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*f C craves only in Gardens, and floures at the 



m- i? | aIks f the red Scabious grow fome cubit i _ a . 



x * flder branches, which at the tops carry floures corapofed after the manner of the other 

 ^ nV} 'f Scabious that is, of many little floures diuided into flue parts at the top, and thefe are of 

 fo* 1 ?? ec j co Ioiir,and haue fmal! threds with pendants at them comming forth of the middle of 

 Jp ?S!hefe little rloures, which are of a whitifh colour, at * 



make 



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grow 



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h*cm» fixe Scabious,and calls ic Scabiofa Indica.lt floures in Iuly,and gtowes in th< 

 ^^Thc fame Author hath alfogiuen vs the figure and defcription of another Scabious 3 which 



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AxicthciredgcSjanciaiicciccuiiii ncci luch ltaiA^.iiJciitfiiv^^rcuiuiucuiuroocners, wmen ac 



ikir tops carry blcvvifli floures in long fcaly heads,which are fucceeded by long whitifh feed:the 



5 T^e Place. 



Thcfc kindes of Scabious do grow in paftures^medowe^corn fields, and barren fandy grounds 



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^f The Names. 



diuers think it is named *>' 

 > not know,faith Hermokus 





ous which Aitius doth call Pfira y the fmoke of which being burnt killetb cankers or little wormes; 

 The Author of the Pande&s doth interpret Scabiofa to be Diofcorides his Stabe : Diofcorides defcri- 

 bech state by no markes ac all.being commonly known in his time $ and Galen Jib. i • of Antidotes 

 liith thus : There is found amongft vs a certaine fhrubbie herbe, hot, very fharpe and biting, ha- 

 uinga little kinde of aromaticall or fpicy fmell, which the inhabitants call Colymbad^ and Stake, 

 lingular good to keepc and prcferue wine : but it fcemeth that this Stcebe doth differ from that of 

 which he hath made mention in his book of the faculties of medicines, which agrees with that of 



T>'4mdcs\{Qi he writeth that this is of a binding quality without bitingsfo that it cannot be very 



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^f The Temperature 



fecond degree, or neere hand in the third, and of 



tfcin and fubtile parts: it cucteth, attenuated^ or maketh thin, and throughly concodieth tough 

 «grofle humors. (} 



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good againft an old cough, fhortdelTeofbreathj A 



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g C ! ater Her batifts do alfo affirm, that it is a remedy againft the bitings of Serpents and ftin- D 

 8 ngs ot venomous beads, beingoutwardly applied or inwardly taken, 



and it fpeedily 



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Ti! .?"' t " l)e S iuen in time,and forthwith at the beginning : but it mu ft be vied often . 

 " ttl0u g ht to be forceable againft all neftilent fruws. 



*»«. IT ™ l "3 or dimdi„ s rf** i Mi _ . T hal £ ^ thcfc onh , 





described Scabious 5 aad the fi: 



bed by rue in the fourteenth place- 





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