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Of the Hiftoric of Plants. 



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Baccbaris Monty clitnfium 



Plowmans Spikenard. 



it : it growth very plentifulIy^^T 



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f The Time. 



It fpringeth vp in April,it floureth in T„n 

 and perfected, his feed in Auguft C ' 



^ The Names. 



The learned Herbarifts of Montp e |Ji er 

 haue called this plant BAccharU , the cZ 

 ans *** - or after others,*,^,, b y reafon of 

 that fweet and aromaricall fauour which hh 

 root containeth and yceldeth : in Englifl, , 

 may be called^the Cinamom root, of pjJ 



roans Spiknard : Virgil in his feuenth Ecloee 

 of his Bucolicks maketh mention of Buck 

 rts, and doth notonely {hew thatit isa Gar 

 land plant, but alfo fuch a one as preuaileth 



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Bacchare ft mm 



Cingitejit VAti hoc eat mala lingua f mure. 



With Plowmans Nard my forehead 

 Left euill tongue thy Poet hurt. 





BAccbAru is Iikewife an ointment in \ji\h 

 *^/»,mhis rj.booke, which mav take hit 



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name 



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comical Poet witflefleth,that ointment* were 

 wont to bee made of the root thereof: to bet 



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J>hfioridtshi$ 3dechark\%. % This plant Jh 



and others. % 



Aftruw is the 



f[ The Temperature. 



>f temperature very i 



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flopped 



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leases thereof for that they are aftringent or binding,ftop the courfe of fluxes and rheumes . 



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The decoftion of the roots of BacehAru helpeth ruptures and convulfions, thofe alfo that bauc 

 falnc from an high place,and thofe that are troubled with the ihortnefle of breath. 

 It helpeth alfo the old cough,and difficulty to make water. 

 When it is boiled in wine, it is Piuen with great profit againft the biting of Scorpions, or any 



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venomous beaft, being implaiftered and applied thereto. 



A bath made thereofandputintoa clofe ftoole, and receiued hot, mightily voideth tne Dirm 

 and furthereth thofe that haue extreame labour in their childing, caufing them to haue eafie deli- 



ucrance. 



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hap. zjp. Of Elecampane. 



The Defi 



UumfM bringeth forth prefently from the root great white leaues, ^^ftlfTX 



like thofeof great Corafrey,but fofcand couered with a hairy downe, ofa whitifl) g"* n ' 



