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Show 784 Cu ar.27. Tbeatrum Botanicum. Trine 6. forth two or three or more flowers in long huskes, with hort footeltalkes, yellow onthe infide and whitig, without,flowring by degrees, fo that {omewill be ripe and blowne away when others.are new blowneorin the bud: the talte hereofis bitter ¢ the upper part hereof inthe forme of the flowers and pofture of them is very tike unto the wilde Lettice, whéreunto Galen refembleth Chondrila lib,2. alimentorum, and fo may bereferredto his Chondrilla or that of D io/corides for it hath {ome refemblance with each, 6, Chondrillabulbofa, Bulbed Gum Succory. The bulbed GumSuccory hath divers {mall leaves leffer then Succory, with {mall divifions on the fidésfer up= onflender{talkes, among which {pring up manyflender weaké ftalkes onthem, and at the toppes of eacly one {mall yellow flower like unto Dandelion which turneth into downeasthe reft: the rootes are divers {mall round Cuar: 28,985 The Theater of Plants. Purses, ie stil wine, helpeth thebiting ofthé Viperand all other venemous Serptnts,and deftroyeth field mife alfo + Péimy writeth chat one Dorotheus in his verfés fheweththatit is beneficiall to the ftomacke, and helpeth digeftion, and fur= ther {aith that (omedid accountit hurtfull to the eyes and to hinder generation both in men and women, ahd yee he numbreth Chondrilla among otherfallet herbes that were fed to bec eaten + the juice of the herbe but more effectually.of therogte dropped from the point of a needle.or other fuch finall thing, taketh away by the rootes the {uperfluous hajres of the eyebrowés, thefame alfo ufed:with a littleniter clen{eth the skinne from all freckles, morphew, {pots or any difcolouring thergof, The bulbous Gum Succory is much commended againft thé {wellings and kernelJs ofthe throatcalled the Kings Evill, anidfo is the diftilled water thereof; the rootes préfer~ ved arefound tobe wonderfull effe@uall, if the ufe be continuedfor fome time together, and bulbous, cleare, and ofa purplifh white colour, every one faftned tothe head witha long ftring : the whole plant both roote and leafeis of a bitter tafte, 3 Ze Chondrilla bulbofa Syriaca anguftifolia, Bulbed Gum Succory of Syria. Cuar, XXVIII. This Syrian plant hath manylong graffelike leaves lying upon the ground, among which rife divers {mallftalkes fet with fimallleaves, from the joynts whereof breake forth {mall branches bearing one flower a peece, whichis large double and yellow like unto the great Monfearesthe roote is asbig as oneslittle finger at the head, and abouta {pan long growing {maller downewards {moothand of a brownifh yellow colour, havinga {mall round buibe hanging at the end thereof of the bigneffe of a Chefnut, full of milke being never {0 little touched or broken. : 8. Chondrilla bulbofa Syriaca alteralatiore folio, Another Syriav bulbed Guin Succory, This other Succory is both in roote and floweraltogether like the laft but differing onely in the leaves which are broader, morehairy and ofa grayer colour. The Place, The firft C/u/ius faith he found in diversplaces ofSpaine in walt places : the fecond he faith he not onely found inthe Cornefields about Sa/amanca in Spaine, but in divers places of Germany and Hyngarie : the third is found by the wayfides,and about Mompelierin Mount Lupus : the fourth about Baffle in Switzerland: the fift upon the Rockesin the Kingdome of Nap/es : the fixt not onely under the hedges about Nep/es, and in the wayes from thence to P#teoli: buttowards the Sea fide about the Fifhermens cottages in Warbone, and the low Marfhes of JMons Cats and thereabouts : the twolat Raswolfivs ip his Peregrination found about Aleppo in Syria the one in the plowed fields and the other in {tony places. The Time. All thefe forts of Succory doe flower later then the reft, many of them not untill 4egw/? in their'naturall places and are fo tender that they quickly perifia with the cold of thefe colder climates, ; x The Names, Gum Succory is called in Greeke 207 Sein Chondrilla.{o called as it is thought from s¢v¢3s which fignifieth that drop or Gum-like Mafticke that groweth upon the herbe andftalke hereof, originally taken from the likenefle with that kind of graine prepared for pultage which wasufed in auncient times, called Chondyus or Alica, as I fhall thew you morefully in the proper place, whenI come to {peake of Cornesand the feverall forts of Pultage and Prifanes the ancient times made of them : {ome faith Diofcorides called it Cichorion and {ome Terts, and for thatthe leaves were like unto Succory, they accounted ita kinde of wilde Succory. The firftis taken by Clufius (Cvondrilla purpurea, Purple Gum Suceory. $ Heré are otherforts of GumSuccory to be entreated of, differing from the former in many notable parts as well as in the flowers which are quite of another hew,as fhall be fhewedin this Chapter, 1. os Chondvilla ceruleafive parperea. Purple flowred Gum Succory, This Gam Succory fhooteth forth in the beginning of the Spring fandry long winged or rather jagged leaves, confilting of many long and narrow jagges, cutin on both fides ta the middle tibbé; and equally almoft et one againft anotherof a blewifh greene colour very tender andfull of mile being brokei, ainong’ whichrife up weake and tender ftalkes three or foure foote high, {carfe able to ftand upright, very brittle alfo and apt to be broken,asfull of milkeas the leaves, which dividethit felfe towards the toppes into a few other {maller branches, with {maller and leffe jagged leaves upon them, and {mall blewith purple flowers at the ends and fometimes white,confilting often or twelvefmall narrow leaves {tanding round abont the middle, which when theyareripe fall away of themfelves : the rootes grow deepe downeand fpread into many corpulent branches like Dandelion, blackifh onthe outfideand yeeldingmuch milke: in every part that is broken, which are foaptto grow that every little peece inthe ground will {pring againe and beare leaves: &c, 2. Chondrilla cerslea latifolia. Purple Gum Succory withbroader leaves, This other Gum Succoryis very like anto the formerin all things,bur thar the leaves are fomewhat fhorter and broader,and the gafhes alfo larger wherein cheefely confifteth the diffcreiice, 3- Chondrila purpurafcens fetida, Stinking Gum Succory, , The ftrinking GumSticcory hath divers long and, fomewhat natrow Icaves growing next to the ground fome being wavedor torné fomewhat deepely on the edges, the footeltalkes being fometimes reddifh, in the middle of whom rifeth up fundry browne ftalkesa little hairy, and abouta cubit high,having but very few branches and’ 1, chendiilla caerulea five purpuyea, Purple flowed gum Succory. 2. Chondrilla cavulealatifolia. Purple gum Succory with broaderleaves, and oth aay io WW 4 V "OB Le the fecond ) Lo onof Cichoriur Banhinus Chondr: Chondrilla viminea vifcofa wv luteum, Cefalpiavs Chondrilla [p ptofes sthe fecond Clufius calleth Chondrilla viminalibus virgis, and Lobel Cordis upon Diofcorides Chondrilla altera, Dodoneus Cichorium [ylveftre collibus &vicinis, Tragus Cichorea proceravel quinta; Columna rakethit to be Chodrilla prior Diofcoridisas Barbinus doth alfo, and withall thinkethit to be Aphaca of Theophrafim, Tabermotanus and Gerard callit (hondrilla Iuncea: the third iscalled by Bawhinus Chondrilla viminea vifcofa Afo liaca :the fourth alfo from Bashinus taketh thename of Chondrilla vifcofa humilis : the fift Col#xmna {o cal it inthe Title: the fixt is called by Lobel Chondrilla pufilla marinalutea bulbofa, and maybe as he {ai copbrafius (but rather Perdioson, lib. 1 .cap.1 x, for Perdion is notread in him) of Clafius Chondril ridisand{o doth Columna, by Ce{alpinus Herbaterre crepolefimils, by Caftor Durantes Hemorrhoidale, Lrgdit nenfas {etteth it forth bythe name of (ichoriam bulbofum Dalechampy, and of (ichorium flrumofum Myconi Bauhinys thinketh : but I rather take fframofumto be that fort of Chondrita which Rany as 4 found in Syria with the larger leaves and is thelaft here exprefled which Baxhinus calleth Chondrilla bulbofa ( onyf«facic,and referreth the (o1yza marina of Lugdunenfis thereunto,wherein he is much miftakenin myjudgement, for that Conyza hath no fuch bulbous roote, which caufeth a great difference, befides the difference in the heads of howers Imperatus ot Naples faith that they about Daples call it Herbadifatte, and account it tobee Scrap! Pandettarius callethit Stridula. The Arabians call Chondrilla Candarel Cadaron, and eAmiron, the Ital drilla, and Terra crepola, the Spaniards Leitugas and Leichagas dentro los planos, but Clufius faith they call it Yerva di S, Guiteria, and that by the fame name theycal] Phylum, and that they call the fecond Condrill yualina and Ajunjera, the French Leitteron, the high and low Dstch Condrille, and we inEnglifs Gum Succory, becaufe of the Gumis found upon /it. TheVertues, Gum Succory is of the fame propertié with wilde Succory buc more bitter and more dry, andis therebythe smoreeffectual in opening obftructions, and by the drying qualitie ftayeth the loofenefle of the belly, if the juice ofthe roote be taken in wine : the Gum ufed with Myrrhe in the formeofa peffarie, draweth downe womens in pourfes thatareftayed, thejuice of theroote or rheherbe and roote together made into powder and drunke wine, |