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 /
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine in Shoppes Abrotonum in Italion and Spanish Abrotano yet some of them call it Hyerua Lombriguera in high Douch Stabwurtz Gertwurtz Garthagen Shoswurtz Kuttelkraut Affrusch in base Almaigne Aueroone in French Auronne The great Southrenwood is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Abrotonum foemina that is to say female Southrenwood in french Auronne femelle in high douch Stabwurtz weiblin in base Almaigne Aueroone wijfkē The small Southrenwood is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Abrotonum mas in French Aronne masle in high Douch Stabwurtz menelin in base Almaigne Aueroone manneken and clein Aueroone The thirde kinde seemeth to be that whiche Dioscorides calleth in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Abrotonum Siculum which is a kinde of female Southrenwood the highe Almaignes do call it Wolrieckende Stabwurtz that is to say sweete smelling or sauering Southrenwood ⧠The Nature All the Sothrenwoods are hoate dry in the third degree of subtill parts †The Vertues The seede of Sothrenwood either greene or drie made into pouder or boyled in water or wine dronken is very good and greatly helpeth suche as are troubled with shortnesse of winde and fetching of breath by meanes of any obstruction or stopping about the Breast and is good against the hardnesse bursting shrinking of Sinewes It is good against the Sciatica the difficultie and stopping of vrine and for women that cannot easily haue their termes or natural floures for by his subtill nature it hath power to expell waste cōsume and digest all colde moysture and tough slime and fleume stopping the splene kidneys bladder and Matrix Sothrenwood dronken in wine is good against such venome as is hurtfull vnto man and destroyeth wormes The perfume thereof driueth away all venemouse beastes and so doth the hearbe in all places whereas it is layde or strowen The asshes of Sothrenwood mingled with the oyles of Palma Christi rapes or old oyle Oliue restoreth the heare fallen from the head if the head be rubbed therewithall twise a day in the Sunne or against a fyre If the saide asshes be mingled with any the aforesaide oyles the chinne be rubbed therewithall it causeth the bearde to come forth speedely Sothrenwood pounde with a rosted Quince laide to the eyes in manner of a plaister is very good profitable against all the inflammation of the eyes The same pounde with Barley meale and boyled togither dothe dissolue waste all colde humours or swellings being applied or layde therevpon Sothrenwood stieped or soked in oyle is profitable to rubbe or annoint the body against the benomming of members taken with colde and the brusing or shyuering coldes that come by fittes like as in Agues Plinie writeth that if it be layde vnder the bedde pillow or bolster it prouoketh carnall copulation resisteth all enchantments which may let or hinder such businesse the inticements to the same †The Daunger Sothrenwood is a very hurtfull enimie to the stomacke wherefore Galen the chiefest of Physitions neuer gaue the same to be receiued into the body Of Wormwood Chap. ij †The Kindes THere be three sortes of Wormwood as Dioscorides saithe The first is our cōmon Wormwood The second is sea Wormwood the thirde kinde is that which is called Santonicum And bysides these there is founde an other kinde which is called in this countrey Romaine wormwood Absynthium Latifolium Common Wormwood Seriphium Sea Wormwood †The Description THe cōmon Wormwood hath leaues of a grayishe asshe colour very much cut iagged very bitter The stalke is of a wooddy substance of two cubites high or more full of braunches alongst the braunches groweth litle yellow buttons wherin when they are ripe ready to fall is found small seede like to the seede of garden Tansie but farre smaller The roote is likewise of a wooddy substance and full of small threedes or hearie rootes There is also founde in the gardens of some Herboristes of this countrey an other forte of this kinde of Wormwood the whiche is named of some men Absynthiū Ponticum much like to our cōmon wormwood sauing the leaues are much more iagged and finelier cut and not so bitter at the least way as that whiche is set and sowen in this countrey The second kinde whiche is the Sea Wormwood is also of a whitishe or gray colour and hath many whitish leaues much like to cōmon Wormwood but much smaller tenderer and whiter finelier cut it hath many floures like to small buttons the seede ioyning to the braunches like as in the common Wormwood It groweth to the heigth of a foote and halfe or more it is of a strong smell salt of a straunge bitter taste being gathered in his naturall proper place but being remoued into gardens or into groundes which are naturally holpē with sweete waters it doth maruelously alter both in sauour nature as diuers other herbes but especially such as grow in salt groundes are remoued frō their naturall soyle to some other place of a cōtrary kinde The thirde kinde of Wormwood called Santonicum is almost like to Sea Wormwood in his small tender and iagged leaues but the colour of this is whiter and the smell thereof is not so ranke WOrmwood Romayne is like the Wormwood aforesaide sauing that it is lower and smaller the leaues be also smaller and finer and not so white as the cōmon Wormewood but chaunging more towardes greene yet they turne somwhat grayish and ashe coloured It putteth forth yellow buttons the whiche afterwarde do bring forth both floures seede The roote is full of hearie threedes trayling here and there and putting foorth on euery side much encrease of new springs The fifth kinde of Wormwood is like vnto Sea Wormwood in his smal and tender leaues also it is like in the stalke of floures but it is of a sadde or deeper colour and it hath neyther bitter taste nor sauour The sixth kinde of Wormwood his leaues be long and narrow and of a whitish colour muche like the leaues of Lauender and somwhat like it also in sauour The stalkes also be of wooddishe substance in the toppes whereof there groweth both floures and seede like as in the reste of the Wormwoodes but smaller Absynthiū Pōticum Galeni Wormwood gentle / or Romayne †The Place The common Wormwood groweth naturally in stony places and rough mountaynes in dry rude vntoyled places There is plentie of it in many places of this countrey Sea wormwood groweth in salte ground and in places adioyning to the Sea It groweth plentifully in Zeland and Flaunders alongst the sea coast and in some places of Brabant as about Barowgh The third kind groweth in some places of Zwiserland vnder the hilles or at the foote of mountaines as Conrade Gesner that famous Clerke writeth Wormwood Romayne groweth plentifully in Hungarie places neare about Constantinople in some places of Almaigne
Sterrewurte in French Aspergoutte menue or Estoille in high Douch Megerkraut Scartenkraut and Sternkraut in base Almaigne Sterrecruyt †The Nature It doth refresh and coole and is almost of temperature like the Rose †The Vertues It is very good against the ouer much heate and burning of the stomake being layde to outwardly vpon the same And being greene stamped and layd to the botches or impostumes about the share or priuie members preuayleth much against the same It helpeth and swageth the rednesse and inflammation of the eyes and fundament or siege and the falling downe of the Arse gutte The blew of the floure dronken in water is good to be giuen to yong children against the Squinancie and the falling sicknesse Some men say that this herbe putteth away all tumors swellings of the siege share and fundament yea whan it is but onely carried about a man Of Pennywurte Chap. xxv †The Kyndes WE shall describe in this Chapter three sortes of Penniewurte or Cotyledon wherof two kindes were well knowen of the Auncients as they be also in many countries at this day The thirde bycause of a certayne similitude or likenesse that it hath with Pennywurte of the wall we do call water Pennywurte Cotyledon vera Wall Pennywurte Cotyledon altera Matthioli Thicke Pennywurte †The Description THe leafe of the first kind of Pennywurte is rounde and thicke much lyke to Iuie leaues but rounder somewhat bluntly indēted about with some hollownes or concauitie aboue a shorte stem vnderneath in the middell of the leafe The stalke is small and hollow aboute a spanne long with diuers littell long floures of a whitishe or incarnate colour The roote is white and rounde like an Olyue Cotyledon aquatica Water Pennywurte The second kinde hath brode thicke and somewhat rounde leaues spread abroade round about the stalke like to Syngreene or Houslike from the middell whereof springeth vp the tender stalke bearing small floures Water Pennywurte hath littell smothe leaues rounde and hollow aboue but not very much euen as it were a small shollow plate the stem is vnderneth in the middest of the leafe somewhat drawing to wardes the proportion of Wall Pennywurte but it is smaller smother and of a swarter colour and and somewhat deeper natched or dented but yet bluntly also The floures be very small and white and grow beneth or also vnder the leaues The rootes be smal and hearie creeping and putting forth vpon euery side many smal yong leaues †The Place Pennywurte as Plinie saith groweth in stonie places neare the Sea but it groweth not in many coūtreys except it be planted or set in gardens It groweth plētifully in some parts of England in Sommerset shyre about Welles Mountayne or Syngreene Pennywurte is a rare plante it groweth in some places of the Alpes and other mountaynes beyond the Sea Pennywurte of the water groweth plentifully in this countrey in low medowes and moyst valeys whereas water standeth in the winter †The Tyme Wall Pennywurte floureth in May Iune but Pennywurte of the water floureth in Iuly †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine Cotyledon and Vmbilicus veneris and Acetabulum And of Plinie Herba Coxendicum Iacobus de Manlijs in Luminari maiori calleth it Scatum Coeli Scatum cellus in Italian Ombilico di venere Cupertioule in Spanish Scudetes Coucillos Capadella Ombligo de venus in English great Pennywurte and wall Pennywurte in French Nombril de venus in base Almaigne Nauelcruyt The second is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cymbalium Acetabulum alterum Vmbilieus veneris alter in base Almaigne Dat ander or dat tweede Nauelcruyt in English the second Pennywurte and Mountayne Pennywurte Pennywurte of the water is called in the shops of this countrey Vmbilicus Veneris Scatū coeli although it is not the right kinde as is beforesayd that base Almaignes do call it Penninckcruyt in English Sheepe killing Pennygrasse †The Nature The wall Pennywurte which is the right kinde is cold moyst the Pennywurte of the water is not without heate as may be perceiued by the taste †The Vertues The iuyce of Pennywurte of the wall is a singular remedy against all inflāmation and hoate tumors S. Anthonies fire kybed heeles to be annoynted therewithall and being applied to the stomacke it refressheth the same The leaues and roote eaten do breake the stone prouoke vrine are good against the Dropsie The second kinde is of vertue like to the great Syngreene or Houselike The vertue of the water Pennywurte or Pēny grasse is not yet knowen albeit the ignorant Apothecaries do dayly vse it in steed of that right Cotyledon wherein they do naught and commit manifest errour for the right Cotyledon is the great Pennywurte called of some Pennywurte of the wall bycause it groweth euer in old walles stonie places But this groweth in low groūds and Marisshes and is a hurtefull herbe vnto Sheepe Of Orpyne Chap. xxvi †The Description ORpyne hath a roūd grosse brittell stem set full of thicke leaues grosse full of sappe somwhat dented about the edges At the top of that stalke groweth many fayre purple floures of fasihion like the floures of S. Iohns wurte called in Greeke Hypericum The roote is white and very knobby or knottie There is a kinde of this herbe whose floures are white and also a thirde kinde whose floures are yellow the residue is agreable to the first †The Place Orpyne proueth wel in moyst shadowy places The people of the countrey delight much to set it in pots shelles on Midsomer Euē or vpō timber slattes or trēchers dawbed with Clay so to set or hang it vp in their houses where as it remayneth greene a long season and groweth if it be somtimes ouer sprinckled with water †The Tyme It floureth most commonly in August Crassula maior †The Names They do now call this herbe Crassula maior some call it Fabaria Faba crassa in English Orpyne Liblong or Liue lōg in French Orpin Chicotrin in high Douch Mundkraut Knabenkraut Fotzlwang and Fortzwein in base Almaigne Mondencruyt and Smeerwortele Eufrasia †The Degree or Nature Orpyne cooleth in the thirde degree †The Vertues Orpyne in operation vertue is like to Houselike or Syngreene Of Eyebright Chap. xxvij †The Description EYebright is a proper small low herbe not aboue a span long ful of branches couered with little blackish leaues dēted or snipt roūd about like a saw the floures be small and white sprincled poudered within with yellow and purple speckes The roote is littell small and hearie There is yet an other herbe whiche some do call Eyebright although it be not the right Eyebright it groweth to the heygth of a foote or more The stalkes be round parted into many collaterall or side braunches vpon whiche are littell small leaues long and narrow most commonly
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
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
kinde of S. Iohns worte in his leaues and stemmes differeth not much frō Hypericum sauing that it is greater The stalke is long without branches or springs the leaues are like the other S. Iohns Grasse but longer browner and greener for the most parte vnderneth it is ouerlayde and couered with fine softe heare sweete in taste and do not shew thorow holed or pricked as the other The floures are like to Hypericum but paler and with longer leaues The buddes before the opening of the floures are spotted with small blacke speckes The seede is in huskes like the seede of Hypericum and smelleth likewise almost like Rosin There is yet an other kinde of this herbe the which the base Almaignes do call Conraet very like to the aforesaide sauing that his leaues be greater whiter not so hearie or softe but better like S. Iohns worte although they appeere not thorow prickt or holed The floures are like to the aforesaid ar also specked in the knappes and buddes with small blacke spottes The roote is woodishe like the other Rata syluestris c. Great S. Iohns worte Ascyrum S. Peters worte †The Place These herbes grow in rough vntilled places in hedges and Copses †The Tyme They floure in Iuly and August †The Names The first is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is wild Rue yet this is none of the kindes of the grieuous sauored or stinking Rue it is also called of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Androsaemum The second is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Ascyrum both are vnknowen in Shoppes in English Square S. Iohns grasse great S. Iohns worte most cōmonly S. Peters worte in high Douch Harthew Waldt Hoff The secōd is called of some Kunratz in base Almaigne Herthoy Coenraet †The Nature They are hoate and dry and lyke to Hypericum ⧠The Vertues The seede of S. Peters worte or square S. Iohns grasse dronken the weight of two Drammes with Honied water and vsed a long space cureth the Sciatica that is the payne in the hanches The same pounde is good to be layde vpon burnings The wine wherein the leaues therof haue ben boyled hath power to cōfolidate close vp woundes if they be oftentimes wasshed with the sayde wine Of Tutsan or Parke leanes Chap. xlv †The Description ANdrosemon is like to Saint Iohns worte S. Peters grasse It hath many rounde stalkes comming out of one roote the whiche do bring forth leaues muche larger than the leaues of S. Iohns wurte in the beginning greene but after that the seede is ripe they waxe redde than being brused betwixt ones fingers they yeeld a redde sappe or iuyce At the toppe of the stalkes groweth smal knoppes or round buttons the whiche in their opening do bring forth floures like to S. Iohns grasse but greater whan they are fallen or perisshed there appeareth littell small pellots or round balles very red at the beginning but afterward of a browne and very darke redde colour whan they be ripe like to the colour of clotted or congeled drie bloud in whiche knops or bearies is conteyned the seede which is small and browne the roote is harde and of wooddie substance yearely sending forth new springs Androsaemon †The Place This herbe groweth not in this countrey except in gardens where as it is sowen and plāted The Authors of Stirp Aduers noua do affirme that Androsemon groweth by Bristow in England in S. Vincentes Rockes and woody Cleues beyond the water But if Androsemon be Tursan or Parke leaues it groweth plentifully in woodes and parkes in the west partes of England †The Tyme It floureth in Iuly and the seede is ripe in August †The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Androsaemum vnknowen to the Apothecaries It hath none other common name that I know yet some do also call it Androsae mum fruticans Tutsan so called in French and in English is thought of some late writers to be Clymenon and is called of thē Clymenon Italorum siue Siciliana of our Apothecaries Agnus castus †The Nature It is hoate and dry like S. Iohns grasse or S. Peters wurte †The Vertues Androsemon his vertues are lyke to S. Peters wurte S. Iohns grasse as Galen saith Tutsan is much vsed in Baulmes Drenches and other remedies for woundes Of Woad or Pastel Chap. xlvi ⧠The Kindes THere be two sortes of Woad the one is of the garden and cōmeth of seede and is vsed to colour and die cloth into blew The other is wilde Woad and commeth vp of his owne kinde Isatis satiua Garden Woad Isatis syluestris Wilde Woad †The Description GArden Woad hath long broade swartegreene leaues spread vpon the ground almost lyke the leaues of Plantayne but thicker and blacker the stalke riseth vp from the middest of the leaues of two cubites long set full of smaller and sharper leaues the whiche at the toppe diuideth and parteth it self into many small branches vpon the whiche groweth many littell floures very small and yellow and after them long broade buskes like littell tunges greene at the first and afterward blackishe in whiche the seede is conteyned The roote is white single and straight and without any great store of threeds or strings The wilde is very like to the garden Woad in leaues stalke and making sauing that the stalke is tenderer smaller and browner and the huskes more narrow otherwise there is no difference betwixt them †The Place Garden Woad is sowen in diuers places of Flanders Almaigne in fertill good grounds The wilde groweth of his owne kinde in vntilled places ⧠The Tyme Both do floure in May and Iune †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine also Isatis and Glastum of the late writers Guadum and of some Luteum herba in English Woad or Pastel in French Guesde or Pastel in Spanish also Pastel in Italian Guado in high Douche Weibt and Waydt in base Almaigne Weebt †The Nature Garden Woad is dry without any sharpnesse The wilde dryeth more and is more sharpe and byting †The Vertues Garden or sowen Woad brused is good to be layde vpon the woundes of mightie strong people whiche are vsed to dayly labour and exercise and vpon places to stop the running out of bloud vpon fretting vlcers rotten sores It scattereth and dissolueth all colde empostumes being layde therevpon The wilde Woad resisteth moyst and flowing vlcers and consuming rotten sores being layde therevpon but against the other grieffes for which the garden Woad serueth it is of lesse strength and serueth to small purpose bycause of his exceeding sharpnesse The Decoction of wilde Woad dronken is very good for such as haue any stopping or hardnesse in the Milte or Splene Of Dyers weede Chap. xlvij †The Description THe leaues of this herbe are long narrow blackish not much vnlike the leaues
meates †The Tyme This herbe floureth in Iune †The Names This herbe is now called in Latine Cunila and Satureia in Shoppes Saturegia in Italian Coniella Sauoregia in Spanish Segurella in English somer Sauorie and common garden Sauorie in French Sarriette Sauorie in Douch garten Hyssop zwibel Hysop Kunel Saturey Sadaney in base Almaigne Cuele Satureye Lochtekol †The Nature Sommer or garden Sauorie is hoate and dry in the thirde degree †The Vertues This Sauorie as Dioscorides saith is in operation like vnto Time and is very good and necessarie to be vsed in meates Of Tyme Chap. lxij †The Kindes THere be two kindes of Tyme the one called Thymum Creticum that is to say Tyme of Candie the other is our common vsuall Tyme Thymum Creticum Tyme of Candie Thymum durius Our common Tyme ⧠The Description TYme of Candie hath many smal wooddy stalkes set round about with smal narrow leaues at the top of the stalkes groweth certayne knoppie tuftes like vnto small short eares thrust togither not much vnlike the flourie spike or knops of Staecados but much smaller and bringing forth purple floures The roote is brittle and of wooddie substance The common time also hath many small weake and wooddie brāches The leaues be small of sharpe and byting taste The floures growe at the top of the stalkes of incarnate colour The roote is small and wooddishe †The Place The first kinde of Tyme groweth in hoate countries in dry barren soyle and stony mountaynes and such like vntilled places And it is found very plentifull in the countrie of Greece but principally in Candie The second groweth also in hoate countries vpō the stonie mountaynes in leane barren ground and such like places as in many places of Spayne and Italie and throughout all Lanquedoc whereas it groweth very plentifully †The Tyme It floureth in May and Iune †The Names Tyme is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say in Latine Thymus in Italian Thymo in Spanish Tomillo The first kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Thymū capitatum of the later writers Thymum Creticum that is to say Tyme of Candie The second is called also in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Dioscorides Thymum durius the which is seldome foūd in season without his Epithymus it is called in English Tyme the common garden Tyme in French Thym in Douch Thymus †The Nature Tyme is hoate and dry in the thirde degree †The Vertues Tyme boyled in water hony and dronken is good against a hard painefull cough and shortnesse of breath it prouoketh vrine expulseth the Secondine and the dead fruite from the Matrix it bringeth to women their naturall termes and dissolueth clotted or congeled bloud in the bodie The same made into pouder and taken in waight of three drammes with honied Vineger whiche they call Oximel and a little Salte purgeth by stole tough and clammy flegme and sharpe and cholerique humors and all corruption of bloud The same taken in like sorte is good against the Sciatica the payne in the side the breast also it is good against blastings and windinesse of the side and bellie and of the stones or genitors and it is profitable for those that are fearefull melancholique and troubled in sprite or minde Tyme eaten in the morning fasting and in the euening before Supper is good for bleared and watering eyes the paine in the same And it is also good for the same purpose to be often vsed in meates It is also singuler against the Goute taken in wine out of the time of the greefe with a dramme of Oximel whan one is tormented with the same Tyme mingled with honie after the māner of a Lohoc to be often licked in clenseth the breast ripeth flegme causing it easily to be spet or cast out Tyme stamped with Vineger consumeth and wasteth colde swellings and taketh away Wartes being layde therevpon The same pound with Barlie meale wine appeaseth that payne of the hanch or hippe which some call the Sciatica Goute being applied therevnto Time is also good to be giuen to them that haue the falling sicknesse to smell vpon Of Thymbra / or winter Sauorie Chap. lxiij †The Description WInter Sauorie hath many slender wooddie stalkes set full of smal narrow leaues The floures be small incarnate or white growing in littell huskes alōgst the stalkes betwixte the leaues floureth by little littell from the lowest parte of the stalke euen vp to the toppe of the branches leauing after the floures be fallen away as it were a greene spikie eare or tufte cōteyning the seede whiche is very small The roote is of wooddy substance †The Place This herbe groweth in certaine places of Fraunce especially in Languedor other hoate countreys in vntilled places It is found in this countrey in the gardens of suche as haue pleasure in herbes ⧠The Tyme It floureth in this countrey in Iuly August and somtimes later Thymbra †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Thymbra Cunila in English Tymbra Winter Sauorie also Pepper Hyssope in French Thymbre and Sarrietted Angliterre of some Douch Herborists Tenderick This is not Satureia for Satureia is an herbe differing from Thymbra as Columella and Plinie haue very well taught vs. †The Nature Tymbra is hoate and dry like Tyme †The Vertues Winter Sauorie is good and profitable to be vsed in meates like Tyme Sauorie and common Hyssope It hath power and vertue like Tyme being taken in the like sorte as Dioscorides sayth Of wilde Tyme Chap. lxiiij †The Description THe running Tyme hath diuers smal wooddie brāches somtimes trayling alongst the ground somtimes growing vpright of a foote half long set full of smal leaues much like to the leaues of common garden Time but much larger The floures grow about the toppe of the stalkes like to crownes or garlands after the maner of Horehound floures or knops most commonly of a purplered colour somtimes but very seldom as white as snow The roote is harde and of wooddie substance with many threeddie strings †The Place This herbe groweth plentifully in all this coūtrie in places that are rude rough dry vntilled and stonie by the high way sides and in the borders of fieldes †The Tyme Running Tyme floureth from after May vntill the end of Sommer †The Names This herbe is now called in Shoppes Serpillum and in some places Pulegium montanum in Italian Serpillo in Spanish Sepollo Serpam in English wilde Tyme Puliall mountayne Pellamountayne running Time in Frēch Serpolet in high douch Quendel and of some also Kumel Kieulin in base Almaigne Quendel in Brabant Onser vrouwen bedstroo in some places wilden Thymus Many iudge it to be that whiche the Greekes do call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Serpyllum hortense howbeit it
the cause that the Brabanders call it Origano as the Spaniards do call it Oreganos The second is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origanum onitis which is yet vnknowē in this countrie The thirde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Origanum syluestre that is to say wilde Origan in Spanish Oregano campestre The first is commōly taken in the Shoppes of this countrie for Origanum is called in English wilde Origan and Bastarde Marierom in French Origan sauuage and Mariolaine bastarde in high Douch Dosten Wolgemut in base Almaigne groue Marioleyne The second may be called wilde Origan with the white floures The thirde is called English Marierom in French Mariolaine d'Angleterre ▪ and in base Almaigne Engelsche Marioleyne and it is taken in some shoppes and of some Herborists for Marum †The Nature All the kindes of Origan are hoate and dry in the third degree the one being stronger than the other †The Vertues Origan boyled in wine and dronken is good against the bytings of venemous beasts or the stinginges of Scorpions and fielde spyders And boyled in wine as is aforesayde it is good for thē that haue taken excessiuely of the iuyce of Homblocke or Poppie whiche men call Opium The same dronken with water is of great vertue against the paynes of the stomacke and the stitches or griping torments aboute the harte and causeth light digestion and taken with Hydromel or honied water it loseth the bellie gentilly and purgeth by stole aduste and Melancholique humors and prouoketh the fluxe menstruall The same eaten with figges profiteth them much that haue the Hydropsie and against the shrinking and drawing togither of members It is profitably giuen to be licked vpon with Hony against the Cough the Pleurisie and the stopping of the Lunges The iuyce of Origan is of great force against the swelling of the Almondes or kernels of the throte and cureth the vlcers of the mouth The same iuyce drawen or snift vp into the Nose purgeth the brayne and taketh away from the eyes the yellow colour remayning after that one hath had the Iaunders It appeaseth the paynes of the eares being dropped in with Milke It is good against all kinde of scuruinesse roughnesse of the skinne manginesse and against the Iaunders if one bathe in the Decoction thereof made in water or if the body onely be wasshed withthe same The same herbe being mengled with vineger and Oyle is good to be layde on with wool vpō squats or bruses and blacke and blewe markes to partes displaced or out of ioynt The wilde Origan with the white floure is of singuler vertue against all the abouesayde maladies or disseases as Galen saith Of Tragorigan / or Goates Origan Chap. lxx †The Kyndes THere be two sortes of Tragoriganum as Dioscorides hath left in writing †The Description THE first kinde is very much like Organū sauing that his stalkes leaues be tēderer The seconde kinde hath many browne woddish stēmes the leaues be meetely large of a swart greene colour larger than the leaues of Pellamountayne or running time and somwhat rough ouer couered Tragoriganum alterum as it were with a certayne fine and softe hearie The small floures are purple and grow like Crownes or whorles at the toppe of the stemmes †The Place These herbes are not common in this countrie but are onely founde in the gardens of certayne diligent Herborists ⧠The Tyme Tragoriganum floureth here in August †The Names This kinde of Origan is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Tragoriganum we may also call it in English Tragoriganum or Goates Origan The second kinde is called also Prasium of some of this coūtrie it hath ben deemed or taken for Tyme †The Nature The Tragoriganum is hoate and dry like Origan also it hath a certayne astringent vertue †The Vertues The decoction of Tragoriganum dronken maketh a good loose bellie and auoydeth the Cholerique humors and taken with vineger it is good for the Melte or Splene Tragoriganum is very good against the wambling of the stomacke and the sowre belkes whiche come from the same and against the paine or desire to vomit at the Sea Tragoriganum mengled with Hony and oftentimes licked vpon helpeth against the Cough and shortnesse of breath It prouoketh vrine bringeth to wemen their monethly termes the same layde on with the meale of Polenta hath power to dissolue colde tumors or swellings Of Basill Chap. lxxi †The Kyndes THere be two sortes of Basill the one of the Garden the other is wilde Wherof the garden Basill also is of two sortes one great the other small ⧠The Description THE Basill Royall or great Basill hath round stalkes full of braunches with leaues of a faynt or yellowishe greene colour almost like to the leaues of Mercury The floures are rounde about the stalkes sometimes purple and sometimes as white as snow Whan they are gone there is founde a small blacke seede The roote is long with many stringes or threedes The second kinde is not much vnlike to the abouesayd The stalkes be roūd with many littell collaterall or side branches The leaues be snipte or iagged round aboute a great deale smaller than the leaues of Basill Royall or great Basill The floures are very much like to the others These two kindes are of a maruelous sweete sauour in strength passing the smell of Marierom so as in deede their sent is so strong that they cause Headache whan they are to much or to long smelde vpon The wilde Basill hath square hearie stēmes beset with small leaues much lyke to the leaues of Bushe or small Basill but a great deale smaller hearie The floures are purple or of a skie colour very like the floures of garden Basill The roote is full of hearie threedes and creepeth alongst the grounde and springeth vp yearely a new the whiche the other two garden Basils doth not but must be newe sowen yearely Ocimum maius Great Basill gentle Ocimum minus Busshe Basill or small Basill gentle †The Place Basill gentill is sowen in gardens The wilde Basill groweth in sandie groundes alongst by the water side †The Tyme These herbes do floure in Iune and Iuly †The Names The garden Basill is called of the Auncients in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ocimum and of some Basilicum that is to say Royall it is now called Ocimum gariophyllatum in English Basill Royall Basill gentle or garden Basill and the smaller kinde is called bushse Basill in French Basilicq or Basilic in high Douch Basilgen Basilgram in base Almaigne the great is called Groue Basilicom and the small Edel Basilicom The wilde Basill is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Acinus in French Basilic saunage in high Douch wilde Basilgen in base Almaigne wilde Basilicom †The Nature Garden Basill is of complexion hoate and moyst The wilde Basill is hoate and
dry in the second degree ⧠The Vertues The auncient Phisitions are of contrary iudgements about the vertues of Basill Galen saith that for his superfluous moysture it is not good to be taken into the body Dioscorides saith that the same eaten is hurtfull to the sight and ingendreth windinesse and doth not lightly digest Plinie writeth that the same eaten is very good and conuenient for the stomacke that if it be dronken with Vineger it dryueth away ventosities or windinesse stayeth the appetite or desire to vomit prouoketh vrine besides this he saith it is good for the hydropsie and for them that haue the Iaunders The later writers say that it doth fortefie strengthen the harte the brayne and that it reioyceth and recreateth the spirites is good agaynst Melancholie and sadnesse that if it be taken in wine it cureth an olde cough The same after the minde of Galen is good to be layde too outwardly for it doth digest and ripe Wherefore as Dioscorides saith the same layde too with Barley meale oyle of Roses and Vineger is good for hoate swellings Basill pounde or stamped with wine appeaseth the payne of the eyes And the iuyce of the same doth clense mundifie the same and putteth away all obscuritie dimnesse drieth vp the Catarrhes or flowing humors that fall into the eyes being distilled or often dropped into the same Acinos The herbe brused with vineger holden to the nose of suche as are faynt fallē into a sound bringeth them againe to thēselues And the seede therof giuē to be smelled vpō causeth the sternutation or niesing The wilde Basil howsoeuer it be takē stoppeth the laske the inordinate course of the Moneths Of Vaccaria / or Cow Basill Chap. lxxij †The Description THat herbe which men do now cal Vaccaria hath roūd stalks full of ioyntes branches the branches haue vpon euery knot or ioynt two leaues somwhat broad not much vnlike to the leaues of Basill At the top of the brāches are smal red floures after the whiche there cōmeth round huskes almost like that huskes of Henebane in whiche is conteined the seede which is blacke like to the seede of Nigella Forte Ocimoides †The Place This herbe is found in certaine fruitefull fieldes or pastures alongst by the riuer of Mense In this countrey the Herboristes do plante it in their gardens †The Tyme It floureth from after Midsomer vntill September †The Names The Herboristes do call this herbe Vaccaria and it seemeth to be the herbe whiche is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ocimastrum and after the opinion of some as witnesseth Galen Philitaerium whiche is a kinde of Echium in Nicander it is called of Valerius Cordus Tamecnemum we may call it fielde Basill or Cowe Basill †The Nature The seede of Ocimastrum is hoate and dry ⧠The Vertues The seede of Ocimastrum is good for such as are bitten of Serpentes Vipers and such other venemous beasts if it be dronken with wine Of Oke of Hierusalem Chap. lxxiij †The Description THis herbe at the first hath small leaues deepely cut in or iagged aboute and somewhat rough or hearie vnderneath the leafe is of a red purple colour afterward it putteth forth a straight or vpright stem of a foote long or more with diuers braunches on the sides so that it sheweth like a little tree The leaues that groweth thereon are long and deepely cut hearie and wrinckled fat or thicke in handling in proportion like to the first leaues sauing they be longer and nothing at all redde or purple vnderneath The seede groweth clustering about the branches like to the yong clusters or blowings of the grape or vine The roote is tender and hath hearie or threddie strings The whole herbe is of an amiable and pleasant smell and of a faynte yellow colour and whan the seede is ripe the plante dryeth and waxeth all yellow and of a more stronger sauour †The Place This herbe groweth in many places of Fraunce by the waters or ryuer sides but it groweth not of him selfe in this countrey but whereas it hath ben sowen once it springeth vp lightly euery yeare after Botrys †The Tyme It beareth his clustering seede in August but it is beste gathering of it in September †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Botrys of some in Cappadocia as Dioscorides writeth Ambrosia vnknowen in Shoppes it is called in English Oke of Hierusalem and of some Oke of Paradise in French Pyment and Pyment Royall in high Douch Traubekraut and after the same in base Almaigne it is called Druyuencruyt that is to say Vine Blossom herbe †The Nature The Oke of Paradise is hoate and dry in the seconde degree and of subtill partes †The Vertues Oke of Paradise boyled in wine is good to be drōken of them whose breast is stopped and are troubled with the shortnesse of winde or breath and cannot fetche their breath easily for it cutteth and wasteth grosse humors and tough flegme that is gathered togither about the Lunges and in the breast It prouoketh vrine and bringeth downe the termes if it be taken as is aboue sayde The same dryed is also right good to be vsed in meates as Hysope Tyme and other like hearbes yeelding vnto meates a very good taste and sauour Oke of Hierusalem dryed and layde in presses and Warderobes giueth a pleasant smell vnto clothes and preserueth them from mothes and vermin Of the kyndes of Mynte Chap. lxxiiij †The Kindes THe Mynte is diuers aswell in proportion as in his manner of growing whereof some be garden Myntes and some be wilde Myntes The garden Myntes are of foure sortes that is to say Curlde Mynte Crispe Mynte Spere Mynte and Harte Mynte The wilde Mynte is of two sortes that is the Horse Mynte and the Water Mynte ⧠The Description THE firste kinde of garden Myntes hath fouresquare browne redde and hearie stemmes with leaues almost rounde snipte or dented rounde about of a darke greene colour and of fauour very good and pleasant The floures are Crymsin or reddishe and do grow in knops about the stalke lyke whorles or like the floures of Pennyroyall The roote hath threddie stringes and creepeth alongst the ground putteth foorth yong shootes or springs yearely The second kind is very like vnto the first in his round swarte and sweete sauouring leaues also in his square stemmes and the creeping rootes in the grounde but his floures growe not in knoppes or whorles rounde aboute the stemmes but at the toppe of the stalkes lyke to a small spike or busshie eare The thirde kinde hath long narrow leaues almost like wythie leaues but they be greater whiter softer and hearie The floures grow at the top of the stalkes like spikie eares as in the second kinde The roote is tender with threddishe strings and springeth foorth in diuers places like to the others The fourth kinde
is like to the abouesayde in his leaues stalkes and roote but that his floures are not fasshioned like spykie eares growing at the toppes of the stalkes but they compasse grow round about the stalkes like whorles or garlandes like to the Curled or Crispe Mynte Menta satiua prima Curlde Mynte Menta satiua secunda Crispe Mynte or Crispe Balme Menta satiua tertia Spere Mynte or right garden Mynte The second wilde kinde whiche is the sixth in number of the Myntes and called water Mynte is much like vnto the Curlde Mynte in his stalkes leaues and creeping rootes sauing that his leaues stalkes be greater of stronger sauour The floures be purple growing at the top of the stalkes in small tuftes or knoppes like round bullets †The Place The garden Myntes are founde in this countrie in gardens especially the Curlde Mynte the which is most common and best knowen The wilde kindes do growe in lowe moyst places as neare vnto springs and on the brinkes of ditches ⧠The Tyme All the sortes of Myntes do floure most commonly in August †The Names The garden Mynte is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine and in Shoppes Mentha in Spanish Yerua Ortelana yerua buena in English Myntes in French Mente in high Douch Munte The first kind is called in high Douch Deyment and Kraunszdyment that is to say Curlde Mynte in French Mente crespue in base Almaigne Bruyn heylighe The second is also called of the high Douchmen Krausmuntz and Krauszbalsam that is to say in French Baulme crespu in English Crispe Baulme or Crispe Mynte also Crosse Mynte in base Almaigne Cruysmunte and of some also Heylighe The third kinde is called at this time in the Shoppes of this countrey Menta Sarracenica Menta Romana in English Spere Mynte or the cōmon garden Mynte also of some Baulme Mynte in French du Baulme and Mente Romayne in high Douch Balsam Muntz vnser frauwen Muntz Spitz muntz Spitzbalsam in base Almaigne Roomsche munte and Balsem munte Menta satiua quarta Harte Mynte Mentastrum Horse Mynte Sisymbrium Water Mynte The fourth kinde is called in high Douch Hertzkraut that is to say Harte wurte or Harte Mynte in French Herbe de cueur of the later wryters in Latine Menta Romana angustifolia Flore coronata siue Cardiaca Mentha The fifth wilde kinde which is the fifth kinde of Mynte is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Mentastrum and of the newe writers Menta aquatica in English Horse Mynte in French Mente Cheualine ou sauuage in high Douche Katzenbalsam Roszmuntz wilder Balsam wild Muntz in base Almaigne Witte water Munte The seconde wilde kynde whiche is the sixthe Mynte is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Sisymbrium and of Damegeron Scimbron as Constantine the Emperour witnesseth in English Fisshe Mynte Brooke Mynte Water Mynte and white water Mynte in French Mente Aquatique in high Douch Fischmuntz Wassermuntz in base Almaigne Roo munte and Roo water munte †The Nature All the kindes of Myntes whiles they are greene are hoate and dry in the second degree but dried they are hoate in the thirde degree especially the wild kindes whiche are hoater then the garden Myntes †The Vertues Garden Mynte taken in meate or drinke is very good and profitable for the stomacke for it warmeth and strengtheneth the same and drieth vp all superfluous humors gathered in the same it appeaseth and cureth all the paynes of the stomacke and causeth good digestion Two or three branches of Myntes dronken with the iuyce of soure Pomegranets do swage and appease the Hicquet or yeoxe and vomiting and it cureth the cholerique Passion otherwise called the felonie that is whan one doth vomit continually and hath a laske withall The iuyce of Myntes drōken with vineger stayeth the vomiting of bloud and killeth the rounde wormes The same boyled in water and drōken by the space of three dayes togither cureth the gryping payne and knawing in the belly with the colique and stoppeth the inordinate course of the menstruall issue Mynte boyled in wine and dronken easeth women which are tomuch grieued with harde and perillous trauell in childebaring Mynte mengled with parched Barley meale and layde vnto tumors and sweuings doth wast and consume them Also the same layde to the forehead cureth headache It is very good to be applied vnto the breastes that are stretched foorth and swollen and full of milke for it slaketh and softeneth the same and keepeth the mylke from quarring and crudding in the brest The same being very well pounde with Salte is a speciall medicine to be applied vpon the biting of madde Dogges The iuyce of Mynte mengled with honied water cureth the payne of the eares being dropped therein and taketh away the asperitie and roughnesse of the tongue whan it is rubbed or wasshed therewith The sauour or sent of Mynte reioyceth man wherefore they sow strow the wilde Mynte in this countrie in places whereas feastes are kepte and in Churches The Horse Mynte called Mentastrum hath not bene vsed of the Auncients in medicine The water Mynte is diuers wayes of the lyke operation vnto the garden Mynte it cureth the trenches or gryping payne in the small of the bellie or bowels it stayeth the yeoxe or hicket and vomyting and appeaseth headache to be vsed for the same purpose as the garden Mynte It is also singuler against the grauell and stone of the kydneys and against the strangury whiche is whan one cannot pisse but droppe after droppe to be boyled in wine and dronke They lay is with good successe vnto the stingings of Bees and Waspes Of Calamynt Chap. Ixxv. †The Kyndes THere be three sortes of Calamynt described of the Auncient Gretians each of them hauing a seuerall name and difference Calaminthae alterum genus Corne Mynte or wilde Pennyryall Calaminthae tertium genus Catmynte †The Description THE first kinde whiche may be called Mountayne Calamynte hath harde square stalkes couered with a certayne hoare or fine Cotton The leaues be somwhat like the leaues of Basill but they are rougher The floures grow onely by one side of the stalke amongst the leaues somtimes three or foure vpon a stem of a blewishe colour the roote is threddy This herbe altogither is not much vnlike the secōd kinde of Calamynte sauing it is greater the stalkes be harder and the leaues be rougher and blacker and it creepeth not alongst the grounde but groweth vp from the yearth The second kinde which is called wild Pennyryall hath also square stalkes couered with softe Cotton almost creeping by the ground hauing euer two and two leaues standing one against an other small and softe not much vnlike the leaues of Penny royall sauing they are larger whiter The floures grow about the stalkes in knoppes like to whorles or garlandes of a blewishe purple colour The roote is small and threddie The thirde kinde whiche is called
in vertues and operations may be alwayes vsed in steede of the great Balsaminte Of Sage Chap. lxxvij †The Kyndes THere be two sortes of Sage the one is small franke the other is great The great Sage is of three sortes that is to say greene white and redde †The Description THE franke Sage hath sundry wooddie branches and leaues growing vpon long stemmes whiche leaues be long narrow vneuen hoare or of a grayishe white colour by the sides of the sayde leaues at the lower ende there groweth two other small leaues like vnto a payre of little eares The floures growe alongst the stalkes in proportion like the floures of Dead Nettell but smaller and of colour blewe The seede is blackishe and the roote wooddie The great Sage is not much vnlike the small or franke Sage sauing it is larger the stalkes are square and browne The leaues be rough vneuen and whitishe like to the leaues of franke Sage but a greate deale larger rougher and without eares The floures seede and roote are like vnto the other Saluia minor Franke Sage or small Sage Saluia maior Great Sage or broade Sage There is found an other kind of this great Sage the which beareth leaues as white as snow sometimes all white and sometimes partie white and this kinde is called white Sage Yet there is founde a thirde kinde of great Sage called redde Sage the stemmes whereof with the synewes of the leaues and the small late sprong vp leaues are all redde but in all things else it is like to the great Sage †The Place Sage as Dioscorides saith groweth in rough stonie places both kindes of Sage are planted almost in all the gardens of this countrie ⧠The Tyme Sage floureth in Iune and Iuly †The Names The Sage is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine and in Shoppes Saluia of some Corsaluium in Spanish Salua in English Sage in French Sange in high Douch Salbey in base Almaigne Sauie The first kinde is now called in Latine Saluia minor Saluia nobilis and of some Saluia vsualis in English Smal Sage Sage royall and common Sage in French Sauge franche in high Douch Spitz Salbey klein Salbey edel Salbey Creutz Salbey in base Almaigne Cruys sauie and Dorkens sauie The second kinde is called in Latine Saluia maior and of some Saluia agrestis in English great Sage or broade Sage in French grande Sauge in high Douch Grosz salbey Breat salbey in base Almaigne groue groote Sauie †The Nature Sage is hoate and dry in the thirde degree and somewhat astringent †The Vertues Sage boyled in wine dronken prouoketh vrine breaketh the stone comforteth the harte and swageth head ache It is good for wemē with childe to eate of this herbe for as Aëtius saith it closeth the Matrice causeth the fruite to liue and strengtheneth the same Sage causeth wemen to be fertill wherefore in times past the people of Egypt after a great mortalitie and pestilence constreyned their wemen to drinke the iuyce thereof to cause them the sooner to conceyue and to bring foorth store of children The iuyce of Sage dronken with hony in the quantitie of two glasse fulles as saith Orpheus is very good for those whiche spitte and vomit bloud for it stoppeth the fluxe of bloud incontinent Likewise Sage brused and layde too stoppeth the bloud of woundes The decoction thereof boyled in water and dronken cureth the cough openeth the stoppings of the Liuer and swageth the payne in the side and boyled with wormewood it stoppeth the blouddy flixe Sage is good to be layde to the woundes and bitings of venimous beasts for it doth both clense and heale them The wine wherein Sage hath boyled helpeth the manginesse and itche of the priuie members if they be wasshed in the same Wild Sage Chap. lxxviij †The Description WOode Sage is somewhat like garden Sage in fasshion sauour it hath square browne stalkes set with a certaine kind of small heare the leaues are not much vnlike the leaues of great Sage but somewhat broader shorter and softer The floures are not much vnlike to the floures of Sage growing onely vpon one side alongst the branches euen vp to the very top of the same branches or stemmes of a whitisihe colour whan they are paste there commeth a rounde blackish seede The roote is threddie sendeth foorth new springs or branches euery yeare †The Place This kinde of Sage groweth in this countrey alōgst the hedges in woodes and the bankes or borders of fieldes †The Tyme It floureth in Iune and Iuly Saluia agrestis †The Names This herbe is now called in Shops Saluia agrestis and Ambrosiana in high Douche wilde Salbey in base Almaigne wilde Sauie There are some that thinke it to be the seconde kynde of Scordium whiche Plinie describeth bycause that whan it is brused it sauoreth of Garlike and this is the cause why Cordus calleth it Scorodonia It is called in English woodde Sage wild Sage and Ambros in French Sauge de Boys †The Nature The woode Sage is hoate and dry meetely agreable in complexion vnto garden Sage †The Vertues Woode Sage dissolueth congeled bloud in the body and cureth inwarde woundes moreouer it wōderfully helpeth those that haue takē falles or haue bene sore brused and beaten if it be boyled in water or wine and dronken Woodde Sage taken in manner aforesayde doth consume and disgest inwarde impostems and tumers anoyding the matter and substance of thē with the vryne Of Clarey Chap. lxxix †The Description CLarye hath square stalkes with rough grayish hearie vneuen leaues almost like to the leaues of great sage but they are foure or fine times larger the floures be of a faynte or whitish colour greater than the floures of Sage Whan they are fallen of there groweth in huskes the seede which is blacke The roote is yellow of wooddie substance The whole herbe is of a strong and penetratiue sauour in somuch that the sauour of it causeth headache †The Place In this countrie they sow it in gardēs ⧠The Tyme Clary floureth in Iune Iuly a yeare after the first sowing thereof †The Names Clarie is now called in Latine and in Shoppes Gallitricum Matrisaluia Centrum galli and Scarlea oruala in English Clarye or Cleare-eye quasi dicas oculum clarificans in French oruale Toutebonne in high Douche Scharlach in base Almaigne Scarleye It seemeth to be a kind of Horminum but yet it is not Alectorolophos as some men thinke Gallitricum †The Nature Clarey is hoate and dry almost in the thirde degree ⧠The Vertues In what sorte or maner soeuer ye take Clarey it prouoketh the floures it expulseth the Secondine and stirreth vp bodely luste Also it maketh men dronke causeth headache therefore some Brewers do boyle it with their Bier in steede of Hoppes This herbe also hath al the vertues and properties of Horminum and
may be vsed in steede of it Of Horminum / wilde Clarey / or Oculus Christi Chap. lxxx †The Kindes THere be two sortes of Horminum as Dioscorides writeth the garden and wilde Horminum Horminum satiuum Dubble Clarey Horminum syluestre Oculus Christi †The Description THe garden Horminum hath leaues in a maner rounde and somewhat ouerlayde with a softe Cotton almost like Horehounde The stalkes be square and hearie of the heigth of a foote bearing all aboue at the top fiue or sixe fayre small leaues of a blewish purple colour the leaues stand at euery ioynte one against an other amongst the whiche there commeth forth little huskes that bring forth purplish blew floures The which whan the seede beginneth to waxe ripe they turne towardes the grounde and hang downewardes hauing in them blacke seede and somewhat long the whiche whan it is a little while soked or steeped in any licour it waxeth clammy or slimie almost like to the kernelles of Quinces The wilde Horminum beareth great broade leaues gasht or natched roūd aboute The stalkes also be square and somewhat hearie but yet they be longer and bigger than the stalkes of the garden Horminum The floures be of a deepe blew colour and do also grow by certayne spaces aboute the stemme like to whorles or Crownettes out of little huskes whiche do also turne downewardes whan the seede is ripe the seede is of a dunne or blackishe colour round also slymie whan it is steeped or sooked The roote is of wooddie substance and blacke These twoo herbes haue no speciall sauour especially the garden kinde for the floures of the wilde kinde do sauour somewhat like to Clarey †The Place These two kindes are founde in this countrie sowen in the gardens of Herboristes ⧠The Tyme They yeelde their floures in Iune Iuly and August in the whiche season their seede is also ripe †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Horminum and Geminalis The first is called Horminum satiuum and Hortense The seconde Horminum syluestre they may be both called wilde Clarie some call thē dubble Clarey and some Oculi Christi †The Nature Horminum is of complexion hoate and dry ⧠The Vertues The seede of Horminum mengled with Hony driueth away the dimnesse of the sight and clarifieth the eyes The same seede with water stamped and tempered togither draweth out thornes and splinters and resolueth or scattereth all sortes of swellings being layde or applied thereto The same vertue hath the greene herbe whan it is stamped or brused and layde vpon The same seede dronken with wine stirreth vp bodely luste especially the seede of the wilde kinde which is of greater efficacie than the seede of garden Horminum Of Horehounde Chap. lxxxi †The Kyndes THere be foure kindes of Horehounde in fasshion one like to another The whiche for all that in Latine haue their particular or seuerall names The first kinde is our white Horehounde the seconde is the blacke stinking Horehounde The third is Stachys or field Horehounde The fourth is water or Marrishe Horehounde †The Description THe white Horehounde hath many square white hoare or hearie stalkes the leaues be rounde crompled hearie ayshe coloured and of no lothesome sauour The floures be white and growing forth of small sharpe and prickley huskes compassing the stalkes like in fasshion to a ringe or garlande in whiche prickley huskes after that the floure is vanisshed there is founde a rough seede The roote is blacke with many threddie strings The blacke Horehounde is somewhat like vnto the white The stalkes be also square and hearie but yet they be blacke or swarte The leaues be larger and longer than the leaues of white Horehounde dented or snipte rounde aboute the edges almost lyke vnto Nettell leaues they are blacke and of a strong vnpleasant sauour The floures are purple lyke to the dead Nettell growing in whorling knoppes rounde aboute the stalkes like to white Horehounde Marrubium White Horehounde Ballote Blacke Horehounde Stachys or wilde Horehounde hath a round stemme or stalke full of ioyntes couered with a fine white woolly downe or cotton the leaues do euer grow by coupples two and two at euery ioynte and are white and woolly almost like the leaues of white Horehounde sauing they be longer and whiter The floures grow like Crownets or garlandes compassing the stalke of yellow colour and sometimes purple The roote is harde and of a wooddy substance All this herbe differeth nothing in smell or sauour from white Horehounde Bysides these there is yet an other herbe called sweete smelling Horehoūd or sweete wilde Sage the whiche beareth square stalkes thicke and woollie The leaues be whitish and soft and somewhat dented rounde about but much longer larger and broader than the leaues of the other Horehoundes The floures be reddish growing about the stalkes like to whorles or garlādes The seede is blacke and rounde The roote is yellowish The water Horehounde is much like to blacke Horehounde aswell in his stalkes and prickle huskes as in his leaues and floures The leaues be also of a swarte greene colour but larger and more deepely indented and not very hearie but somewhat crompled and wrinckled like to the leaues of the Birche tree whan they begin to spring The floures be white and smaller than the floures of the other Horehoundes †The Place The white Horehound and the blacke do grow with vs in all rough and vnmanured places by walles hedges wayes and aboute the borders of fieldes The third groweth on the playnes of Almaigne and else where it is not to be founde in this countrie but in the gardens of Herborists The water Horehounde is found very plenteously growing in this coūtrie by diches and watercourses and in lowe moyst places †The Tyme All these herbes do moste commonly floure in Iuly The sauery Horehounde or wilde Sage doth floure in August †The Names The firste kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Marrubium in Shops Prassium in Italian Marrabio in Spanish Marruuios in English Horehounde and white Horehounde in French Marrubin and Marochemin also Marrube blanc in high Douche weisz Andorn Marobel Gottszvergisz and Andorn mennlin in base Almaigne Malroue Malruenie Witte Andoren and Andoren Manneken Stachys Mountayne Horehounde The second is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Marrubium nigrum Marrubiastrum in Shoppes Prassium faetidum in Italian Marrobio nero Marrobio fendo in Spanishe Marroios negros in English blacke Horehounde and stinking Horehounde of some blacke Archangell in French Marrubin noir Marrubin puant in high Douch schwartz Andorn and Andorn weiblin in base Almaigne stinckende and swerte Malruenie and Andoren or Andoren wijfken The thirde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Stachys vnknowen in Shoppes it may be also called in English Stachys or wilde Horehounde in Frenche Saulge sanuage in high Douch rieckende Andorn fielde Andorn in base
The floures be yellow growing at the top of the branches after which there springeth vp square huskes conteyning the seede whiche is blacke The roote is of wooddie substance and yellow within This Rue lasteth both winter and sommer dieth not lightly The wilde Rue is much like to the other in his stalkes leaues floures seede colour taste and sauour sauing that euery little leafe his cuttes are a great deale narrower But there is yet an other kinde whiche is the least of all whose little leaues are very narrow and tender and of colour somewhat whiter than the reste Al this plante as the other wilde Rue is of a very grieuous sauour and cannot abide the colde but as the other wilde Rue so doth this perishe with the firste colde or smallest froste †The Place The tame Rue is planted in gardens and delighteth moste in dry groundes where as the Sonne shineth moste The wilde Rue groweth vpon the mountaynes of Cappadocia and Galatia in the lesser Asia in this couÌ„trie it is found sowen in the gardens of Herboristes †The Tyme They do all floure in this country in Iuly and August and the seede is ripe in September †The Names Rue is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ruta and of Apuleius Eriphion The garden Rue is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ruta hortensis in Shoppes Ruta in English Rue of the garden and Herbe grace in Italian Rutta in Spanish La arruda in high Douch Zam Rauten wein Rauten in base Almaigne Wijn ruyte The wilde Rue is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ruta syluestris and in some places as Apuleius sayth Viperalis in Shoppes Harmel in high Douche wald Rauten in base Almaigne wilde Ruyte †The Nature Rue is hoate and dry in the thirde degree But the wilde Rue especially that which groweth in mountaynes is a great deale stroÌ„ger then gardeÌ„ Rue †The Vertues The leaues of garden Rue boyled in water dronken causeth one to make water prouoketh the floures and stoppeth the laske The leaues of Rue eaten alone with meates or receyued with walnuttes and dryed figges stamped togither are good against all euil ayres and against the Pestilence and all poyson and against the bitings of vipers Serpentes The same pounde and eaten or dronken in wine helpeth them that are sicke with eating of venimous Tadstooles or Mousheroms The iuyce of Rue is good against the same mishappes and against the bytings and stingings of Scorpions Bees Waspes Hornettes and madde Dogges whan it is either dronken with wine or whan that the leaues be stamped with hony and salte and layde vnto the wounde The body that is annoynted with the iuyce of Rue or that shall eate of Rue fasting shal be as Plinie writeth assured against all poyson and safe from all venimous beastes so that no poyson or venimous beast shall haue powre to hurte him The same iuyce of Rue dronken with wine purgeth wemen after their deliuerance driueth forth the Secondine the dead childe the vnnatural birth Rue eaten in meate or otherwise vsed by a certayne space of Tyme quencheth and dryeth vp nature and naturall seede of man and the milke in the breastes of wemen that giue sucke Rue boyled with Dyll and dronken swageth the gnawing torment or griping payne of the belly called the trenches is good for the paynes in the side and breast the difficultie or hardnesse of breathing the cough the stopping of the lunges the Sciatica and against the riguor and violence of feuers Rue boyled in good wine vntill the halfe be sodden away is very good to be dronken of such as begin to fall into the Dropsie Rue eaten rawe or condited with Salte or otherwise vsed in meates cleareth the sight and quickeneth the same very much so doth also the iuyce therof layde to the eyes with hony the iuyce of fenill or by it selfe The leaues of Rue mengled with Barley meale asswageth the payne of the eyes being layde therevpon The iuyce of Rue warmed in the shell of a Pomgranete and dropped into the eares swageth the paynes of the same The same mengled with oyle of Roses or oyle of Bayes Hony is good against the singing or ringing sounde of the eares whan it is often dropped warme into them The leaues of Rue pounde with oyle of Roses and vineger are good to be layde to the paynes of the head The same pounde with Baye leaues and layde too is good to dissolue and cure the swelling and blastings of the genitors The leaues of Rue mingled with wine Pepper and Nitre do take away all spottes of the face and clenseth the skinne and mengled with Hony and Allom it cureth the foule scabbe or naughtie Tetter The same leaues pouÌ„d with Swines greace doth cure all ruggednes of the skinne and the scurffe or roome of the head the Kings euill or harde swellings about the throote being applied and layde thereto Rue mengled with Hony doth mitigate the paynes of the ioyntes with figges it taketh away the swelling of the Dropsie The iuyce of Rue with vineger giuen to smell vnto doth reuiue and quickeÌ„ such as haue the Lethargie or the sleeping and forgetfull sicknesse The roote of Rue made into pouder and mengled with hony scattereth dissolueth congeled and clotted bloud gathered betwixte the skinne and the flesh and correcteth all blacke and blew markes scarres spottes that chaunce in the bodie whan they are anoynted or rubbed therewith The oyle wherein Rue hath bene sodden or long infused stieped doth warme and chaafe all colde partes or members and being annoynted or spread vpon the region of the bladder it prouoketh vrine and is good for the stopping and swelling of the spleene or Melte and giuen in glister it dryueth forth windinesse blastings and the gryping payne in the bowels or guttes Some write also that the leaues of Rue pounde and layde to outwardly vpon the Nose stancheth the bleeding of the same The iuyce of wilde Rue mengled with Hony wine the iuyce of fenill the gaule of a Henne quickeneth the sight remoueth al clowdes the pearles in the eyes Also the wilde Rue hath the like vertue as the Rue of the garden but it is of greater force in so much as the auncient Physitions would not vse it bicause it was so strong sauing about the diseases and webbes of the eyes in maner as is aboue writen Of Harmall / or wilde Rue Chap. lxxxiiij †The Description THis herbe hath three or foure stemmes growing vpright and in them are small long narrow leaues more tenderer and diuided into smaller or narrower leaues than the common or garden Rue the floures grow at the toppe of the stemmes or branches of colour white after whiche coÌ„meth triangled huskes coÌ„teyning the seede And this plante is of a very stroÌ„g and grieuous smell especially in hoate regions or countries where as it groweth of his owne kinde â€
the sight and taketh away all obscuritie and darkenesse if it be put into the same Of white Saxifrage or Stonebreake Chap. cij ⧠The Description THe white Saxifrage hath round leaues cōmonly spread abrode vpon the ground somwhat iagged about the borders not much vnlike the leaues of groūd Iuie but softer smaller of a more yellowish grene The stalke riseth amongst the leaues is round and hearie and of the length Saxifraga alba White Saxifrage Saxifraga aurea Golden Saxifrage of a foote and halfe it carieth at the toppe diuers white floures almost like to stocke Gillofers The roote is blackishe with many threddie strings by whiche hangeth diuerse little rounde graynes cornes or berries of a darke or reddish purple colour greater than Coriander seede sharpe and bitter the which little graynes or berries they vse in medicine and do cal it Semen Saxifragae albae that is to say the seede of white Saxifrage or Stone breake There is yet an other called golden Saxifrage which groweth to the lēgth of a spanne and halfe with compassed leaues and iagges like to the other at the toppe of the stalke growe two or three littel leaues togither and out of the middle of them springeth small floures of a golden colour and after them little rounde huskes full of small redde seede and they open and disclose themselues whan the seede is ripe The roote is tender creeping in the grounde with longer threades and heares and putteth foorth a great many stems or branches †The Place The white Saxifrage groweth in drye rough stony places as about the Colemynes bysides Bathe in England it groweth also in France and Almaigne Ye shall also finde it planted in the gardens of Herborists The golden Saxifrage groweth in certayne moyst and watery places in England Normandie and Flaunders †The Tyme The white Saxifrage floureth in Maye and in Iune the herbe with his floures perissheth and are no more to be seene vntill the next yeare The golden Saxifrage floureth in March and Aprill †The Names This herbe is called in Latine Saxifraga alba in English Stone breake white Saxifrage in French Rompierre Saxifrage blanche in high Douch weisz Steinbrech in base Almaigne Wit Steenbreeck The secōd is called Saxifraga aurea in English Goldē Saxifrage in French Rompierre or Saxifrage dorée in high Douch Goldē Steinbrech in base Almaigne Gulden Steenbreek and this name is giuen it because it is like to the white Saxifrage and beareth yellow or golden flowers †The Nature This herbe especially the roote with the seede is of a warme or hoate complexion But the golden Saxifrage is of a colde nature as the taste doth manifestly declare †The Vertues The roote of white Saxifrage with the graynes or berries of the same boyled in wine and dronken prouoketh vrine mundifieth and clenseth the kidneyes and bladder breaketh the Stone and bringeth it foorth and is singuler against the Strangurie and all the imperfections and griefes of the reynes What vertue the seconde hath is to vs as yet vnknowen bycause there is none hath yet proued it Of Gromell Chap. ciij. †The Kyndes THe Gromell is of two sortes one of the garden the other wilde and the garden Gromell also is of two sortes great and small Lithospermum maius The great Gromell Lithospermum minus The small Gromell †The Description THE great Gromel hath long slender hearie stalkes the whiche do most commonly trayle alongest the grounde beset with long browne hearie leaues betwixt the whiche leaues and the stalkes groweth certayne bearded huskes bearing at the first a smal blewe floure and afterwarde a little harde rounde stonie seede of a reasonable quantitie The roote is harde of a wooddie substance The small garden Gromel hath straight rounde wooddie stalkes and full of branches his leaues be long smal sharpe and of a swart greene colour smaller than the leaues of the great Gromel Betwixt the leaues and the stalkes groweth smal white floures and they bring foorth faire rounde white harde and stonie seede lyke vnto Perles and smaller than the seede of the aforesayd kinde The wilde Gromel is like vnto the small in stalkes leaues and floures sauing that the seede is not so white neither so smooth playne but somwhat shriueled or wrinckled like to the seede of the common langue de beufe and the leaues be a little rougher Besides these two kindes there is yet founde a wilde kinde of Gromel which is very small of whiche kinde the learned Ierome Bocke hath treated in his herball it groweth a span long with his stalke set with small narrowe leaues like to the leaues of lyne or flaxe betwixt the which leaues the stalke it bringeth foorth a little smooth blacke harde seede very lyke the seede of the small garden Gromel †The Place The garden or tame Gromel groweth in some Countries in rough places here they sowe it in gardens The smaller garden Gromel groweth not often of him selfe sauing alongest the Riuers and water sides The wilde is founde in rough and stonie places †The Tyme Gromel floureth in Iune Iuly and August in whiche season it doth also deliuer his seede †The Names Gromel is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Lithospermum of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Arabians Milium Soler in Shoppes Milium solis in Englishe Gromel and Gremil some name it also Pearle plante in Frenche Gremil or Herbe aux perles in high Douch Meerhirsch or Meerhirsen and Steinsomen in base Almaigne Peerlencruyt and Steensaet in Italion Milium Solis †The Nature The seede of Gremil is hoate and drie in the seconde degree †The Vertues Gromel seede pounde and dronken in white wine breaketh the Stone driueth it foorth and prouoketh vrine but especially the Stone in the bladder as the Authors write Turner Of Betony Chap. ciiij. ⧠The Description BEtony hath leaues somwhat long and broade of a darke greene colour bluntly iagged rounde about the edges like a sawe and of a good sauour Amongst the sayd leaues groweth vp a rough square stalke of a foote and halfe long decked with suche like leaues but a great deale smaller and bearing at the top a short spykie eare full of flowers most commonly of a crymsin or redde purple colour and somtymes but very seldome as white as snowe after whiche flowers there commeth in the sayd spykie tuffets blacke seede long and cornered The roote hath threddie stringes Paulus Aegineta maketh mention of an other Betony called of the later writers Veronica the which we haue described in the 17. Chapter of the first booke †The Place Betony groweth in meddowes shadowy wooddes and mountaynes It is also commonly planted in gardens †The Tyme Betony flowreth commonly in Iuly and August †The Names Betony or Betayne is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine and in shoppes Betonica and Vetonica In Spanishe Bretonica In Frenche Betonie In high Douch Braun Betonick In
of Ligusticum Then there are two kindes of Ligusticum the one whiche is the right Ligusticum described by the Auncientes And the other whiche may be a bastarde or wilde kinde of Ligusticum ⧠The Description THE right Ligusticum described by Dioscorides is in his roote lyke to the first kinde of Panax it hath slender stalkes with ioyntes like vnto Dill. The leaues are lyke to the leaues of Melilot but they be softer and of a better sauour whereof the vppermost leaues are tenderest and more iagged or cut At the top of the stalkes groweth the seede in spokie tuffetes the whiche is harde and longe almost like to Fenell seede of an aromaticall or Spycie sauour and in taste sharpe and byting The roote is white and odoriferous much lyke to the roote of the first kinde of Panax Neuerthelesse it is not yet knowen in this Countrie The other herbe whiche is taken in this Countrie for Ligusticum hath great large odoriferous leaues muche iagged and cut almost lyke to the leaues of Angelica but a great deale larger fayrer and of a deeper greene colour deeper cut and more clouen The stalke is smooth rounde holowe and ioyntie of the length of a man or more with spokie rundels or tuffetes at the top of the stalkes bearing a yellow flower and a round flat broade seede larger then Dyll seede and smaller then Angelica seede The roote is long and thicke and bringeth foorth yerely newe Stemmes Ligusticum verum The right Louage Ligusticum vulgare The common Louage †The Place The right Ligusticum groweth in Liguria vppon the mount Apennian neare to the Towne or Citie of Genues and in other mountaynes there about The seconde kinde is planted in our gardens †The Tyme Louage flowreth most commonly in Iuly and August †The Names The first and right kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of Galien 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ligusticum and of some also as Dioscorides writeth Panaces by the which name it is yet knowen in the Shoppes of Genues in the Shoppes of Flaunders they call it Siler Montanum in Englishe Louage in Frenche Liuesche and in Douch Ligusticum The seconde kinde is called in Shoppes Leuisticum and the Apothecaries vse it in steede of the right Ligusticum in Englishe Louage in Frenche Leuesse or Liuesche in Douche Liebstockel in Brabant Lauetse and Leuistock †The Nature Ligusticum is hoate and dry in the thirde degree Louage is also hoate and drye and of qualitie muche like to Ligusticum †The Vertues The roote of Ligusticum is very good for all inwarde diseases driuing away all ventositie or windinesse especially the windinesse of the stomacke and is good agaynst the byting of Serpentes and al other venimous beastes The same roote well dried and dronken with wine prouoketh vrine and the menstruall termes it hath the same vertue if it be applyed to the secrete place in a Pessarie or mother Suppositorie The seede of Ligusticum warmeth the stomacke helpeth digestion and is pleasant to the mouth and taste wherfore in times past the people of Genues dyd vse it in their meates in stede of Pepper as some do yet as witnesseth Antonius Musa The roote and seede of louage dryed and dronke in wine doth drie vp and warme the stomacke easeth trenches or griping payne of the belly driuing away the blastinges and windinesse of the same The same roote and seede do moue vrine and the naturall sicknesse of women whether they take it inwardly or whether they bathe them selues with the decoction thereof in some hollowe seate or stue To conclude the louage in facultie and vertues doth not differ much from Ligusticum and it may be vsed without error in steede thereof The distilled water of louage cleareth the sight and putteth away all spottes lentiles or frecles and rednesse of the face if it be often wasshed therewith Of Angelica Chap. cvij. †The Kyndes ANGELICA is of two sortes that is the garden and wilde Angelica †The Description THE garden Angelica hath great broade leaues diuided agayne into other leaues which are snipt and dented about much like to the highest leaues of Spondilium or Douch Branck vrsine but they be tenderer longer greener and of a stronger sauour Amongst those leaues springeth vp the stalke three yeeres after the sowing of the seede the whiche stalke is thicke and ioyntie hollowe within and smelleth almost like to Petroleum At the top of the stalkes groweth certayne little felmes puffed or bolne vp lyke to small bladders or bagges out of which commeth the spokie toppes or rundels almost like vnto the tops of Fenell bearing white floures afterward great broade double seede muche greater then Dill seede and like to the seede of the thirde kinde of Sesely The roote is great and thicke blacke without white within out of which when it is hurt or cut there floweth a fat or oylie liquor like gomme of a strong smell or taste The wilde Angelica is like to that of the garden sauing that his leaues are not so deepely cut or clouen and they be narrower and blacker The stalkes be muche slenderer and shorter and the floures be whiter The roote is a great deale smaller and hath more threddie stringes and it is not by a great deale of so strong a sauour †The Place The tame Angelica is sowen and planted in the gardens of this Countrie The wilde groweth in darke shadowy places alongest by water sides and wooddes standing lowe †The Tyme The two kindes of Angelica do flower in Iuly and August Angelica Satiua Garden Angelica Angelica Syluestris Wilde Angelica †The Names This herbe is called in Englishe Angelica in Frenche Angelique in high Douch Angelick des heylighen gheistswurtzel oder Brustwurtz in the shoppes of Brabante Angelica There is yet none other name knowen to vs. †The Nature Angelica especially that of the garden is hoate and dry almost in the thirde degree ⧠The Vertues The late writers say that the rootes of Angelica are contrarie to all poyson the Pestilence and all naughtie corruption of euill or infected ayre If any body be infected with the Pestilence or plague or els is poysoned they giue him straightwayes to drinke a Dram of the powder of this roote with wine in the winter and in sommer with the distilled water of Scabiosa Carduus Benedictus or Rosewater then they bring him to bedde and couer him well vntill he haue swet well The same roote being taken fasting in the morning or but only kept or holden in the mouth doth keepe and preserue the body from the infection of the Pestilence and from all euyll ayre and poyson They say also that the leaues of Angelica pounde with the leaues of Rue and honie are very good to be layde vnto the bitinges of mad Dogges Serpentes and Vipers if incontinent after his hurt he drinke of the wine wherin the roote or leaues of Angelica haue boyled Of Horestrange or Sulphurwort Chap. cviij †The
flowers vppon short stemmes which be of a fayre browne purple colour and of a good sauour somwhat like Nardus fashioned like the flower of a Granat tree called Balaustia or Cytinus which is the buddes of Balaustia and somewhat lyke the cuppes or huskes of Henbane The rootes be smal long and crookedly layd ouerthwaxt here and there with diuers small hearie stringes of a pleasant sharpe sauor and taste byting the tongue †The Place It delighteth in shadowy places and rough dry groundes especially in thependent or hanging of hilles mountaynes in thicke darke wooddes and commonly vnder the Haselles as Cordus sayth It is alwayes greene and springeth anew and floureth in the spring time and it floureth agayne at the ende of Sommer †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine in shoppes Asarum of some Nardus rustica Perpenla Macer calleth it Vulgago it is called in English Asarabacca and folefoote it may also be called Haselworte in Frenche Cabaret in Germanie Haselwurtz in Brabant Haselwortel and of some Mansooren Asarum †The Nature Asarabacca is hoate and drie in the thirde degree especially the roote whiche is most vsed in Physicke †The Vertues The roote of Asarabacca boyled in wine and dronken prouoketh vrine and is good against the strangurie the cough the shortnesse of breath and difficultie of breathing Conuulsions and Crampes and the shrinking togyther of members The same taken in lyke manner is profitable against venome and agaynst the bitinges and stinginges of Serpentes and all venemous beastes The same boyled in wine is good for them that haue the Dropsie and the Sciatica The same dronken with honied wine bringeth downe the menstrual fluxe expelleth the Secondine and other superfluities of the mother The leaues of Asarabacca stamped with wine and strayned and the iuyce thereof dronken causeth to vomite and purgeth by vomiting tough flegme and choler The same leaues stamped are good to be applyed or layde to the ache and dolors of the head to the inflammation of the eyes and to womens breastes that are to full of milke whan they list to drie vp the same and it is good to be layde to the disease called the wilde fire especially at the beginning Of Dragons Chap. vi †The Kyndes THere are three sortes of Dragons as Plinie writeth that is to say the great and the smal and a certayne third kinde growing in waterie places 1. Dracunculus maior The great Dragonwurt 2. Dracunculus minor The smaller Dragonwurt 3. Dracunculus palustris Water Dragonwurt †The Description THe first kinde called the great Dragon or Serpentarie beareth an vpright stalke of a cubit long or more thicke rounde smothe and speckled with diuers colours and spottes lyke to an Adder or Snakes skinne The leaues be great and large compackt or made of sixe seuen or moe leaues whereof eache single leafe is long lyke to a Sorrell or Docke leafe sauing they be very smothe and playne At the top of the stalke groweth a long hoose or huske lyke to the hoose or codde of Aron or Wake Robin of a greenish colour without and of a darke red or purple colour within and so is the clapper or pestill that groweth vp within the sayde huske the whiche is long and thicke and sharpe poynted peeked lyke to a hornet whose fruit by increase waxeth so as it streatcheth and at length breaketh out of a certayne skin or velme the sayde fruit appeareth like to a bunche or cluster of grapes first greene and afterwarde red as fier the berries or grapes wherof are full of iuyce or liquor in which is a certayne smal harde seede The roote of this Dragon is lasting thicke and white and growen lyke to a Bulbus Onyon couered with a thin pil and of the quantitie of a pretie apple and bearded with diuers little white heares or stringes and oftentymes there is ioyning to it other small rootes whereby it is multiplyed The smaller Dragon in his leaues his huske or codde his pestill or clapper his berry and grape is like vnto Aron or Cockowpint sauing that his leaues are not marked with blacke but with white spottes Neyther do they perish so soone as Aron but they growe togyther with their berries euen vntyl winter Their berries also are not fully so redde but are of a certaine yellowish red The roote is not muche vnlike Aron white and rounde lyke an Onyon and hath certayne hearie threddes hanging by it with certayne small rootes or buddes of newe plantes The roote of water Dragon is not round after the order of Bulbus but it is a long creeping roote full of ioyntes and of a reasonable thicknesse out of whose ioyntes springeth vp the stalkes of the leaues whiche are smoth without and spungie within but downewardes towardes the grounde the sayd rootes sendeth out of their said ioyntes certaine smal hearie rootes The fruit groweth aboue vppon a shorte stem and commeth foorth with one of the leaues compassed about with small white thrōmes or threddes at the first which is the blowing and afterward it groweth foorth into a cluster which is greene at the first and waxeth red whan it is rype smaller than the grape or cluster of Arons berries but as sharpe or byting The leaues be large greene fine smoth fashioned like Iuy leaues yet smaller thē the leaues of Cockowpint or Aron But that leafe in which the cluster of berries groweth is smallest of al on the vpper part or syde next the fruit it is white 4. Dracunculus Matthioli Matthiolus Dragonwurte Besides the aforesayde Dragons there is an other kinde placed of Matthiolus with great large leaues growing folden and lapped one within an other with an vpright stalke and beareth at the toppe a certayne blossome or flower lyke to a spyke eare The roote is also round lyke the others as ye may perceiue by the figure Surely this kinde of Dragō if any such be to be found is rather a kinde of Bistort howbeit there be that thinketh this figure to be false and fayned †The Place The first Dragonwort groweth well in shadowie places and in this Countrie they plante it in gardens The seconde also delighteth in shadowie places vnder hedges and is found plentifully growing in the Ilandes called Maiorque and Minorque This thirde kinde groweth in moyst waterish places in the brinkes of diches and floting waters and also alongst the running streames and riuers †The Tyme They flowre in Iuly and in August the fruit is ripe †The Names The first kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine Dracunculus maior of some Serpentaria and Colubrina in Shoppes Serpentaria maior of Serapio Luf in English Dragons and Dragons wurte in French Serpentaire or Serpentyne in Germanie Schlangekraut Drachenwurtz in Brabāt Speerwortele and Drakenwortele The seconde kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Dracunculus minor and of some late writers
to be made in powder and giuen to take for it stayeth them and driueth them foorth mightily The two other sorts of Mosse of the Sea is also good against flegmons or hoate tumours and the hoate gowte if they be vsed as the first kinde of Sea Mosse commonly called Corallina Of Crowfoote Chap. lxxij †The Kyndes THere be foure kindes of Ranunculus or Crowfoote as Dioscorides and Galen do affirme whereof the first is of many sortes The one hath great thicke leaues the whiche is called Water Crowfoote The seconde hath white leaues and is called White Crowfoote The thirde hath blacke leaues the whiche is called Leopardes Clawes And these be comprised of Apuleius vnder the first kinde The seconde kinde hath rough stalkes and leaues the thirde is small with yellowe flowers The fourth hath white flowers Bysides these there be yet other Crowfootes the whiche growe commonly in gardens whiche are called Butter flowers the whiche are set foorth in the the lxxiiij Chapter And yet there be other as hereafter is declared †The Description Ranunculorum primum genus quadruplex Ranunculus palustris Water Crawfoote Ranunculus albus siue echinatus White Yrchin Crowfoote THE water Crowfoote hath white greene stalkes hollowe and smooth vppon the whiche growe leaues deepely cut or clouen almost lyke the leaues of Parsely or Smalache but muche whiter softer and thicker very hoate and burning in the mouth The flowers be pale in fashion lyke Golde cuppes The which being faded there come vp in their places little heades or knoppes almost lyke the first buddes of Asparagus The roote is compact of a number of white threddes The white or Yrching Crowfoote hath also playne whitishe stalkes vpon the whiche grow leaues also of a whitishe colour very deepely cut and clouen especially the vppermost almost lyke the leaues of Coriander The flowers be lyke them aforesayde when they be fallen away in place of euery flower commeth foure or fiue round graines or beries plat rough like yrching The roote is threddie lyke the other Ranunculus auricomus Golden Crowfoote Pulsatilla Mischieuous Passeflower Golden Crowfoote hath his first leaues somewhat round but afterwarde very muche cut and diuided of a browne greene colour speckled in the midle with brode spottes somwhat blacke or blackish drawing toward the colour of fire The flowers be of a fayre yellowe colour as golde and shining after the flowers there come vp rounde heades or buttons more rougher then the knoppes of water Crowfoote Of this sorte there is yet one kinde founde as Dioscorides and Apuleius are witnesses which beareth a purple flower and the same is yet vnknowen The second kind of Ranunculus that is called Illyricus hath thinne stalkes and thereon grow cut leaues and with white small soft heares the flowers be of a pale yellowe the seede is as the other but the rootes are otherwise and be as many and somwhat more then the wheate or barlie cornes ioyning togither out of the whiche some threddes sprout with the whiche it setteth foorth and multiplieth Of this kind there is yet also another strange Ranunculus and it hath long narrow leaues as grasse of colour after white and blew drawing it out of the greene The flowers seedes are as the aforesaid but the rootes are threddie To this kind of Ranuculus is drawen another herbe which is called Passe-flower and it hath rough hearie stemmes all iagged and small cut or splitte sometimes thicke maned and lying for the most part vpon the grounde at the highest of the stalkes growe flowers almost after the fashion of little Cymballes hauing in the insyde smal yellowe threedes as in the middle of a Rose of colour most purple browne sometimes white and in some places red or yellow and whan the flowers be fallen there commeth vp a round head couered ouer with a certayne gray and browne heare Ranunculus Illyricus Ranunculus Lusitanicus The thirde kinde of Ranunculus is lesser and lower then the aforesayde his leaues be broade and vndiuided and slipperie betweene these two there groweth a stalke and one flower therevpon lyke vnto the other of a fayre yellow colour lyke vnto golde and of a very pleasant smel The rootes are of many cornes gathered the whiche be longer then the rootes of Ranunculus Illyricus The fourth kinde groweth high and hath brode leaues like vnto the Leopardes clawes but bigger the flowers are fashioned as the other of colour white The rootes are muche threeddie Byside these kindes of Ranunculus is yet another stange kind reckoned the whiche is called Troll flowers and it hath great leaues diuided into many partes and cutte rounde about the flowers growe vppermoste of the stalke and are yellow lyke vnto gold fashioned lyke the flowers of Ranunculus but bigger and not whole open but abiding halfe shut thereafter folowe many small coddes togither in the whiche the seede lyeth The rootes are muche threddie Ranunculus albo flore Crowfoote with white flowers Ranunculus flore globoso Trol flowers †The Place Crowfoote of the water groweth in ditches and standing waters sometimes also in medowes and lowe sandy groundes especially in moyst yeres The white and golden Crowfoote groweth in medowes moyst feldes These three kindes be common in this Countrie The seconde kinde of Crowfoote groweth in the Countrie of Illyria and Sardine and loueth sandy and drie ground that is vntoyled and is founde in many places of Fraunce and Almaigne In this Countrie the Herboristes do plant it in their gardens The third Ranunculus is found vpon certaine mountaines in the Countrie of Portingal and of Ciuil The fourth is here in this Countrie very strange The Trol flowers grow vpon the mountaynes of Switserlande †The Tyme The kindes of Crowfootes flower from April til Iune sometimes later †The Names Crowfoote is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ranunculus of Apuleius Herba seelerata in high Douche Hanenfusz in base Almaigne Hanenvoet that is to say Cockes foote in French Bassinet in Spanish Yerua belida in Italian Pie Coruino The first of the first kinde is called of some in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Apium palustre and Ranunculus palustris in Frenche Grenoillette aquatique or Bassinet deaue in high Douch Wasser epffs Wasser hanenfusz in neather Douchlande Water hanenvoet It may be called in English Water or Marrish Crowfoote The seconde is nowe called in Latine Ranunculus echinatus in Frenche Grenoillette Herissonnée in high Douche Weisz Hanenfusz Ackerhanenfusz in Brabant Witte Hanenvoet in French Bassinet blanc in English White Crowfoote or Vrchin Crowfoote The thirde is called Ranunculus auricomus in Frenche Grenoillette dorée in high Douch Wisen Hanenfusz Schwartz Hanenfusz and Geelb Hanenfusz in base Almaigne Lupaerts clawen and according to the same it is called in Latine Pes Leopardi that is to say Leopardes foote Crowfoote and Golden Crowfoote The second kinde is called Herba Sardoa Apium syluestre Apium rusticum Apiastrum and Apium
the domestical or tame kinde the square or cornered kinde the which some do cal Arietinum and the wilde Ciche and there be two sortes of that kinde whiche is called Arietinum white and blacke Cicer satiuum Tame Ciches Cicer Arietinum Sheepes Ciches †The Description THe tame Ciche Peason is a smal kinde of pulse almost like to a lentil it hath foure or fiue branches and therevpon small narrowe diuidid leaues not muche vnlyke the leaues of lentilles The flowers grow vpon short stemmes small and somewhat whitishe after the whiche there come vp small rounde huskes or coddes wherein is commonly founde three or foure round Peason hauing a certayne bunch hillock or outgrowing by one side not muche vnlike Sheepes Ciche Peason but a great deale smaller and not so harde and of a better taste Sheepes Ciches haue slender stalkes and harde with many branches and rounde leaues iagged about the brimmes like the lentil or feche growing directly or opposite one against the other the flowers be either white or purple and bring foorth shorte rounde Coddes or huskes bollen or swelling vp like small bladders wherein growe two or three Peason cornered and fashioned almost lyke a sheepes head in colour sometymes white and sometimes blacke The wild Ciche pease in leaues are lyke to the tame but they are of a ranke and strong sauour and the fruite of another fashion as Dioscorides saith vnlike the tame Ciches †The Place These Ciche Peason are founde planted in the gardens of Herboristes †The Tyme All the Ciches are ripe in August like to the other sortes of pulse †The Names Ciche Peason are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cicer in Frenche Cices ▪ or Pois Cice. The first kind is called Cicer satiuum Columbinum Venereū and in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orobiaeon that is to say in Latine Cicer eruillum vnknowen in Shoppes This is not Eruum as many at this time do thinke and for that purpose they put it into their triacles and other suche medicines The seconde kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cicer Arietinum that is to say Sheepes Ciche pease in Shoppes Cicer in Englishe Sheepes Cichpeason in French Pois Ciches in high Douch Zysern erweyssen in base Almaigne Ciceren The thirde kinde is called Cicer syluestre that is to say Wilde Ciches †The Nature The Ciche pease is hoate and drie in the first degree †The Vertues The domestical or tame Ciches prouoke vrine and cause milke to encrease in womens brestes it taketh away the euyll colour and causeth good colour to ensue The same boyled with Orobus called in Englishe the bitter Fiche doth asswage and heale the blastinges or swellinges of the yearde or priuie members if it be layde thereon also men vse with great profite to applie it to running sores and vlcers of the head and the scurffe The same mingled with Barley meale and honie is good against corrupt and festred sores and Canckers being layde therevppon Sheepes Ciches do prouoke vrine and vnstoppe the Melt the Liuer and the kidneyes and the decoction thereof drunken breaketh the stone and grauell To conclude the Ciche peason do wast clense and make thinne all cold and grosse humours and are good agaynst all spreading sores and the inflammations and swellinges behinde the eares They do likewise nourish sufficiently but they engender muche windinesse ⧠The Danger The vse of Ciches is not very good for them whiche haue any vlceration in the kidneyes or bladder for they be to much scouring and do cause the vrine to be sharpe Of Lupines Chap. xxiij †The Kindes THere be two sortes of Lupines the white or garden Lupine and the wild Lupine The wild kind agayne is of sundrie sortes for somtimes you shall see some of them with a yellowe flower sometymes with a blewe flower and sometimes with a reddishe flower Lupinus Satiuus Lupinus syluestris Lupines †The Description THE tame or garden Lupine hath round harde stemmes standing vpright of him selfe without any succour stay or helpe eyther of bowes or branches and after it hath brought foorth his first flowers then it parteth it selfe aboue into three branches which when they haue also brought foorth their flowers euery of the sayde branches doth part and dinide them selues agayne into thrée branches continuing so in flowers parted branches vntill they be hindered by frostes The leaues are cut and slit downe into fiue sixe or seuen partes The flowers do grow many togither at the end or parting of the stalkes after whiche flowers there come in their places long coddes somwhat rough without The fruit is white and flat like a cake in taste very bitter The wilde Lupine hath yellow flowers and is very like to the aforesayd sauing that his leaues and stalkes are much lesse his flowers are not white but yellow and the seede or fruite is not white but spotted The wilde Lupines with the blewe and red flowers are yet lesser then the yellow the fruite is also marked or spotted and it is the least of the Lupines †The Place The Herboristes do plante Lupines in their gardens The wilde with the blewe do growe amongst the corne about Monpellier †The Tyme In warme Countries and hoate seasons the Lupine flowreth three times a yere The first flower commeth foorth about the end of May afterward the three first collaterall branches do spring out the whiche three branches do likewise flower about the beginning of Iuly The sayd collaterall bowes or branches do agayne bring foorth three other branches they do flower in August where as they be well placed in the Sonne The fruite of the first and seconde bloweing doth come to perfect ripenes in this Countrie but the thirde blowing doth hardly come to ripenesse except it chaunce in a very hoate sommer †The Names This kinde of pulse is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine and in Shoppes Lupinus in Frenche Lupin in English Lupines in high Douche Feigbonen in base Almaigne Lupinen and Vijchboonen The first kinde is called Lupinus satiuus that is to say The manured or garden Lupine The three other sortes are called Wilde Lupines in Latine Lupini syluestres and these be not vsed in medicine †The Nature The garden Lupine is hoate and drie in the seconde degree it hath vertue to digest make subtil and to clense †The Vertues The meale of Lupines taken with hony or els with water and vineger doth kill and driue foorth by siege al kindes of wormes The same vertue hath the decoction of Lupines when it is dronken And for the same purpose men vse to lay Lupines stamped vpon the nauel of young children fasting Men giue the decoction of Lupins boyled with Rue and Pepper to drinke to open the stoppinges of the liuer and melt Apessarie made of Lupins Mirrhe and Hony mingled togither mooueth womens natural sicknesse or flowers and expelleth or deliuereth the dead birth She
white kernel or nut in tast almost lyke to the Chestnut †The Place The first groweth by the way sides and neare vnto waters in vntoyled places It is founde in Italy and some places of Fraunce It groweth abundantly in Thracia Tribulus aquaticus Saligot Saligot is found in certayne places of this Countrie as in stues pondes of cleare water †The Tyme Grounde Tribulus flowreth in Iune and after that it bringeth foorth his prickley seede †The Names The first of these plantes is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Tribulus and Tribulus terrestris This is the first kinde of Tribulus terrestris or grounde Tribulus described of Theophrastus for he setteth foorth two sortes as we haue before sayde that is to say one bearing leaues lyke Ciche peason whereof we haue nowe geuen you the figure to beholde and the other hauing prickley leaues for which cause it is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phyllacanthus that is to say the prickley leafe The seconde kinde seemeth to be that kinde of Grounde Tribulus which Dioscorides speaketh of in his fourth booke whiche kinde is yet to vs vnknowen That whiche groweth in the water is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Tribulus aquaticus in French Chastaignes d'eau and Saligot in high Douch Wassernusz Weihernusz Stachelnusz Spitz nusz in base Almaigne Water Noten and of some Minckysers in English Water Nuttes and Saligot †The Nature Grounde Tribulus is colde and astringent is Galen writeth The Saligot is also of the same complexion but moyster †The Vertues The greene Nuttes or fruite being dronken is good for them whiche are troubled with the stone and grauell The same dronken or layde to outwardly helpeth those that are bitten of Vipers And dronken in wine it resisteth all venome and poyson The leaues of Saligot or water Tribulus are very good to be laide plasterwise vpon all vlcers and hoate swellinges They be good also agaynst the inflammations and vlcers of the mouth the putrefaction and corruption of the Iawes or gummes and against the kings euill and swellinges of the throte The iuyce of them is good to be put into collyries medicines for the eyes They vse to giue the powder of the Nuttes to be dronken in wine to suche as pisse blood and are troubled with grauell Also in time of scarsitie they vse to eate them as foode but they nourish but litle and do stoppe the belly very muche Of Madder Chap. lxxiij †The Kindes THere be two sortes of Madder the tame Madder the whiche they vse to plant and sowe and the wild Madder which groweth of his owne kinde Rubia satiua Garden Madder Rubia syluestris Wilde Madder †The Description THE husbanded or garden Madder hath long stalkes or branches square rough and full of ioyntes and at euery ioynt set rounde with greene narrowe leaues fashioned lyke a Starre the flowers growe about the top of the branches lyke as in the wilde Madder of a faynt colour changing vpon yellow after which commeth a rounde seede at the first greene then red and at the last blacke The roote is very long small and red The wilde Madder is lyke to that of the garden but it is smaller and not so rough The flowers are white The roote very smal tender and somtimes also reddish †The Place The husbanded Madder is planted in Zeelande and Flaunders and in some places of Brabant by Berrow in good and fertill grounde The wilde groweth generally of it selfe alongst the feeldes vnder hedges and bushes †The Tyme They do both flower in Iuly and August †The Names Madder is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rubia in Shoppes Rubia tinctorum in high Douche Rodte in base Almaigne Rotte most commonly Mee and they call the powder of the Rotte Meecrappen in Frenche Garance in English Madder The wilde is called Rubia syluestris and of some learned men is thought to be Alysson of Plinie it is named Mollogo ⧠The Nature Garden Madder is drie of Complexion †The Vertues The roote of garden Madder boyled in Meade or honied water and dronken openeth the stopping of the liuer the melt the kidneyes and matrix it is good against the Iaunders and bringeth to women their desyred sicknesse The same taken in the like manner prouoketh vrine vehemently in somuch that the often vse thereof causeth one to pisse blood The decoction of the same dronken or the powder therof dronken in wine dissolueth clotted or congeled blood in the body and is good for such as are fallen from high and are brused or bursten within Men giue the iuyce of the roote to such as be hurt with venemous beastes and also the wine wherein the rootes and leaues haue boyled The seede thereof taken with Oximel or honied vineger doth swage and make lesse the Melt and healeth the hardnesse thereof The roote put vp vnder into the natural place of conception in manner of a pessarie or mother suppositorie bringeth foorth the birth the flowers and secundines The roote brused or pounde very small healeth al scuruie itche and manginesse or foulenesse of the body with spottes of diuers colours especially layde to with vineger as Droscorides teacheth The wilde Madder is not vsed in Medicine Of Goosegrasse / or Cliuer Chap. lxxiiij †The Description CLiuer or Goosegrasse hath many smal square branches rough sharpe full of ioyntes about whiche branches at euery ioynt growe long narrowe leaues after the fashion of Starres or lyke the leaues of Madder but smaller and rougher out of the same ioyntes grow litle branches bearing white flowers and afterwarde rounde rough seedes most commonly two vppon a stemme All the herbe his branches leaues and sede do cleaue and sticke fast to euery thing that it toucheth it is so sharpe that being drawen alongst the tongue it wil make it to bleede †The Place This herbe groweth in all places in hedges and bushes †The Tyme It flowreth and beareth seede al the Sommer †The Names This herbe is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aparine in Frenche Grateron in high Douche Klebkraut in base Almaigne Cleefcruyt in Englishe Goose-grasse Cliuer and Gooseshare †The Nature Clyuer is drie of complexion †The Vertues They driuke the iuyce of the leaues sede of Goosegrasse against the bitings and stinginges of venemous beastes The same dropped into the eares healeth the payne and ache of the same This herbe pounde and layde vnto freshe woundes stoppeth the bleeding of the same pounde with Hogges grease it dissolueth consumeth the disease of the necke called the kinges euil and al hard kernelles and wennes wheresoeuer they be if it be laid therto as Turner writeth Aparine Of Gallion Chap. lxxv †The Description GAllion hath small rounde euen stemmes with very small narrowe leaues growing by spaces at the ioyntes round about the stemme starre fashion
called of the new writers Spanachea Spinachea Spinacheum olus of some Hispanicum olus of Ruellius certayne others Seutlomalache of the Arabians Hispanach in Frēch Espinars in high Douche Spinet in Neather Douche Spinagie in Englishe Spinache Spinachea †The Nature Spinache is colde and moyst of complexion †The Vertues Spinache doth lose the belly and the broth of the same is of lyke vertue The same laid vnto hoate swellinges taketh away the heate and dissolueth the swelling Of Dockes and Sorrel Chap. ix †The Kindes DIoscorides setteth foorth foure kindes of Lapathum bysides the fifth which groweth in ditches and standing waters called Hippolapathum the whiche shal be described also in this Chapter †The Description THE first kind of Lapathū or Rumex hath long narrow hard sharpe pointed leaues amōgst which come vp round holow browne stalkes with knees ioyntes or knots set and garnished with the like leaues At the vpper part of the sayde stalkes grow many litle pale flowers one aboue another and after them is found a blackish triangled seede lapt in a thinne skinne The roote is long playne and yellow within The second kind called Patience doth not differ much from the abouesaid sauing that his leaues be greater larger softer and not sharpe pointed The stalkes be long and thicke growing foure or fiue foote high The flowers yellowish The seede is red and triangled The roote is long smal and yellow Oxylapathum Sharpe poynted Patience Lapathum satiuum Patience The thirde kinde of Lapathum is muche lyke to the first yet for all that the leaues be shorter and larger most commonly layde alongst and spread vpon the ground almost like the leaues of Plantayne the stalke groweth not al so high Of this kinde is a red sort the whiche hath faire red stalkes or purple the leaues be browne and full of red veynes out of the which being brused commeth foorth a red iuyce or liquer but els like to the other in stalkes leaues and seede The fourth kinde called Sorrel hath long narrow sharpe pointed leaues and broade next the stemme very sharpe and eger in taste almost lyke vineger The stalke is rounde and slender vppon the whiche growe small flowers of a brownered colour The seede is browne triangled and muche lyke the seede of poynted Patience The roote is long and yellow Of this sort is found another kind called Romaine Sorrel the which hath short leaues in a manner round somewhat cornered and whitish almost lyke to Iuie leaues but much smaller and neither thicke nor harde The stalkes be tender vpon whiche groweth seede like the other There is yet another sort of Sorrel whiche is smal and wild and therfore called Sheepes Sorrell The same in leaues flowres stalkes and seede is muche like to the great Sorrel but altogither smaller The leaues be very small and the little stalkes are slender of a spanne long the whiche sometimes both with his flowers and seede sheweth a blood red colour and somtimes the leaues be red lykewise sometimes also you shal finde them as white as snow The fifth kinde which groweth in waters and ditches hath great leaues long and harde muche like the leaues of poynted Patience but muche larger Oxalis Sorrel Oxalis Romana Tours Sorrel or Romayne Sorrel The stalkes be rounde growing foure or fiue foote long or more the sede is like to Patience The roote is thicke and pale of a faynt red colour within Oxalis parua Sheepes sorrel †The Place The sharpepoynted Docke or Patience groweth in wette moyst medowes marshes The Docke called Patience is planted in gardens The thirde kind groweth in dry places and about wayes and pathes The red Patience is founde amongst potte herbes growing in gardens Sorrel is commonly sowen in gardens and is to be found also growing wylde in some medowes and shadowy places Sheepes Sorrel loueth dry soyles The fifth kinde groweth in ditches standing waters and is plentiful in this Countrie †The Tyme All these kindes of Lapathum doo flower in Iune Iuly †The Names Al these herbes haue but one Greke name that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rumex and Lapathum in Shoppes Lapatium The first kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rumex acutus in Shoppes Lapatium acutum in Frenche Parelle in high Douch Megelwurtz Grindtwurtz Streisswurtz Zitterwurtes in base Almaigne Patich and Peerdick The second kinde is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rumex satiuus of some newe writers Rhabarbarum monachorum of Galen also Hippolapathon in Frenche Patience in base Almaigne Patientie The third kind is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Lapathū syluestre that is to say Wilde Docke or Patience in base Almaigne Wilde Patich The red kinde is called in Latine Lapathum nigrum and of some late writers Sanguis Draconis in Frenche Sang de Dragon in Douche Draken bloet in Englishe red Patience The fourth kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Oxalis in Shoppes Acetosa in Frenche Ozeille vinette or Salette in high Douche Saur Ampffer in base Almaigne Surckele in English Sorrell Romayne Sorrel is vndoubtedly a kinde of Oxalis and it shoulde seeme to be that kind wherof the Auncients haue vsed and written most properly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oxalis The later writers do call it Oxalis Romana and Acetosa Romana in Frenche Ozeille Romaine and Ozeille de Tours in Douche Roomsch Surckele The least of these kindes is called Oxalis parua in Shoppes Acetosella in Frenche Petit Ozeille and Ozeille de brebis in high Douche Klein Saurampffer in Brabant Schaeps Surckele and Velt Surckele in Englishe small Sorrel and Sheepes Sorrel The fifth kind which groweth in ditches is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Hippolapathum or Lapathum magnum or Rumex palustris in Frēch Grande Parelle or Parelle de marez in high Douche Wasser Ampffer in base Almaigne Groote Patick or Water Patick in Englishe Great Sorrel Water Sorrel and Horse Sorrel †The Nature These herbes are of a reasonable mixture betwixt colde and heate but they be drie almost in the thirde degree especially the seede which is also astringent †The Vertues The leaues of all these herbes sodden and eaten as meate do lose and soften the belly gently and the broth of them is of lyke vertue The greene leaues pounde with oyle of Roses and a little Saffron do digest and dissolue the impostumes and tumours of the head called in Latine Meliceris if it be layde therevnto The seede of Dockes and Sorrel dronken in water or wine stoppeth the laske and blooddy flixe and the wambling paynes of the stomacke The same is also good agaynst the bitinges and stinginges of Scorpions so that if a man had first eaten of this seede he shoulde feele no payne albeit he were afterwarde stong of a Scorpion The rootes of this herbe boyled in wine dronken do heale
the Iaundise prouoke vrine and womens flowers and do breake and driue foorth the stone and grauell The rootes of these herbes boyled in vineger or brused rawe doo heale all scabbednesse and scuruie itche and all outwarde manginesse and deformitie of the skinne being layde therevnto The decoction or broth of them is also very good agaynst all manginesse wilde festering and consuming scabbes to make a stew or broth to washe in The wine of the decoction of them doth swage the tooth ache to be kept in the mouth and to washe the teeth therewith it swageth also the payne of the eares dropped therein The rootes also boyled and laid to the hard kernels and swelling tumours behinde the eares do dissolue and consume them The same pounde with vineger doth heale and waste the hardnesse of the melt or splene and pounde by them selues alone and layde vpon the secrete places of women doth stop the immoderate fluxe of the wombe or flowres Some write that this roote hanged about the necke doth helpe the kinges euill or swelling in the throte Of Lampsana Chap. x. †The Description LAmpsana is a wild worte or potte herbe hauing large leaues of a whitishe or pale greene colour deepely cutte vppon both sides like the leaues of Rape or Senuie but a great deale smaller The stalkes growe two foote high are diuided agayne into many small branches at the toppe whereof growe many smal yellow flowers almost lyke to the flowers of the least Hawkeweede ¶ The Place Lampsana groweth most commonly in al places by high way sides and specially in the borders of gardens amongst wortes and potherbes †The Tyme It flowreth almost al the sommer ¶ The Names This herbe is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Lampsana of some Napiū †The Nature Lampsana is somewhat abstersiue or scouring Lampsana †The Vertues Lampsana as Galen writeth takē in meate engendreth euill iuice and noughtie nourishment yet Dioscorides sayth that it nourisheth more and is better for the stomacke then the Docke or Patience Being layde to outwardly it doth clense and mundifie the skinne and therfore is good against the scuruie itche Of Algood Chap. xi †The Description ALgood hath long large thicke leaues almost like to the leaues of Sorrel but shorter and broder the stalke is grosse of a foote high vpō which groweth the seede clustering togither almost like to Orache The roote is great long thicke and yellow ¶ The Place Algood groweth in vntoyled places about wayes pathes by hedges †The Tyme You shall find it in flower in Iune and Iuly †The Names This herbe is called in Latine Tota bona of some also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysolachanō that is to say in Latine Aureū olus for his singuler vertue in Frēch Toute bonne in high Douch Guter Hērich Schmerbel in base Almaigne Goede Heinrich Lammekens oore and of some Algoede in English Good Henry and Algood of some it is taken for Mercurie †The Nature Algood is drie abstersiue or scouring ⧠The Vertues Algood taken as meate or broth doth soften the belly and prouoketh the stoole This herbe greene stamped and layde to healeth old sores and greene wounds and killeth and bringeth foorth wormes that ingender in the same Matthiolus lib. 2. Dioscor Chap. 162. Radicis succus illitus scabiem tollit Cutis maculas extergit praesertim si cum aceto misceatur Quidam eam quoque praeferunt aduersus venenosorum animalium morsus Totabona Of Endiue and Succory Chap. xij †The Kyndes ENdiue according to Dioscorides and other Auncient writers of Physicke is of two sortes the one called Garden Endiue or Succorie and the other wild Succorie Wherof the garden Endiue or Succory is diuided againe into two sortes or kindes one hauing brode white leaues and the other narrowe iagged leaues Likewise of the wilde kinde are two sortes one kind hauing blew flowers the other hath yellow flowers †The Description THe white garden Succorie with the brode leaues hath great long large soft whitegeeene leaues not much vnlike the leaues of some sorte of Letuce The stalke is rounde set with the like leaues whiche growe vp sodenly bearing most commonly blewe flowers and sometimes also white After the flowers foloweth the seede whiche is white The roote is white and long the which withereth and starueth away the seede being once ripe The second kind of garden Succorie hath long narrow leaues sometimes creuished or slightly toothed about the edges The stalke is round the flowers blewe lyke to the flowers of the aforesayde The roote is white and long full of sappe and dieth not lightly albeit it hath borne both his flowers and seede Intubum satiuum latifolium White Succory Intubum satiuum angustifolium Garden Succorie The fourth kind which is the wild yellow Succorie is also like to Succorie in stalkes and leaues the stalkes be a cubite long or more full of branches The leaues be long almost like the leaues of wilde Endiue but larger The flowers be yellow fashioned like the flowers of Dent de lyon but smaller The roote is of a foote long full of white sap or iuyce which commeth foorth whan it is hurt †The Place The first and seconde kinde are planted in the gardens of this Countrie The thirde groweth in drie grassie and vntoyled places and somtimes also in moyst groundes The fourth kinde groweth in medowes and moyst waterie places about diches and waters †The Tyme These herbes flower at Midsomer and sometimes sooner or rather especially the white Endiue the whiche being timely sowen in Marche flowreth bytimes Therefore the gardiners which would not haue it to flower but are desirous to haue it great and large do sowe it in Iuly and August for being so lately sowen it flowreth not al that yeere but waxeth large and great a little before winter they plucke it vp from the ground and bind togither the toppes and burie it vnder sande and so it waxeth all white to be eaten in Salades with oyle and vineger ⧠The Names These herbes be called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Intuba of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Picridae Intubum syuestre Cichorium Hedypnois Yellow Succorie The second is also a kind of garden Endiue or Intubum satiuum is called Cichorium satiuum hortense in shoppes Cicorea domestica in English garden Succorie in Frenche Cichorée in high Douch Zam Wegwarten in base Almaigne Tamme Cicoreye The thirde kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cichorium Intubum syluestre of some Ambubeia in shoppes Cicorea syluestris in French Endiue sauuage in high Douche Wilde Wegwarten in base Almaigne Wilde Cicoreye in English Wilde Endiue The fourth kind with the yellow flowers is called of Plinie Hedypnois in high Douch Geelwegwart in French Cichorée iaulne in base Almaigne Geel Cicoreye in English Yellow Succorie ¶ The Nature These herbes be colde and drie
two foote long set about with long narrowe leaues at the top of the stalkes growe pleasant flowers very much lyke to the wild Bel flowers described in the seconde booke the xxiij Chap. after the flowers come long cornered or square huskes wherin the sede is inclosed which is very smal The roote is long and white sometimes as bigge as a mans litle finger in tast almost like the Nauew gentle the whiche in the winter season is vsed in salades The other Rampion the whiche is not yet very well knowen his first leaues be brode and they that grow vp afterward about the stalke are narrowe it hath one or two straight holow stems in the top of the sayd stems groweth a great thicke bushie eare ful of litle long smal flowers which before their opening are lyke litle crooked hornes being openly spread are parted into foure litle narrowe leaues of a blewe colour purple gray or white The flowers fallen there appeare many rounde little huskes ioyning one to another lyke to the huskes or cuppes of the other Rampion but much smaller The roote is great white full of sap in fashion taste like the roote of the other Rampion The Marians Violet and the Gauntelet described in the second booke are also of the kindes of Rampions ¶ The Place The little Rampion groweth in feeldes and pastures of this Countrie vnder hedges and bushes The other Rampion groweth most cōmonly in wooddes in clay groundes and other fat moyst and darke places †The Tyme The litle Rampion flowreth in Iune and Iuly The other flowreth in May. †The Names Rampion is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rapa syluestris that is to say Wilde Rapes The first kinde is nowe called of the writers in these dayes Rapontium Rapunculum and Rapunculum paruum in French Raiponce and Petite Raiponce in high Douche Klein Rapuntzeln in base Almaigne Cleyn or ghemeyne Raponcelen in Englishe Rampions and the litle Rampion The seconde is lykewise a kinde of Rampion or wilde Rapes †The Nature Rampion is of nature somewhat like the Turnep †The Vertues The Rampion eaten with vineger and salt stirreth vp appetite or meate lust and prouoketh vrine especially when it is but a litle boyled or parboyled Rampions mengled with the meale of Lupines or Iuray doth clense and beautifie the face and all other partes of the body being layde therevnto The iuyce of the stalkes leaues of Rampions especially of the lesser kind dropped into the eyes with womens milke cleareth the fight Of Radishe Chap. xxxvi ¶ The Kindes THere be two kindes of Radish the tame and the wilde whereof the tame or garden Radish is of two sortes the one with a round roote like the Nauew or garden Rape and is not very commō in Brabant The other hath a very long white roote and is the common Radish of this Countrie To this may be ioyned a thirde kinde of garden or tame Radishe with the blacke roote whiche of late yeeres hath ben brought into Englande and now beginneth also to waxe common †The Description THe common Radishe hath great brode rough leaues muche clouen or deepely cut in vpon both sides not muche vnlyke the Turney leaues The stalkes be round with many flowers of a purple or wan colour euery flower parted into foure small leaues the whiche being fallen there come in their steede long rounde sharpe poynted huskes sometimes as bigge as ones little fingar wherein is inclosed a rounde krowne seede The roote of the one kind of garden Radishe is of a foote or foote and a halfe long white both without and within and of a sharpe taste The roote of the other is short and as bigge as a Nauew and of a stronger and sharper taste then the longer roote The third roote is blacke without and white within in taste like to the others The wilde Radishe hath leaues like the common Radishe but smaller and fuller of cuttes or iagges The stalke is of a foote and a halfe long or more vpon which grow many yellow flowers and afterward smal huskes wherein the seede which is very smal is inclosed The roote is as bigge as ones finger in taste very lyke to a young Radishe but stronger Radicula satiua Garden Radish Radicula syluestris Wilde Radish †The Place They sow Radish in gardens and it requireth to be new sowen euery yere The wilde Radish groweth alongst by ditches sides both by standing and running waters †The Tyme The garden Radish is sowen most commonly in Iune and Iuly and that will serue to be eaten at winter and it flowreth in Aprill and Maye and that whiche is sowen in Marche flowreth the selfe same yere in May or Iune and is nothing worth for to eate The wilde flowreth in Iune and shortly after it yeeldeth his seede ¶ The Names The first kind is called of the Athenienses and other Auncientes in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Radicula and Radicula satiua of some Raphanus and in Shoppes Raphanus minor in Frenche Raue Raueforte in high Douche Rettich in base Almaigne Radijs in Englishe Radish The seconde kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Radicula syluestris of some Radicula palustris in French Raue sauuage or Raifort d'eaue in high Almaigne Wilder Rettich in base Almaigne Wilde Radijs and Water Radijs in English wilde Radish or water Radish †The Nature Radishe is hoate in the thirde degree and drie in the seconde The wilde Radish is stronger and more biting than the garden Radishe †The Vertues Radish is now eaten with other meates as they vsed in times past Neuerthelesse it is rather medicine then meate or nourishment as witnesseth Galen for it giueth very litle or no nourishment to the body seing that it is sharpe and biting vpon the tongue The young stemmes and tender croppes or buddes of Radish may be lykewyse eaten with oyle and vineger being first boyled and they nourishe better then the rootes although in deede they yeelde but litle nourishment Dioscorides sayth that the roote of Radish is pleasant to the mouth but euill for the stomacke for it engendreth belching and windinesse with a desire to vomit The same eaten before meate lifteth vp the meate and taken after meate or meale it suppresseth the same causing it to descende and digest It is good to be eaten before meale to cause vomit especially the barke therof the whiche taken with Oximel that is honied vineger hath the greater strength to stirre vp vomiting and purgeth tough and slymie fleme and quickneth the wit and vnderstanding The decoction or broth of Radishe dronken prouoketh vrine breaketh the stone and driueth it foorth The same rypeth tough fleme and grosse humours wherwithhall the brest and stomacke is charged and causeth them to be spet out it is also good against an olde cough and the brest that is stuffed with grosse humours Radishe is good agaynst the Dropsie and
or mother suppositorie It prouoketh vrine and casteth foorth grauel and is very good agaynst the strangurie and Dropsie and for suche as haue payne in the syde the belly and raynes It is good against all venome and agaynst the bitinges and stinginges of venemous beastes Some men write that it maketh the women fruitfull that vse often to eate of the seede thereof The greene leaues of Carrottes brused with hony and layde to doo clense and mundifie vncleane and fretting sores The seede of the garden Carrot is in vertue lyke to the wilde Carrot but nothing so strong but the roote of the garden Carrot is more conuenient and better to be eaten Of Parseneppes Chap. xxxix †The Kindes There be two sortes of Parseneppes the garden and wilde Parsenep Pastinaca vulgaris Garden Parsenep Elaphoboscum Wilde Parsenep †The Description THE garden Parsenep hath great long leaues made of diuers leaues set togither vpon one stemme after the fashion or order of the leaues of the Walnut or Ashe tree whereof eache single leafe is broade or somewhat large and nickt or snipt round about the edges the stalke groweth to the height of a man channell straked and forrowed hauing many ioyntes lyke the stalke or stemme of Fenill at the toppe growe spokie tuftes bearing yellowe flowers and flat seedes almost lyke the seede of Dyll but greater The roote is great and long of a pleasant taste and good to be eaten The wylde Parsenep in leaues flowers and seede is much lyke the garden Parsenep sauing that his leaues be smaller his stalkes slenderer the roote is also harder and smaller and not so good to be eaten †The Place The manured and tame kinde is sowen in gardens The wilde groweth in this Countrie about wayes and pathes †The Tyme Parseneppes doo flower in Iune and Iuly and the garden Parseneppes are best and most meete to be eaten the winter before their flowring ¶ The Names The first kind is called in the Shoppes of this Countrie Pastinaca and the neather Douchemen borowing of the Latine do cal it Pastinaken in Englishe lykewise Parsenep in Frenche Grand Cheruy in high Douche Moren and Zam Moren and according to the same the base Almaignes call it Tamme Mooren Some take it for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sisarum others take it for a kind of Staphilinus and Pastinaca And in deede it seemeth to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Pastinaca whereof Galen writeth in his viij booke of Simples The wilde kinde is called in some Shoppes Branca leonina or Baucia in Frenche Cheruy sauuage in high Douch Wild Moren in base Almaigne Wilde Moren it is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some as witnesseth Dioscorides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Elaphoboscum and Cerui ocellus in Englishe Wilde Parsenep †The Nature Parsenep is hoate and drie especially the seede whiche is hoater and drier then the roote †The Vertues The roote of the garden Parsenep eatē in meates as the Carrot doth yeeld more and better nourishment then Carrot rootes and is good for the lunges the raynes and the brest The same roote causeth one to make water well and swageth the paynes of the sydes and driueth away the windinesse of the belly and is good for such as be bruysed squat or bursten The seede of the wilde Parsenep is good agaynst all poyson and it healeth the bitinges and stinginges of all venemous beastes being dronken in wine And truely it is so excellent for this purpose that it is left vs in writing that when the Stagges or rather the wild Hartes haue eaten of this herbe no venemous beasts may annoy or hurt them Of Skirwurtes Chap. xl †The Description THe Skirwurt hath roūd stalkes the leaues be cut and snipt about lyke the teeth of a sawe diuers set vppon one stemme not muche vnlyke the leaues of garden Parsnep but a great deale smaller smoother The flowers grow in round tuftes of spoky toppes and are of a white colour and after that commeth a seede somewhat broade as I reade in my copie but the Skirworte that groweth in my garden which agreeth in al things els with the description of this Skirwort hath a litle long crooked seede of a browne colour the which being rubbed smelleth pleasantly somewhat lyke the seede of Gith or Nigella Romana or lyke the sauour of Cypres wood The rootes are white of a finger length diuers hanging togither and as it were growing out of one moare of a sweete taste and pleasant in eating Sisarum ¶ The Place These rootes are planted in gardens †The Tyme These rootes are digged out of the grounde to be eaten in Marche and the least or smallest of them are at the same time planted agayne the which be good and in season to serue agayne the yeere folowing to be eaten But whan they be left in the grounde without remouing they flower and are in seede in Iuly and August †The Names This roote is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Siser and Sisarum some men cal it Seruillum Seruilla or Cheruilla in Frēch Petit Cheruy in high Douch Gerlin Gierlin of some Zam Rapuntzel in base Almaigne Suycker wortelkens and Serillen in English Skyrwurt and Skirwit rootes †The Nature Skirwurtes are hoate and drie in the seconde degree †The Vertues The roote of Skirrets boyled is good for the stomacke stirreth vp appetite and prouoketh vrine The iuyce of the roote dronken with Goates milke stoppeth the laske The same dronken with wine driueth away windinesse and gripinges of the belly and cureth the hicket or yexe Of Garden Parsely Chap. xli †The Description GArden Parsely hath greene leaues iagged in diuers places deepe cut and snypt rounde about lyke the teeth of a sawe The stalkes be rounde vppon the whiche growe crownes or small spokie toppes with flowers of a pale yellowe colour and after them a small seede somewhat rounde and of a sharpe or biting tast and good smell The roote is white and long as the roote of Fenill but a great deale smaller †The Place Parsely is sowen in gardens amongst wurtes and potherbes and loueth a fat and fruitfull grounde †The Time The common Parsely flowreth in Iune his seede is ripe in Iuly a yere after the first sowing of it †The Names The cōmon Parsely is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Apium and Apium hortense in shoppes Petroselinum and the Douchmen folowyng the same calleth it Petersilgen or Peterlin in neather Douchland it is called Peterselie in Frenche Persil or Persil de iardin in Englishe Parsely and garden Parsely Apium hortense †The Nature Garden Parsely is hoate in the seconde degree and drie in the thirde especially the seede whiche doth heate and drie more then the leaues or roote †The Vertues Garden Parsely taken with meates is very wholesome and agreeable to the stomacke it causeth good appetite and digestion and prouoketh
vrine The broth or decoction of the roote of garden Parsely dronken openeth the stopping of the liuer the kidneyes and all interior partes it causeth to make water it driueth foorth the stone and grauell and is a remedie agaynst all poyson The seede of Parsely is good for all the aforesayde purposes and is of greater vertue and efficacie then the roote for it doth not only open al stoppinges resist poyson but also it dispatcheth and driueth away all blastinges and windinesse and therefore it is put into al preseruatiues and medicines made to expell poyson It is also good against the cough to be mixt with Electuaries medicines made for that purpose The leaues or blades of Parsely pound with the crōbes of bread or barley flower is good to be layde to against the inflammations and rednesse of the eyes and the swelling of the pappes that commeth of clustered mylke Of Marish Parsely / March or Smallache Chap. xlij †The Description SMallache hath shynyng leaues of a darke greene colour muche diuided and snipt rounde about with small cuttes or natches muche greater and larger then the leaues of common garden Parsely The stalkes be rounde and full of branches vppon the which grow spoky tufts or litle shadowy toppes with white flowers which afterwarde bring foorth a very small seede lyke to garden Parsely seede but smaller The roote is small and set full of hearie threddes or stringes †The Place Smalllache groweth in moyst places that stande lowe and is sometimes planted in gardens †The Tyme Smallache flowreth in Iune and yeldeth foorth his sede in Iuly and August a yere after the sowing thereof euen lyke to garden Parsely Elioselinon ⧠The Names Smallache is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Apium palustre Paludapium that is to say Marrish Parsely of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hydroselinon agriō that is Wilde water Parsely and Apium rusticum in shoppes Apium in Frenche De L'ache in high Douche Epffich in base Almaigne Iouffrouw merck and of some after the Apothecaries Eppe in Englishe Marche Smallache and Marrishe Parsely †The Nature Smallache is hoate and drie lyke garden Parsely †The Vertues The seede and rootes of Smallage in working are much like to the rootes and seede of garden Parsely as Dioscorides writeth The iuyce of Smallache doth mundifie and clense corrupt and festered sores especially of the mouth and throte mingled with other stuffe seruing to the same purpose Smallache as Plinie writeth is good against the poyson of Spiders Of Mountayne Parsely Chap. xliij Orioselinon †The Description AMongst the kindes of Parsely the Auncientes haue alwayes described a kinde whiche they name Mountayne Parsely And albeit it be nowe growen out of knowledge yet we haue thought it good to describe the same to the intent that nothing should fayle of that whiche apparteyneth to the kindes of Parsely also we hope that this Parsely shal be the sooner founde bycause we do here expresse it by name This Parsely as writeth Dioscorides hath smal tender stalkes of a span long hauing litle branches with smal spokie tops or crownets lyke to Hemlocke but much smaller vpon the which groweth a litle seede somewhat long like to the seede of Commin smal of a very good and aromatical sent and sharpe vpon the tongue †The Place This kinde of Parsely groweth in rough vntoyled places and vppon high stonie hylles for the whiche consyderation it is called Mountayne Persely ⧠The Names This Parsely is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Apium montanum that is to say in Englishe Hyll Parsely or Mountayne Parsely in Frenche Persil de montaigne in high Douch Berch Epffich in base Almaigne berch Eppe †The Nature This Persely is of complexion or temperament lyke the other but a great deale stronger as witnesseth Galen ⧠The Vertues The seede and roote of hill or mountayne Parsely dronken in wine prouoketh vrine and womens flowers The seede with great proffite is put into preseruatiues and medicines prepared to prouoke vrine Of stone Parsely Chp. xliiij †The Description THis Parlely hath meetely large leaues seuered into sundrie partes or diuers smal leaues the which vpō eache side are deepe cut and fynely hackt or snipt round about The stalkes be small of two foote long vpō whiche growe small spokie toppes with white flowers and after them a seede somewhat browne not muche vnlyke the seede of the garden Parsely but better and of an aromaticall sauour sharper taste The roote is small with many hearie stringes hanging thereat †The Place This kinde which is the right Parsely groweth plentifully in Macedonia in rough stony and vntoyled places and also in some places of Douchland that be lykewise rough stony and vntoyled The Hetboristes of this Countrie doo sow it in their gardens †The Time This Parsely flowreth in Iuly and yeeldeth his seede in August †The Names This strange but yet the true Parsely is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and bycause it groweth plentifully in Macedonia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Petroselinon Macedonicon in Latine Petrapium Apium saxatile and Petroselinum that is to say in English Stone Parsely in high Douch Stein Epffich or Stein Peterlin in base Almagne Steen Eppe It is also called of some ignorāt Apothecaries Amomū in Brabant they cal it Vremde Peterselie that is to say Strange Parsly the whiche without all doubt is the true Parsely called by the name of the place where as it groweth most plentifully Parsely of Macedonie the French men call it Persil de Roches and Persil vray †The Nature This Parsely is hoate and drie almost in the thirde degree †The Vertues The seede of this Parsely moueth womens flowers prouoketh vrine breaketh and driueth foorth the stone and grauel togither with the vrine It dispatcheth and dissolueth all windinesse and blastinges and easeth the gripinges of the stomacke and bowels it is also very excellent against all colde passions of the sides the kidneyes and bladder It is also put with great profite in preparatiues and medicines ordayned to prouoke vrine Petroselinum Macedonicum Of great Parsely or Alexander Chap. xlv †The Description THE great Parsely hath large leaues broade and somewhat browne not muche vnlyke the leaues of garden Parsely but muche larger and blacker almost lyke the leaues of Angelica The stalke is rounde of three or foure foote high at the toppe whereof it bringeth foorth round spokie tufts or circles with smal white flowers Hypposelinon and after them a blacke seede somewhat long and almost as bigge as the kernell of an Orenge of a spicie sauour and bitterishe taste The roote is white within and blacke without which being taken foorth of the ground broken in peeces putteth foorth a thicke liquer or oylie gumme of a yellowishe colour in taste very bitter and lyke to Myrrhe †The Place This Parsely groweth in some Countries in lowe shadowie places The Herboristes of this Countrie do
Africa Arabia Lybia other hoate Countries are very hoate euen almost in the third degree causing wheales pustulles and vlcers in the mouth consuming and eating the flesh euen to the bones but they which growe in Italy and Spayne be not so strong and as Simeon Sethy writeth they be hoate and drie in the seconde degree and therfore are fitter to be eaten bycause they be moderately hoate dry astringent especial the barke of the roote which is most desired in Physicke for the flowers young leaues be not of so strong operation and therefore doo serue better to be eaten with meates †The Vertues The barke of the roote of Capers is good against the hardnesse and stopping of the milt to be taken with Oximel or mingled with oyles oyntments fit for that purpose applyed or layd to outwardly vpon the place of the milt Also they vse with great profite to giue of this roote in drinke to suche as haue the Sciatica the Palsie and to them that are brused or squat or haue fallen from aboue It stirreth vp womens desyred sicknesse doth so mightily prouoke vrine that it waxeth blooddy if it be to muche vsed and in to great a quantitie It cleanseth olde vlcers and rotten sores that are harde to heale and layde to with vineger it taketh away fowle white spottes and morphew The fruite and leaues of Capers haue the lyke vertue as the rootes but not so strong as Galen sayth The seede of Capers boyled in vineger and kept warme in the mouth swageth toothe ache The iuyce of the leaues flowers and young fruite of Capers killeth the wormes of the eares when it is dropped in The Capers preserued in salt or pickel as they be brought into this Countrie being washed boyled and eaten with vineger are meate and medicine for it stirreth vp appetite openeth the stoppinges of the liuer and milt consumeth and wasteth the colde flemes that is gathered about the stomacke Yet they nourishe very litle or nothing at all as Galen saith Of Gooseberies Chap. xix †The Description THE Gooseberie bushe is a wooddishe prickley plante growing to the height of two three or foure foote with many whitishe branches set full of sharpe prickles and smothe leaues of a light greene colour somewhat large and round cut in snipt about almost like to vine leaues Amongst the leaues growe smal flowers and after them rounde beries the whiche are first greene but when they waxe ripe they are somewhat yellowe or reddishe and cleare through shining of a pleasant taste some what sweete The roote is slender harde wooddishe and full of hearie stringes †The Place The Gooseberie is planted commonly almost in euery garden of this Coūtrie alongest the hedges borders of the same †The Tyme The Goosebery bush springeth bytimes and waxeth greene in Marche yea and sometimes in Februarie it flowreth in April and bringeth foorth his fruit in May the which is muche vsed in meates The fruite is ripe at the ende of Iune Vua Crispa †The Names The Gooseberie is called of the later writers in Latine Grossularia Gesnere thinketh it to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spina Ceanothos of Theophrastus The fruite is called in Latine Vua crispa of some Grossula of Matthiolus Vua spina whiche may be Englished Thorne grape in Frenche des Groisselles ▪ in high Douche Kreuszbeer and Kruselbeer in base Almaigne Stekelbesien or Kroesbesien and of some also Knoeselen †The Nature The fruite before it is ripe for then it is most vsed is colde and drie in the seconde degree and binding almost of the same nature that the vnripe grapes of the vine are †The Vertues The vnripe Gooseberie stoppeth the belly and all issue of blood especially the iuyce of them pressed foorth and dried The same greene Gooseberies or their iuyce is very good to be layd vpon hoate inflammations Erysipelas and wilde fire The leaues be likewise good for the same purpose but not al thing so vertuous The greene Gooseberie eaten with meates prouoketh appetite cooleth the vehemēt heate of the stomacke and liuer and doth swage and mitigate the inwarde heate of the same and is good against agues The young leaues eaten rawe do prouoke vrine and are good for suche as are troubled with the grauell and stone Of redde Gooseberies Chap. xx ¶ The Kyndes OF these beries there be two sortes in this Countrie the one beareth ared fruite of a pleasant taste the other beareth a blacke fruit of an vnpleasant taste †The Description THE red beyondsea Gooseberie hath woddishe pliant branches couered with a brownish barke and brode blackishe leaues not muche vnlyke vine leaues but smaller The flowers growe amongst the leaues vppon the young sprigges or sprayes clustering togither and a great many hanging downeward by smal stringes or stemmes whē those flowers be past there grow vpon euery syde of the said stringes many small greene berries at the first the which afterwarde waxered of a pleasant quicke and sharpe taste The blacke Gooseberies are lyke to the aforesayde in branches leaues flowers and fruite sauing they be of a blacke colour and vnpleasant taste and therefore not vsed †The Place Beyondsea Gooseberies are planted in diuers gardens wherewithall they vse to make twisted hedges alongst by the allies and borders of gardens The blacke Goosederies growe of them selues in moyst vntoyled places alongst by the ditches water courses Vua vrsi Galeni Ribes vulgò †The Time Beyondsea Gooseberies are most commonly rype in Iuly †The Names This plant is called of the later writers in Latine Grossularia rubra Grossu laria transmarina Ribes and Ribesum yet this is not right Ribes The fruite is also called of the later writers Groslulę transmarinae and it shoulde seeme to be the fruite the whiche Galen lib. 7. de medicamentis secundùm loca calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vuae vrsi in shoppes they cal it Ribes in French Groiselles d'outre mer in high Douche S. Iohans treuble or Treublin and S. Iohans beerlin in base Almaigne Besiekens ouer zea and Aelbesiekens The first kinde is called Grossulae rubrae Ribes rubrum in Englishe Redde Gooseberies Beyondsea Gooseberies Bastard Corinthes common Ribes in Frenche Groiselles rouges in base Almaigne Roode Aelbesien and of this sort onely they vse in shoppes and meates The second kinde is called Ribes nigrum in English Blacke Gooseberies or blacke Ribes in Frenche Groiselles noires in base Almaigne Swerte Aelbesien †The Nature The red Gooseberies are cold and drie in the second degree and astringent or binding ⧠The Vertues Red Gooseberies do refreshe and coole the hoate stomacke and liuer and it is very good to be takē against al inflammation burning heate of the blood and hoate agues The same holden in the mouth chewed is good against al inflammation and hoate tumours in the mouth and quencheth thirst in hoate agues It stoppeth the laske comming of a cholerique humour and
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
and taken in the quantitie of a Dragme with wine is very good against the biting of Serpents and all other venemous beastes The Decoction of Camomill made in water and applied outwardely vpon the region of the bladder taketh away the payne of the same prouoketh vrine and driueth forth grauell Camomill chewed in the mouth cureth the vlcers sores of the same Of like vertue is the decoction to washe the mouth withall Camomill also closeth vp al woundes and old vlcers especially those which happen about the corners of the eyes whan it is brused and layde vpō or if one washe such woundes and sores with the decoction thereof Camomill mēgled with oyle taken in glister is singuler against all feuers whiche happen by meanes of the obstruction or stopping of the skinne The oyle of Camomill doth asswage and mitigate all payne and ache it cureth weried brused partes it looseth and softeneth all that which is hard and stretched out or swollen it doth mollifie and make soft all that whiche is hard and openeth all that is stopped Of wilde or common Camomill Chap. xxx ¶ The Kyndes THere are foure kindes of wilde Camomill The first kinde is the common Camomill the second is the Cotula foetida the thirde is the greate wilde Camomill called Cotula non foetida the fourth is the wilde Camomill with the yellow floures called in Latine Cotula Lutea ⧠The Description THe common Camomill hath slender tough hard stemmes the leaues be tender and very small cut and iagged The floures growe at the toppe of the branches and are yellow in the middell and set rounde aboute with many small white leaues altogither lyke the floures of garden Camomill with the white floures and also of a meetely pleasant sauour but nothing so strong nor pleasant in smell as the garden Camomill Chamaemelum Leucanthemum commune syluestre The common wilde Camomill Cotula foetida Mathers or stinking Camomill Vnsauery Camomill or Cotula non foetida hath small tender pliant stems many growing vp from one roote the leaues be long greater and whiter than the leaues of the common Camomill The floures are like to the two kindes aforesayde but they are a great deale greater and without any manifest smell The roote is great and very threddie the which dieth not lightly at winter but springeth vp yearely a newe Golden Cotula is like to Cotula non foetida in his stalkes leaues floures sauing that his leaues be greater and whiter drawing towards Asshie colour and his floures be not onely yellow in the middle but also they are set round about with smal yellow leaues in fashion like the other Camomilles without smel like to Cotula nō foetida Also it doth not lightly die or decay but springeth vp yearely out of the olde rootes †The Place The iij. first kinds do grow most cōmōly in this coūtrie in euery corne field The golden Cotula groweth in suche like places in France and Germanie but not in this countrie except in the gardens of Herbozistes †The Tyme All these kindes of Camomill do floure in Iune from thence forth all the Somerlong Cotula non foetida Vnsauerie Maydeweede Cotula lutea Golden Cotula †The Names The first kinde of wilde Camomill is now called Chamaemelum album in Shoppes Chamomilla whereas it is aptly vsed for Leucanthemum in English common Camomill in Italian Camamilla in Spanish Macella Manzamilla in French Camomille vulgaire in high Douch Chamill Albeit this is not the right Camomill Wherefore we call it Chamaemelum syluestre that is to say wilde Camomill The second kinde is now called in Latine and in Shoppes Cotula foetida of some Cauta and Camomilla foetida and in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cynanthemis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cynobotane that is to say Dogges Camomill in Italian Drusaculo in Spanish Maguarca in high Douch Krottendill Hunszdill Hundszblum and wilde Chamill in Brabant Paddebloemen and stinckende or wilde Camille in English Mathers Mayweede Dogges Camomill Stincking Camomill and Dogge Fenell and peraduenture it is Parthemium mucrophyllon of Hippocrates The thirde kinde is called Cotula non foetida Camomilla fatua and Camomilla inodora of some in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Buphthalmum that is to say in Latine Oculus bouis in high Douch Kudill and Rundsaug Kueaug in French Oeil de beuf howbeit this is not the right Buphthalmum as one may see in the Chapters following and therefore it may better be called Cotula non foetida or Cotula alba than to call it by a name not belōging vnto it I haue Englished it Vnsauerie Camomill foolish Mathes and white Cotula without sauour The fourth kinde may wel be called Cotula lutea seing it is so well like vnto the Cotules abouesaide in English Golden Cotula in high Douch Streichblumen and Steinblumen and according to the same it is called in base Almaigne Strijck bloemen Some whiche thinke that this is the second kinde of Camomill do call it Chrysanthemum that is to say yellow Camomill in French Camomille iaulne in high Douch geel Camille but they are deceyued and their opinion is not like to be true bycause this herbe hath no speciall smell Moreouer the fasshion of the leaues is nothing like to the leaues of garden Camomill neither yet like the common Camomill †The Temperament The common Camomill is of complexion hoate and dry and not so feruent as the Romaine Camomill but more pleasant and gentill Cotula foetida is hoate and dry as his smell and sauour declareth The other two kindes are of complexion somwhat like but not so strong †The Vertues As the common Camomill is very like in cōplexion to the right Camomill so is it like in his faculties and operation sauing that it is not althing so strong in operation This Camomill hath bene proued to be very good against the Cholicke and the Stoone and also it prouoketh vrine to be vsed in like manner as the Romaine or right garden Camomill and it is more conuenient and agreable vnto mans nature than the Romaine Camomill And surely this Camomill also is right excellent in all kindes of mollifiyng and softning playsters that serue to swage payne to dissolue tumors swellings for it easeth and swageth all paynes and dissolueth scattereth tumors causing the same to vanish away therefore it is very good to be vsed in such clysters as are made against the Colique and the stone The oyle of this Camomill is singuler against all kinde of ache and payne against brusings shrinkings hardnesses and stoppings like the oyle of the garden Camomill Moreouer it is better and more conuenient to be put into Clisters whiche are made against the Feuer than that oyle that is made of the floures of garden Camomill Cotula foetida is good for such wemen whose Matrix is loosed and falling downe from one side to another if one do washe their feete
with a decoction thereof made in water It is also good against the Suffocations of the Matrix if you giue it to be eaten or smelt too and it is of like vertue to Castorium as the learned writers of our time haue found out by experience The operation and vertues of the two others are not yet knowen but accordingly as one may iudge they are in facultie not muche vnlike the Camomils sauing that they be altogither feebler Some do write that golden Cotula boyled in wine and dronken is good against the Iaunders and restoreth the good liuely colour whiche is a signe that it is of like vertue vnto Camomill for Camomil worketh the same as we haue declared in the former Chapter Of Passe floure / or fiedde Mathes Chap. xxxi †The Description THis herbe hath thicke greene stalkes and leaues very small cutte and iagged much like bothe in stalkes and leaues and also in smell and sauour vnto Cotula foetida The floure is of a fayre purple red colour of fasshion and making like vnto the golde cup or the floure of Crowfoote whan they are past there come vp roūd rough knops like the knops of Crowfoote but somwhat longer wherein is the seede like to Spinache seede †The Place These fayre pleasant floures grow in some places in the cōmon corne fields as in Prouence and Languedoc and in some places of England in some countries they grow not but in gardens †The Tyme This herbe beginneth to floure in May and remayneth flouring all the Somer Heranthemum forte †The Names The stalkes leaues with the whole herbe that beareth these floures which is like vnto some of the Camomilles in sauour smell and proportion are sufficient enough to proue this herbe to be a kinde of Camomill and especially the thirde kinde called Heranthemum the floures onely whiche are not very like vnto Camomill floures causeth me to doubt For if the floures were like fasshioned vnto Camomill I would without doubte mayntayne this herbe to be the thirde kinde of Camomill which is the true Heranthemum whiche Dioscorides describeth to be greater than the two other kindes to haue a purple floure vnto whiche description this herbe draweth neare sauing only in the fasshion of his floure For the whole plant is greater and higher then Camomill but otherwise very like it and the floures be of a fayre purple red colour But whatsoeuer this herbe is it is better like to be the thirde kinde of Camomill than Consolida regia whiche we call Larckes spurre is or Aster Atticus whiche we call Sharewurte which haue bene both described of some writers for this kinde of Camomill although they were nothing like Camomill neyther in their leaues floures nor smell and they beare not redde floures but blew whiche is against the description of Heranthemum whose floures as it is aboue sayde Dioscorides writeth to be of a red purple colour Wherefore this herbe may better be called Heranthemum then either Larckes spur or Shareworte it may be called in English purple Camomill Redde Mathes and Passe floure it is also called in French Passe fleur the Brabanders call it Bruynettekens Some would haue it to be flos Adonis but their opinion seemeth not to be very likely bycause that Flos Adonis should seeme to be none other then a kind of Anemone †The Temperament The taste and smell of this herbe doth manifestly declare it to be of complexion hoate and drie like the Camomill but chiefly like to Cotula foetida †The Vertues The vertues and operation of this herbe are yet vnknowen vnto vs but if this herbe be Heranthemum it is singuler against the stoone as we haue alreadie written in the xxix Chapter of this Booke Of Buphthalmos / or Oxe eye Chap. xxxij ⧠The Description BUphthalmos is a braue plante with pleasant floures stems of a span or a halfe cubite long it hath three or foure stalkes set with tender leaues very small cut and iagged not muche vnlike vnto Fenell leaues but a great deale smaller and very well like to the leaues of the smal Sothrenwood sauing they be greener The floure is of a fayre bright yellow colour and large with many small thrommes or yellow thredes in the middle almost like to the floures of Marigoldes sauing they be much larger haue not so many small leaues set round about the golden knops or yellow heades The floure perisshed there commeth in steede thereof a rounde knop almost like the sedie knop of Passe floure the roote is blacke very thredie †The Place This herbe as witnesseth Dioscorides groweth in the fieldes without the towne in this countrie the Herboristes do plant it in their gardens Buphthalmum ⧠The Tyme It beareth his floures in Marche and Aprill †The Names This herbe bycause of his floures whiche be of the quantitie and fashion of an Oxe eye is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Buphthalmum Oculus bouis in high Douch Rindszaug Kuaug in base Almaigne Rundsooge and Coeooghe some call it also Cachla Cauta or Caltha This is the right Oxe eye described by Dioscorides In certayne places the Apothecaries do sell and vse the rootes of this plant in steede of the roote of blacke Hellebor and from hence it cōmeth that certaine studious Herboristes haue called this plant Helleborum nigrum and do count it for a very naughtie and vehement plante howbeit that of it selfe it hath not in it any speciall malice or force neither will it prouoke the stoole as some haue proued by experience Therfore some haue called it Helleborine tenuifolia some others call it Helleborastrum or Consiligo wherevnto it is nothing like †The Temperament Buphthalmos or Oxe eye is hoate and dry of a more sharper and cutting nature than Camomill †The Vertues The floures of Buphthalmos pounde and mengled with oyle and waxe layde to colde and harde swellings dissolueth and wasteth the same Some do affirme as witnesseth Dioscorides and Serapio that Buphthalmos or Oxe eye cureth the Iaunders causeth the body to be of good colour if one drinke it boyled in wine after his comming out of a bath Of Goldenfloure / or the wild Marygolde Chap. xxxiij †The Description THis herbe hath rounde smooth stēs diuided into many branches The leaues be long and deepely iagged round about as if they were rent or torne The floures grow at the top of the branches in fasshion like the floures of Camomill but they be a great deale larger and not only yellow like fine gold in the middle but also round about and of a pleasant smell The roote is white and threddie There is yet an other kinde of this herde in all things like to the same as in his stalkes colour floures sauour and fasshion but his leaues be a great deale more deepely cut and iagged euen harde to the middle ribbe or sinew The which I thought good to note to the ende that
that one plante doth sometime occupie the roome or space of a foote or a foote and a halfe in compasse The leaues be as smal as the Lentil leaues whitish and somwhat mossie or heary set in rewes directly aunswering one leafe agaynst another all alongst a small twigge or slender branche neither greater nor lesse but like the boughes and leaues of Lentilles The flower is also lyke the blowing of the Lentil but much smaller almost lyke the blossom or flower of Ciche peason whitishe and sometimes marked with purple lines or strakes The seede is inclosed in smal huskes almost like to the wild Lotus or Trefoyl The whole plant on euery side is set ful of sharpe prickley thornes harde white and strong The roote stretcheth it selfe alongst in length vnder the ground like to the roote of the common Liquerise yellowe within and blacke without tough and limmer and harde to breake the which roote being layde in some feruent hoate place or in the Caniculer dayes laid in the Sonne it getteth a white gumme which is founde sticking fast vpon it Tragacantha †The Place Tragacantha groweth in Media and Creta as Plinie sayth it is also found in other Countries as in Prouince about Marselles whereas I haue seene great store †The Tyme Tragacantha flowreth in April the seede is ripe in Iune in the Caniculer dayes the gumme is founde cleauing to the roote ⧠The Names This plant is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Tragacantha and Hirci spina vnknowen in Shoppes euen amonst them where as it groweth The gumme also whiche commeth from it is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Tragacanthae lachryma in Shoppes Gummi Dragaganthi in English Gumme Dragagant †The Nature Tragacantha as Galen writeth is of nature like to gumme Arabique that is to say of a drie and clammie complexion †The Vertues Gumme Dragagant is good against the cough the roughnesse of the throte the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the voyce being licked in with honie For the same purpose that is to say for the roughnesse of the throte and sharpe Arterie or wind pipe They make a certaine electuarie in shops called Diatragaganthū They drinke it stieped in wine the quantitie of a dramme against the paine of the kidneyes and excoriation or knawing of the bladder in putting thereto Hartes horne burnt and washed The sayd gumme is put into Collyres and medicines that are made for the eyes to take away the acrimonie and sharpnesse of the same it doth also stoppe the pores and conduites of the skinne †The Choise You must chuse that whiche is cleare and shining smal firme and close well purified and cleene from al manner filth and sweat Of Ficus Indica Chap. lxxxi THis strange kind of plante commeth foorth of one leafe set in the grounde and sometimes it groweth high and is named of Plinie Opuntia nowe in these dayes Ficus Indica That Euphorbium commeth foorth lykewise of one leafe but yet it is separated from this kind for the leaues of Euphorbium be long rounde and thick fasshioned like vnto Cucumbers set on the sides with thornes Of that Euphorbiū writeth Ioannes Leo in his historie of Aphrica and is spoken of before in the second part of this booke in the cxvj Chap. Ficus Indica Of Buprestis Chap. lxxxij THis Worme is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Buprestis in some places of the lowe Countrie he is called Veemol And is called Buprestis bycause it is hurtfull to cattel as namely vnto Oxen and kyen And is founde in certayne places of Holland and lykewise somtimes in Brabant and Flaunders where the kyen sometimes are bitten of them This worme is of the kinde of Scarabeen or Horswormes the whiche are named Cantharides or Spanishe Flyes and hath winges lyke vnto these and is of forme and bignesse suche as the figure doth shewe And this figure haue we set here bycause that some haue set foorth another worme not lyke vnto the true Buprestis Buprestis The end of the fourth Booke ¶ The fyfth part of the Historie of Plantes / treating of the differences / fashions / names / vertues and operations of herbes rootes and fruites whiche are dayly vsed in meates Set foorth by Rembertus Dodonaeus Of Orache Chap. i. †The Kindes ORache as Dioscorides writeth is of two sortes the garden Orache and the wilde Orache Atriplex satiua Garden Orache Atriplex syluestris Wylde Orache †The Description GArden Orache hath long straight stalkes rounde next the roote and square aboue with many branches The leaues be almost triangled long and broade of a feynt yellow or white colour as if they were ouerstrowen with meale or flower especially those leaues that are yet yong and new sprong vp The flowers growe at the top of the branches a number clustering togither small and yellow and afterwarde commeth the seede which is broade and couered with a litle skinne or rime The roote is full of hearie stringes There is also another kinde of Garden Orache whose leaues stalkes and flowers be of a browne red colour but in all thinges els lyke to the leaues stalkes and flowers of the white Orache both in bignesse and proportion The wilde Orache hath also a long stalke moulded or crested with leaues not muche vnlyke the leaues of the garden Orache but somewhat lesser and creuised or a little snipt rounde about The flowers be yellowishe The seede is harde and groweth thicke clustering togither lyke as the seede of the garden Orache The roote is full of heares Of this wilde kinde there is also founde another sort the whiche groweth not very high but remayneth lowe and spreade abroade into many branches It hath little long narrowe leaues nothing snipt or creuished about The flowers seede and rootes are very muche lyke vnto the wilde kinde before described †The Place The garden Orache groweth amongst other pot herbes in gardens The wilde Orache is founde alongst the feeldes and wayes †The Tyme Orache flowreth in Iune and Iuly and almost all the sommer †The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Atriplex of some Chrysolachanon ▪ that is to say in Latine Aureum olus in Frenche Arroches or Bonnes Dames in high Douche Molten and Milten in base Almaigne Melde in English Orache The garden Orache is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Atriplex satiua and Hortensis in high Douche Heymisch Molten Zam Molten and Garden Molten in base Almaigne Tam Melde The wilde is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Atriplex syluestris in high Douche Wilde Molten Ackermolten in base Almaigne Wilde Melde The lesser wilde kinde is called in high Douche Kleyn Scheiszmilten in base Almaigne Cleyne Melde †The Nature Orache is colde in the first degree and moyst in the seconde especially garden Orache the whiche is more colder and moyster than the wilde Orache †The
Vertues Orache eaten in pottage as other herbes doth soften and loose the belly The seede of Orache taken in Meade or Honied water doth open and comfort the stopped lyuer and is good against the Iaundize or Guelsought Greene Orache brused is very good to be layde vppon inflammations and hoate swellinges that of the garden at the beginning of the swelling or inflammation and the wilde at the ende or going away of the same With Saltpeter honie vineger it is layd to Cholerique inflammations called Wilde Fier bycause it doth wast and consume the member it is in and also to the gowte ⧠The Danger The often vse of Orache engendreth many infirmities ouerturneth the stomacke and causeth diuers spottes freckles or pimples to artse in the face and all the rest of the body Also it is harde of digestion as sayth Diocles and Dionysius Of Blites Chap. ij †The Kindes THere be two sortes of Blites the great and the small and euery of them is diuided againe into two kindes whereof the one is white and the other redde and doth common in this Countrie †The Description THE great white Blite groweth two or three foote high hath grayish or white rounde stalkes The leaues be playne and smoth almost lyke the leaues of Orache but not so soft white nor mealie The flowers growe like Orache and after them commeth the seede inclosed in litle flat huskie skinnes The great red Bleete is much lyke the other sauing that his stalkes be very red and the leaues of a browne greene color changeable vpon redde and so is the seede also The lesser Blite with the greene stalke is full of branches and groweth vp sodenly The leaues be long and narrowe or smal not much vnlike the leaues of Beetes sauing they be farre smaller The flowers be browne turning towardes redde The seede groweth clustering togither lyke Orache seede The roote is full of hearie stringes The smal red Blite hath stalkes red as blood and so are his leaues and rootes in so muche that with the iuyce of this herbe one may write as faire a red as with roset made of Brasill otherwyse it is lyke the rest of the kindes of other Blites Blitum maius The great Blite Blitum rubeum The red Blite Blitum album The white Blite ¶ The Place This herbe groweth wilde and in some gardens amongst pot herbes and where as it hath once taken roote it commeth vp euery yeere wherefore it is counted but a weede or vnprofitable herbe †The Tyme It is founde most commonly in flower about midsomer †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Blitum in Frenche Blette and Pourée rouge in high and base Almaigne Maier in Englishe Blite and Blittes ¶ The Nature This herbe is colde and moyst †The Vertues Blites eaten in pottage do soften the belly but it hurteth the stomacke and nourisheth not Of Goose foote Chap. iij. †The Description GOose soote groweth a foote and a halfe high or two foote in length he stalke is straight and full of branches the leaues be brode and deepely cut rounde about almost like to a Ganders foote wherefore it is so named The flowers be small reddish The seede groweth clustering lyke the Orache seede The roote is full of hearie threddes †The Place This herbe groweth wilde and in vntoyled places alongst by the way sides and is taken but as a weede or vnprofitable herbe †The Tyme You shal finde it flowring in Iune and Iuly †The Names This herbe is called of the writers in our tyme Pes Anserinus in high Douche Genszfusz in Frenche Pied d'oyson in base Almaigne Gansenvoet and of some Schweinsztod Seutod that is to say ▪ Swines bane bycause the Hogges eating of this herbe are immediatly baned or taken with the Murren so that within short space they die †The Nature This herbe is cold almost in the third degree Pes Anserinus †The Vertues This herbe in operation is much like Morel or Nightshade and may be vsed outwardly to all thinges wherevnto Nightshade is required Tragium Germanicum Of the ranke Goate / or stinking Motherworte Chap. iiij †The Description THis herbe also is somewhat lyke Orache but in al thinges smaller This is a little lowe tender herbe with many long branches trayling on the ground The smal leaues are whitish as though they were ouerstrowen with meale lyke to the leaues of Orache but muche smaller neither muche greater then the leaues of Marierom gentil The seede is smal and white and groweth clustering togither like the seede of Orache All the herbe stinketh like rotten corrupt fishe Tragium Germanicum or lyke stinking fishe broth or lyke a ranke stinking Goate ¶ The Place It groweth in this Countrie in sandie places by the way sides †The Tyme You may finde it in flower and seede about midsomer †The Names This herbe hath no particuler Latine name wherefore bycause of his stinking sauour we do call it in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ▪ in Latine Tragium that is to say Goates herbe And bycause you shal reade in Dioscorides of two other herbes called Tragia to make some difference betwixt them we do name this Tragium Germanicum in Frenche Blanche putain in base Almaigne Bocxcruyt some call it Vuluaria by whiche name it is knowen of the Herboristes of this Conntrie Valerius Cordus calleth it Garosmos I haue named it in Englishe The ranke stinking Goate or stinking Motherwort And is taken of some to be that stinking herbe that of Plautus is named Nautea †The Vertues The smel of this herbe is good for women that are vexed with the rising vp of the mother and for the same greefe it is good to be layde vpon the nauell Of Beetes Chap. v. †The Kindes THere be two sortes of Beetes the white and red And of the red sorte are two kindes the one hauing leaues and roote lyke to the white Beete the other hath a great thicke roote and is a stranger amongst vs. Beta candida White Beete Beta nigra Redde Beete †The Description THE white Beete hath great brode playne leaues amongst the whiche riseth vp long crested or streked stalke The flowers grow alongst by the stalkes one vpon another like little Starres The seede is rounde harde and rough The toote is long thicke and white within The common redde Beete is muche lyke vnto the white in leaues stalkes seede and roote sauing that his leaues and stalkes are not white but of a swart browne red colour The strange red Beete is like to the cōmon red Beete in leaues stalkes seede proportion color sauing that his roote is muche thicker and shorter very well like to a Rape or Turnep but very redde within and sweeter in tast then any of the other two sortes †The Place They sowe the Beete in gardens amongst pot herbes The strange redde Beete is to be founde planted in the gardens of Herboristes †The Tyme