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£ 3 Tab acnm minimum. 



Dwarfe Tabaco. 



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caufe I durft not hafard all my feed 

 fovvingjwhich might be a great en< 



t $ This third is an herb fotn fpan or bet. 

 ter long,not in face vnlike the precedent n e i 

 ther defe&iue in the hot and burning taft jh ' 

 floures are much leiTe than thofe of the yellovr 

 Henbane,and of a greenifh yellow. The Ieaues 

 are fmall , and narrower than thofe of Sae e of 

 Ierufalem.The root is fmall and fibrous + 



% The Place. 



Thefe were firft brought intofcurope outof 

 America,which is called the Weft Indies j n 

 which is the prouince or countrey of Peru /but 

 being now planted in the gardens of Europe it 

 profpers very well,and comes from feed in one 

 yeare to beare both floures and feed . The which 

 I take to be better for the conftitution of our 

 bodies, than that which is brought from India. 

 & that growing in India better for the people' 

 of the fame country : notwitb (landing itisnot 

 fo thought of our Tabaconiftsjforacordingto 

 the Englifh prouerb, Far fetcht & dear bought 

 is bell for Ladies. 



^r The Time. 



Tabaco muft be fowne in the raoft fruitfull 

 ground that may be found,carelefly caft abroad 

 in fowing,without raking it into the ground,or 

 any fuch pain or induftry taken as is requifit in 

 the fbwing of other feeds,asmy felfhauc found 

 by proofjwho haue experimented euery way to 

 caufe it quickly to grow:for I haue committed 

 fome to the earth in the end of March, fome in 

 Aprill,and fome in the beginning of May, be- 





^J" 7 he Names. 



The people of America call it P^«».Some,as LoMand Pena t hiuc giuen it thefe LatinenameJ, 



Sacra herba t Sa»£ia herta,and Sanafanfta Jndorum. Others,as Dodontus, call it Hyofcyamns Peruvimt, 

 or Henbane of Peru. Nkolaus Monardm names it Tdacum. That it is Hyofiyamijpeczes, or a kindcof 

 Henbane,not only the forme being like to yellow Henbane,but the qualitie alfo doth declare ; for 

 ltbnngeth drowfinefTe, troubleth the fences, and makctb a man as it were drunkc by taking the 

 fume only ; as Andrew Theuet teftifieth,and common experience fhewcth : of fome it is called fa 

 cottana,thc which I refer to the yellow Henbane for diftinaions fake. 



«[ The Temperature. 



It is hot and dry,and that in the fecond degree,as Menardis thinketh, and is withal! of power to 

 ill i k ° r refoIue > and to denfe away filthy hamors,bauing alfo a fmall attrition, and a ftup"?' 

 jngor benumming qualitie, and it purgeth by the ftoole : and Monardu writeth, that it hath *&• 

 ram power to refiftpoifon. And to prone it to be of an hot temperature, the biting quality ot tne 

 ieaues do £hew,which is eafily perceiued by tafte : alfo the green Ieaues laid vpon vlcers in faewie 

 parts may ierue for a proofeof heate in this plant 5 becaufe they doe draw out filth and cortup«* 

 mattar,wmch a cold Simple would neuer do. The Jeaues likewife being chewed draw forth Hcg™ 

 and water,as doth alfo the fume taken when the Ieaues are dried : which things declare that this* 



other 

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not a little hot ; fo* what things foeuer,that being chewed or held in the mouth bring forth 

 and water.tfte lame be all accounted hot ; as the root of Pellitorie of Spaine,of Saxifrage,* 



things of Jike power. Moreouer,the benumming qualitie hereof is not hard to be perceiued , w» 

 vpon the taking of the fume at the mouth there followed an infirmitic like vnto drunkennc^^ 

 many times fleepe,as after the taking of opium : which alfo (heweth in the tafte a biting ' qua» • 

 and therefore is not without heate ; which when it is chewed and inwardly taken,it dotb fori 'W 



fiiewjcaufing a certain heate in the cheft,and yet withall troubling the wits , as Petrm W mu ^ 



