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Show Cwar.113, Tris n5 Theatrum Botanicum. . Melilorus Indie Orientalia. 7 Ealt Indian Neliloe. Triste 5: . The Theater of Plants. Cuar.113.° formercimes almoft every country had a feverall Trefoile with yellowflowers to betheir -MeLibt. The A- 4» Melilotus Syriaca ‘odora, Sweere dffrian Melilot, rabians call it Alchilelmelich, and the Italsans, ‘Spaniards, and French Aelilote, the Germanes Edlerfteinklee, the The Ealt Indian’ Melilot is a {mall low plant, Dutch Groote Steenclayeren, and Gbemayne Melilot sand in Englife asl havetaid before, ; The Vertues. : Diofcorides faith, it hath an aftringent or binding qualitie. Te mollifiérh afl hard tumours and inflam mations, that happenin the eyes.or otherparts of the body; as:the feate or findament,-and the privie parts of manor woman, being boyled in wine andlaide to the place, and fometimes the yoalke-of 4 roafted-€gge, ot the powder fearfe rifing above halfe a foote high, with {mall flender brownith ftalkes befet in feverall places with very {mall greene leaves, three alwayes growing togetherlike the reft, little ornothing dented about the edges : the toppes of the ftalkes being not branched at all, are furnifhed with many very fmall flowers,of a deepe yellowcolour; after which come {mall round heads, fomewhatlike unto che Italian Melilot, before fpoken of, wherein is conteined of, Fenigreeke or Linfeede, or fine flower,,or Poppiefeede, or Endiveis added untoit, Tt healeth thofe impo- fumes that are frefhsbéing appli¢d with serrafigi//ata and wing, and.the {preading ulcers alfgh the head,being wafhed witha lye made thereof.Iteafeth the patos ofi the ftemackes appliedeither fréfh, or boyled with any other of the aforenamed things. It helpeth alfo the paines of the eares being dropped into them, and fteeped in Vinegar or Rofewaterit mitigateth che headach : Thus {aith Diofeorides. Galen faith in his fixth Booke of fimple Medecines, that Melilot isofamixt qnalitie, for it hath a little aftringent fachltiein it, and yer it dothdigelt: {mall brownifh blacke feede,which hath a {trong {mell of Melilot, which the other forts of Melilot for the warmingorhotqualitie is more abundant therein thenthe cold. The Arabian Phyfitians doe appoint the have not, the herbe and flowers hereof having but cods and feéde; tobéufedin medicines, arid maketio miention*of flowers. TheyGreekes-contrariwife doe will the flowers onely to beufed;and never make ufe of (eede or codds ; andthetcfore as. tMarthiolus faith, it isno worider that the compoundplaifter of Mellilot, which the Apothetaries make, not having any ofthe meale of avery {mall or no fent thereof; the rooteis fmall and perifheth every yeate;and mutt be new fowen in the Spring every yeare that youwillfeeit. the feede ofthe true Melilot therein, doth not workethat effect thatthe Phyfitian$ doc expect, for this com- T he Place. pound plaifter is appointed to be ufed, todiffolvehardnefle, windineffe, tumours and fwellings, both ofthe {pleene, liver and belly, as alfo mightily to cafe the paine of them all, andtoheale the Hypochondria, or fore partofthe belly, about the fhottribbés, whenit is ftretched or crackt by the {welling thereof; but there isanc= Thefirft as I faid is found in many placés of this Land plentifully, asin the edge of Suffelke, andin Effex in divers places, as alfo in Huntington fhire and in other places more fpatingly, but moft ufually ther plaifter called Mellilot,whichis much ufed,to draw and heale all {ores ahd-wouinds that neede cleanfing,and is madeofthejuice of the greene young Mellilot,boyled with Roffen, W axe,Sheepe tallow,and fome Turpentine, whichif it be well made, will bealmoft as’greené as the herbe it felfe, and fimell very {trong thereof, although either in corne fields, or in corners of Medowes,and in worfe places fometimes. The fecond groweth it be two or three yéares old. The flowers of Mellilot aud Camomill are much ufed to be put together into glyfters that are given to expell winde, & to eafe paines,as alfo into pultofes that are: made for the fame purpofe, and to aflwage fwellings or tumors thathappen either in the {pleene or other parts, by the mollifying or dif- not in any place of this Land naturally but is very frequent in Germany, andis onely nur{ed up in Gar- cuffing qualities that are init: Ithelpeth alfo inflammations whetherin the eyes or face, or other parts of the body. The juyce droppedinto the eyes isa fingular good medicine to take awayanyfilmeor skinne from them, dens withus : The third came tous from Italy, and by that Jtaéax name wee hold it ftill: The fourthis that groweth asa cloud to dimmetheeyefight.. It is effetuall'to be applied to thofe that have fodainely loft their fenfes by any paroxifme,asalfo to ftrengrhen the memorie, to comfort the head and braines, and to preferve them from paines,andthefeare of the Apoplexie; if the head be often wafhed, with the diftilled-water of the herbe and flowers, ora lye made therewith, The wateralfo diftilled ferveth asa, perfume, to wafh :courfe gloves or other things. The flowers and herbe ofthe white flowred Mellilot, fteeped in oyle Olive, and fer into thé Sunne. todigelt for fometite, and after being boyled in a Balneo of hot water, and ftrained forth, and other. frefh flowers and herbes being put thereto, and Sunried, as before and ftrained, and foufed atthe fecond or third time, faidby Pena and Lobel to comefirft trom Aleppo in Syria to Venice; where being fowen it was found to beof anexcellent fmell, as I faidbefore, but de- generated fucceffively by degrees : The fift Profper Alpinus faith is peculiar onely to Egypt,where they ufe no other fort of Melilor, as not having any others growing with them; The fixt Banbinys faith was found on the Mountaines of (ca/file in great plenty. The lafthath beeene fent ns from Italy, am C among dire m Italy, by that name.and r versotherftange feedes 5 therefore wee multi magineuntill it can bee difproyed. from the Eafterne parts of A/a major, which ufually weecall the Ent Indies, Z The Time. ca They doe.all Howerin the Sommer Moneths ofIune and Inly, and their feedéis ripe quickly after, i ite enn G. The Names, {tiscalled in Greeke u<Mi07@ guagt Melita lotus,a Lotus that {melleth f li i iently it was called Sertula Campana, becaufe the flowers growing in the feral Cmeier fe tecieae peeae into Garlands,and Corona regia, becaufethe yellow flowers doe crowne the toppes of the flalkes. Some fo havecalled it Tréfolinm odorarum, but we have another garden Tretoile,more properly you heard inthe former Chapter, Some alfo call it Trifolium equinum, or Caballinnm calléd by that name, as , becaufe itie ood pafture forhorfes, wherein theydelight and thrive well with it; in Englifo weecall it generally Kings verae the chiefeft of alf other three leafed graffes, generally called Clavers or Claver graffes, and Melilot after the Latine name tobe the moreeafily underltood, yet in fomeplaces they call it Harts Claver, becanfe if it grow where Stagees pees aay a poeiily feede thereon. ‘And in fomeplace s of Effex they callit Hartwort ecauii¢ as they thinke the feede thereof happening into thei ines i : which theyI ufirally call the Heartt burne or tee Sfthe ‘eaet-Thefirft Tehhisa omtye called by moftee Authors e Melilt the Greeke name ; the old Latinename ofSerta or Sertula Campana,bei ng uae left; Fala calethiA gchlovas majer je vulgaris Camerarius ,D odoneus and Lobel call it Afelilotus Germanica. , a and Thalius C 1 & Dodoneus Trifolitt in dam ree ma Reese: and Lxgdunenfis call it Lotus urbana and fativa,Fu (chim and PedietreSvspiuga Eanes “7 ie ib fecond is fcarfe mentioned but under the other, and is called by Tragus Melilotw major candida pee “3oe ne eri se oe, oe third Camerariu s calleth Iealica, and Baubinus Melilotus f af memee jacretnna. s. The ourth h is called by Tragus rertia Jfpecies Melilori vulgaris 7 , whofaith ith it itiis moft likely tobe S erapwhis Melilot'sFxfchiss, Gefner, Dodonens and Matthiolus, make it a be Melilotus Iralica, bur we have another moretrue /pecies, called Adc j e dow : : ’ idotus Italicahere fet ia you heard before } efor called it AZelilotus Syriaca odora sand that becaufeit i i came from Aleppo as hee faith i h ae Tenth Pie. - a called Atelilotys Italica. Banline calleth it covilinlyvafexie ccs ro per Atpsays faith is called in Egypt Alchimelech, and isth l y Meli im calleth it Corniculis C minor, ‘The Gxt Banhinusis onely ei veth the 4 reflexcts sis misor ie nunc name, ee being b: it ic hi °e Spair Thelaft hath his enamein sone connat his title.as foes it hath ae ath b beenefentones wil tous ; whichas Giles I faid id doth (icin doth ftill f t i e continue. i Thee i There bee tece hath beene Gilet Cone she ng sehater'writers,what herbe fhould be the true Melilotus of Diofcorides, {ome taking C c y others a Medica or Lagopus,and others a ki i i alfo doubting of his Melilot, holding it satheresteBint his roan irl ne e Apothecaries in Germany were wont to fe i 4 .. nfeno other Melilor ns : tex: i aby degré then the Trifelinm odordtums a hath worneoutall thefe opinions ,and fetled amore conftang of this, ay fo now oe sceapted $ ‘Erin 2 forme is accounted amoft foveraine Balmeé; both for greene wounds and old fores, for {wellings, inflammations, érampe? ,corivulfions, paines,or aches whatfoeverin any part of the body, whetherit be in any flefhy or mufculons part, or among thefinewes andveines, The Italian Melilot, is as effectual as any of the other, and by fome ace counted to be of more efficacieand vertne. The Egyptias Melilet, as Alpinus faith, the feede thereofonely is. ufed by them, being boyled, and the places greeved, fomented and bathed with the warme decoction again{t paines ofthe fides, the Pleurifie'and Reripaenmonia, as alfo the paines of the collicke and-winde in thebelly, the windineffe or{trangling of the mother, or any gtiefes thereof tofirin the decoction thereof ; and if Fenegreeke. and Line{cede, and Camomill flowers be added thereto, ithelpeth all tumors or hard {wellings thereof, and dothhelpe to proveke the monethly courfes, and to open the obltruétions of the veines, and afterwarwards to ftrengthenthe parts. The Z#dian Mellilot,if wee would ufe the feede, which as I faid before {melleth ftronger than the reft of the plant, hath no doube the fame qualitic that the former have, the fmell and tafte perfwading plainely thereunto, Divers other herbés thereare that mightbereferred to this Claffis,fome whereof are fet forth in my former. Booke,and fomeyou fhallfinde {pecified as well in the precedent ag fubfequent Chapters ofthis Worke, which you may obfervein the Vertues as you reade’ them. . ; PLANTA 7 |
