AND COMPLETE HERBAL.” ? yt 
is very wholefome and commodious for ftudents, fot it rejoiceth the heart, and cont. 
forteth the brain, and qualifieth the heat of the liver, 
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Ahn ACONITUM. 
OF this there are two forts, the one bearing blue flowers, the other yellow ; 
it is alfo called wolf’s bane, and the blue is generally known by the name of 
monk’s hood. 
Description. The wolf’s bane which. beareth the blue flower, is nell but 
groweth up a cubit high, the leaves be fplit and j jagged, the flowers i in long rows 
toward the tops of the ftalks, gaping like hoods; on the hoary root, groweth as it 
were alittle knob, wherewith it fpreadeth itfelf abroad, and multiplieth, 
Pracz. The monk’s hood or blue wolf’s bane is very common in many gardens, 
the other rarely found but in the gardens of fome curious herbarifts ; but groweth in 
_ forefts and dark low woods and valleys in fome parts of Heron and F ANGE, <3, 
Time. They flower in April, May, and June. t4 . 
GovERNMENT AnD Dancer, Thele plants are hot and dey in the fourth degree, 
of a martial venomous quality, if ic be inwardly taken, it inflameth the heart, 
burneth the inward parts, and killeth the body. Dodonzeus reporteth of fome men 
at Antwerp, who unawares did eat fome of the monk’s hood in a fallad, inftead 
of fome other herb, and died forthwith: this I write that people who have it in 
their gardens might beware of it, 
te man Cee 
Names. BY the fame name of aloe or aloes is the condenfed juice. af il 
called in all parts of Europe; ; the plant i is alfo called fea-houfleek and fea:ay-green. 
Description. This plant hath very long leaves, thick, and fet round about with 
fhort points or crefts, ftanding wide one from another, the root is thick and long, 
all the herb is of a ftrong favour, and bitter tafte, out of this herb i is drawn a juice, 
which is dried, and called aloes in different parts of the world. 
Pract. Aloe groweth. very plentioufly i in India, and from thence cometh the 
beft juice ; it groweth alfo in many places of Afia and Arabia, near the fea fide, but 
the juice thereof is not fo good as that of India. 
GoveRNMENT AND Vintuzs. It is a martial plant, tors in the fecond degree, 
and dry i in the third, of a very bitter tafte, the j juice being refined and clarified from 
its drofs, is of a clear, and blackifh clean brown colour, it openeth the belly, and 
pare cold phlegmatic and ‘choleric humours, which overburthen aod. nt 
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