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Of the Hiftorie of .Plants. 



. .lis fame alfois vnptoperly called HelUboraJirum 5 for that may aptly be called HelUk ~~n~~ 



which hath the forme and likenefle of HelJcbof : and this Oxe-eie is-nothineacall like mPiu 



T-nrali whirh ranfos Jr feemeth that noneof thefe name* aan>i> a ,;^r),; M .t. n >.L:.. o^Hebor. 



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ch is extant in Diofcoridcs 



agree. V\ c take it to be the right Ox e-eie • for Oxe-eie bringeth forth (lender foft ftalkes an<A P I 

 kapesofthelikenefTeorfimilitude of Fennell leaues:the fioure is yellow bigger than xh 

 ' CammomilI,euen Inch an one is this prefent plant,which doth fo exquifitly expfefle that tnT ° f 

 Ililcenefle o( Fcnnell leaues^oth in flendernefle and manifold-jaggedneffeof the leaues as nn , t,° r 

 little leiafed hefbe can doc better • fo that without a!) doubt this plant fecrotth to be the tt£ a 

 u he kc eie. Oxe eic is called CachUpt rather Calt ba h bvH Caliba is C4tndul,px Marieold SS 

 V , ni dthar our Oxe-eie in flouredid neereft reprefent. -There are fome that would haue bImi 

 % * or Oxe-eie to be Chrjfmthemum^A fay that Diaficri^hath in fundry places, and by diue n 

 >■ ,-.u-s mrreated o this hubejbut if i hofe men had fome^hat more diligently weighed D/ifcJS! 



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no oronertv wanting that mav (h* 



to be like the leaues oi Fennell t for all things that be finely jagged and cut into many parts ha »e 

 cot the likenes of the leaues of Fennell. Morcouer,D tofiondes faith, that Chryfanthemum doth brin* 

 forth a floure much glitteting,but he telleth not that the floure of Buphthalmumpx Oxe-eie is much 

 glirrerine, neither doth the floure of that which we hauefetdowne glitter, fo that it can or ought 



Cbryfi 



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bryfantht, 



mum to be Bufhthdmum ,let them feeke out another,if they deny this to be Oxe-eie » for that which 

 we and others haue defcribed for Chryfamhemum cannot be the true Bupbthdmum or Oxe-eie • for 



the leaues of it are not like Fennell,fuch as thofe of the true Buphthdmum ought to be. ' 



f* : % Tk Temper Ature, 



But concerting the faculties 'Attbiotu* faith,that all the 



mfa^vfe the roots of this Oxe-eie in ftead of thole of blackeEIIebor,namely for difeafes in cactcll: 

 but he doth not affirme that the roots hereof in medicines are fubfticutes,or quia fro que - y for,faith 

 he J do remember that I once faw the roots hereof in a fuificient big quantitie pur by certain Pby- 

 fitidnsintodecoflions which were made to purge by liege, bur they purged no more than if they 

 had nor bin put in at all .-which thing makcth itmoftplaine,thatitcannotbeany of the EHebors, 

 although it hath been xfed to be faftned through the cares of cartel! for cerraine difeafeSjand doth 

 cure them as Ellebor doth. The roots of Gentian do mightily open the ori fices of Fiftulaes, which 



too narrow, fo do the roots of K^irijiolochia 



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notwithftanding do much differ one from another in other operations:wherefore though the roots 

 of Oxe-eie can do fomething like vnto blackc Ellebor, yet for all that they canot perform all tboic 

 things that the fame can. We know that thornes,ftings,fpIinters of wood, and furh like 3 bringpa'n, 

 caufe inflammations, draw vnto them humors from the parts neere ad joynirg, if they be faftnfd in 

 any part of the body^nopartof the body is hurt without paine-the which i* encieafed if any thing 

 bethruftthroagh,orputinto thewound:peraduenturealfo i any other thing befide be put m/ 

 the flir or bored eare,the fame cffe<5l would follow which hapned by the root of this plant tbruft in-, 

 notwithftandingwe here affirme nothing, we onely make way for curious men to make n^ dili- 

 gent fearch touching the operations hereof. $ Clufius affirmes,that when he camero Vienna in 

 -Auftria, this was vulgarly bought, fold, and vfed for the true blacke Ellebor, the ignorance of toe 

 Ph vfitions and Apothecaries in the knowledge of fimples was fuch to make vfe of rhis fo far dnft" 





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A nofort&s faith.that the floures of Ose-eie made vp in a feare-cloth SoeaflWzsc and ** lK '*"Z 

 oUi hiira fwellmgs . and it is reported that if they be dTunke by and by after bathing, they n>** 



them in ihort time wellcoloured that haue beene troubled with the yellow jaundife. 



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