L i b. i. Of the Hiftorie of Plants . 241 



fimnifc 



Tagmg 



Opfago : inEngliflh 



ilccpin^, 



the low Dutch 



a 

 n 



Ihadc : the Venetians and Italians call it Bella dona : the Gcrmanes, 23oIitXUim 

 3?UllC bCttCtl : in French, Mot tllemort tile : it commeth very neere vnto Tkophrajfa 



bis MjflJr%or.a, (which di&Kth from Diofcorideshh Mandragoras.) 



Ic is cold CLicn in the fourth degree 



■B 





^ The Venues. 



This kinde o Nightfhadc caufeth fleep 3 troubIeth the mind, bringeth nwdnefle if a few of the A 



benics 



inhfcf «~~~ 



if alio much of it be taken it bringeth death. 



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The grcenelcauesofdeadlyNightmade may with great aduicebevfed in fuch cafes as Petti- B 



morel 1 : but if you will follow my counfell,deale not with thefame in any cafe, and banifti it from 



your gardens and the vie of it alio, being a plant fo furious and deadly : for it bringeth fuch as haue 



eaten the teof into a dead fleepe wherein many haue died, as hath beene often feene and proued by 



experience both in England and elfewhere. Buttogiue you an example hereof it ("hall not be 



4mi(ls»> I r rtmr> tn nl(JU thlt thrct* hmifKttf \A7JcKJ/»K in »li» T/T«» aCC I.. J: J - -^ _r 1 t r- 



arniflc: It 



beauti ill fruit hereof, two whereof died in lefle than eight homes after that they had eaten of 

 them. The third child had a quantitie of honey and water mixed together giuen him to drinke 

 caufinghim to vomit often: God blefled thismeanes and the child recouered. Banifl, therefore* 

 thefe pernicious plants out of your gardens, and all places neere to your houfes, where children or 

 women with child do rcfort, which do oftentimes long and luft after things moft vile and filthie 

 and much more after a berry ofa bright mining blacke colour,and of fuch great beautie as it were 

 able to allure any fuch to cate thereof. ° ' 



The leaues hereof laid vnto the temples caufe fleepe,efpecially if they be imbibed or moiftened 

 «n wme vinegre. It eafeth the intolerable paines of thehead-ache proceeding ofheat in furious 



'lies ranhncr rpfl-hjMncranni;*/! ^c if^«/\.\4 r *> MW »^ *" »uuuu> 



c 



being applied as aforeiaid 







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h a p . 57. Of Winter Cherries. 







f The Defcrip, 



J 



"telto^iASSSS^ forth ? a i ke$ a ™ bit l ™& «M flender,fmooth and 

 - t ^! a .? lfil ». , J cIlI, g t J 1 " way and that way by reafon of his weakened notable 



« common N^ShXfi Z ^^T ^^ Vt Ws noC ^E ^\t 



fiue fmall leauefan th fmiddlf of ihich^ 8 1' ^ C °? e f °" h white floures > confi ft *g <* 



t is ri P e,in colour of ou^common r h , / cl^ "? ? be "y>S reen ac the firft,and red when 



tic bladder.it is ofa^SS^S^ "$ °J k the fame b ^lTe,inclofed in a thin huske or lit- 



blacke W 



V . r . . "cuuer nances i 



telfc all about, and taking hold 



and like vnto 



hereupon are t^^^^SsSl^t'" u^ thin S s * s *™"vn t o 



<:■ The fiouies be v™ fi™ 11 , .J^X ""tented or cut about the edges a moft to the midd le 



«•« bladders fueeeed rhT/oZ L "? 1*'* ft ?° d '°gyP™ '°°g rbotftal ke?or ftemmes . ThTskin- 



25*- » W&SSffi ^^rX^S^V^^-^f^'voichconte^h 



colour vpon 



afe,and blacke of colour, hauing a mark ofwfe 



i 



The red Wint 



if 



% 



'"^madovvienlar^ ,a" Y § r ,° weth vpon old broken walls, about the borders of fi„Uc , j - 





a ndha 



d 



^< ^fd fSSS S » W g«den ^re they hZ^^* 



ofthofevnfeafonable yeares, 1 5^4. Jo 6 . 



