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Show 950 -‘Guap.42. Tre 8, Theatrum Botanicum, 5. Panaci Heracleofimilis Tataria Ungaris difa, The Hungarian Alheale of Hercules, This Hungarian or rather Tartarianherbe hath the leaves much cut in and gafhed on the edges fonsewhatliké full of a roughhairineffe, ofa unto Turneps, bat more nearely refembling thofe of the Alheale of 7: reules, pale greene colour, with other {maller oneslefle divided and leffe roughalfo, among whomrifeth a roughcrefted hollow ftalke two foote high, and of the thickneffe of ones thumbe, fullof joynts and fichleaves {et thereat as growbe ow, butf{imaller and more divided compaffing the {talke at the bottome: atthe toppe of theftalke com~ methforch umbells of yellow flowers, after whichfollow the feedevery {paringly fet on the umbells (for every and thicke, refembling thofe flower dothnot perfit the feede many more failing then holding) whichis 'very greatthicke as ones arme, and of of the Cachrys,and ftraked like thereunto: the roote is very great and long evenas a cubits length which perifheth after feede time, and dothfmeli very fouly that one cannot well endure the {mell,but rather caft them ont of the garden, yet this before it be growenro feede istaken and eaten both by the Hangars and Tartares in {tead of bread, andis pleafant to thembeing of great ufe withthe Zartares, for with- : out it they could not marke their long journeys throughthe Defarts where no foodeis to be found. 6. Panax racapor fen racemo[a Americana. The clufter berry Allheale of America. This herbe of America rifeth up witha round pithy brownifh purple ftalke, fet at the joynts with large leaves divie ded into manyparts.ufually by three ata fpace, little dented bothat the joynts with the leaves about the edges,bearing branches, many tufts of flowers and at the tops,on fundry made offmall nifh,but whiter 6. Panax Nop mse y few raceme(a Americana, The crutted berried Aliheale of America, The Theater of Plants. Cuar.3: calling it Angelica Incida Canadenfisbut notrightly,for the fmellofche root with me,is morelike unto Turpentine then Angelica} the other fort hereof he calleth atro purpurea, Icannot referre it becter toany plant, then to the laft Panaxit carryethfo like face thereunto, and therefore call it Panax Heracleum alterum Ain-ricanum, &c. The fourth CMatthiolws firkt fet forth by the name of P/exdocoftus, and {o, many others have ¢alleditfince, and Coftus [pyrite out (amerarins in borto faith,that fome called itin his time Panax Chironinm, and Tabermontanus calleth it Panaces Coftinum,and Coftus Iyricus, but Ce[alpinns Herba Cofta, and Banhinus P anax Coftinum whem T follow:the fifth Clfive fetteth forth by the name ofTatariaUngarica,and Bathinws thinketh it may be the Bal= tracan, which Tofephus Barbarus faith he faw in Tartaria,w hereof he {peakech in his journey into Per/a chat the Tartarians of the decoétion of the leaves make their drinke, and the Hungarians their bread of the rocte, and Banbinus thereupon calleth it Panaci Heracleofimiles Vngarica, The laftare fo namedby Cornutus, as theyare fet ter all othet Chriftian nations that know it, and we in Englifh Aliheale of Hercules, according to the Greek hification ofthe word, The Vertues, l From the rootesand ftalkes of this Panax Heraclenm, being. cutfaith Galen, commeth forth that juyce or gum called Opopanax, which is of much moreufe then any other part of the piant, and is hotin the third degree, and dryin the fecond, being ofan heating mollefying, and digefting quality, thebarke ofthe roote is heati afterwards,which turne into {mall bunches ofgteene berries,which grow to be darke red, when they drying likewife, butina meaner degree, having withalla little clenfing property, whereby it is good lent and maligne ulcers, andto cover with flefh the bones that are bare : the {cede alfo faith he is hot, and ed with thofe medicines that procure womens courfes, the juyce or gum faith Adze/ues hath a {peciall prop areripe, full ofa pleafant talted juyce, with many feedes therein : the roote is of the thickne(le of onesthumbe, and it looferh bothftalke and leaves every yeare, and very long: therein to purge thicke and clammy flegme from the more remote parts, as the braine, nerves, fenfitive parts, joynts and brealts,and therefore profitably applyed toall the cold greefes incident to any of thofe parts, as to helpea weake fight, anold cough, fhortneffe of breath, purfineffe and whecfing andis good alfo for the Sciatica, the gout in the knees andfeete, it is good likewife for crampes,convulfions, paines,and ftitches in the fides,by the windinefte,fwelling and hardneffe of the Spleene, for the ftrangury alfo and d'fficultie in making urine i likes wife difcuffeth the windineffe hardneffe and {uffocations of the mother, provoketh their courfes and expelleth he dead birth: being alfo drunke in mede or wineit helpeth the itchings and fores in the bladder: it breaketh car, buncles or Plague fores, and is profitabley applyed with mollifying falves, and thofe that cure wounds and fores in the head, it helpeth the toothach, being put into an hollowtooth, and helpeth the biting of a madde Dogge, and againft all other poifons of vénemouscreatures, The leaves of the Hungarian Tataria new {pring upagaine after winter: The whole plant borh leaves and rootes,are eaten as fallets and potherbes, of the Indians whereitis naturall, and the French alfo that live amoneft them, and tafte more pleafantly then the berries zhemfelves. 7. Panaces mofchatum Americanum. Sweetefented Allheale of America, The firft leaves ofthis Pavaxare large and about a foote jong, onely dented about the edges, fomewhat like unto Coftmaryleaves, lying on the ground, and compaffing the long white roote at thehead, bnt thofe that follow are fo deepelycut in that they reach to the middle ribbe almoft, the ftalke rifeth robe two cubits high, without any leaves thereonfave onely about the middle, where it hatha knot and leafe that compaffethit,ofa differing forme from the reft, the toppe branches are foheavily laden with umbels of white flowers, that before they open they hang downe their heads, which have fo excellent a fweete {mell, that they {mell like Muske, agreat way ofthe place where it boyled in water is a familiar & ufuall drink with the Zartars asthe roots are bread tothe Hungariansas is before faid ; the operation of the American plants are found to be more alimentall then medicinal}, being familiarly eaten by thenatives and French, A4atthiolws doth tecount the propertiesof his Pleudocoft ¢ Coffinumin this manner. Ie is faith he hot & dry in the chird degree compleat, it openeth,clenfeth, cutceth & maketh chin,and feeing it is bitter,fharpe and iomewhat {weet, it may performe all thofe things that are related ofit, that Is,it helpeth all cold greefes of the head andnerves, and is al{ohelpfull for the cough,fhortneffe of breath and the like, asalfo for the winde Collicke and againft the obfirnGions of the Liver and Spleene, the Stone and gravellin the reines and bladder,andthe difeafes of the mother,to bring downe the courfes,and to expell rhe dead births it like- wile helpethall old grecfes ofthe head,’ the {wimming and turning of the braine, the falling fickneffe,the Lethar= gies Con ulfions, Crampes,Gonts and the like s it killéth allo the wormes, and provoketh urine, and helpethall groweths the feedethat {ucceede arelike, but not fo broad asthe ordinary Panax. The leaves talte fharpe, and little bitter,but the rooteleffe: joy nt aches, Cuar, The Place and Time. Thefirlt eroweth in Nalpesas Afatthiolus faith,onthe Ap- XLIIL, Libanotis latifolia. Herbe Francumfence with broad leaves. perine hillsalfo and the Sea coafts by Siena:the fecgnd is thoughtto growin fomeplaces of Italy alfobut generally in our gardens :thethird came firlt from America feedebeing imparted to furidry perfons ir received fundry names, andcame to me out of Italy for Laferpitium an orum,and is et downe in Cornutus for Angelica lucida (anadenfis, and the other fort thereof for Aagelice atra rea Canadenfes : the fourth’as Marthiols faith groweth on mourit Garganus in Apulia: the fift in [ artaria and Hungaria,the twolaf in America,and doe all flower and feede in the end of Summer, The Names, It iscalled in Greek adyzias i atvel,and Panax or Panacesalfoin Latin,becanfe it is aremedy for all difeafes.and Henotas Plizy taketh it from Hercules, tobethe firft founder of it,and {ome would have itnamedrather from ther ith, g there are manyc inacea, which is like to Oricanum Heracleoticum was called alfo Pana Heracleum Centanrinm magnamallo,and Ligufticum were called Heracleum, The firlt here fet downeisthe Panax or Panaces Herackumof Matthiols, Anguilara, Gefner in hortis, Lobel,Lugdunenfis and others, but Dodonew taketh that Pavax Heraclenm that grew inthe low Coun- try Gardens, bearing white flowers, to be rather anotherfort of Sphordyliur, to whom 1 muft confent. fo plant with {uch broad leaves and white flowers,is a greater Sphondylinm then theordinary,as J thal! thew5 the next Chapter fave one,that which Lobel faith he fawinthe gardens of fome Franciftans,with yellowflowers, of Diofcorides the fecond is the Pais a differing plantfrom it,and may be the true Panax Heracleurn or Hercyle# Do Jonaws, but miltaken nax Alterumrecentiorum Olufatri autP aftinacefolio of Lobel, the Pavaces peregrinnmof ‘hironinmto bethe the P. by Lugdunenfis,who calleth it Panax Chironinm Dodonei, whenas Dodonaus taketh thinketh it may fe Helianthes or Helianthemum of Pliny asit is, and 10 by (Mefus, Cords ond others, Banhinus the 951 the PanaxSyriacum of ZTheophrafins whereof there is great probability, for the feede ofthis plant as Donte== was found among thegum Opopanax, and fowen by Condenbergivs afamous Apothecary in Aztwerpe which no doubt was from the plant chat brought forth that gum Opspanax, outof which it wastaken, which as youfee differeth much in forme of leaves from thatofDio/corides and Theophraftus, The thitd was fent to us by the name of Laferpitinm verum,but having well confidered it, I found itremembred by Cornwtus among his (ancda plants, downeintheir titles; The Arabianscall it Steufir Jenfr, and Giaufir, The Jtalians Panace Heracles and thereaf- thredslike Vine bloffomes, atthe firlt gree- raclea a Cityin Candy,but the name Panax is referred to many plants, as Theaph $ Panaces,and Diofcorides faith Origanum fylueftre, called alfo Cunila bubula, Ts tee 8, =24 E that kind of Libanotis that hath Fennell-like leaves with all the forts thereof, I have {poken before in the fourth Chapter of this Claffis, there remaineth {uch to bee entreated of that beare broad leaves which fhall follow in thisas I there promifed. , 1. Libanotis Theophraftimajor. The greater white herbe Francumfence. This greater Libanotés hath many great long ftalkes with wings of large broad leaves fome eight inches long a peece and almoft fonre broad, five being fet together whereof one at the end,one againft another, three or foure inches bzoad velow and {mallerto the end, being fomewhat, hard in handling,of an overworne greenifh colour and alittle dented about the edges,among whichrifeth np a {trong round ftalk,foure or five foot high oftentimes, having fuch like leaves onthe joynts but fewerand leffer then grow belowanda few branches rifing fromthe t per joyntsbearing large {pread umbells of whitith flowers, and after them fomewhat flac and roun: f twojoyned together, white on that fide where it is joyned, and ftraked with rough crumple ¢ the backe or roundfide, and of a pale browne colour when itis ripe bua little purplifh before: the roote groweth great and long,whitifh on the outfide with atuft of haire at the toppe, abiding long, fmelling and tafting fomewhat {trong as many other umbelliferous rootes doe, but the feede muchftronger. ; 2. Libanotis Theophrajti minor. Thelefler white herbe Francumfence, This leffer Libanotjs agreeth with the former both in the formeof leaves, flowers, {eede and rootes, but chat they areallleffe, and the number of leaves are. more fet together oh every {talke,being alfo more deepely dented about the edges, the roate is white but morebitter then it. There is anotherfort hereof which Bawhinus calleth Libanotis latifolia minorfeminecrifpo, and differeth onely in having fewer leaves onthe {talkes, although as {mall and but one or two deepe cuts on the edges, Mmmm 2 3. Libanotts |