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Show iy Cwartit. Theatrum Botanicum. Tripe.5 TRise.5: dented leaves up to the toppes of them,where theyare bare of leaves and beare long {pikes of gaping and hood. ded yellow flowers, which yeeld afterwards fmall longhuskes like thofe of Snapdragon withfmall feede in them:the roote is made of divers long blackith fibrousftrings, ; : 6. Criftagallilucea umbellata, Yellow Rattle with flowersin tufts. This hath but few and narrow leavesof an inch longa peece,rifing from a flender{mall roote and a ftalke from amongthemlittle more then an handbreadth high, having many yellow flowers fet together at che toppe as it were in an umbell ortuft,fafhionedlike the other,but three times longer then thof€ of the commonfort,and w ith great broad huskes conteiningthe feede after them. ; ; The Theater of Plants. Ballamina mas. The Male Balfame Apple. Cuap.it2, Balfamina femina. The female Balfame Apple. 7. Crifta Galli anguftifolia montana, Mountaine narrow leafed yellow Rattle, This yellow Rattle hath two long and narrow pointed greene leaves dented about the edges, fet one again{t another upon the ftalke, whichis a cubit high, ftom betweene which tife other {maller leaves and a {mall {talke likewife aninch ortwolong, with very {mall leavesthereon, and {mall pale yellow flowerslike the ordinary fort but {maller,withflat {cedein {mall huskes following them. The Place and Time. Some of both thefe kinds growin our medowes and woods generally through the land, where they are ra- thera plague or annoyance to it.then of any good ufe for the cattle, but chereft in Germany except the fixt which is of Spaine ; and are in flower from Midfomeruntill Augu/t be palt fometimes. The Names, Thelater writers (for none of the ancients have remembred any of them as farré ag can bee underftood)) call them Pedicularis and Pedic#laria, becaufe that fheepe feeding thereonwill breede lice, itis called alfo Fiffularia ofthe hollowneffe of the ftalkes and Crifta Galli or Gallinacea, becaufethe flowers as fome thinke ftand like a: €ockes Combeat the toppes of the ftalkes : others thinke it to be focalled of the leaves efpecially, of the yellow whofe dentings on the edges refemble the Combeor creft of a Cocke : fome alfocall them Alettoralophes of Pliny whofe defcription commethneareft unto this, above any other herbe that is knowne : fome alfo referre it rg the CVimmulus herba ofPliny Jib.18.cap.28. whichas hefaith is the worft herbe ina field, but fome thinke the word of Pliny fhould rather be Nummulys for Nummularia, The firft is called by all thefe names by the fandr authors that have written thereof, and Lugdunenfis befides calleth it Crifta galiialtera Bue Phthirion the econ! iscalled by Lugdunenfisas1 doe in thetitle Pedicularis major Alpina, and Banhinus Pedicularis Alpinas Filicis folia major ashe doth the third Filicisfolio minor, and isthe Aletterolophys minor of Clufive : the fourth is called Pedin cularis pratenfis lutea vel Crofta Galliby Bawhiaus ; and (ampeftris by Tragus or Crifta gai or Gallinatea by Dow donais, Lobel,Clufius,ec, the fift is called by Lugdunenfis Filipendula Alpina, and Pedicularis Alpina lutea by Bans binws ; the fixt and laft are mentioned onely by Banhinus with the fame names are in their titles, The Fresch call it CrefPe decoc, the Germans Brawn rodel and goel nodel,and forme Leuffkraut, the Duech Ratelen, and we in Enclip red.or yellow Rattle,and Rattle graffe, Cockes combe and Loufewort. fz xe %m The Vertues, The réd Rattlé is accounted profitable to heale up Fiftulaes and hollow Vicers, and toftay the flux of humours to them, andalfo the abundance of womens conrfes, or any other flux of blood sto be boiled in harfh or red wine and cde ied yéllowRattle or — Combeis likewife held to bee good for thofe that are troubl ed with a cough or with dimnefle of fight, if the herbe being boiled with beanes and fome honey pu: droppedinto theveyes : the whole feede being parte the eyes doth draw forth any Miefee eee from the fight without trouble or paine, Some hold it tobe of a cold and drying propertie. : Cusp, bita Somphes. Somécalleth it Viticeda, from the thew ofa {mall vineit beareth; Cords in his hiftory of Plants calleth it Cucamsis punicens, Ge(ner Balfamina pomifera, Lobel Balfamina (ucumerina puniceds the Italians call ic Balfamina, and Caranza (from whence came the namé (arantia) and Momordica (yet differeth as AZatthiolus notethit from the greater kind of Geraninm, with Mallowlike leaves fo called alfo,, whereofis fpoken before} and fome Pomo di Hierofolima,P omam Hierofolymitanum,the French Merveille &¢ Pome de Merveilles,P omum Min rebile,che Germans Balfamopfel,and Balfamkyrant, the D atch Balfameappel, and we in Begft the Male Ballame Apple,and of fome Apples of Hier#/alem. 4 : CXI. The Vertues, Balfamina mas, The Male Balfame Apple, Havein my former booke given yon the knowledge ofthe female Ballamé, it refteth in this to thew youthe male, which for the excellent healing properties of this as well as the other, defervedly have received che name of a-Balfame, and therefore I thinke itnot ainiffe to give you the figure alfo of the female and malealtogether: the male maycither be reckoned amongthe climers for the manner of the growing, ot fora kind of Cowcmmber as {ome authors doe, for the forme of the fowers and fruite. It {pringethup with divers flender reddifh ftalkes and branches,fhootingforth many clafping tendrells it,yecis thought by fome tobe the plant that P/izy in his 90. booke and 3.Chap.faith the Grecians called Cucura like a Vine,where- by it taketh hold of any poale or otherthing that ftandeth neare it (yet had needeof fome binding thereto leatt the winds blowit downe) havingleaves thereoncut in on the edges into findry divifions, like unto a Vine leafe, or the white Bryony, but mach fmaller, tenderer and moredivided: the flowers are yellowith white, like unto thofe of Cowcumber, cumming forth in the fame manner, atthe joints with the leaves - after which come the fruite which is fomewhat long and round, pointed at both ends, and bunched forth on the outfide in rowes the skin it felfe being fmooth and very red, almott blacke when it is ripe, havinga reddith pulpe; within which lye¢ divers rough 2 and hard flat reddifh feede, but of a gtayifh i blacke colour, being i dryed, fomewhat like J unto Citrnllfeedes for the formeand bigneffe : the rootes are {mall and firi oii Ae ith ft thes feeleth,and the whole herbe withereth prefently, me MO Neyo erat The Place, Wecha Bacucl ve alwayes heco meshad di the {cedeon hereoffrom Italy,J, where where alfo all they nurfe fe itit upin upin théir thei gardens, the naturall Te fowreth late with t us and feldo elcome or never gi £1V' eth Tii pe fituit, our cold old ni; nights gant be: ing ng Over earl y: '; : — The Balfame Appleis dry in the fecond dégrée, and temperately cold, adecoétion of! thé leaves in winé, ot the powder being drunkeis fayd to eafe the griping paines of the bowells, and the collieke paffion, as alfo of the mother if itbe injeGted with a Syringe for the purpofe:the powder of the leaves takeninthediftilled water of Horfctailé or Plantane, is a fingular remedy for the Ruptureor burfting inchildren : the chiefeft mannerofufing itin Italy, is to makeanoyleof the frait thereof, when itis ripé by infufing the apples, thefeede being firit taken forth(and yet fome make an oyle ont of the innerkernell of the {eede,by expreffion,in the fame manner that vyle is expreffed from Almonds J in oyle Ollive and fet inthe Sunne for certaine dayes; of digefted in Balueo, or. Equino which is effeCtuall not onely for inward wounds or hurts whatfoever being drunke, (the powder of the leaves alfo is effeGtuall) but for alfother outward wounds, be they frefh afd greene, to foder the lips of them and heale them, ‘or old and inveterate Vicers to dry up the fuperfluous moifture, and defluxion of humous hindring their healing, and to heale them quickly : the fame oyle alfois very profitable for all prickes or hurts in the finewesas alfo for crampes and convulfions, if the places bée therewith annointed, and to -heale the Vicersof the feeretparts in man or woman, or womens breafts that are fore or {wollen: ithelpech alfo to eafe the paines ofthepiles : it cureth{alfo fcaldings or burnings by fire or water: it taketh awaythe fcatres that remaine. of wounds andharts being healed,it dothalfo take alway the painesofthe ftingings of Bees and, Wafpes: it is faid likewife tobe veryiprofitable for women that are barren by correcting the faperfluons humidity of the mother which migh be the caufé thereof, andthereby to make themfit to conceive. ° CuaPp, CXII. Trifolium oderatum. Sweet Trefoile. for it toripen The Names: This never found any Greeke appellation that I carnheareof, but is called in Latine Bal/awina mas, to diftine @uith it from theotherthatis called famine, and too ke the namefromthe Balfamine or healing properties are in It, Hie name of Balfamé mentionedin the laft Chapter, caufeth me to joyne this herbe next thereunto; being fo calledalfoofmany, and thé properties well worthy of that name, whereunto I thinke o joyne twoorthree other Trefoiles thereunto, this being of knowneproperties, the other I. Trifolinns |
