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Show Theatrum Botanicum. 596 Cu aP.60, Tries. order, fome dented and fome not, of 2. 3. and q. inches long a peece, and halfe an inch broad or lefle, of a pale greene colour and foft, full ofbranches from the middle at the Jeaft upwards and {maller ea i ate with very many {mall moffie pale threds for flowers on every branch, out of {mall greene huskes or heads, which withthe feede almoftinfenfible, is carried away with the wind, that one would thinke it had no feede ar all, whichyet will {pring very plentifully before winter of itowne fowing: the rooteis afew hard fprayes ‘with finall fibres at them, and perifhingyeerely after it hath feeded. ; Expaterinm aquaticnm duorum generum, Water eAgrimony of two forts. an Althoughall thefe forts of Hempe-like Ayrimony doeufually grow by watery ditchfides, and the liké morifhplaces, yet becanfe they will alfo grow well in differentfoiles, I thinke it nota miffeto joyne them all rogether, for the likeneffe ofname, forme, and qualities. Of this water Agrimony we have two forts of our owne Land, and another alfo ont of America or New England, being in all other thingsvery like one Untoanother,but onely in the placing or fetting of the leaves uponthe ftalkes; which in one fort hath divers leaves fet together, like the fingers of an hand, all meeting together at thebottome, fet by diftances at the ftalkes, every one not divided, but whole, yet dented about the edges, and in forme and greeneneffe like unto the leaves of wilde Hempe,or of the former Agrimonies but fofter: and in the other, everyleafe is fomewhat divided, three orfive upona ftalke, two ata joynt: the flowersare yellowifh browne, made of many leaves like aftarre, fet about a middle rhrammie, in greene heades under them, divers flanding together, thrufting forth from the Joynts with the leaves, and at the toppes of the branches, which turne into long flatrugged feede, which will fticke to any garment ittoucheth : the roote is made of manyblacke ftrings and fibres, ericreafing much, the whole plant is fomewhat aromaticall {melling {weete, and tafting fomewhat fharpe like Pepper, and fo doth the roote alfo, ._ We have another ofthis laft fore, brought us from Virginia and New England, whofe great hard folie, browne “4” round ftalke, of 3.4. and five foote high, is wonderfull full of long branchesfrom the bottome, fet with joynts ‘ {pottesl red, on the younger greene ones, with large greene leaves on them, thelowelt having fiveona ftalke, thofe upward butthree yet larger than the former, as the flowers and {eede is alfo, yet not rovgh but {moth flac and blackifh : this hath no fharpeneffe of tafte inir. , > The Place, Thefirt groweth inthe bordersof fieldes, by ditches and hedgefides throughout all he Land: the fecond is a ftranger to us, growing with us onely in the gardens of the curious, but is natural to Ira/y in manyplaces, both the former and this growing neere one to another, ornot farre diftant:the third Colymsna found in Naples,and was fent to Banhinws from manyother parts of fraly likewile, as he faith himfelfe :_ the fourth is found in manyplaces that are wet, as the brinckesof ditches,and water courfes,and in the upland grounds alfo,whereit will thrive and endure as wells the fife, fixth, and laft came to us from New Exgland and Virginea, the two latt forts grow fometimesin the very water; the laftin fhallow ponds and plafhes of water, as alfo fometimes in places diftant fromthem, American groweth huge and great in our garden grounds, comming firftunto us out of New Eng4and, among the earth that Iohn Newton a Chirurgion of Coditon in Somer(etfbire bronght me with Planta (ardi~ nalis, their little red Lillies and otherplants, The Time, They doeall flower in /#/y and Augujt, andthe feede is foone ripe after, yet the lalt Aerican Powreth Tatett. The Names. Thefirftis called in Greeke 2vuzucweuy. Eupatorium, and fo the Latines call it alfo, of Expator the firkt finder of it, as Plixy faith, whocallethic Expatoria; and as itis thought is his Argemonia in arvisnafcens, but Diofcorin des {heweththat this was anerrour inhis time, in miftaking Argemonia, for Agrimonia. Some al{o call it Hepa- T ripe, 5, The TheaterofPlants. Cuar.61, 597| callethit Cannabina aquatica, five Expatorium mas, Gefner Pepsi ii Aqnaticun, (om Trifolivm cervinnm Aittan ticum, Baptifta Sardus callethit Terzola, Anguillara, Galper inborisGermania, Lacuna, Lonicerws, and Camerda vius call it Expatérium Aviceone, Thisis called inhigh Drtch S.. Kuniguads Kraut, that is Herba Santhe kunig's dis & wafferdoft, of the low Dutch Boelkencrusit: the fiftis called by Cormutus Expatorinm folits Enule, and according to thetitle, to put a difference betweene. it, have fer /atifolinm, and the other of that fort which f call anguftifolinm, and hath onely {pring with me, and hath nor beene mentioned by any before + the lalt which as I fayd is of two forts, the one with divided leayes, the other with whole, arediverfly named by divers; for that with divided leavesis called by Tragus Verbeng[upina, by Cordus upon Diofcerides Verbenaca retla, by Gefner in bortis,Forbefina Bonomenfium, and by fome as he there faith, Conyza palufiras; » Verbefina in his Appendix; by Dodoneus Hepatorinm aquatile, Ruellivs tookeit to be Hydropiper, and{o did Lygdunenfisy, bur-yet doth con. fate his opinion, and fheweth the differences, as “Matshigls before hath done;, by. Cafalpinus Bidens folio tripar. tite divifa, and by Bauhinus Cannabina aquatica folio tripartite divifo; the other with whole leavesis called by Lobel, Eupatoyinm Cannabinumfemina Septenttionalium; by Tabermontanus, Expatorium Cannabinum Chryfai. themum; By Lugdunenfis Hydropiper alind Dalechampu ; by Cafalpiaus, ‘Bidens folio non aiffetto, and by Bawhings in his Prodomus, Cannabina aquatica fimilis capitulss witantIOHs y and in nis Pisax Cannabina aquatica folio non dix vifo: thatof Virginie may well goc underthe fame title, : The Vertues, ; } The fweete Aerimony isheld by divers tobe the more excellent in all the propertics of Agrimonys bur be. canfe we cannothave it in that quantity, thac mayferveall mens continuall ufes, our ordinary fort will ferve fut. ficiently well and effeCtually. Serapio faith,itishot and dry in the firlt degree,and as Galea faith, it is of thinne parts, and hath a clenfing andcutting faculty, without any manifelt heate; it is alfo moderately drying andbinding; it openeththe obltractions of the Liver, andclenfethic; ichelpeth the jaundife, and ftrengthneth theinward parts, and is very beneficiall to the bowels, and healeth their inward woandings and brnifes or hurts, and qualifiethall inward diftemperatures, that grow therein: the decoction of the herbe, made with wine and drunke, is goodagainft the fting, and bitings of Serpents, and helpeth them that have foule, or troubled and bloody watets; it is good for the ftrangury, and helpeth chem tomake water currantly, and helpcth alfo the collicke;it clenfeth the breft,and helpeth the cough: it isaccounted alfo a goodhelpe to riddea quartaine as well as atertian ague,bytaking a draught ofthe decoction warmebeforethe fit, whichby altering them, will intime ridde them: the leavesand feede faith Dio/corides, the feede faith P Liny, (tayeth the bloody flixe, being taken in wine: outwardlyapplyedit helpeth old fores, cancers, and ulcers that are of hard curation, being ftamped with old Swinesgreafe and applyed,forit clenfeth and afterwards healeth them in the fame manneral {o applyed, irdoth drawforth the thornesorfplinters of wood,nayles, or any other fuch thing, that is gotteninto the Seth, and helpeth to {trengthen membersthat be out of joynt: it helpethalfo foule impoftumed eares, being bruifed and applyed, or the juyce dropped into them: the diftilled water of the herbe, is good toall the purpofes aforefaide; either inward or outward. The Hempelike:Agrimony, or Expatorium Cansabinum,is of the fame temperature afheate and dryeth, for it alfoopeneth, clenfech, cutteth and maketh thinne thofe humors that are thicke and tough, and therefore is very eftectuall forthe dropfie, yellow Iaundife, obftrntions of the Liver, and hardneffe ofthe Spleene, fulneffe of humors, and the eyill:di{pofition or habit of the body : the juyce hereof drunke, is commended much againft the impoftumesthat cpme of, a cold caule within the bady, and for thofe that are without, the herbe brnifedand applyed outwardiy: the decoction thereof taken before the fits of long and lingring agues, doth helpe muchto free any fromthem: the fame alfo provoketh urine, and womens naturall courfes; and boyled with Fumiterry in whey and drunke, helpethfcabbes, and the itch, which proceede of falt and fharpe humours; but the juyce mixed with vinegar, and annointed curethit outwardly; and torinm quoniamhepati precipue medetur : becaule it isa chiefe helpe to the Liver : git 18 allo called Agrimonia of cureththe Leprofiealfo, ifit be taken in the beginning, but the juyce beingdrunke, is held tobe more effe@tuall : Arabians call it,Cafal, Cafel,and Gaféls the Italians Agrimonia,and fo doe the Spaniards the French Agrimonie, and Expatuire, The Germanes Odermeing,and Bruchwurtz: the Dutch Agrimony:and we in Fnglifh Agrimony or com= ton Agrimony. All the Apothecariesof our Land, efpecially of Londoanow adayes, doe ufe this firft kinde oF Agrimony,as the molt aflured Expatorium of Diofcorides: how foever in former times, both we and they beyond the feas, did ufually take the Expatorium Cannabinum, whichthey called Enpatorium vulgare, for the true kinde, and either of ignorance not knowing the right,or of wilfilnefles in not enduring to be with drawne from their old errours, but our age hath reformed very manyof thefe errours, we were formerly nufled up in; and no and the leaves fteeped in drinke, and given to childrendoth the fame. Theleaves are often given by the Country people, to their cattle, and otherbealts, tronbled with coughes, and when they are broken winded, or have divers: fomeothernames are alfogivenuntoit, a: Aarmorella, Concordia, Lappa inverfa, and Ferraria, The doubt but bythe diligent earch of divers for the truth;both the light that hath rifen hath appeared, andthe dark neffe that remaines maybe expelled, whichtime mutt as ithath done in part already, bring to paffe: the pertinatious wilfulneffe of many being the caufe that ic is not wholly performed as yet. Anguillara fut, and Colum- the juyce being clarified and dryed, and the weight of a {cruple taken in pills, killeth the wormesofthe belly, griping paines within them, all whichit helpeth : the flowers chiefely are ufedto heale both greene andold fores, but the herbeit felfe will doe folikewife; itis fayd that hunters have obferved, that Deare being wounded, by the eating of this herbe have beene healed of their harts: the dryed herbe being burned, driveth away by the {moake and {mell thereof, all flies, wafpes, and thelike, and all other hurefull and yenemons crea tures, Cuarm LXL naafcer him doe makethis Expatoristm of Diofcorides, tobe that of Avicen alfo, and fo tobe bath one, Dodoners becanfe he weuld not acknowledge the Ageratum of Diofcorides, to be the Eupatorium of Mefues, runneth him- felfe aground, onthe dangerous fhelfe of two crrours,namely that the Eupaturinm of Mefuesand Avicen, dow notdiffer, and the Eupatorinm of Ade/ues and Diofcorides, be both one; whenasitisin neither of them true: for as we fhewed in'the ¢ hapter of Ageratum,that Ageratum was the ttue Expatorium of Me'ues, which ditticth muchfrom this of Die/corides ; fo doth that of AZefues, from that of Avicenalto. whichis by the mo judicious now adayes, accounted to bethe firlt Eupatorium Cannabinum, here fet downe and as before is fayd was in former times called Expatorixen vulgare : yet there is fome doubt therein, in that Avicen faith, the flowersof his Expatorinmare like thofe of Nenufar or waterLilly ; which the moft judicious knownot well howtoreconcile but doe verily fuppofe (ome errour or miftake to be in the text : and althoughit be not the true Expatoriam oF Diofcorides,the errour thereof being now reformed, both their defcriptions and figures inducing the fa me unto you; yet isit not without very {peciall properties, as you fhall heare by andb y : the‘ THed_ Agrimonia fecond is called odorataby Camerarius, and Expatorium alterum odoratum, & aromaticum by y Columna : the third is called 4 orimunoidesot Colsmna, ofBaxhinus Agrimoniz fimilis,and of fome Pimpineltafolio Agrimonie : the fourth aeashiie ally called in former times beyond the Seas, as] fayd Expatorism vulgare, as Matthiolwe and others doe fet it downe, Fafchins called it Expatcrium adulerinum, and Dodonens and Thalins Pfeudo bepatorinm mas: Lobel calleth Cannabis, Hempe, Here aretwo kindes of Hempe,the tame or manured, and the wilde or baftard: of the manutted kind there are twoforts, male, and female, of whichI intend to entreate in this Chapter; and of the wilde or baftard forts in the next, SSIS Cannabis fativa, Manured Hempe. The Manured Hempe, (whichis of fo greatufe, both for linnen cloath and cordage) isas I fayd of two forts; male and female as they are called, yet both rife from one and the fame feede; and herein is fomewhatlike the "reach Mercury, but howthis change in nature fhould be, no man can givea reafon: the male hath the ftronger ftalke, and more bufhie, and the leaves greater, and of adarker gréene colour, and bearing feede without any fhewof flowers, and endureth longer, before itbe ripeto cut downe: contrariwife, the female hath afingle ftalke, for the moft part, with few or no branches, and beareth fowers, butno feede followeth, and is ripe, and mult be cut downe,orpulled up before the other: they both rifeuptoagreat height, even fixe or feven foore high or more, with manyleaves fetthereonat diftances, every one irktedineo 5. or 6. or 7, feverall leaves, joy= ned together at the bottome of them, and dented about the edges, fomewhatliké unto the formeof the leaves of the |