Lib.z. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



TJiey kccpcvfually in their fhops twocompofitions.oreleduarics^heone of Pfylliumox'Ple^ G 

 t y fct downe by Jf*/iw ; the other of Prunes,fatbered vpon NicoUus y which were deuifed for th 



tempering and correction of Scammony, and be commended for hot burning agues, and tertians 

 and tor what difcafes foeuer that proceed of choler. " ' 



Cjcn hath taken Nlaft icke and Bdellium out of the pilles called CocbU, which alfocontain 



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themagreat quantiueof Scammony, as we may read in his firft Booke of medicines according 

 to the places affetfed, which alfo we meane to touch in the chapter of Coloquintida .where we in- 

 tend to treare at large concerning maftick, and other binding things, that are accuftomed to bee 

 mixed for the corrc<3ion of ftrongand violent purgers. 



The quanritie of Scammonie or ofDiagridium it fcIfe,to be taken at one time,as Mefue writeth 



it not expedient to fet forth in the Phyficall vertues of Scammony ,vpon the receipt whereof ma- 

 nv times death infueth:my reafons are diucrs, for that the fame is very daungerous, either if too 

 great a quantirie thereof be taken, or if it be giuen without correaion ; or taken at'the hands of 

 rumugat phy f ick-monger,quack laIuer,old women-lcaches,and fuch like abufers of phifick 

 ecciiters of people. The vfe of Scammony I commit to the learned,vnto whom it efpeciall v 



f< 

 andd 



andonely belongcrh.whocan very carefully and curioufly vfe the fame. 



4 The • • !w of the fecorrl an.l third were fbrmerlvtranfpofcd. and both the figures belonged tn rfu»f>mnd ^VhiluVji «.k -a «. r . 

 &Urof . ff|Mg the fame with thcS^mmmxvJm^oinufm. ^ b totheteonddefcr.ption, wh>ch «r* of the;;** 



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ii a p . 3 1 o. 0/ Br/otfj, or the white Vine 



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% The Kindts. 



■p He* be two kinds of Bryony, the one white, the other blacke : of the white Briony as follow- 



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Bryonia db&. 



White Bryonie, 



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% The befcriftiin, 



Hite Briony brings forth diuers long 

 ~nd llender ftalkes with many cla- 

 fping tcndrels like the vinc,wherwith 

 itcatcheth hold of thofe things that are next to 

 it. The leaues are broad, flue cornered, and in- 

 dented like thofe of the vinejbut rougher,more 

 hairy and whiter of colounthefloures be fmall 

 and white, growing many together. The fruit 

 confifteth in little clutters, the berries whereof 

 are at the firft green,and red when they be ripe. 

 The root is very great, long, and thicke, grow- 

 ing deepe in the earth,of a white yellowi (h co- 

 lour, extreame bitter, andaltogetherofan vn- 



WiUuan 



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tleman, (hewed me a root herof, that waied half 

 an hundred we;* 



of a yeare old . 



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IT The place. 



u r ~. i , -«"y where among 



pot.hcrbes,hedge-burties,and fuch like places 



% The Time. 



It floureth in May, and bringeth forth his 

 grapes mAutumne. 





H The Names. 



Briony is called in Greek,«*™w*«»»»' in Lathe, 

 Dddd r«k 



