y= 
Silver, in equall quantity, made into an Oummnen, and uf ed 0 on any place, where 
the hair groweth, chat you would take away, after it hath been bathed well be- 
fore, or eife in the bain or Stove,doth caufe it to fall away. This Plant is not pro- 
agated by Seed; but any ftick thereof, though almoft withered,being fixed in the 
dart , groweth: which Sgeyeshrs coms nly y declare, that a Bath made of the de- 
coction of the Leaves, and Bark of Willow, reftoreth again, withered and dead 
ers, ro their Spates Seng if ahey ben nourifhed with the fomentatiors 
~ CHAP. XXXVI, 
of Biftort. 
The Names, 
“Ywhat Nannie the Greciant called this Plant; is not eS but 2 
mong{ithe Latines it hath divers. It is called Biftorta,quod rads in [@ 
lerpentis modo contorta & couveluta conftet,by Fragas, | ‘Onicer ous and 
Ba others, and Colxbrina of the fimilitude the Root hath with 
roti it felfup together. Parkinfon faith, that Fafchius calleth it Serpentaria, 
erp rit which though it happily en 
n , Ican findesbuc very much bla= 
a Axi being at uF 
dean’ yney,and the Larines Drachcslas and Sorjerse HORAENE in ith all 
: Dragons: but Biffort is not called 1 Dragons, but Snakeweed, Eng 
= The ccs 55 50 
“alle Biftores da c Ican find, are not epg : 
rihed copethe, ‘of an harfh : Oca ‘i! 
an pointer Dine ade tee fore oF 
ncolour on the upper i de, and ofan Afh colour ayy 
rit eth pias in : fron 
