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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 



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Lib. 2 



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^[ The Names. 



The late VVriters cal this Sen atula^wd Serratula tinfteria^it differeth as we haue faid from B 

 ny, which is alfo called SerratuU; it is called in Englifh Saw-wort. $ Cafalpinncalk itc 

 and Serretta j and Tbaltwficntauroidespx Centaurium majusfyhejlre Germanicum. $ ****** 



^T The Temperature and Vermes . 



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Scrratula is wonderfully commended to be moft Angular for wounds.ruptures burftinos and r.«* 

 e : and is referred vnto the temperature of Sanicle, 6 } l 



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243. Of<Betony 



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Etony groweth vp with long Ieaues and broad, of a darke greenc colour, (lightly inden- 

 ted about the edges like a faw. The ftalke is {lender, foure fquare, fomewhat rough a 

 foot high more orlefle. It beareth cared floures, of a purpliih colour, and fometfracs 



firings. 



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I Betonica. 



B etony. 







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Betony with white floures is like the 

 precedent in each refpe&,fauing that the flows 

 of this plant are white, and of greater beautie, 

 and the others purple or red as aforcfaid. 



^J The Place. 

 Betony loues fhadovvie woods, hedge-raves, 

 and copfes,the borders of paftures,and iuch like 

 places. 



Betony with white floures is feldome fecne 

 I found it in a wood by a Village called Hamp- 

 ftead, ncere vnto a Worfhipfull Gentlemans 

 houfe,oneofthe Clerkesof theQueenes coun- 

 fell called W.Wade ^{xom whence I brought 

 plants for my Garden, where they flourish as in 

 their naturall place of growing. 



^f The Time. 



They floure and flourifh for the moft part in 

 Iuneandluly. 



% The Names. 



Betony is called in Greeke,«w in Latine, 



Betonica : of diuers, Vetonica : but vnpropcrly. 

 There is likewife another Betonicaj/vhich P^ulus 

 vBginctadcfcxibcd • and Galen in his fir ft booke 

 of the goucrnment of health fheweththat itij 

 called tten that is to fay, Betonica, Betonie, and 

 alfo Sarxiphagw : Diofcorides notwithftanding 



doth defcribe another Sarxiphagon. 



^f The Temperature. 



Betony is hot and dry in the fecond degree . 

 it hath force to cut,as Galen faith. 



q TheVertues. 



Betony is good for them that be fubjeft to the falling fickene ffc,and for thofe alfo that haue ill 

 heads vpon a cold caufe. & 



It cJeanfeth the lungs and cheft, it takcth away obftrudtions or (toppings of the diner, railr, and 

 gall: it isgoodagainft the yellow jaundife. 

 It maketh a man to haue a good ftomacke and appetite to his roeate ; it preuailetb again A fo»' cr 



