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Of the JHiftorie of Plants. L i Bt z. 



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There is another of the land called Myofotis Scorpioides repens y like the former : but the fiourcs arc 

 thicker thruft together,and do not grow all vpon one fide as the other, and part of the floures arc 

 blew.and part purplc,confufedly mixt together, 



«f[ Tie Place. 

 , 2 Thefe Scorpion grafTes grow not wilde in England,notwithftanding I haue receiued feed 

 of the fir ft from beyond the feas, and haued if perfed them through England, which are efteemed 

 of gentlewomen for the beautieand ftrangnefTeof the crooked cods refembling Caterpillers. 

 The others do grow in waters and ftreames, as alfo on dry and barren bankes. 



^J Tie Time. 



The firft floureth from May to the end of Augufbthe others I haue found all the Summer Ion 



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€f[ Tie Names. 





i Fahim Column a iudges this to be the Clymenon of Diofcorides : others call it Scorpioides 

 \n& Scorpioides Bupleuri folio. 3 



This is the Scorpioides olMattbiolHS^Dod.Lobel^vA others ; and I iudge it was this plantour 

 Author in this place intended, and not the S corf bides Leguminofa of the Aduerfariafoi that hath not 

 a kw leaues, but many vpon one rib - 5 and befides, Dodonaus, whom in dcfcriptions and hiftoryour 

 Author chiefcly folIowes,defcribes this immediately after the other : Gmllandinus^ Cafalpinus^nd 

 Baubine iudge it to be the Telepbium of Diofcorides. 



3 This and the next want no names, for almofteuery writer hath giuen them feuerall ones: 



:1runf elfins called it Cynoglojfaminor : Tragus, Tabewamontanus^nd our Author {page 5 37*of thefor- 

 aicr edition) haue it vnder the mmcof Eupbrafia Cerulea : Dodonaus cals it Scorpioides fiemina : Lonh 

 ceruSyLeomopodium^Cafalpins^^ Heliotr opium minus inpaluftribus : Cordus and Tiatius, Eeiium palujlre. 

 4 This is Auricula muris minor tertia^Eupirafia quart v*,and Pilofellafyluejlris of Tragus rScotftoidts 

 mas ofDodontuszAlfine CMyofotis : and CMyofotis hirfuta repens of Lobel ^Helsotropium minus alteram tf 

 C&falpinns ^ Echium minimum ofColumna ; and Echinmpalufire alterum of 7 'halins : our Author had it 

 thrice : firft in the precedent chapter,by the name of Heliotr opium reclum % with a figure : fecondty in 

 this prefent chapter, without a figure: and thirdly, ^.514. alfowith a figure vnder thenameof 



Pilofellafiore cxrulco. % 



^J Tie Nature and Fertues. 



A There is not any thing remembred of the temperature : yet Diofcorides faith, that the lcaues of 

 Scorpion grafle applyed to the place,are a prefent remedy againft the flinging of Scorpions : and 

 likewife boy led in wine and drunke, preua ile againft the faid bitings, as alfoof addars, fnakes,and 

 fuch venomous beafts : being made in an vnguent with oile, wax> and a little gumElevwi, they are 

 profitable againft fuch hurts^s require an healing medicine. 



hap, ft. Of J^Qghtfkade. 



«U TitKindes. 





loue the fielM 



yet cuery of them found wilde ; whereof fome caufe fleepinefTe cuen vnto death : others^ cau 

 fleepinefTe,and yet Phyficall : and others very profitable vnto the health of man, asfliallbedecl • 



ted in their feuerall vermes. 



^J ThcDcfc 



1 (~* Arden Nightfhade hath round ftalkes a foot high, and full of branches, w &ereo° 

 VJf fet leaues of a blackifh colour, foft and full of juice,in rtiape like to the le***™^ 



ftll,but much greater : among which do grow fmall white floures with yellow r 

 tals in the middle^vhich being paft,there fucceed round berries,greene at the firft,and blacK 



root 



$ 2 The root of this is long,pretty thickc an/i 

 is root srow vo manv fmall ftalfc-M of rhe hrisrht 



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downie. The floures grow about the ftalke at the fetting 01 



pale co!our,diuided intofoure parts,which are fucceeded by feeds contained in hairy o 



ceptacles : which when they come to ripeneffe arc red,or of a reddifh faffron colour. $ 



id of a 



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Nightfliade 



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