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A 



1046 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



s 



f The Kindts, 



Vrnet of which we will intreat, doth differ from PimpntUa, which is alfo call a 

 of the Burnets is lefler,for the mod part growing in gardens^otwithftandincH? fia ' 4 ' °<* 

 rcn fields, where it is much fmaller : the other greater,is altogether wilde. 8»weth in bat. 



f The Dtfiriftun. 





Arden Burnet hath long lcaues made vp together of a tm>»* ™*~. 

 one whereof is fomethmg round, nicked of theses 8 fo^SS/g? 006 ^^ 

 rifcth a ftalke that is not altogether without jJ^T^^^T^^ 

 tops whereof grow little round heads or knaps, which bring forth fmall fWs I? Z '' Vp0D tic 

 colour, and after them cornered feed s, which are thruft vp Wthe ^tKS ? i ? P lff P ' 

 plant doth fmell fomething like a Melon,or Cucumber 8 °° t " lon * ; thc "4 



2 ^t't Bur , Det iS g- reater . in a11 P arts >" h«h wider and bigger lcaues than thofc of a i 



mer : the ftalke is longer, fometimes two cubits high : the knapslre ereaSr «f a £S , k ' 

 lour,and the feed is I .kewife cornered and greater : the root iSEffi'&ftft* 



fmell at all. 

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fth 





heads fart* !>c,J 5 arc fome inchand halfc .o„g, y « tar flendcr co„fiSg he SK 



floures fas I remember^ are of a whin ft rnlmu- . «« ^*t,o.. ^/u^a. :. j.-^ . & a ^"gwi,anani 



'cfDC(5i 



be called PwpincllafanguiforU horteafis maxima, Gre; 



The fmall Pimpinell is commonly planted in Gardens, notwithftanding it doth grow wild vo 

 on many barren heaths and paftures. 5 B P 



M 



wbereoftfce 



one part is earable grounded the otherpart medow,lying betweene Paddington and LyfTon green 



London, vpon the high 



of Aug 



f The Karnes. 



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doe call Burnet PimpnclUfanguiforba, that it may differ fi 



S anguifirba t and Sangttmaria : Cep 



Peptmefla of thc fmell of Melons or Pompions,to which it is like, as we haue faid : ofothers 



men, SolbaftreBa .- in high Dutch. fculbUC&WUt, tyrtfOtf 



©8rtl<n,a5Iutftraut,megrtliwut:inFrench,i o /^w/;f//f,^/^«;y2^ 



cum altera Diefcondts Sidenttdt i that is to fay, with Diofcorides his fecond Iron- wort : the Ieafe (am 

 efpecially that of the leffer fort) which we haue written to confift of many nicks in tbeedgesofth 

 Ieaues ; and this mav be theverv fame which Plint in his «* hnnt rhanrpr t-t rennrretb to be name. 



fff>(t. 



and likewife Dionyftonymphasfox that itdoth maruelloufly agreewith w ine; to which alfonw"''- 

 pntlU (as we haue faid) cloth giue a pleafant fent : neither is that repugnant, that Tli*f in an0t " er 

 place hath written, DeSideritib^of the Iron-worts; for it oftenfallethout that he intrearetb of 

 one and thc felfe fameplantin diuers placcs,vnderdiuers names : which thing then bapnetb Doner 

 when the writers themfelues do not well know the plant, as that Pliny did not well know Sidtntx, 

 or Iron- wort, it is euen thereby manifeft, becaufe hee fetteth not downe his owne opinion heteor, 

 out other mens. 



^'The Temperature, „ i anrftfce 



1 / ? l ^ net » befid es the drying and binding faculty that it hath,doth likewife meanly coolc : aw 

 teller Eurnet hath likewife withall a certainc fuperficiall, fleight, and temperate fent, wn,cn " tbe 



it is put into the wine it doth 

 deco&ion. 



£ 



^f The Fertues. 



nds (which thing Mofcorides doth attribute to 



bis 



coni 



g«'fi 



L "- ""guiargood nerb forwounds (which thing Viofcorides doth attriouic - - ^ 

 t) and commended ^f ^ „.„*,k<,. . :► a~„~u**u kiLj; nn ™A therefore it was w* 



Either the juyce is gluenj or the decoction of the 



a hetbe 



bruifedjitis 



C It ftaieth 

 D Thc leiTe 



outwardly applied, or el fc put among other external! medicines. f 



the laske and bloudy fl ix . it is aIfo „f oft efffeftuall to flop the moncch y coo J ; rt , 

 Burnet is oleafant to h/»^^« ;«r-n^L. :«,.,k.vi, .••..•.f.^iiahttoraawtfl^ ^ 



ng put into virine 



