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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



L 



IB.Z. 





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f The temperature and Vertuts^out of the ^intients. 



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The root ofCaulia is void of any biting qualitie, and moderately dries, and it is of a erofT 

 emplai fticke fubftance 5 wherefore fteeped in wine and fo taken it helpes the coueh the rough "ir 

 of the Arterie or hoarfnes, like as Tragacanth : neither if you chew itand fwallow downc the ' 

 doth it lefTe auaile againft thofe effe&s than the juyce of Liquorice, t ' uycc 



Chap. 215*. Of fmall Qelandine or Tileworu 



«ff The Kindes. x 



Here be two kindes of Celandine, according to the old writers, much differing in forme and 



figure : the one greater, the other lefTer, which I intend to diuidc into two diftina chapters 



marfhalling them as neere as may be with their like,in forme and figure, and firft of the fmall Cc- 



landine. 





Chelidomum minus. 

 Pilcwort. 



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^ The 'Description. 



1 



He lefler Celandine hath greenc round 

 leaues,fmooth,flipperie, and (hiring, 

 lefle than the leaues of the Iuic \ the 

 ftalks are flender,fhort,and for the riioftpart 

 creeping vpon the ground : they bring forth 

 little yellow floures like thofe of Crowfoo^ 

 and after the floures there fpringeth vp a lit- 

 tle fine knop or head full of feed : the root 

 confifteth of (lender firings, on which doe 

 hang as it were certain graines, of the bignes 



ofWheat 



a OO — w 



% The Place. 



Itgroweth in raedows^y common waies, 

 by ditches and trenches, and it is common 

 cuery wherein moid and dankifh places, 



^ The Time. 



It corameth forth about the Calends of 

 March, and floureth a little after i it begin- 

 neth to fade away in Aprill, it is quite gooe 

 in May, afterwards it is hard tobefound,yea 



fcarcely the root. 



K The Names. 



Is is called in Greeke, &sMti* -of the La- 

 tines C he lidoniummimu .and HirttndinarU^- 



Bap 



TauefceUo 



jfctgtouttjcnfetant 



tfd 



^J 7 he Temperature. 



It is hotand dry, aifo more biting and hotter than the greater : it commeth ncereft in faculty to 



the Crowfoot. 



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This which is here, and by moft Authors fet forth for Chehdonium minus ^ hath no fall & ei 

 i/l A™-; m™ ., — «_••.. / • „ , rr l •_.!.•._ M .i,; nn ;* hr>r in the fourth 



teat and Acrimony as Diofcorides and Galen affirme to be in theirs ; making it hot in the 

 gree,when as this of outs fcarcc exceeds the firft,as far as we may conjeaurc by the tafte. T 





A 



B 



and corrupt nailes to fall away. 



Diefcorides affirm 



^r iheVertues, 



aketh rougb 



ad of 



The juyce of the roots mixed with hony, and drawne vp into the nofthrils, purgcth tne 



humors 



Tbc 



