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Show a 954 Cwar.44 ‘T heatram Botanicum, 2. 3. Sphondylinm majus &alind Laciiatiz folijs, ‘The greatcr Cow Parfneppe of Germany; and another with jagged leaves, Trips na: ‘ Trise % be given The Theater ofPlants, ott Cuar.44. 955 of breath, or the falling fickneffe,or the jaundife ; the roote i n to thofe that on aiebleial pooner aforcfaid, and befides, is of great ufe to take away the be give n, 5+ Sphondyium Alpisnum glabru is ofthe like qi ceaeeene Con Ealieppe : 9 ee ale ona Fiftula,ificbe {craped upon it:the feede likewife hereof being drunke doth hard callous skin that eo. flegmaticke matter abiding therein.cafech them thatare liver growne and wornens clenfethe belly from el 4ing drunke,as the fmoke thereof whenit is burned received underneath, and affions ofthe erie _ fallen into a deepe fleepe, or havethe lethargie by burning it under their nofe, and if it likewife raifeth te ‘din oyle, andthe head rubbed therewith, ithelpeth not onely thofe that are fallen into 4 anid Ee Foote BS at a k ; ve ee lethargic or drowfie evill, and thofe that of long time are troubled with the head- frenfie, but thofet af ae fed with Rue: it helpeth alfothe running {cabbe,and the thingles : ifthe jayceof the ach,if it be arf 4 vehe eares that runne,andarefull'of matter, itclenfeth and health them, It is faid that flowersbe gi mand Lituania male a certaine decottionofthe leaves and feede hereof, putting barmethete= make their drinkeigreee inbene wich us, whereof the poorerfort doe ufgally and otherspointed, hairy likewife, and dented about rhe edges, thé owers on thé umbells are whité, and the 5+ Sphondylinm Alpinam glabrum, Smooth mountaine Cow Parfneppe, ieede thinne and broad. The roote hereof is ‘ white and great, the ftalke joynted, and two I foote> high, leaves and {mooth, being a hand breadth long and two broad,befidesthe foote the leavesare like unro Figgéftalkes which area lirtle rough, ufually divided into three parts, but not to the middle and dented about the edges ; the toppes of rhe branches have umbells of {maller white flowers {tanding on them thanin the other: the {eede is at and round, but having a {mall pricke or point at the end. The Place’ and Time. The firft growethin moift medowes, and the borders or corners of fieldes, and neere ditches generally through theland : the fecondi: proper onely ta Germaay,asI thinke: the third was found by Mr, George Bowles a worthy and induftrious Gentleman in Shropfhire, as\ takeit : the fourth on the Alpes of Auftria:the latt on the Alpes of Baffil : they doe allflower in July and feede in 4uguft, The. Names, Ttis called in Greeke s¢ovSvntoy and ooydWAror Sphondylinm and Spondylion, for both are extant in good derived as itis thought from Spondyle, a flic fLinkiug like this ; AZatrhiolws, Gener; Lobel, Dodoneys, authours, and others doecall it Sphondylinm . but Tragus, Cordvs,and {omeotherscall it Branca urfina, and Fuchfius Acambus vulga~ rH five Germanica, and fo is molt ulually the fecond fort.called by diverssandthis is the plant,as I thinke, thar Dodonaus in his Chapter ofPanzx, did rather take to be Spoxdylinm alterum, becaule it bore white fowers, aud as I faid, is very likely, for thar which Lobel {aith,hedaw with yellow flowers was a Pavax,and not this:the thirdas it isa plant lately found out to grow in ourowne land,fo I have givenica name,corre{pondent, as Irhinke to the forme, yet I thinke verilyir isthe fame that Basbinwhath defcribed in his Prodromus by thename of Sphondylion hirfutum folijs anguftioribys, and is, as Lalo verily thinke the fame that AZatthiolvs fet forth for his fourth (rithe msim.and Lobel in bis Obfervations ( finding faule with Adetthiolvs for {o calling it.) Erryngivms montanam re- Centiorum alterum, which why they fhould fet it, the one with the Exyngia bearing an umbelliferous toppe,fuch as none of them doe, orthat it thouldbecalied an Exyngivmsthe other with the Crishma I fomewhat.mervaile + the twolaft are {pecified by Baubinus in his P: odromus by the fame titles that I give them:the Italianscall it Sfoxdilie, the Frence Brance urfine ; the Gérmanes Bernclaw, the Dutch Beeren claw, and we in Eaglifs Cow Parfneppe and Medow Parfneppe by fome. The Vertues. Thefeede ofCow P arfneppe,as Galen faith, is a medicinefit e : is ofa tharpe and uid cutting qualitic,and therefore . ‘ |
