L I B. 2. 



Of the HiftorieoF Plants. 



QOi 



^f The Time. 





They begin to bud forth their leaues in the beginning of May , and (hew their fiourcs in Seo- 



tember. 



% The Names. 



Dogs-bane is called by the learned of our age, Periploca:it is cuident that they are to be refer. 

 I to the Aponnum of Diofandes. The former of the two hath bcene like wife caj Jed *~,«V£.. and 



grjficdCdniM,Qt Dogs-Cole:notvvuhftanding there is anot 

 Meicurie. We may call the firft Creeping Dogs bane . an 



1] The Nature. 

 Thefc plants are of the nature of that peftilentor poyfbnousberbeT'W^ which being eaten of 



tidote 

 .--- . . . . - . . former 



cnapicr,caIIed^^«/V«U»- 



r* • and //*/■&* /Vwir againft Parddianches* 



% the Virtues. 



Dogs-banc is a deadly and dangerous plant,efpecially to foure footed beads . for as Wo far ides A 

 wrices 5 the leaues hereof mixed with bread and giuen, kill dogs,wo!ues, f6xes,and leopards, the vfe 

 of their legs and huckle bones being prefently taken from them.and death it fclf following incon. 

 tincnt ; wherefore it is not to be vfed in medicine. 



jneicpiaiuaaicui uiciwcuicui tuac peiuiencor poyionousneroei'W^wmcn Dcnig ea 

 dogs or any other liuing creature doth certainly kill them,vnlefTc there be in readines an an 

 or preferuatiue againft poifon,and giuen 3 which by probability is the herb defcribed in rhe f 









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C h a p • 33 7. Of Solomons Scale. 





l Poly gen at urn. 



Solomons Seale. 



n mfows. 



2 Polygon At urn 



Small Solomons Sai? 



1 



for the 



T 



«0 The Defer mion. 





-/ 



leaues fomewhat furrowed and ribbed. 



tit 



vpon 



ang round ftalks/ct for the moft 



not mud) vnlike Pia.ncain,b«r n b/l 



:c,and hath fm*U wftite aurcs 



fiourcs 



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