they fhall'thereby be made as in a bath, inthe decoction made of the conception, and beare outtheir children, if they doe alfo fit fometimes therefore the Germanes extollit with herbe, Itis accounted as oneof the mott fingular woundherbes that is, and but they give of the decoétioutward, or eitherinward wound, any dreffe exceeding great praife, and never chem whiles of the Aledges fet thereon fomewhatlike unto thofe notof fuch mond, or Peachtree, or Willow leaves, but are fura white greene colour ; the toppes of the ftalkes ng nifhed with manypale yellow ftarrelike flowers,ftandi This fmall Ladies Mantle, hathalfo a few {maller and fmoother greene leaves, rifing from the {mall blacke f, brous roote, fetupon long footeftalkes, but divided a the edges into five corners or points, and fomewh deepelier dented about the brimmes then the forme: i from whence two or three {mall weake bendin ftalke § fon together, ling wateralfo, the diftilled water drunke continually for twenty daies the too much humidity of the matrice, and and cannotconceive, orretaine the birth after conception, through abide bur to pafle away without fruite, will reduce luxe of moift humoursthereunto, caufing the feede notto to retaine the 1, Solidago Saracenica vera §alictsfolio. The true Sarafins Confound with willowleaves. : and other s, with brownifh ftalkes, The true Sarafins Confound| groweth1 very high fometimenarrowg reene leaves {nipt about the many long and with greene and hollow, toa mans height, having 2. Alchymilla minor quinguefolia thours, ; is fo power full that it is ufed as a forfuwardly applyed, and ferveth alfo to ftay the whites in thea, whereinit by fach women asare barren truc onealfo, iaa long and blacke, with manyftrings and fi- The 539 Solidago Saracenica, Sarafins Confound. been miftakenandfet forth for the rightt Sarafins ConHere have beene divers herbes that have beene are not right, with the found,we will therefore thew you here inthis place fome of them that LS Se (LYSE 2 y Cuar.3i TheVertnes. thofe wounds that have inflammaLadies Mantle is more cooling then Sanicle, and therefore more proper for {tay bleedings, vomitings, fluxes tions, and more altringent binding and drying, and therefore is more effectualto ruptures,it helpeth alfo fuch maides ot in man ot womanofall forts,and bruifes by. fals or otherwife,ard ro helpe to grow lefle and hard, being both drunke; ard outwomen that have overgreat flagging brea{ts, caufing them Sy A Y Z The Theater of Plants. or dippe tents therein, and put on hereof todrinke ; and either wah the wound with the faid decoction, flowing thereunto,yea Ladies Mantilee eel 43 y heLate atae Sunsf eae derie ae Triste. 5. Pata Leon; #% : otherscallLit ic Sani Sanicula major,no j 7”, not without ith good id rea- amb calleth it D7 ‘of(era, (era, Droofinm,and P(iadeion de from the GG oe _ ame . Sinnaw, a be= caufe an the hollow ) if ings gs nand andcalleth the th edges alfot Alchymi of the leaves, willCueninhie gw fal thinth enightcrumpl . Basi the other ow mn i drones like lla Alpina i pearles,thar ench Piedde lyon, The Germanesas | faid before Sinnaw , and oe heerenfull, iin;andae Vnfere Srawen Giti mantel, ” a bine , Thete Dutch Onfer urawen , en Phei mantel, nitn Andeso wei Englife 4 Our Ladies i Mantle; and great Sanicle,and The The greater Sarafins Confound. forThis greater Solidago differeth not much from the as mer, riding up with upright hard round hollow ftalkes, highasit, with many darke greene leavesat the firft, fer up with at the head of the roote, which afterwards rife at the ftalkes, and are fet there without order, fomewh larger then they,and dented about theedges; the flowers leaves ftarare much greater with more andyellower long fafhion, ftanding in greene heads manytogether, wherewhich in after they are paft, are contained the feede, with the downe thereof flieth away with the winde, in pofed of a great bufh of white ftrings, or white fibres growing veryftrongly inthe ground, and fhooting forth the like manner as the former doth, the rootes are com- firingonall fides, which produce newplants, encreafing ina {mall rime, and overfpreading a great quantity of ground, the head of leavesis fomewhat browneat thefirlt fhooting outof the ground, andfo is the head ofthe roote beforethe Spring, and areof a bitter tafte, and binding withall. 3+ Solidago Saracenica five Germanica filiquofa, The Germane Confound with fimall cods, This Confound riféth up with great round wooddy ftalkes, to as great anheight asthe former, or more, but « elbJago $arocendva pros Germaeice Bleu 3 ein cefmane Confound with(mall cods, |