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Show 614 Cwardo, Theatrum Botanicum. TRisE 5. Trisns The Theater ofPlants, 5+ i major jor Danica, 4. : Betonica Danica, Broad leafed Betony. Cuar.69, yn 615 Betonica Alop-¢ur0 montana difa, Foxtaile Betony, Cuar, L XIX Beronica. Wood Betony. = F Berony wee havefoureor five forts,diffeting eytherin the leafe or flower, or {piked héadsof EIS24\ dowers one from another,as fhall be fhewed you. 1, Betonita oulgarisflore purpureo, Common Wood Betony, a The ordinary or common Betony, which becaufeit is frequent in woods,is therefore gene224% rally called Wood Betony, hath many leaves rifing from the roote, which ate fomewhat broad = 28 and roundat the ends, roundly dented aboutthe edges, ftanding upon long footeftalkes; from among whichrife up fmall (quare lender, but yet upright hairy {talkes, with fome leaves thereon, twoa peece at thejoynts,{maller then thelower, whereonare fer feverall {piked headsof flowers, like unto thofe of Laven- der, but thicker and fhorter for the moft part, and ofa reddifh or purple colour, {potted with fome white fpotg ujor. both in the lower & upper part on the infide yet there is obferveda different fort from this, whofe head is fhorter & flowreth ufaallyearlier then the former: the feede followeth conteined within the husks that hold the flowers, whichareblackifh, fomewhat long and uneven : the rootes are many white threddy ftrings, like unto thofe of Plantaine ;. the ftalke perifheth, but the roores with fomeleaves thereon abide all the winter 3 the whole plant is fomewhat {mall andofarefinous favour, 7 : ; 2, Betonica flore albo, Wood Betony with whité flowers. This Betony differeth inno one thing from the former, fo much as in the colour of the flowers which aré wholly white without any {pots at all inthem, onely the leaves may feemeto bea little greener, and the {piked head of lowers fomewhat {maller thenthe other. : - Betonica minima Alpina Helvetica. Small MountaineBetony, This {mall Betony likewife differeth not from the former neither in forme or colour, butin the fiialneffeof leaves, ftalkes and flowers. 4. Betonica Danica. Broad leafedBetony, y This great Betony likewife differeth not ftom the ordinary, in any other thing then in the largeneffe of the Icaves, being twice,and in {ome at fometimesthree or foure times as large asthe common fort, and of a ftrong i ftinking fmell ; andin the ftalke whichis ftronger growing higher, andthe headsof purple fowers grea= ter alfo, E 5. Betonica Alopecuros montana dja, Foxtaile Betony, This herbe that There bring to your confideration, is accounted by Bamhinus as akind ofBetony, or referred thereunto for the likeneffe ofthe leaves, whom I alfo herein follow, andplace it with them ; it hath a blackifh tuberoustoote, with fomefibres thereat y from whence rife up divers flender roundftalkes, about acubit high, 1. Betonica vulgarisflore purpureo. Common Wood Betony, 3+ Betonica minina Alpina Helvetica, Small Mouptaine Beteny, having at the bottome of them fome{mall long and narrow leaves, like threds or peécés as it were torn® off from the rinde of the lower part of the ftalke and fharpe pointed, fome greene and fome browne: the reft of the ftalkes are naked unto the middle, which from thence tothe toppesatfarre diftances one from another, have at every joynt two broader,rounder, and fhorter léaves then Betony, the middle ribbe being blackifh, and dented about the edges: above the two uppermoft leaves comeforth a foft round fpiked fhort head made of anumber of white haires, fomewhatrefembling.a white Fox taile, wheréofit tooke the name. The Place, The fir two fortsare frequent in woods and copfes, and other firch like thadowie placés thronghout thé land, but that with the white flower is more ufually found in the ftiffe clay grounds, then in any other mould, and in the woods by Brumley in Kent ; the third grow on the Alpes of Helvetia or Swifferland: the fourth was brought from Denmarkeby D', Lobel, when he went thither withthe Lord Edward Zouche Ambaffadour from the Queene Elizabeth of famous memory, in the yeare 1592. The lalt as Legdunenfis {aith,growethin the moyft vallies that are fhadowed withtrees of the highhills. The Time, Theyflower in J#ly,and the feede ripenéth quicklyafter, The Names. Tris called in Greeke xé<es) Ceftron,a remediorum copia ecvarietate, yet fore take it a florié Picata G mucros Mata acutie verruculum preferrente,and uxé7¢990 P{ycotrophon, quodin fri gidis locts inveniatur the word Ceftroz hath divers interpretations in Greeke asin Swidas for akind ofdarc, in Sophocles fora pricke or pointed thing ; others underftand hereby bookes conteining much variety of matter, and Pi fpeaking of graving, faith anciently there were two wayes, the orein wax, the other in Eore Geftro,ideft, viriculo, fet downe for veraculum, which expreffeth both in Grecke and Latine the tharpe pointed roole wherewith they did grave in Ivory, It-is calledin Latiné Zetonica, and Fetonica ab inventoribus Veronibys Hifpanie populis as Pliny faith; but Galen feemeth in his fiftbooke ds fanitate tyenda,to make Betonicaand Ceftron tobe twoherbes, inthefe words tranflated, Conijcitur autem in vigum petrofelinumyatque idfolumarticularibus farisfaciat ; sjs vero qui calculo laborant, aliquid Betonice & Ceftri quod in Gallijs nafcitur, vocent autem cam berbam Sarxiphagon : _Ztius alfo in his fourth booke ‘and ze. Chap, reciting this place of Galen {aith,Ex quibys colligitur non folum latinorum Betonicam, [ed etiam Gallorum “1p2agon, Ceftron nominatumfuilfe. Paulus -Aginera in his feventh Booke doth plainely fer downe two forts of sthe one withflenderbranches like unto Pennyroyall,but {maller,and almoft without tatte, growing efpe- ftony WRN a RS x aia a places(&&.as I faid before in the Chapter of Lami# is taken by Quadramius tobe Lamium Scutelaria h is ufed in thofe medecines that are for the reines : the other isthe Romans Betony which Dig/cos fron, and others P/ychetrophon becauseit joyeth incold places, and hath no likeneffeto the forGgg 2 mer |