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Show 696 Tripe5 Theatrum Botanicum, CGHarPeio3. fhedding of the hairg : the decoction thereof made in wine and drunkeis good for them that cannot reteine their meate in their (tomack it is accounted a good remedyfor a quartaine Ague to drinkea draught of the decoétion warmebefore the fityand fo for two orthree-fits together : the juice of the herbe and flowers takeneither in Goates milke or in the diltilled waterof the herbe,{tayeth the running of the reines in menand the whites in wo- men, butit will be the more effeCtuall ifa little powderof Corall Ambet and Ivory be putthereto, CMatthioles doth wonderfully commendthe powderof the dryed herbe and flowers againft the piffing of blood, foastoam ounce of the herbe a dramoffine Bolarmionackebee put, and taken three dayes together fafting in a draught of milke : the rooteor the greene leaves chewed in the mouth is faid to eafethe painesin the teeth, Guap. Salamons Seale. ee Here are divers forts of Salomons Seale, fome anciently knowne and fet forth, others of later know- 5 The common SalomonsSeale rifethup witharound ftalke, about halfe a yard high, bowing orbending downe the toppe, fet with fingle leaves one above another, which are fomewhatlarge, and like unto the leavesof the Lilly Convally,or MayLilly, and of the fame colour, that is, with an eye of blewifhnefféupon the greene.with fome tlobes therein,and more yellowifh undemeath; at the foote of evety leafe almoft: from the bortome upto the toppe of the flalke, come forth {mall long white and hollow pendulous flowers, fomewhat like the Nower of the MayLilly, butending infive longerpoints, for the moft part two together, ar the'end ofa long footeftalke, and fometimes but one, and {ometimesalfo two flalkes with flowers at the foote'ofa’ Iéafe, whichare without anyfent atall and ftand all on theone fide of the ftalke;after they are paft comein their places, {mall round berries greene at the firft, and blackifh greene tending to blewnefle whenthey are ripe wherein lic {mall white hard and ftony feede : Camerariys in his Epitome citing (Marthiolus as his Authorfaith that it is fometimes found with red berries and withpurplesthe rooteis ofthe thickneffe of ones finger or thumbe, white and knobbed in fome places with a fat roundcircle,reprefenting a Seale whereof it tooke the name lying along under the upper face of the ground and not growing downeward but with many fibres underneath, fic 2. Raccis ra- pur briaweetct Pur- “Polygonatummaje, ons biti Great Salomons Seale. ; ate oe bitiinthe bigneffe immer: bur lik the former, aids Senleisinallthines ; other Sa/omonsSeale This is in all things like of the leaves an@ height of thé ftalkes, having larger flowers upon.fhorter footeftalkes, and moreftore fet together at a leafe,and larger roots, : 3¢ olygonatum majflore majore. The great flowred Salomons Seale. This great flowred Salomons Seale hath fhorter ftalkeé, not above foote high, and {tending more uptight and ‘gare & majas flaie majore. caleyand that withgreater flowers. \ WAN i ftand thicke rogether;. theflows fomewhat flatter then the former, the leaves are fhorterand rounderthen it, but at each allo ftanding ersare larger then in any of the fo rmer,and {weeter,{melling like Hawthorne flowers, more the roote alfo; efpecially if it grow in good ground, leafe : the berries that follow arelarge like the laf, and fo is or elfe {malfer. polygonatum maximofolio. The greateft leafed Satomans-Seale, ed saitked forts. doe; with a ftalke rather greater and This Selomons Seale growethin the fame manner that the former the leaves t, almoft as greats higher then thelaft,: butnot fo upright,» the leaves hereof are larger by halfethén.i fo whitith or yellow underneath 4 otEleborss albus,orthe white Neefewort, of a paler greene colonr, and not rogethers and-withour fent like but ufually more the flowersare white, {tanding upon.long ftalkes likethe firft,; S34 fo muckias thefirft, bus, Thiv fall Sa/omons Seale hath a lower {talke, fcarfe a foote high, not bending downe fer : the lowers comeforth cee Ke ledge andinventicn, both from Virginia and Braffil,as {hall be {pecified in this Chapter following. 1. Polygonatum vulgare, Common Salomons Seale. } re i paren, Cuar.to3, them + the berries thar follaw arelike the fir, and4oare the roores. . Polygonatur latifolinns minis, Small SalomonsSeale. CII, Polygonatamfive Sigilum Salomonts, Lhe Theater of Plants. ‘Trise 5: having fuch like leaves thereon, andunthe fame manner, yet fomewhatharderorftif s, and but one upon 4 at the foore ofthe leaves in the fame fafhion,butare larger,{tanding npon hort footeltalke talke,withoue fentlike the firft,the berries and roots differ not alfo from thefirft, m latifolinm ramiofum five quartnm Clufii. Broad leafed branched Sa/omons Seale: 6. Polygonatu a foore or more longs This branched Salomons Seale rifethup ufually:witha crooked or bending ftalke, about the joynts whereofftand te having one ortwoorthree branches fometimes iffaing out from the fides thereof, at but renderer verall leaves as inthe former forts; and fomewhatlike them alfo, being fomewhatlarge and long, like the leaves of and fofter and not hoary underneath,compaffing the ftalke at the lower end whereit isbroadeft, one white flowery th Thoroughwax:underneath every leafe & at the fides of them alfo at the joynts commethfor footendingin fix corners, {potted with blackifh{pots on theinfide, ftanding ona crooked long and pendulous (quare berries @alke which fmellech pretty and fweere : after the flowersare paft there comeintheir places three berry of greenc atthe firit, which when they grow ript are fomewhat longer then before, and equall a {mall colour, having many whitifh kernells the Cornus mas or the Cornell Cherry in bigneffe almoft; and of areddifh within them ; the roote is not tuberouslike the formerforts; but flenderand knotty, and ofa paler colour, fhoo- ting forth into many nodes or knotts, with divers long fibres andftringsfaltned thereto,the ftalkes dying yeare= ly and new rifing up inthe Spring. 7. Polygonatum Virginianum, Salomons Seale of Virginia. ch are This Salomons Seale, differeth from thé former in three principall parts, that is firft in the rootés,whi in thefe flenderslong,and creeping like as moft of our Virginian plantsare,and fhooting up ftalkes rotind abotic, and not tuberousas in the former; then in the flowers, which in this are not fecat the foote of the leaves.as ini the other (yet the leaves are of the fame fafhion, and {tand one above another, upona fingle uprightftalke,and 9. Polygonatum Virginianum, Salomons Seale of Virginia. 8... Polygonttumracemofim Anericanun, Clufter like Salomons Seale of americas 6. Pohgonatumlatifoliam? amofam five quartum Clufi. Broad leafed branched Salomons Seale, ; NS Ww WS \ ;\ ais MH HAR ah Nie NA Sa i) fe i Pa EI Branched’ fomewhag |