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j^ Of the H iftorie of Plants. L i B . z. 



vyoort, but altogether leflcr,and not fo hairy : from the bofome of which Icaucs "JwlTr^ 

 beautifull fioures bell faftipfcof a bright purple colour, with a fmall pen c « cla^iSf * 

 cle,and in other refpetfs it is like the precedent. lcw PPcr unheal 



ii fn J his /* om a vvoodd y and wrinkled root of a pale purple colour fends forth man 

 crefted ftalks ,of fomecubit high.which are vnorderly fet with leaues 5 !ong rou^LS^ 

 about their edges, being of adarkecolour on the vpper fide, and of a wh? ifl on heir3 ,gt 

 Atthe tops of the ftalkcs grow the floures,bein2 minv^nH rhfrl-.rhr„a . JlSl ., ■'. V ^ cr P^ 



middles. 



Mount Baldus. $ 



"""" w ."V Y 7 . noure hau,n 8 ydlowifh threds, and a pointallin u 



idus.T s 5 a vvas fet forth and dcfcribed by *** in h " SS 



II 



Hedge-rowes of Kent about Canterbury", ^C G«^2^ S ^ '* 



fhey, fifteene miles from London. 



Watford 



DanKesottncKmerOulem Yorkefhire,as I went from Yorke to vifite Selby the place W 

 I was bornc 3 bemg ten miles from thence. $ J p " creas 



Medow 



Wind fore, vpont!:c 

 goe from thence to 



Dartford; in Henningham Parke in Efiex jandinSionMedowneereto Brandford cLht mi£ 



from London. - >^guimucs 



The fifth groweth on mount Baldus in Italy. 



^[ The Time. 



Allthekindesofbell flouresdoefloureand flourifh from May vntillthe beginning of Au*uft 



floureth in the later end of September 



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is of a moil bright and pleafant blew or Azure colours thofeareof this kinde.althoiigh this p!a* 

 fometimes changeth his colour from blew to whitenelte by fome one accident or other. 



^f The Names. 



I 2 Throtevvoort is called in Latine, Ceruicaria^ and Ceruicaria major : in Greeke : «*«• of 



mo& y Vvularia .• of Fuchfius, Campanula: in Dutch, i^alfrtUPt : in Englifh, Canterburic bells, 



Haskewoorr, Throtewoorr, or Vvula woort, of the venue ithathagainft thepaineand fvvelling 

 thereof. 







t 3 This is the Trachelium ma]m Belgarum of Z^/,and the fame (as I before noted) that our 

 Author formerly fet forth by the name o£ Trachelium Gigantcumfo that I haue put thera as you may 

 fee, together in the title of the plant. 



4 This is the Trachelium minus ofDodonata, LoM y and others : the Ceruicaria miner of Tabenu- 

 montanm^Xidi Vvnhria exigua of Tragus : Our Author gaue this alfb another figure and defcriptioo 



by the name of 'Viola Calathianajnoi knowing that it vvas the laft faue one which he had defcribed by 



the name of Tr ache Hum minus . % 



^ The Temperature. 



Thefe plants are cold and dry 3 as are moft of the Bcll-floures. 



«(J The Vertues. 



A The Antients forany thing that we know haue not mentioned, and therefore not fet dotrneany 

 thing concerning the vertues of thefe Bcll-floures: notwithstanding wee haue found in tbc^er 



writers, as alfo of our owne 

 the throate and Vvula or Almond 



experience, thanhey are excellent good againft the inflammation oi 



. _ionds 5 andaII manner of cankers and vlcerationsinthemoutb.ifj** 



mouth and throat be gargarifed and wafhed with the deco&ion of them : and they are of all otter 

 herbes the chiefe and principall to be put into lotions, or wafliing waters, to ir}c& into the port* 

 parts of man or woman 3 being boyled with hony and A Horn in water,with fome white wine. 





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