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Show Theatrum Botanicum, Tripe yA 4...fbeTheaterPlants, Coltsfoote or Folefoote: SASK Oltsfoore fhoorethupa flender (talke with finall yellowith flowers fomewhat carlié, which fall away ~ over the greene leate on the upperfide, which may be rubbed away, and whitith or mealy underneath : the rooteis {mall and white, {preading very much in the ground, fothat where it taketh, it will very hardly be clenfed fromitagaine,if anylittle pecce be abiding therein, and from thence fpringingfreth leaves. The Place and Time, Tt growethin wetgrounds ufually,yet as well alfo in the dryer places, and flowrethin the end of Febrwary,the leaves beginning to appeare in AZarch, The Names, Teis called in Greeke 2in40,and Tnffilagoin Latine, a notiffima stilitate guam pre ophthalmicis ce tuff vexs atu, and in the Apothecaries fhops Farfara; and Ungula Caballina, and of {ome Populage, from the likeneffe of theleaves unto the white Poplerleaves: many fappofe that this may be Tiphyam of Theophraftus, as well asthe Petafites,in that both ofthem bringtheir flowers before their leaves: Pliny calleth it Farranum, and Farruginm: All Authourscall it T#/filago,but Camerarive maketh three forts of Bechivm,that is this and the Petafites,which he calleth Tx/ilago major,and the third he faith is the Caltha palafiré, which as he thinketh may beufed inftead of Tuffilago which is affuredly a great errour, the Caltha comtning neerer to the nature of Ranunculys, then 7;uffilage, The Italians call it Farfara,and Farfarella, and Vaghiadi cavallo, The Frenchas decheval, and’Pa/d’afac. The Germanes Brandat lettich quafi V tulorum lattuca,and Rofoub that is,Vagela(abaliina, The Datch Hoeft bladeren, that is foote leafe. ‘And we in E:nglife Folefoote,and Coltsfoote,and Horfe hoofe, The Vertnes, the cooling quality which remained in the moifture,beiag evaporate it is then fomewhathot and dry,andis belt for thofe that have thinne rhcumes and diftillations upon che Lungs caufing the cough, thereby to thicken and dryit,asthe frefh leaves or juyce, or Syrup madethereof, is fitce(t for an hot drycough, and for wheefings,and fhortneffe of breath: the dryed leaves taken as Tabacco 1s in the like manner good for the thinne rhcumes,diftillations and conghes, as alfo the roore ta~ kenin like fort as Dio/corides and Galen fay. The diftilled water hereof fimply or with elder flowers and Nightthade is a fingular remedy againft al! hot Agues, to drinke two ounces at a time, and to have fomeclothes wet therein and applyed te the head and ftomack, the fame alfo apply¢dco any hot {wellings or any other inflam- = Tofilago florens: Coltsfoorein flower, es Tuffilago Herba fine flore. Colts foore withoutflowers, 1221 lat good totake away wheales and {mall pufhes that rife through heate, ‘4s'alfoagainft the burning heate ifthe piles‘or of the privy, parts,to apply wetclothes therein to’ the places. ‘Marthiolus (heweth ‘that in -the!roore of this Colts foote there gtoweth'a cerraine Cotten or white Wooll, ‘whieh ‘being‘clenfed from ‘therootes and bound up‘in linnen clothes and boyledin lye for a while,. and afterwards forme falt nitevadded untoits:anddryedup againein the Sunisthe belt tinder to rake fire,being [troke from a’flintthat can be Had. ; & NGS quickly,and after they arepaft,come up foin¢whar round leaves, yerfometimes dented little about BASthe edges, much leffer, thicker and greener,then thofe of Butter burre, witha little downeor freefe, Coltsfoote whileit is fréth is cooling and drying, but when it is dry Cuar,8. mations doth much good, -yea it helperh that difeate called’ Saint Anthoniesfire, and burnings alo, and is fingu- Cwar. VII: Tufilago. T xine pa bie 9G tare VILL. Catalis... Great and {trange,Colts foote. F thiskinde of Colts foote as I mayfo callit there aré twoforts defcribed by authors which I méané tofhew you in this place, and unto them adde. another American plant .whichin my opinion commeth neareft unto the others, _.; 1, Cacalia incane rotundofolio, Hoary ftrange Colts foote. : ; The hoary ftrange Colts foote hatha long white roote divided into many heads, with many Iéng firings and fibres thereat, of aclammytalte like unto gum Tragacant, encreafing thereby much and fhooting up many, hoary reddith ftriped {talkes, with large round leaves.on them, biggerand thicker then Colts foot, and more woolly alfo on the upper fide, yet with a greeneneffe to bee feene in them, but very woolly and white underneath, with fome ribbes and yeines in them of alittle bitterifh unpleafanttafte, from among whichrife up the ftriped woolly yetreddith flalkes two or three foote high, having {undryleffer leaves on them, andall of them dented aboutthe edges, branching forth at ché:toppé into. fandry fimall {prigges of pale. purplith flowers made of foure {mall leaves apecce, with fome thredsin ae middle, which after they have beenea while blowne doe paffe away into downethatis carriedaway with the winde...\Dalechampius {aith that in the middle of the fowets are found hanging downefmall white grainslike pearles to make it anfweareto Plinies defcription, , 2. Cacaliaglabrofolio acuminata. Smooth ftrange Colts foote. : ; This other fort hath aslargé leaves as the former, but thicker.harder greener and fmoother and not hoary de all but dented or waved onthe. edges, and pointed alfo with thé roundneffe and not openar'the flalkesas the other, the ftalkes are in like manner {mooth and ftriped, Bearing the like flowersatthe toppes but fomewhatpaler; the roote alfo is alike. t. 2. Cacaliafolio imcano rotundo Gs glabro acuminate, Hoary andSmooth ftrange Colts foote, : ; ; i 3- (acalia Americana. Colts foote of America, ; |