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Of the Hiftorie of Plants* 



ttifhthaltntrn vulgm 



White Ore cic. 



Ge 



any 



^ The i 

 The two firft grow 



the Low-countriesjof the firft I haue a 

 plant in my Garden. The Iaft groweta in 

 barren paftures and fields almoft euery 

 where. 



* The laft is alio a ftranffer with v« fr* 



ther can I conjeaure what our Authour 

 meant here : firft in that be faid the floures 

 of this were white, and fecondlyin that it 

 grew in barren paftures and fields almoft 



euery where, t 





They floure in May and Iune. The laft 



in Auguft. 



% The Names. 



firft 



thofe plants the later writers arc of diuers 

 Opinions : Ibrne would haue it to be a k ind 

 oiFerAtrttm nigrum, black Hellebonother- 

 lomsConftligo j and againe, others,Se/ a moi- 

 des j and fome, Ellebor afir urn .• But there be 

 found two kinds of blacke Ellebor among 

 the old writers, one with a leafc like vnto 

 Laurel,with the fruit of &?p»««; t he other 

 witba leafe like thatot the P lane tree,with 

 the feed otCarthamm^ or Baftard Saffron. 

 But it is mod euident, that this Bupkhd- 

 **um y in Englift, Oxe-eie, which in this 

 doth agree with neither of thefe : what form CmGltn 



the 



vh i It l S * P. refenC r l med y for the infif m ** of the '«ngs of ft 

 SIT* but drawI * trough the eare. Columella in his ^booke 



0«e-eie are faid tn^~T- • '? ■ • """P" ic muft be P ut int0 ^ear^the roots alfo of our 

 « followeth not JSy infirm ^»« of cattell,if they be put into the flit or bored eare : b7t 



* Plant, tC ~* r ^'i™ * 5** x f • (ho " ,d b <: c '*(%< *«nJit is an ordinary thing to finde 



bed 



toots* L 'el i , «T! if. < * UaIICy : for f/l * doth teftifie in his * J.booke. 

 r *rne 4 ou «* S? ^P' "* d ° thc fdale : ^urethCfaith he)the cough in cattelL.if it 



l «£ SSSSiS^^r V 3ken ° Ut agai0 the neXt da y at tl * farae houre •' whi <* M Hkew ife 



j* wiic oy experiments of the Cnunfrv mm nf r*.., *«« ' ..,k~ A u ^ J : r_. r . . r . . 11C 



ircat- 



409* 



who do 



roots 



** into the vtehnZnA ? h FW T ho nocw " h ft*nding do not thruft the 



* ^ doS 2 r^r T thC 8*/?* brcft Ca,,ed the d?nr ,a P : afrer wh * 

 ^of A .S? Vf ? f '*/%»» »n his fi, - " 



thev, f?I ln ? r,nit " es vnder the skin 



bookc 



Vynio tnuft be ft ftn« 4 ,1 t ' * ,tl " u * u ,Q nis 3 -dookc a cnapter, <& Jkr^w, he writeth.that 



^^^hSSL&T / t arC - : "S? thin 8 S d ° fufficient "y dcclarc - *at fund y p UnS 

 f ,c,s O»/f/ /f rhV^r J 1 S : and thac IC doth nor at a11 folI °w by the fame reafon that our O^ 



l^A?J 15 ? , b , W >* EUeb ?. r ! for ^'»<* vf «h C^/?W in the 



^y fani c 

 f eater, b 

 I ' which 



\~dbfyrtus and MterocUs do vfe Wh 



s manner of curing frqm the Grecians , 

 ; elfebut white Ellebor: rhe which if ft 



ConfUieo i for it is nothing at all like to 



u ^ '"en flul IT m ° 11 r doe take ^%* to be nothin 

 Wh «eElfcboV. PI ent 0xe " cie much differ f ton 



And th^t th*c • ^ 



11,11 10 be confuted! 6 " "^ ^ "*** dther thc firft or chc feco ^» « is better knownc,chan need- 



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