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at the daily motion of the Sun, but by rcafon it flourethinthe former folftice, at which time the 

 Sun being fartheft gone from the Equinoftiall circle, returneth to the fame : and Scorpiurum of the 

 twiggie tops^that bow backeward like a fcorpions taile : of the Italians, T owe file bobo ; in French 

 Tournfol : fome thinke it to be Her ba ClytU, into which the Poets fcigne CljtU to be metamorpho- 

 fed j whence one hath thefe verfes : 





iti<ejemper petit obuia folen 

 Chriftum, quo prece (pellet 



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tAiginetx 





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A good hand full of great Tornfole boy led in water, and drunke, doth gently purge the body of 

 hot cholericke humours and tough claramieand flimieflegme. 



3$ The fame boy led in wine and drunke is good againft the flinging of Scorpions, or other veno- 

 mous beafts, and is very good to be applied outwardly vpon the griefe or wound. 



C The ktd (lamped and laid vpon warts and fuch like excrefcences, or fupcrfluous out-grovrings, 

 caufeth them to fall away. 



D The fmall Tornefole and his feed boyled with HyiTope, Crefles, and falt-petcr and drunke,dri- 

 ueth forth flat and round wormes. 



E With the fmall Tornefole they in France doe die linnen rags or clouts into a per fe£t purple co. 

 lour 5 wherewith cookes and confe&ioners do colour jellies, wines, meats, and fundry confedures: 

 which clouts in (hops be called Tornefole, after the name of the herbe. 



•f Thefecond and third figures were formerly tranfpofrd : the fourth was the figure ofthcljairyScorpion-graffcdefcribed in the fomthpUec,intbc follow. 

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54. Of Scorpion Graffe 





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1 gj* Corpion graffe hath many fmootb,plaine,euen leaues, of a darke greeaecolour j ftalkes 



fmall, feeble and we^ke, trailing vpon the ground, and occupying a great circuit inre- 

 fpect of the plant. The floures grow vpon long and (lender foot-ftalks,of colour yelloff, 

 in fliape like to the floures of broome ; after which fucceed long, crooked, rough cods,in fhapeand 

 colour like vnto a Caterpiller j wherein is contained yellowifh feed likevnto a kidney in fhape. 

 The root is fmall and tender : the whole plant perifheth when the feed is ripe. 



2 There is another Scorpion gra(fe,found among(orratherrefembling) peafe,and thereupon 

 called Scorpoida Legunt'woJ "a, which bath fmall and tender roots like fmall threds: branches many, 

 weake and tender,trailing vpon the ground, if there be nothing to take hold vpon with his clafping 

 and crooked feed veffels ♦ otherwifeitrampethvponwhatfoeucr is neerc vnto ir. The leaues be fa* 

 and fmall : the floures very little and yellow of colour ; the Ceed foIIowetn,Iittle and blackifh, con* 

 teined in little cods,like vnto the taile Scorpion. 



3 There is another fort almoft in euery (hallow grauelly running ftreame, hauing leaues uw 

 to 5f^««e4orBrooklime.The floures grow at the top of tendei fat greene ftalkes, blew of colou , 

 and fotnetimes with a fpot of yellow among the blew^ne whole branch of floures do turne tnew 

 ielues likewife round like rhe fcorpions raile. 



There isalfo another growing in watery places, with leaues like vnto <^4nagaUis aqm ttu or* 

 ter Checkweed, hauing like (lender ftalkes and branches as the former, and the floures not vn » » 

 fauing that the flouresx>f this are of a light blew or watchet colour, fomewhat bigger, and i»y 



more open, whereby the yellow fpot is feene. rut with 



4 There is likewife another fort growing vpon mod dry grauelly and barren ditch bankes.w ^ 



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leaues like thofe of Moufe-eare:this is called Myoffftesfiorpioides ; it hath rough and hairy l eal * ' ,[ 

 ouerworne ruffet colour : the floures doe grow vpon weake, feeble , and rough br «l che % as !oflr 

 the reft of the plant. They likewife grow for the mod part at one fide of the ftalke, blew ot co _« 

 with a like little fpot of yellow as theothers, turning themfelues backe againe like thetaiie 



Scorpion. 





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