367 Heptree 655 Hindberie 662 Hirse 463 Huluer 519 Hurt Sicle 161 Husuer 701 Hyacinthe 206 Autumne Hyacinthe 209 Bush or tuft Hyacinthe ib. Hygtaper 120 Hysope 227 Pepper Hyssope 230 Hockes 581 Smal wilde Hocke 581 Hooke heale 133 Holewurte 316 Holly 701 Holyhockes 581 Common Hockes ibid. Sea Holly 519 Holme 701 Sea Holme 519 Holowe roote 316 Smal honesties 156 Honysuckle 391 Hoppe 400 Horehounde and of all his kinde 257 Horestrange 298 Marishe or water Horehounde 257 Horseflowre 164 Horseheele 336 Horse houe 20 Horse tayle sauegrasse 101 Horse tongue 675 Houndes tree 716 Hound berie tree ibid. Housseeke 114 I IAcke by the hedge 639 Iasmine 658 S. Iames worte 70 S. Iohns worte 64 Iberies 630 Wall Ierne 403.404 Iosephs flowre 167 Narrowe bladed Ireos 194 Dwarffe Ireos 195 Wilde Ireos 196 Bulbus Ireos 198 Iris 193 Yellow wilde Iris 199 Italian fetche 490 Iuiub tree 722 Iung fraw hare 414 Iuniper beries 763 Iuniper tree ibid. Iuraye 469 Iuybindweede 394 Iuye black and swall 388 Gronude Iuye 389 K VVAter Kars 625 Prickled Kali 116 Knecholme 674 Knapweede 109 Kneehul 674 Knights milfoyle 143 Kynde 251 Knights water Sengreene 143 Knights worte ibid. L LAdies mantell 140 Langdebeef 568 Lamâ—sana 560 Larckes â—â—aw 165 Larckes sputre ibid. Laser 303 Laserpitium ibid. Lauender cotton 29 Lauender gentle 266 French Lauender ibid. Lauers / or Leuers 199 Lauriel / or Lowrye 368 Laurus of Alexandria 676 Frenche Leeke / vnset Leeke 641 Leeke or Leekes 641 The headded or knopped Leeke 641 Mayden Leeke ibid. Rusche Leekes 643 Wild Lorne Leeke 644 Lentilles 487 Leopardes foote 410 Lettis 573 Water Lentils 107 Lofed / or Cabbage Lettis 573 Lettus ibid. Wilde Letuce 574 Liblong 39 White Lillie 200 Wilde Lillie 203 Lillie non Bulbus 204 Lillie of Alexandria 205 White water Lellie 181 Limons 704 Linden tree 753 Lillynarcissus 213 Lingwort 347 Liue long 39 Liuerwort 411 Stone Liuewort ibid. Lote tree 729 Louein idlenes 149 Lousepowder 371 Louage 295 Lungwort 414 Lunarie 136 Lupines 481 Lungwurt 125 Lycoryse 694 Lyllie Conuall 178 May Lyllies ibid. Lyry confancy ibid. Lysimachia 74 Blewe or azured Lymachus 75 Three leafe Liuerwurt 59 M REede Mace 513 Madder 538 Male knot grasse 99 Mallowes c. 581 Dwarffe Mallowe ibid. Common cleyn and tawle wilde Mallow ibid. Marish Mallowe 583 White Mallow ibid. Cut Mallowe 585 Symons Mallow ibid. Verueyn Mallow ibid. The slymie or Mucculage Mallow of Vennis 585 Male Mandrage 438 Female Mandrage ibid. White Mandrake 438 Blacke Mandrake ibid. Maple 762 March 453 Marierom / and of his kynde 234.236 Bastarde Marierom 237 Coast Marie 250 Marsche Marigolde 31 Marygoldes Ruddes 163 Wilde Marygolde 190 Marrishe beries 671 Mastic 235 Imperatoriaâ— Maysterwort 298 Materfilon 109 Mathers 186 Foolish Mathes ibid. Redde Mathes 188 Mawdelein 250 Mayden Mecury 78 Maydenheare 410 Medesweete 41 Medewurte ibid. Medick Yellow fitche 485 Medow Shauegrasse 99 Medler tree 713 Germaines Melilot 497 The coÌ„mon and best knoweÌ„ Melilot 498 Melons 588.590 Muske Melons 590 Turkie Melons 589 Mercury 77 Mew or Meon 337 Mezereon 369.370 Middell Consounde 133 Middle Comfery ibid. Milfoyle 18.144 Milkewurte 49 Mill 463 Millet ibid. Missell and Misselto 747 Miltwast 406 Moly 509 Bastarde Moly ibid. Momordica 441 Mony worte 79 Moonewort 136 Morell 443 Petie Morel ibid. Moschata 47 Mosse of the Sea 414 Motheworde 89 Motherwort 131 Stinking Motherwort 549 Mothe Mulleyn 122 Mouse eare 54.87 Mouse tayle 96 Mugworte 16 Pety Muguet 530 Golden Muguet 541 Mulleyne 120 Mulberie tree 715 Musa or Mose tree 705 Mustarde 619 White Mustarde ibid. Myagrum 494 Milt waste 408 Myntes c. 244 Horse Mynte and of all his kynde 245 Corne Mynte 248 Wilde Myrtel 674 Myrtell tree 687 N NArcissus 211 Rush Narcissus 212 Bastarde Narcissus 214 Yellow Narcissus ibid. Narcissus violet 216 Nauet 595 The moyst or water Nauet 595 Nauew geÌ„tle ib. Paris Nauewes ibid. Neckewee 72 Needel Cheruill 615 Shepheardes Neel ibid. White and Yellow Nenuphar 181 Neppe Cat Mynte 248 Nesewurte 347 Smal Netel 129 Great coÌ„mon Nettel ibid. Romayne or Greeke Nettel 129 Dead Nettel 131 Blind Nettel and Archangel ib. Nettle tree 729 Fielde Nigella 160 Garden Nigella 278 Wilde Nigella ibid. Wooddy Nightshade 398 Nightshade 443.445.446 Noose bleede 144 Nutmegge macis 732 Water Nuttes 536 O OCuli Christi 255 Oke tree 745 Oke of Hierusalem and Oke of Paradise 343 OleaÌ„der 430 Oliue tree 837 One blade 178 One leafe ibid One berie 425 Onyon 640 Rushe Onyons 643 Wilde Onyon 644 White feelde Onyon 645 Sea Onyon 646 Opopanax 302 Orache 546 Orchis 222 Bastard Orchis 224 Orenge 704 Organie 232 Origan 237 Wilde Origan ibid. Goates Origan 239 Orobstrangler 664 Orpyne 39 Orschanet 9 OsmuÌ„de the WatermaÌ„ 402 Osmunde Baldepate 405 Small Osmunde ibid. Pylde Osmunde ibid. Otes 467 Pilde Otes ib. Pour Otes 471 Wilde Otes ibid. Ote grasse 505 Oxe eye 189 Oxelips 123 Oxetongue 8.12 Oxytriphyllon 501 P PAdelion 140 Pagane or vplandishe tongue 679 Palma Christi 226.354 Palme tree 699 Panax 293 Pances 149 Panick 466 Petie Panick 465 Parsely 605 Garden Parsely ibid. Hyll Parsely 607 Mountayne Parsely ibid. Marche Smallache and Marrishe Parsely 607 Stone Parsely 608 Great Parsely or Alexander 609 Wild Parsely 610 Sallade Parsely 611 Water Parsely ibid. Bastard Parsely 612 Parsenep 604 Wilde Parseney ibid. Medow Parsenep 528 Cowe Parsenep ibid. Parietary 49 Partizan 75 Passe flower 188.420 Pastel 67 Redde Patience 559 Peache tree 710 Pearle plante 290 Peare tree 711 Common Peason 476 Garden Peason ibid. Wilde Peason ibid. Branche Peason ibid. Great Peason ibid. Brode or flat Pease 478 Ciche Peason 479 Sheepes ciche Pease ibid. Pellitorie of the wall 49 Pellitorie of Spayne 300 Bastard Pellitorie or Bertram 342 Wilde Pellitorie 343 Pellamountayne 231 Penny Royall 232 Wilde Penny Royall 248 Sheepe kyllyng Pennye grasse 38 Great Pennywurt ibid. Mountaine PeÌ„nywort ib. Peonie male female 338 Pepons 588 Pepper 635 Pepperwurt 631 Water Pepper 632 Water Pepperwurt ibid. Indian Pepper 634 Calecute Pepper ibid. Periploca 318 Peruincle 33 Biting or bushe Pereuincle 385 S. Peters wort 65 Petigree 674 Pety cotton 90 Pilcorne 467 Great Pilosella 87 Pimpernell 55 Pimpinell 138 Pinkeneedell 47 Pine tree and of all his kind 770 CockowpiÌ„tel 323 Pitche 771 Plane tree 755 Plantayne 92 Sea Plantayne ibid. Coronop Plantayne 95 Water Plantayne 97 Plumme tree 720 Prickley boxe 700 Prickmadam 114 Pricke timber tree 716 Priest pintell 222.323 Primeroses 123 Primerose pierelesse 211 Primprint 690 Priuet ibid. Prunel 133 Pylewort 31 Pynckens 136 Pole rushe 511 Polemonium 345 Poley / c. 233 Polypody 403 Goldylockes Polytrichon 414 Pomegranate 706 Turkie Pompons 589 Pondeweede 106 Poore mens treacle 637 Popler or Pepler 750 Poppie 432 Blacke wilde Poppie ib. Redde Poppie 434 Horned Poppie 436 Pudding grasse 232 Puliall mountayne 231 Pulioll Royall 232 Purcelayne 576 Wilde Purcelayne ibid. Garden and tame Purcelayne 576 Purple 111 Purple veluet flower 168 Red purple lillie 202 Q
Heliotropium paruum of Aëtius Heliotropium tricoccum of some it is called Verrucaria in Spanishe Tornasol in French Tournesol in base Almaigne Cleyn Creeftcruyt and cleyne Sonnewendt †The Nature The Tornesols are hoate and dry in the thirde degree †The Vertues A handfull of the great Tornesoll boyled dronke expelleth by opening the belly gentilly hoate Cholericke humors and tough clammy or slimie flegme The same boyled in wine and drōke is good against the stingings of Scorpions it is also good to be layde too outwardly vpon the wounde They say that if one drinke foure graynes of the seede of this herbe an houre before the comming of the fitte of the feuer Quartayne that it cureth the same And three graynes so taken cureth the feuer Tertian The seede of this herbe pounde layde vpon Wartes and such like excressence or superfluous out growings causeth them to fall away The leaues of the same pounde and layde too cureth the Goute with brusings burstings and dislocation of members The small Tornesoll and his seede boyled with Hysope Cressis and Sall Nitri and dronke casteth foorth wormes both round and flat The same brused with falte and layde vpon Wartes driueth them away With the seede of the smal Tornesoll being yet greene they die and stayne old linnen cloutes and ragges into a purple colour as witnesseth Plinie in his xxj booke Chap. vii wherewithall in this coūtrey men vse to colour gellies wynes fine Confections and Comfittes Of Scorpioides / or Scorpions grasse Chap. xlij †The Description SCorpioides is a small base or lowe herbe not aboue the length of ones hande the stemmes are small vpon whiche groweth fiue or sixe narrow leaues and somewhat long after the fasshion of a Hares eare which is the cause that some Douche men call it Hasen oore The floures be small and yellow after whiche commeth the seede whiche is rough prickley three or foure cleauing togither distinguisshed by ioyntes and turning rounde or bending like a Scorpions tayle Matthiolus describeth an other Scorpioides with slēder stalkes and round leaues sometimes three togither At the toppe of the stalkes groweth two or three little small long hornes togither the whiche also do shewe as they were separated by certayne ioyntes Bysides these two kindes of Scorpioides there is yet twoo other small herbes whiche some do also name Scorpion grasse or Scorpion worte although they be not the right Scorpion grasse The one of them is called Male Scorpion the other female Scorpion Scorpioides Scorpion Grasse Scorpioides Matthioli Matthiolus Scorpion grasse The male Bastard Scorpioides groweth about the length of a mans hand or to the length of a foote his stalkes are crested and crokedly turning aboue at the top whereas the knoppes buddes and floures do stande euen like to a Scorpions tayle the leaues be long narrow and small The floures be fayre and pleasant being of fiue littell leaues set one by an other of Azure colour with a little yellow in the middell The female Bastarde Scorpioides is very much like to the male sauing that his stalkes and leaues be rough and hearie his floures smaller The toppes of the stalkes be likewise croked euen as the toppes of the male †The Place Scorpioides groweth not of his owne kinde in this countrey but is sowen in the gardens of certaine Herboristes The male Bastarde Scorpioides groweth in medowes alongst by running streames and watercoursses and the nearer it groweth to the water the greater it is and the higher so that the leaues do sometimes grow to the quantitie of willow leaues The female Bastarde Scorpioides groweth in the borders of fieldes and gardens ⧠The Tyme Scorpioides floureth in Iune and Iuly The Bastarde kindes do begin to floure in May and continue flouring the most parte of all the Sommer Pseudoscorpioides mas Bastard Scorpioides the male Pseudoscorpioides faemina Bastard Scorpioides the female †The Names The first is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine also Scorpioides in English also Scorpioides Scorpion wurte or Scorpion grasse in French Herbe aux Scorpions in base Almaigne Scorpioencruyt and of some Hasen oore that is to say Auricula leporis The other is iudged of Matthiolus for a kinde of Scorpioides wherfore it may be called Matthiolus Scorpioides or Trefoyl Scorpioides The Bastard Scorpioides haue none other knowen name but some count them to be Scorpion herbes as hath bene before sayde †The Nature and Vertues Scorpioides or Scorpion grasse is very good to be layde vpō the stingings of Scorpions as Dioscorides saith Of S. Iohns Worte Chap. xliij †The Description SAynt Iohns worte hath a purple or browne redde stalke full of branches The leaues be long and narrow or small not much vnlike the leaues of garden Rue the whiche if a man do holde betwixt the light and him they will shewe as though they were pricked thorough with the poyntes of needels The floures at the toppe of the branches are fayre and yellow parted into fiue small leaues the whiche being brused do yeelde a redde iuyce or liquor after the floures commeth forth small huskes somewhat long and sharpe poynted like Barley cornes in which is conteyned the seede whiche is small and black and senting like Rosin The roote is wooddish long and yellow There is also an herbe much like to S. Iohus worte aforesayde but it is very small and lowe not growing aboue the length of a spanne whose stalkes be very tender and the leaues small and narrow yea smaller then Rue in all partes else like to the aforesayde †The Place S. Iohns worte groweth by way sides about the edges or borders of fieldes The other smal herbe groweth in fieldes amongst the stubble harde by the wayes †The Tyme Saint Iohns worte floureth most commonly in Iuly and August †The Names S. Iohns worte is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine in Shoppes Hypericum and of some Perforata and Fuga Dęmonum in Spanish Coraiouzillo and Milfurado yerua de San Iuan in English as is beforesayde S. Iohns worte or S. Iohns grasse in high Douch S. Iohans kraut of some Harthaw in base Almaigne S. Ians cruyt †The Nature S. Iohns worte is hoate and dry in the thirde degree †The Vertues S. Iohns worte with his floures and seede boyled and dronken prouoketh the vrine and causeth to make water is right good against the stone in the bladder it bringeth downe womens floures and stoppeth the laske Hypericum The same boyled in wine and dronken driueth away feuer Tertians and Quartaynes The seede dronken by the space of fortie dayes togither cureth the payne in the hanches whiche they call the Sciatica The leaues pound are good to be layde as a playster vpon burnings The same dryed and made into pouder and strowen vpon woundes and naughtie olde rotten and festered vlcers cureth the same Of S. Peters worte / or Square S. Iohns Grasse Chap. xliiij †The Description THis
in high vntilled dry places as vpon hilles and Downes †The Tyme These herbes do all floure in May and Iune sauing the small sweete Orchis which floureth last of al in August and September †The Names The first kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orchis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cynosorchis in Latine Testiculus Testiculus canis that is to say Dogges Cullions or Dogges coddes in Shoppes Satyrion in English some cal it also Orchis Standelwort StaÌ„dergrasse Raworte Priest pintell Ballock grasse Adders graâ—e and Bastard Satyrion in French Couillons de chien and Satyrion à deux Couillons in Italian Testiculo di cane in Spanish Coyon de perro and in Douch Kâ—â—benkraut and Standelkraut in base Almaigne Standelcrayt Testiculus odoratus This second kinde is called of some in Latine Testiculus Morionis in English great Standelworte and Fooles Balloxe The third kinde doubtlesse is also of the kindes of Orchis and bycause of his ranke sauour is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Testiculus hirci in Latine in English Hares Balloxe and Goates Cullions in French Couillon de bouq in Douch Bocxcullekens they call it also in Latine Testiculus lepoâ—is and in Shoppes Satyrion wheras without iudgement it is vsed for the right Satyrion The fourth kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orchis Serapias in Latine Testiculus serapias in English Serapias stones Priestes pintle and Ragwurtz in base Almaigne Ragwortel some also call it in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Triorchis that is to say three Ballocks or three Stones wherfore Fuchsius feyned Serapias Orchis to haue three Stones or three Bulbus rootes yet Plinie attributeth vnto it but twayne We may call it in English properly flie Orchis bycause al the kindes of Serapias Orchis haue in all their floures the proportion and likenesse of one kinde of flie or other The fifth kinde is called Testiculus odoratus Testiculus pumilio that is to say sauerie Standehourte or sweete Ballocke and Dwarffe Orchis in base Almaigne welrieckende Standelcruyt and cleyn Standelcruyt †The Nature All these kindes of herbes are of complexion hoate and moyst †The Vertues The ful and sappie rootes of Standergrasses but especially of Hares Balloxe or Goates Orchis eaten or boyled in Goates milke and dronken prouoketh Uenus or bodily luste doth norisshe and strengthen the bodie and is good for them that are fallen into a consumptioÌ„ or feuer Hectique which haue great neede of nourrishment The withered or shriueled roote is of a cleane contrary nature for it restrayneth or represseth fleshly lust And it is written of this roote that if men do eate of the greatest and fullest rootes and especially of the firste kinde of Orchis that they shall beget Sonnes and if wemen do eate of the wythered rootes they shall bring foorth Doughters The same rootes but especially of Serapias or flie Orchis boyled in wine and dronken stoppeth the laske or fluxe of the bellie The same roote being yet fresih and greene doth waste and consume all tumors and mundifieth rotten vlcers and cureth Fistulas being layde thereto and the same made into pouder and cast into fretting deuouring vlcers and fores stayeth the same from any farder festering or fretting The same roote but especially the roote of Dwarffe Orchis boyled in wine with a little hony cureth the rotten vlcers and sores of the mouth Of Double leafe and Gooseneste Chap. lvij †The Kyndes BYsides the kinds of Standergrasse described in the former Chapter there are yet two other herbes also which are somewhat like vnto the aforesayde Standergrasses especially in their stalkes floures and therfore are comprehended of some wryters vnder the title of the Standergrasses Whereof the one sorte is called Double leafe or Bastarde Orchis and the other Birdes-nest The whiche we haue thought good to place alone in a Chapiter by themselues bycause their rootes are much vnlike the rootes of Standergrasse Bifolium Double leafe or Twayblade Nid d'oyseau Goosenest †The Description DOuble leaffe hath a rounde smothe stalke and it beareth but two leaues onely like to the leaues of great Plantayne The stalke froÌ„ the middle vp to the top is compassed or beset round about with a great many of little smal floures of a yellowishe greene colour almost like to little yong Goossings or birdes lately hatched and not much vnlike the floures of diuers sortes of Standergrasse The roote is full of threddie strings Goosenest hath a bare naked stalke without leaues bearing a floure at the top like to a spiky tufft or eare of a browne colour like vnto wood It is almost like the stalke of Orobanche or Broome Rape wherof we shal write in the vj. parte of our Historie of Plantes sauing it is tenderer and not so thicke as the stalke of Orobanche The roote is nought else but a sorte of threddy strings as it were interlaced snarled or tangled one in an other †The Place The Twayblade or Double leaf delighteth best in moyst waterie places Gooseneste is to be founde in moyst and sandie fieldes and pastures and in grauely wooddes †The Tyme These two herbes do spring in May and Iune †The Names The first of these herbes is called of the writers in our time in Latine Bifolium in English Twayblade Dubble leafe Bastard Orchis Eunuche StaÌ„dergrasse in high Douch Zueblat in base Almaigne Tweebladt and it is thought of some to be Plinies Ophris others thinke it to be a kinde of Perfoliatum or Thorow waxe some thinke it to be Alisma or water Plantayne and of some it is taken for Helleborine that is to say the wilde white Hellebor or Niesworte Herom Bouq calleth the second kinde Margendrchen some Herborists amongst vs bicause that the rootes be so tangled wrapped like to a nest haue named it Goosenest in French Nid doyseau in base Almaigne Voghels nest †The Nature and Vertues The nature vertues of these herbes are not yet very wel knoweÌ„ howbeit the late wryters do take it to be good for wouÌ„des ruptures or burstings some do also say that they be in nature like vnto Orchis or Standergrasse Of the right Satyrion / or Dioscorides Satyrion Cha. lviij †The Kindes BYsides the aforesayde Orchis or Bastard Satyrions which are also called Satyria of Apuleius Plinie Dioscorides also hath wryten of two kindes of Satyrion one called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 †The Description THe first of Dioscorides Satyrions his leaues be somwhat broade like the leaues of Lillies sauing they be smaller and somewhat redde the stalke is about the heigth of halfe a foote bare and naked and it hath a white floure at the toppe almost like vnto a Lillie a Bulbus or rounde roote like to an apple of a fyrie yellow or reddisshe colour without and white within like the white of an egge of a sweete and pleasant taste The
bleeding Of Gastarde Saffron Chap. xxij †The Description WIlde Saffron hath a rounde stalke of three Cubites long or more decked with lōg narrow dented sharp pricking leaues at the toppe of the braunches are small round pricklcy heades or knoppes the whiche at their opening do bring forth a pleasant Orenge colour floure of a good fauour colour like to the threds of right Saffron whan the floure is withered and past there is found within the prickly heads or knoppes a white long cornered seede wrapped in a certayne hearie downe or chaffe †The Place They vse to plante it in gardens †The Tyme It floureth in Iuly and August Cnicus Carthamus †The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cnicus of the Apothecaries and of Mesue of Serapio Cartamus of some Crocus Hortēsis Crocus Saracenicus in Italian Saffrano Sarracinesco in Spanish Alaçor Açfran del huerto y semente de Papagaios in English Bastard Saffron in Frēch Saffran sauuage or Bastard in high Douch Wilden garten Saffron in base Almaigne Wilden Saffraen †The Nature The seede of Bastarde Saffron as Mesue writeth is hoate in the first degree and dry in the second †The Vertues The iuyce of the seede of Saffron brused and pound and dronken with Honied water or the brothe of a Chicken or pullet prouoketh the stoole and purgeth by siege flymie fleumes and sharpe humors Moreouer it is good against the Colike that is to say the payne and stopping of the bowels or guttes and also against the payne in fetching of breath the cough stopping of the breast and it is singuler against the Dropsie Also the iuyce of the same seede put into milke causeth the same milke to congeale and crudde and maketh it of great force to lose and open the belly The floures dronke with Honied water openeth the Liuer and are very good against the Iaundise Also the same floures are very good to be vsed in meates to giue them a yellow colour †The Daunger The seede of Bastard Saffron is very hurtfull to the stomacke causing a desire to vomite and is of harde and slowe operation remayning long in the stomake and entrailles †The Amendement He must put to the same seede somethings comfortable to the stomake as Anise seede Galangall or Mastike or some other good thing to hasten his operation as Gynger Salgemme common salte c. And if it be vsed after this manner it shall not hurte the stomacke at all and his operation shall be more speedy Of Conyza / or Flebane Chap. xxiij ⧠The Kindes THere are two sortes of Conyza as Dioscorides Theophrastus writeth The one called the great or male Conyza the other the small or female Conyza Ouer and bysides these there is a thirde kinde the which is called the middle or meane Conyza †The Description THe greate Conyza hath leaues somewhat large almost like Cowslippe leaues sauing that they are browner and softer The stalke is round couered with a safte Cotton or fine Downe of a foote and halfe long or more towardes the toppe spreading abroade into many small branches vpon which groweth long buddes whiche turne into yellow floures the whiche also do afterward chaunge into Downie heads fleeing away with the wind The roote is somewhat thicke The small Conyza groweth not aboue the heigth of a spanne or foote and differeth not from the first sauing that it is a great deale lesse The floures be of a darke yellow almost like the floures of Tansie or like to the middell of the floures of Cammomill they are both of a strong sauour but the sauour of the greater is more then the small The third and middell kinde of Conyza hath a round white wollish stalke of a foote and a halfe long the leaues be long cottony or wolly The floures at the top of the stalke like to Cammomill but greater not onely of a broune yellow colour in the middell but also round about Conyza maior Great Conyza Conyza media Middell Conyza †The Place The great Conyza for the most parte groweth in dry places The two others grow in valleys that are moyst and grassie and by water sides †The Tyme They floure in the end of Iuly and August †The Names These herbes are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plinie in some place calleth them Cunilagines Theodor Gaza calleth them Policariae and Pulicariae vnknowen in shops one kinde of it is called in English Flebane some call it in high Douch Durwurtz and Donnerwurtz in Spanish Attadegua Theophrast calleth the great Conyza the male and the smaller Conyza the female †The Nature The great and the small Conyzae are hoate and dry in the third degree The third is of the like substaunce but not so hoate †The Vertues The leaues and floures of Conyza boyled in wine and dronken haue great power to prouoke the floures and to expell the dead childe They haue also great power against the hoate pisse and Strangury against the Iaundise and gnawing or gryping paynes of the belly The same taken with vineger is good for the Epilepsie or falling sicknesse The Decoction of Conyza is very profitable to women against the diseases and payne of the Mother if they sitte ouer it in a close vessell or stewe The leaues brused and layde vpon the bitings or stingings of venemouse beasts are very good also they are good to be layde vpō woundes oedemes that is harde lumpes or colde swellings The same mingled with oyle is good to annoynt the body to take away all colde shakings and brusings The same layde strowed or burned in any place driueth away al venemouse beasts and killeth gnattes and flees Of Sterrewurte or Sharewurte Chap. xxiiij †The Description STerrewurte hath a browne hearie and woodish stalke the leaues be lōg thick hearie and of a browne or swartgreene colour At the toppe of the branches groweth three or foure shining floures after the fasshion of Camomill yellow in the middle and set rounde about with small purple leaues in order and fasshion like a Sterre whiche at length do turne into downe or Cotton the plume is carried away with the winde The roote is bearded with hearie strings There is an other kinde of this herbe whose floures are not onely yellow in the middle but the small leaues also growing about the edges in order like the Cammomill floure are also of yellow colour but otherwise like to the first †The Place Sterrewurte groweth vpon small hillockes barrowes or knappes in Mountaynes and high places and sometimes in wooddes and in certaine medowes lying about the riuer of Rheyne †The Tyme It doth most cōmonly floure in August Aster Atticus †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aster Atticus Inguinalis of Vergill Flos Amellus of some Stellaria in Italian Alibio vnknowen in Shoppes in English Sharewurte or
call this kinde of herbe Pigamum and do erroniously vse it for Rue which is called in Greeke Peganon The common sorte call it Rhabarbarum and therefore it is called False or Bastard Rewbarbe but many learned men call it in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Thalietrum and do vse it for the same But the smal Thalietrum is not Hypecoon as we haue thought it ear this †The Nature Bastard Rewbarbe is of complexion hoate and dry †The Vertues The leaues of Bastard Rewbarbe taken in meate or otherwise loseth the belly The rootes also should seeme to be of the same nature and vertue and for this consideration partly they were called Rewbarbe partely also they were so called bycause their rootes are yellow like Rewbarbe Of water Betony / or Brounewurte Chap. xxxj †The Description BRounewurte hath a square browne hollow stalke large leaues natched or dented rounde about very like vnto Nettell leaues but smother or playner and nothing stinging or burning at all The floures grow about the toppe of the stalkes and are small and tawney hollow like a helmet or a snayle shell The seede is small rounde poynted like to some prety pellots or buttons The roote is white and knobby like the roote of Orpyn or Lyblong wherof we haue spoken Chap. 26. Scrophularia maior There is an other kinde of this herbe like to the first in stalkes leaues floures and huskes or seede vesselles but it differeth in the roote for his roote is not knobby or swollen like to the other but full of threddish strings otherwise there is no difference betwixt this kinde and the other which they call Scrophularia maior for the stalke is also square and the leaues like to Nettell leaues and are cut dented round about in like manner the floures are like to open helmets also c. so that oftentimes those that take nothede to the differēce in the rootes do gather the one for the other There is yet a thirde kinde which is nothing like to the others sauing only in the floures and seede wherein it is very like to the other Scrophularies wherefore wee haue thought good to make mention of it in this place his stalke is right or straight and rounde The leaues are like to Roquet leaues but smaller and browner The floures are like to them aforesayde sauing they be smaller and of a blewe colour straked with small strakes of white The roote is threddy like the roote of the second kinde of Scrophularia and is euerlasting putting forth yearely new springs as also doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies †The Place The two firste kindes do grow very plentifully in this countrey in the borders of fieldes and vnder hedges and about lakes and ditches The thirde is not found here but onely planted in gardens †The Tyme They floure in Iune and Iuly †The Names The first is called in Shoppes and of the Herboristes Scrophularia maior of some Castrangula Ficaria Millemorbia Ferraria in English Broune wurte and Water Betony in high Almaigne Braunwurtz Sauwurtz and grosz Feigwartzen kraut in base Almaigne groot Speencruyt Helmeruyt Some thinke it to be the herbe that is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Caleopsis and Vrticalabeo The second hath no certayne name in Latine nor of the Apothecaries but in base Almaigne it is called Beeckscuym and S. Anthuenis cruyt this should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Betonica Aquatica Septentrionalium in English Water Betony The thirde is vnknowen and without name notwithstāding it may be taken for a kinde of Galeopsis bycause his floure is like to an open Helmet †The Nature Scrophularia is hoate and dry in the third degree and of subtill partes †The Vertues The leaues stalke seede roote iuyce of the right Galeopsis or Brounewurte doth waste and dissolue al kindes of tumors swellings and hardnesse if it be pound with vinege rand layde therevpon two or three times a day The leaues stampte and layde to old rotten corrupt spreading and fretting Vlcers or Pockes doth heale them it doth also heale Cankers if it be pound with Salte and layde thereto If a man washe his face with the iuyce of this herbe it taketh away the rednesse of the same The roote eaten drieth vp and healeth the Hemorrhoides the like vertue it hath to be pound and layde too outwardly The seede of Brounewurte dronken killeth wormes The second kinde whiche is the right water Betony is also very good against all corrupt vlcers and consuming sores being layde too as the first The third is not onely vnknowen in name but also in vertues Of herbe Roberte / Pynke needle / and Storkes bill / with other of the same kinde Chap. xxxij †The Kindes THere is found in this contrey diuers sortes of herbes whose seedes belong sharpe like to a Hearons beake or byl the which for the self same cause are all comprehended vnder the name and kindes of Hearons bill The twoo first are described by Dioscorides and other of the auncient writers The fiue other are setfoorth by the later wryters and learned men of our time †The Description THe first kinde of Geranion or Storckes bill his leaues are cut and iagged in many peeces like to Crowfoote his stalkes be slender and parted into sundry braunches vpon which groweth smal floures somwhat like roses or the floures of Mallowes of a light murrey or redde colour after them commeth little round heades with smal long billes like Nedels or like the beakes of Cranes and Hearons wherein the seede is contayned The roote is thicke round shorte and knobby with certayne small strings hanging by it Geranium alterum Doue foote Geranium tertium Storckes bill or Acus Moschata The seconde whiche they call Doue foote hath also smal tender hearie and browne stalkes the leaues are like to the small Mallow cut rounde about The floures be small of a cleare purple colour and do likewise turne into little knappes or heads with billes but yet not so great long as the first Geraniū The thirde kinde also hath tender stalkes rounde and somewhat hearie small leaues cut as it were in little iagges or peeces and before the growing vp of the stalkes the leaues lie spreading vpō the ground the floures are smal of a pleasant light redde after these floures followeth certayne small narrow peakes or beakes as in the others The roote is white of the length of a finger like to Rampions Sideritis tertia aut Geranium Robertianum Herbe Roberte Geranium gruinale The fourth Cranes bill THe fourth hath hearie stalkes like the other but all redde with diuers ioyntes and knots the leaues are much cut and iagged like to Cheruill or Coriander leaues but redder of a more lothsome smell The floures be redde and bringeth forth small bullets like littell heades with sharpe billes The roote is somewhat greene of colour The fifth is like to the aforesayde in
Agrimonia of some Ferraria minor Concordia and Marmorella in Spanish Agramonia in English Agrimonie in French Eupatoire or Aigremoine in high Douch Odermenich Bruchwurtz in base Almaigne Agrimonie of some Leuercruyt that is to say Liuerwurte Eupatorium †The Nature Agrimonie is of fine and subtill partes without any manifest heate it hath power to cut in sunder with some astriction †The Vertues The Decoction or brothe of Agrimonie dronken doth clense and open the stoppings of the liuer and doth strengthen the same is specially good against the weakenesse of the same Agrimonie boyled in wine and dronken helpeth against the bytings of venemous beasts the same boyled in water stoppeth the pissing of bloud The seede therof dronken in wine is singuler against the blouddy flixe and daungerouse laske The leaues of Agrimonie pounde with Swines grease and layde too hoate doth cure and heale olde woundes that are harde to close or drawe to a Scarre Of Bastarde Agrimonie Chap. xl †The Kyndes THere be sundry kindes of herbes called in Latine Hepatica or Iecoraria that is to say Lyuerwurtes whiche are commended and founde good agaynst the diseases of the Lyuer whereof wee shall describe three kindes in this Chapter vnknowen to the old wryters The two first kindes are Bastarde Agrimonie The third is Three leaued Agrimonie or Noble Lyuerwurte Pseudohepatorium mas Bastard Agrimonie the male Pseudohepatorium foemina Bastard Agrimonie female †The Description THe male Bastarde Agrimonie hath a long round stalke full of white pith within at the whiche groweth long blakish leaues somewhat rough and hearie snipte and cut round about almost like the leaues of Hempe and bitter At the toppe of the stalkes groweth many small floures of incarnate colour clustering or growing thicke togither in tuftes the whiche being withered and chaunged into seede it fleeth away with the winde The roote is full of threddy strings The female Bastard Agrimonie hath also a roūd purple stalke about three foote long and full of braunches The leaues be long and dented or snipt round about like the leaues of Hempe or of the other Agrimonie sauing that they be a littell larger At the toppe of the branches and round about the stalke groweth three or foure small leaues growing harde one by an other after the fashion of a starre amongst whiche is a knap or button that bringeth forth a yellow floure intermengled with blacke within whiche being withered is conteyned the seede whiche is long flatte and rough and hangeth vpon garments whan it is rype The leaues of Hepatica are broade and diuided into three partes not much vnlike the leaues of Cockow bread sower Tryfoly or Alleluya but larger Amongst the leaues groweth fayre azured or blew floures euery one growing vpon a single stemme the whiche do change into small bullets or bolyns wherin the feede is conteyned The roote is blacke and full of small hearie strings †The Place The Bastard Agrimonies do grow in moyst places by diches and standing pooles Hepatica groweth not of his owne kinde in this countrey but it is planted in gardens †The Tyme The Bastard Agrimonies do floure in Iuly and August but the Noble or great Lyuerwurt floureth in Marche †The Names The male Bastarde Agrimonie is called in Shoppes Eupatorium and is wrongfully taken of them for the right Agrimonie the which is described in the former chapter The learned mē in these dayes do call it Pseudohepatorium and Eupatorium aquaticum or Adulterinum Of Baptistus Sardo Terzola in highe Douch Kunigundkraut Wasserdost Hirssenclee in base Almaigne Coninghinne cruyt Hertsclaueren and Boelkens cruyt manneken We haue named the second Pseudohepatorium foemina in base Almaigne Boelkens cruyt wijfken it is thought to be that Agrimonie whereof Auicen writeth Chap. ccxliiij and therfore some haue called it Eupatorium Auicennae Hepatica siue Hepaticum Trifolium Noble Lyuerwurt or threeleaued Lyuerwurte The third which is called at this day in Latine Hepatica and of some Herba Trinitatis may be called in English Hepatica Noble Agrimonie or Three leafe Lyuerwurte in French Hepatique in high Douch Leberkraut Edel leuer cruyt We know of none other name except it be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Balaris whereof Hesychius writeth †The Nature The two Bastard Agrimonies are hoate and dry as their bitternesse doth manifestly declare Hepatica doth coole dry and strengthen ⧠The Vertues The male Bastarde Agrimonie boyled in wine or water is singuler good against the old stoppings of the Lyuer and Melte or Splene Also it cureth old feuer tertians being dronken The Decoction thereof dronken healeth all hurtes woundes for whiche purpose it is very excellent and to heale all manner woundes both outwarde and inwarde The female Bastard Agrimonie is of the same operation and is vsed more than the other in wounde drenches The Hepatica or Noble Lyuerwurte is a soueraigne medicine against the heate and inflammation of the Lyuer and all hoate Feuers or agues Of Tornesole Chap. xli †The Kyndes THere be two kindes of Heliotropium or Tornesol The one called the great Tornesol and the other the small Tornesol Heliotropium magnum Great Tornesol Heliotropium paruum Small Tornesol †The Description THe great Tornesol hath straight round stalkes couered with a white hearie cotton especially about the toppe The leaues are whitish softe and hearie like veluet and fashioned like Basill leaues The floures be white at the toppe of the stalke growing thicke togither in rewes by one side of the stem the which at the vpper end do bend turne againe like a Scorpiōs tayle or the tayle of a Lobster or riuer Creuis The roote is small and harde The small Tornesol carrieth only but one stem of the length of a foote or somewhat more the which diuideth it self into many branches The leaues be whitishe almost like to the first but somewhat drawing towardes the leaues of the small Clote Burre The floures be yellow and small growing thicke togither and perish or vanish away without the bringing foorth of any fruyte like the floure of Palma Christi The seede is grayishe inclosed in triangled huskes or Coddes like the huskes of Tithymall or Spurge hanging downe vnderneth the leaues by a single stem they come forth without floure for the floure is vnprofitable as is before sayde †The Place The great Tornesol as Ruellius saith groweth in France in frutefull tylled groundes but in this countrey it is onely found in gardens The small Tornesol groweth in lowe sandie and waterie places and is found very plenteously in diuers places of Languedock †The Tyme The Tornesolles do floure about Mydsomer and in Iuly †The Names The great Tornesol is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Heliotropium magnum of the new or late wryters Verrucaria maior and Herba cancri Solaris herba Scorpionis herba and therefore the base Almaignes do call it Creeftcruyt and great Creeftcruyt The small Tornesoll is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
beareth a flower altogither of a pleasant yellow colour Bulbosa Iris. ⧠The Place The first kinde is founde in Englande The other twayne growe in Spayne and Portingale †The Tyme The flowers of these strange plantes doo shewe them selues commonly in Iune in base Almaigne where as they are scantly knowen or hardly founde sauing in the gardens of some diligent Herboristes †The Names This flower is called now in Latine Bulbosa Iris bycause it hath a Bulbus roote and a flower lyke Ireos But it seemeth to be Apuleius Bulbus called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hieribulbus they call this plante in Spayne especially that with the yellowe flower Reilla Buen and we may call it Bulbus Ireos in English †The Nature and Vertues The nature of this kinde of Bulbus or flower with his vertues are not yet knowen bycause there is no experience made of it as yet Of the yellowe wilde Ireos / or Flower Deluce Chap. xli †The Description THe wild yellow Iris or flower Deluce hath long narrowe flagges or blades almost lyke to the right Iris or garden flagge but a great deale longer and narrower very lyke to the blade of a long and narrowe double edged sworde The stalkes be rounde smooth and holow at the toppe whereof groweth the yellowe flower with the three leaues hanging downewardes like to the gardē flower Deluce three mounting vpwardes but they are smaller thē the leaues that hāg downewardes Whē they are past there come vp thicke triangled coddes or huskes in which is conteyned large yellow seede The roote is thicke spreadeth here and there and sometimes it hath other small rootes hanging by it and many threddy strings of a fleshly colour within and of a rough astringent or binding taste ¶ The Place This wilde yellowe Iris groweth in moyst places and low medowes and in the borders and brinkes of Riuers pondes and lakes very common in England Flaunders other Countries Pseudoiris Lutea †The Tyme This flower Deluce or wilde Iris flowreth in May and Iune ¶ The Names The wilde yellow Iris is nowe called in Latine Pseudoiris Lutea and of some Syluestris Iris lutea it hath bene called in Shoppes Acoron and hath ben taken in medicine for the same not without great errour losse and danger of the sicke as it is of diuers learned men now very wel noted and for that cause it is also called Pseudoacorus that is to say false or bastarde Acorus in Douch Geel Schwertel geel wald Schwertel Drakenwurtz in base Almaigne Geel wilt Lisch and Boxe boonen in French Glayeul bastarde Flambe bastarde in Englishe the yellow wilde Iris the yellow flower Deluce Wilde flagges water flagges and Lauers or Leuers ¶ The Nature The yellowe bastarde Iris his roote is colde and drie in the thirde degree of astringent or binding facultie lyke to the rootes of Tormentill Bistorte †The Vertues The roote of yellowe flower Deluce or bastarde Iris boyled in water and bronken stoppeth the bloody flixe and other fluxes of the belly and stoppeth blood from whence so euer it floweth womens flowers in what sort soeuer it be taken yea if it be ministred but outwardly onely eyther in playsters or in bathes Of the white Lillie Chap. xlij †The Description THe white Lillie his leaues be long and broade and somewhat thicke or fat amongst the which springeth vp a straight stemme or stalke of three foote long or more set and garnished with leaues from the roote to the toppe which by litle and litle as they grow vp toward the top do waxe smaller smaller In the top of the sayd garnished stemme growe the pleasant beautiful white and sweete smelling Lillies diuided into sixe small long and narrowe leaues whiche haue in the outsyde of euery leafe a certayne strake or ribbe but within they are altogither of an excellent shynyng pure white colour bending somewhat backwardes at the top in the middle amongst these leaues ther hang vpō sixe very smal stems sixe smal yellow pointes or litle markes as it were tongues in the middle amongst these also there groweth another long vpright and triangled stemme thicker then the rest and lyke to the Clapper of a Bell. The roote is lyke to a great Onyon or rather a garlike head compacte and made of diuers cloues or kernelles ¶ The Place The white Lillies be very common not only in this Countrie but in all places els where in gardens Lilium Candidum c. †The Tyme This kinde of Lillies doth flower at the beginning of Iune or there about †The Names The white Lillie is called of the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the plante is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is called in Latine Lilium and Rosa lunonis in Shoppes Lilium album in Italian Giglio and Giglio biancho in Spanish Azucena in Douche Weisz Gilgen or weisz Lilgen in Frenche Lys blanc †The cause of the Name Constantine writeth this of the Lillie that when Iupiter had begotten Hercules vpon Alcumena and being desyrous to make him immortall he carryed him to sucke Iuno his wife whiles she was sleeping and when he perceiued the childe to haue suckt his fyll he drewe him from her breast by meanes whereof there fell great store of mylke from the breastes of Iuno the greatest parte whereof was spilt in heauen and fell vppon the Skies whereof the signe and marke remayneth at this day that is to say that white and milkie way that goeth through heauen from the North to the South called in Latine Via lactea The rest fell vpon the earth whereof sprang these Lillies in the floures whereof there remayneth the very whitenesse of the sayde milke and hereof it came to passe that this floure was called in Latine Iunonis rosa that is to say Iunos rose †The Nature The floures of the white Lillie are hoate and partely of a subtile substance The roote is dry in the first degree and hoate in the second †The Vertues The roote of the white Lillie sodde in honied water and dronken dryueth forth by the siege all corruption of bloud as Plinie sayeth The same rosted or pounde and well mengled with oyle of Roses doth soften the hardnesse of the Matrix prouoketh the monethly termes being layde therevpon The same pounde with Hony ioyneth togither sinewes that are cut consumeth or scoureth away the vlcers of the head called Achores and cureth all maner of naughtie scuruinesse aswell of the head as of the face and is good to be layde to all dislocations or places out of ioynt The roote of the white Lillie mengled with vineger or the leaues of Henbane or Barley meale cureth the tumors and impostems of the genitors The same boyled in vineger causeth the Cornes which be in the feete to fall of if it be kepte vpon the sayde Cornes as a playster by the space of three
other kindes are soner ripe wherefore they be called Abrecox or Aprecox Malus Persica The Peache tree Malus Armeniaca The Aprecok tree †The Description THE Peache tree is more tender then other trees and of long contitinuance but doth perishe and die much sooner then any other fruiteful trees The leaues of Peache tree be long and lightly iagged about the edges nothing differing from willowe leaues sauing that they be somewhat shorter and bitterer The flowers are of a reddishe skye colour after whiche commeth the fruite whiche is rounde lyke an Apple with a deepe and straight clift or forrow vpon one side and couered ouer with a soft downe or hoare cotton of colour sometimes white sometimes greene sometimes reddishe and sometimes yellowe and of a winishe taste soft in feeling and of a fleshy pulpe or substance in the middest whereof is a rough harde stone full of creastes and gutters within whiche is a kernell lyke an Almonde The Abrecok in timber flowers and maner of growing is not much vnlyke the other Peache tree sauing that his leaues be shorter broder and nothing like to the Peache leaues The fruite is like to a Peache but smaller sooner ripe †The Place They plante the Peache tree in gardens and vineyardes and they loue a soft and gentle grounde standing wel in the Sonne †The Time The Peaches flower in Aprill and the Abrecox are ripe in Iune but the Peaches in September †The Names The Peache tree is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Malus Persica in high Douche Pfersich baum in base Almaigne Perseboom in French Vng Pescher in English a Peache tree The fruite is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Malum Persicum in shops Persicum in French Pesches in high Douch Pfersing in base Almaigne Persen in Englishe Peaches That kinde whiche will not easily be separated from the stone are called Duracina in Frenche Des Presses The Abrecok tree is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Malus Armeniaca in Douche Vroeghe Perseboom The fruite is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Mala Armeniaca Praecoqua and Praecocia in English Abrecok Aprecok and Aprecox in Frenche Abricoz in high Douch Mollelin and Molleten in base Almaigne Vroege Persekens Auant Perses also of the high Douch men S. Iohans Pfersich which may be Englished S. Iohns Peaches Hastie Peaches and Midsomer Peaches The tree Persea with his fruite is not to be reckoned amongst these kindes as some thinke for Persea is a great tree like a Peare tree alwayes greene and lodē with fruit as Theophrastus in his fourth booke the second Chapter writeth †The Nature The Peache is colde and moyste in the seconde degree The leaues of the tree and the kernels of the fruite are hoate and drie almost in the third degree and of a scowring power by meanes of their bitternesse †The Vertues Peaches before they be ripe do stoppe the laske as Dioscorides saith But being ripe they loose the belly engender noughtie humours for they are soone corrupted in the stomacke wherefore they ought not to be eaten after meates but before as Galen saith The leaues of the Peache tree do open the stoppinges of the liuer and doo gently loose the belly and are good with other conuenient herbes agaynst tertian feuers The same layde vpon the nauell do kyl and driue out wormes especially in young children The same dried and strawed vpon newe woundes do cure and heale them The Peache kernel openeth all stoppinges of the liuer and lunges and in vertue is much lyke to bitter Almondes It is good to recouer againe the speache of such as be taken with the Apoplexie if it be stieped in the water of Penny Ryall Peache kernelles pownde or beaten very smal and boyled in vineger vntil they dissolue or melte and become lyke pappe is good to be vsed against the Alopetiam for it doth woonderfully restore the heare if the place be annoynted therewithall as Matthiolus saith There be other vertues attributed to the same kernelles as ye may reade in Matthiolus and Myzalde Of the Almonde tree Chap. xli ¶ The Kindes There be two sortes of Almondes that is to say the sweete and bitter Almondes †The Description THE Almonde tree in groth and leaues is lyke to the Peache tree but it waxeth bigger and stronger is of a longer continuance or lasting The fruite is a harde nut like the Peache stone but smooth without and couered with an vtter huske or shale lyke the Walnut within the inner shale is the Almonde in taste bitter or sweete as is abouesayde †The Tyme The Almonde tree flowreth bytimes with the Peache tree The fruite is ripe in Iune Iuly †The Names The Almonde tree is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Amygdalus in high Douche Mandelbaum in base Almaigne Amandelboom in Frenche Amandier The fruite is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Amygdala and Amygdalum in English Almondes or Almonde in French Amand in high Douch Mandel in base Almaigne Amandele Amygdalus Almondes †The Nature Almondes are somewhat hoate especially the bitter Almondes the whiche be not onely hoate but also drie and of clensing and cutting power †The Vertues Almondes taken before meate do stop the belly and nourishe but litle especially being blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes Bitter Almondes doo open the stopping of the lunges or lightes the liuer the melt or splene the kidneyes of al other inwarde partes therefore they be good against the cough the shortnes of wind the inflammation exulceration of lunges to be mingled with Turpentine licked in as Dioscorides writeth Almondes are good for them that spet blood to be taken in with the fine flower called Amylum The bitter Almondes taken with a litle sweete wine as Muscadel or Bastarde prouoke vrine and do cure the hardnesse of the same and painefulnes in making water are good for thē that are troubled with the grauel stone They vse to take fiue or sixe bitter Almondes fasting to be preserued from dronkennesse al the same day They take away headache to be applied to the forehead with oyle of Roses and vineger They are with great profite layde to with hony vpon corrupt and noughty spreading sores and the bitinges of mad Dogges They clense the skinne and face from al spottes pimples and lentiles Of the Peare tree Chap. xlij †The Kindes THere be diuers sortes of Peares aswell as there be kindes of Apples whereof some be rathe ripe some haue a later riping and some be winter Peares some perish quickly some last a longer time and may be wel kept some be sweete and full of sap or iuyce some fat and grosse and some harde and drie c. so that it is not possible to recite all the kindes of Peares wherefore we do aduise the Readers to consyder the taste more then the proportion or
758 Byrdes foote or fowle foote 487 Blacke berie bushe 661 Bladder nut 735 Blewblaw 161 Blewbottel ibid. Blighted 471 Blites and Blittes 547 Bloodwort 380 May Blossoms 178 Blood strange 96 Bockwheate 468 Bolbanack or strange Violets 153 Bombace 679 Small Bombase 90 Borage 12 Boxe thorne 700 Bore tree 699 Boyes Mercury or Phillon 78 Brake 401 Bramble 661 Brookelyme 579 Broome 664 Bryer bushe 655 White blacke Briony 382 Buckhorne 95 Buckrammes 636 Bugle 133 Buglosse 8 Buglosse the lesser 10 Vipers Buglosse ibid. White Bulbus violet 216 Bulbyne 644 Bul foote 20 Bupleuros 506 Buprestis 544 Burned 471 Burnet 138 Butchers â—roome 674 Great Burre 15 Great clote Burre ibid. Diche Burte ibid. Lowse Burre ibid. Butter Burre 21 Butter flowers 422 Byrthwort 314 C LOfed Cabbage 553 Great round Cabbage cole ibid. Calfes foote 323 Calfes snowte 180 Calamynte 248 Rough Calaminte ibid. Calathian violets 173 Caltrop 521 Caltha 190 Cameline 494 Camels strawe 511 Cammocke 669 Camomill 183 Stinching Camomill 186 Common Camomill ibid. Purple Camomill 184. 188 Yelow white Camomill 183 Wilde Campion 159 Spanish Canes 514 Large brode Comyn 283 Sugar Cane 514 Canterbury belles 171 Capers 680 Caprifoyle 391 Carob tree 740 Wilde Caroline 531 Wilde Carthamus 532 Carrottes and of all his kinde 602 Wilde Catrot 285. 528 Cataphilago 90 Caruway 274 Casseweede 81 Cassia fistula 740 Cassidonie 266 Casshes or Caxes 616 Catanance 508 Cattes tayle 513 Cedar and Cedre tree 765 Celandyne 31 Centorie great smal 327 Ceterach 408 Chafeweed 90 Thistel Chameleon 517 Charlock 620 Cheese running 539 Cheries and of al his kinde and fruite 714 Winter Cheries 445 Long Cherie tree 726 Cheruil and Cheruel 614 Wilde Cheruel 615 Toothpicke Cheruil ibid. Chesnut tree 730 Middle Chickeweede 53 Choke fitche 664 Chokeweed 664 Chyne / or Sweth 643 Cicheling 478 Wilde Ciches 479 Cidetage 633 Cinquefoyle or Sinkefoyle 83 Cistus 659 CitroÌ„s 704 Citrulles 589 Wilde Clarie 255 Smelling Clauer 105 Clauer gentle ibid. Rough Clauer 502 GardeÌ„ or saller Clauer 496 Treacle Clauer 501 Clarye / or Cleare-cye 253 Clematis altera 385 Cliuer 539 Coccow flowers 625 Cockle 160 Cockwes meate 503 Cocolas panter 661 White Colewurtes 553 Wilde Colewurtes 555 Cypres Colewurtes 554 Countrie Colewurtes 555 Wrickleo or ruffed Cole 554 Coliander 276 Coloquintida 375 Coltes foote 20 Columbine 166 Comfcey Comferie 145 Comyn or Comyn 275 Cone or Pine apple 770 Consounde 165 Great Conyza 35 Bastard Corinthes 683 Cornerose 434 Corneflowre wylde and great 161 Cornell tree 716 Coriander 276 Coronations or Cornations 156 Golden Cotula 187 White Cotula without sauorie 186 Cotton 679 Couch Couch grasse 504 Cowslippes 123 Cowslip 125 Yellow Ctaw 421 Creame or flower or Cristall 116 Cranes bil 48 Cresses 623 Sciatica Cresse 630 Water Cresse 625 Winter Cresses 626 Yellow water Cresses 611 Crest-marine 578 Crompsed lettis 577 Croswort 541 Yellow Crow belles 214 Crowe sope 159 Crowfoote 419 Water or marrishe Crowfoote 420 Heath Crowfoote 429 White Crowfoote 107. 420 Crowtoes 206 Wylde Cucumber 373 Cucumpers 586 Leaping Cucumber 373 Cudweed 90 Curagie 632 Currantes 652 Cuscuta / c. 390 Cyues Ciuet 642 Cytisus buâ—h 736 Cypres tree 767 Cypres nuttes ibid. Feelde Cypres 28 Garden Cypres 29 D DAffodill 649 White Daffodill 211 Dandelyon 569 Darnell 469.504 Danewort 380 Date or Palme tree 737 Daucus of Landy 285 Daysies 170 Blew flower Deluce 193 The smallest flowre Deluce 195 White flower Deluce 93 Yellow flower Deluce 199 Deuels bit 110 Dewberie or black berie 661 Dictam / or Dictamnum of Landie 268 Dill 270 Bastarde or false DictaÌ„ 344 Dittany 631 Diuels bit 567 Docks 558 Doder 398 Dogge berie tree 726 Dogges Lall 77 Dogges Lamomill 186 Dogges Leekes 209 Dogges Tooth 203 Doue foote 47 Double tongue 675 Dragon biting 622 Water or Marsche Dragon 322 Dragons and Dragon wurt / c. 322 Drauick 471 Dubble leafe 224 Duckes meate 107 Dunche downe 513 Dwale 446 Dwarffe Plame tree 760 E EArthnuttes 491 Earth Chestnut 579 Eglantine 656 Water Elder 760 Elder or Bourtree 378 Elecampane 336 Marishe Elder 760 Wilde white Ellebor 349 Elme tree 752 Greene Endiue 574 Wilde Endiue 563 White Endiue with the brode leaues 563 Erysimon 630 Esula and Ezula 361 Euphorbium 309 Ewe or yew tree 768 Eyebright 40 F FAt or floure of glasse 116 Fenveries 671 Felworte 332 Fenell 269 Wilde / great Fenell 269 Dogge Fenell 186 Fenell Giant 269 Fenegreck 492 Ferne male female 401 Stone Ferne 408 Oke Ferne 403.405 Petie Ferne 405 Ferula 301 Feuer few 19 Ficus Indica 544 Figge tree 717 Finger Ferne 408 Figworte 31 Fistick Nuttes 375 Water Flagges 199 Wilde Flagges ibid. Flare or Lyn 70 Lorne Flag 197 Tode and wilde Flaxe 80 Fleabane 104 Fleawurte ibid. Flebane 35 Bloudy Flieworte 89 Flixewort 117 Florantor 168 Our Ladyes Flower 209 Floure Gentill 168 Floure Lonstantinople 157 Flourie dole 554 Folefoote 20.319 Forget me not 28 Foxe gloue 175 Foxetayle 542 Framboys 662 Francke 56 Fumeterre 24 Hedge Fumeterre ibid. Great Furze 669 Ground Furze ibid. Fiueleaued grasse 83 G GAlangal 346 Galbanum 307 Gallowgrasse 72 Garden woad 67 Garden flagges 193 Garlyke 637 Crow wilde Garlike ibi Garden Garlyke 637 Beares Garlike 638 Rusche Garlike 643 Garliketh laspi 628 Gentian 332 Bassinet Geranium 48 Smal or dwarf GentiaÌ„ 334 Croefoote Geranium 481 Germander 25 Water Germander 111 Wilde Germander 112 Water Gillofer 106 Yellow Gillofers 151 Casteel Gilloffer 152 Stocke Gillofers ibid. Rogues Gillofers 153 Cloaue Gillofers 156 Garden Gillofers ibid Feathereo Gillofers 156 Lloue Gillofers ibid. Masche Gillofers 157 Lockow Gillofers ibid. Mocke Gillofer 335 Gingidium 615 Stinking Glading 196 Corne Gladin 197 Right Gladin ibid. Ranke stinking Goate 549 Goates bearde 41.167 Goates Cullions 222 Goldcuppes 422 Golden Appels 440 Golde floure 89.190 Golden Floure of Perrowe 192 Golden flower 420 Goldkn oppes 422 Goose foote 548 Golden Rodde 141 Goldknappe 421 Goosenest 224 Goose-grasse 539 Gooseshare ibid. Good Henry 561 Goe to bed at noone 167 Gourde 592 Long Gourdes ibid Goosoeries 681 Blacke Gooseberies 683 BeyoÌ„dsea Gooseberies 683 Redde Gooseberies ibid. Grace of God 48 Sea Grape 116 Wilde Grape or Vine 652 Gratia Dei 375 Grasse comfortyng the eyes 506 Three leaued Grasse 406 The grasse of Parnasus 510 S. Ihons Grasse 64 Square S. Iohns grasse 65 Gremill 290 Gromel ibid. Ground Pyne 28 Groundswel 371 Gumme Dragagant 543 H HAres foote 502 Harmall 263 Hartes ease 249.151 Hartwurt 314 Haskewurt 172 Hasel or Filberd tree 734 Haselwort 319 Hauer 505 Hawkeweede 567 Hawthâ—â—ne 698 Heare bremble 661 Hearons byll 47 Heathmouse eare 87 Heath 678 Heath bramble 661 Blacke Hellebor 351 White Hellebor 347 Hempe 71 HeÌ„pe tree or chast tree 691 Yellowe and white Henbane 450 Hemlocke 451 Hennes foote 24 Herbe AloeÌ„ 353 Herbe Bennet 134 Carpenters Herbe 133 S. Christophers Herbe 402 Herbe grace 261 Herbe Iue 28.95 Iudaical Herbe 260 Herbe Paris 425 Herbe Robert 47 Herbe twopence 78 Vipers Herbe 10 Hermodactil
QVince tree 708 Quick beame 748 Our ladies quishioÌ„ 509 R RAdish 598 Wild or water Radish ib. Bell Ragges 611 Ragwort 222 Raifort or mountayne Radish 599 Rampions 597 Ramsons 638 Rapes 594 Couentrie Rapes 174 Rape Crowfoote 421 Long Rape 595 Wilde Rapes 497 Smal Rasens of Corinthe 652 Raspis 662 Raspis and Framboys beries ib. Red Rattel 516 Raye 469 Red-Ray 504 Pole Reede 514 Cane Reede ibid. Indian Reede ibid. Sugar Reede ibid. Reede grasse 515 Rest harrow 669 Reubarbe or Rhabarba 328 Bastard Reubarbe 43 Rhamnus 696 Blacke Ribes 683 Common Ribes ibid. Right Scolopendria 408 Rise 461 Rheyn beries 697 Garden or tame and gentill Rockat 622 Rockat ibid. Water Rose 181 Rose tree 430 Rose 655 Cyuet Rose ibid. Wilde Rose ibid. White Roses ibid. Muske Roses ibid. Damaske Roses ibid. Rose of Prouince ibid. Rose Campion 158 Wilde Rose Campion 159 Rosemary 264 Libanotis Rosmarie 279 Rose Baye tree 430 Rosen that coÌ„meth out of the Pine and Pitche of trees 772 Rosewurt 341 Rue of the garden 261 Wilde Rue 263 Goates Rue 490 Rue of the wall 409 Rushes 511 Bul Rush or panier rush ib. Rush candle ibid. Mat or frayle Rushe ibid. Wilde Rushe 672 Rye 459 S SAffron 217 Bastard Saffron 33 Mede wild Saffron 367 Wilde bastaerd Saffron 532 Sagapenum 306 Sage of his coÌ„moÌ„ sage 151 Sage of Ierusalem 125 Wood and wilde Sage 253 Saligot 536 Salomons seale 103 Salt wort 116 SaÌ„pier 578 Sanamunda 134 Sanicle or Sanikell 139 Great Sanicle 140 Sarapias stones 222 Sarcocoll 311 Sarrasines Comfery 141 Sarrasines consound ibid. Satyrion 225 Bastard Satyrion 225.226 Red Syrian SatyrioÌ„ 225 Three leaued Satyrion 225 SatyrioÌ„ royal or noble 226 Sawce Sumach 692 Sauin tree 766 CommoÌ„ gardeÌ„ Sauorie 228 Somer Sauorie ibid. Winter Sauorie 230 Sauce alone 639 Saxifrage 286 Golden and white Saxifrage 288 Scabious 109 Scaâ—wort 336 Scaleferne 408 ScaÌ„monie 396 ScordioÌ„ 111 Scorpion wurt 63 Scorpion ibid. Scorpioides ibid. Sea cawle 594 Our Ladies Seale or Signet 384 Sebestens 722 Selfe heale 133 Senuie 619 White Senuie ibid. Sene 376 Sengreene 114 Setfoyle 84 Serpentes tongue 135 Seseli 281 Seseli of Candie 284 Setwal / or Sydwal 340 Sharewurt 36 Sheapherds purse 81 Single leafe 178 Skirwit rootes 605 Skirwurt ibid. Sleeping Nightshade 447 Sloo tree 721 Garden Smilax 474 Smyrnium 613 Cat Slose Snagges 721 Snakeweede 23 Snapdragon 180 Soldanella 395 Sowbread 330 Sonne deaw 414 Sophia 117 Soopewort 335 Sorbe apple tree 727 Sorrel 559 Great Sorrell ibid. Sheepes Sorrell ibid. Small Sorrel ibid. Water Sorrell ibid. Horse Sorrel ibid. Souldiers yerrow 143 Southrenwood â—2 Female SouthreÌ„wood ib. Great Southrenwood ib. Smal Southrenwood ib. Sowfenill 298 Sowthistel 565 Spanish broome 666 Spanish or canary sede 465 Spearwurt 340 Single Spelt 458 Spelt or Seia 455 Sperage 474.618 Sperhawke herbe 567 Sperwort 425 Spier 514 Spike and Lauender 265 Spinache 556 Broade or large Splenewort 406 Wilde or rough Splenewort 407 Spoonewort 11â— Spourgewort 196 Spourge and of all his kinde 361 Spurrie 56 Squilla 646 SquinaÌ„t 511 Stachis 257 Standelwort 222 Eunuche StaÌ„dergrasse 224 Standergrasse 222.225 Stannewort 80 Starre of Hierusalem 167 Golden Stechados 89 Starrewurt 36 Stichwurt 505 Stone-breake 288 Great stone croppe 114 Stone hore 115 Storkes byll 47 Strangleweede 664 Strangle tare ibid. Strawberie tree 728 Strawberie or Strawbery plant 85 Louse strife 74 Stubwurt 503 Garden Succorie 563 Gumme Succorie 569 Yellow Succorie 563 Sulpherwurt 298 Sumac 673 Sumach 692 Coriers Sumack ibid. Leather Sumach ibid. Meate Sumach ibid. Indian Sunne 192 Swallowurt 13.317 Swinescressis 95 Sycomore tree 716 T TAnsie 18 Wilde Tansie 86 Tamarisk 677 Tares 486 Tarragon 623 Fullers Teasell 522 Tetterwurt 31 Hundred headed Thistel 519 Starre Thistel 521 Carde Thiâ—…ll 522 Our Ladies Thistel 525 Globe Thistel 526 Cotton Thistel ibid. Ote Thistel ibid. White cotton Thistel ibid. Wilde white Thistel ibid. Siluer Thistel ibid. Carline Thistel 530 Blessed Thistel 533 wilde Thistels 535 Cowe Thistell ibid. Rough milke Thistel 565 The tender or soft milke Thistel ib. Thlaspi 628 Candy Thlaspi 629 Bucke Thorne 697 Thorne broome 668 White Thorne 698 Thorne grape 681 Thorne boxe 700 Blacke Thorne 721 Thorow waxe 137 Thorow leafe ibid. Throtewurt 172 Spurge time 363 Dogges Tongue 11 Houndes Tongue ibid. Sheepes Tongue 9 Stone hartes ToÌ„gue 406 Tongue herbe 675 Tongue wort ibid. Tongue blade ibid. Tongue Laurel 676 Torches 120 Water Torche 513 TromeÌ„til 84 Tornesol 61 Towne Cresses 623 Towne kars ibid. Base Trefoyl 502 Sea Tryfoly 49 Common Trefoyle 495 Medowe Trefoyle ibid. Sweet Trefoyle 496 Wilde yellow Trefoyl 497 Horned Trefoyle or clauer 500 Spanish Trefoyl ibid. Stinking Trefoyle 501 Pitche Trefoyle ibid. The right Trefoyle ibid. Tree Tryfoly 736 Tree Tithymall 361 Tulpia / or Tulipa 213 Mesues Turbith tapsia 365 â—erapions Turbith 364 Turkish corne 464 Turkie Gillofers 176 Turneps 594 Tutsan or parke leaues 66 Twayblade 224 Tyme c. 229 Running Tyme 231 Wild Time ib. Tymbra 230 V GReat wilde ValeriaÌ„ 340 Wall Barley 504 Wall flowers 151 Walnut / and Walshe nut tree 731 Walwort 380 The lesser Watercresse 625 Waterferne 402 Water spike 106 Wartwurt 361.363 Way Bennet 504 Bitter Vetche or Ers 482 Base or flat Veruayne 127 Wilde Vetche 484 Weede Winde 394 Dyers Weede 68 May Weede 186 Windweede 394 Wetche or wetches 483 Wheate and of all his kind 453.455.457 Cow Wheate 164 Oxe Wheate ibid. Typhe Wheate 457 Bearded Wheate 456 Spelt Wheate 458 Indian Wheate 464 White roote 103 Whitewurt 19 WhitteÌ„tree 761 Whorts 671 Whortel beries ibid. Whyn 669 Pety Whyn ib. The common Whyn ib. Wilde yellow lotus 497 Sweete Williams 156 Wilde Williams 157 Willow herbe 74 Withywinde 393 Withy or Willow 743 Woodbine 391 Woodrowe / or Woodrowel 540 Woodsorel 503 Woodwaxen 667 Woolfes clawe 414 Worme grasse 114 Wormwood 5 Sea wormwood ibid. Lauender wormwood 6 Narrowe leaued Wormewood ibid. Wulleyn 120 Broune wurt 44 S. Peters wurt ibid. Wydowayle 369 Vaencruyt 351 Venus bath or Bason 522 Venus heare 409 Veriê° 652 Veruayne or Varueyn 127 Violets 14â— Marche Violet ibid. Garnesee Violets 152 Damaske Violets 153 Marianes Violets 174 Theophrastus white Violet 216 Wilde Vine 384 VincetoxicuÌ„ 317 Viorne 386 The garden or manured Vine or grape 651 Smal wild Vetchlings 485 Vnsauetie Camomil 186 Branke Vrsine 527 Douche branck Vrsine 528 Y Yerrow 144 FINIS A Table vvherein is conteyned the Nature Vertue and Dangers of al the Herbes Trees and Plantes of the vvhich are spoken in this present booke or Herball A TO drawe away the Afterbirth / vide Secondine To drawe downe the Afterbirth / vide dead Childe For the Ague / 3. h / 18. c / 59. d / 115. g / 133. b / 148. b / 157. a / 170. a / 187. d / 302. a / 329. a. For hoate Agues or Feuers / 104. a / 135. b / 146. a / 149. h / 182. d / 319. d / 396. a / 564. c / 576. d / 656. a / 672. a. d /