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Of the Hiflorie of Plant 



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white fibres,and anaromaticke tafte. This floures in July and Auguft.and erowes in rrTiT 

 vpon the higheft Aipcs. chfi* (the firftand onely defcriber thereof) calls it Delirium 



s^iuft 



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fa 



rounds 



~-~—, — ■ - --- - r wwww & v. a . » «c snots ana ott-lets ot the rn™. / 



Icend not doirnc,but run on the furfaceof the ground,and fo fends forth fibres at each fiH J , 2 « 

 them and attrad nouriftment. The floure is like that of the former, but much larger TV M 

 eth in the high mountainous places of Stiria, and flouresat the fame time as the former V 8 /?' 



calls this Doronicum ^.Stiriacum. ,cr * c '*/* 



7 This is the largeft of all the reft,and hath a ftalke two cubits or more hieh of the rU* . 

 of ones little finger , ere fted , rough, and toward the top diuided into fundy b Inches T 1"^ 

 next to the root are round, wrinkled, hairy, and fanned to a long ftalke s thofe t<Ss th S 

 thefta ke are longer and narrower, and mgirt the ftalke at theiffetting on. TheflouLai, 

 and yellow, like to the other plants of this kinde : the feed alfo is carried away with thewindcaS 

 is longifh, and of a greemlh colour : the root is knotty or ioynted like to a little ShrimTw 7 

 wbitifk greene colour. This floures in Iune or Iuly,and growes vpon 'the like SS *&£ t ' 

 ClufiHsczttsthhDoromcumT^Jlriacumi. t wes v P on «* nice places as the former. 



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t 7 Doronicum maximum. 





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The place is diffidently fet forth in the dc 

 fcription 5 yet you fhall vnderftand , that I 

 haue the two firft in ray Garden ; the fecocd 

 hath beene found and gathered in the cold 

 mountaines of Northumberland, by D'.ftwj 

 lately of London deceafcd,a man of much ex- 

 perience and knowledge in Simples , whofc 

 death my felfe and many others do greatly be- 



waile. 



^f The Time. 



They floure in the months of Iune and Iuly. 



^J The Names. 



Concerning their names I haue already 

 fpoken • yet fith I would be glad that our En- 

 glish women may know bow to call it, tfcey 

 may terme Dor$nicum by this name, Cray-fifh 

 PiiTe.a-bed, becaufe the floure is like Dandc- 

 lion,which is called Pifle-a-bed. 



t Our Author certainly at the beginning 

 of this Chapter did not well vnderftand what 

 he faid, when he affirmes, That the realon of 

 the not wel knowing the Doronicumoi the An- 

 tients was 3 [through the negligence of Ditft*- 

 rides and Theophrajltuyiho in defcribing V* r '\ 

 nicum,&c] Now it is manifeft,that neither of 



thefe Authors,nor any of the Antient Greeks 

 euer Co much as named Doronicum : but that 

 which he ftould haue faid t was,That the want 

 of exa£ defcribing the AconitumthcljVhom^ 

 Theophrajtus, and Aconitum PardalUnchcs m - 



•fcoruks (which are Judged to be the fame plant and all one with our Doronicum) hath beene jx 

 caufe, that the controuerfie which <JM*tthiolus and others haue oflateraifed cannot be fuUv^ 

 termined . which is, Whether that vulgar Doronicum, vfed in fliops,and defcribed in this cpap- 

 tcr, be -ihcLJcm'im Pardalianches ? CMatthielu* affirmes it is, and much and vehemently ««airnj 

 againft the vfe thereof in cordiall Eleauaries, as thatwhich is of a raoft pernicious «ddeaj 

 quahtic, becaufe that(as he affirmes) it will kill dogs : now Dodonw alfo feemes to incline to pi 

 opinion : but others (and not without good reafon) deny teas Gcfner in his BpiftIes,who made o 

 ten trial! of it vpon himfelfe : part of his words are fet downe hereafter by our Aorbtfr (bemp wn 

 ir OUt t° Dgdm *") and f ome part alfo you (hail finde added in tbeend & the *rro« • 

 thefe are other fome ; tlura alt a nunc mitto, quibm ofiendcre liqmdo pofem, nee Doronicum nojtn ^ 



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