footh 



floures like the other Valerians: the root is asaromatickeasthatofthelaftm • ^8*1* 

 in the chmkes of the Alpine rockes,where it floures in Iuneand Iulv r/«/?«» k T-^^Kro., 



FaknaHafylueJlris Alp*, z .Saxatilis % * " ,y ' U *>"* h *n " by the ngj 



% The Place. 

 The firftand likewife the Greeke Valerian are planted in gardens . the wild 

 moi ft places bard to riuers fides,ditches, and watery pits ; yet the greater of thef °^l Ve ^ • 

 gardens where it flourifheth,but the lefler hardly profpereth. br oughc icjo 



^T The Time. 



Theie floure in May,Iune,and Iuly,and moft ofthe Summer moneths. 



«0 The Names. 





in 



Generally the Valerians are called by one name, in Latine, r^r/^ : in Greeb ■ ■ a 

 b Pi*,which for the moft part is meantby the garden Valerian, that is called of £■? fi* 



Latine,^*^^^ :wbich names are M tkJ 5 ?*T 



reckoned 



w referred D 



certaine in n 



tficaj oiTheophraftu* PwelfaTcr Jminhigb Dutch^90f^ bal^tenTte iSr 3 ?^* 



in Fndltfli VdlfitJ^n r*in«r.. *.-i •« t 



^pecrcrupt^^ojtjat ctupt, and fialetf an? 



vnproperly , for that name bclongeth to Zedoariajvhich is not Valerian : whath 

 in the titles (hall feme for the diftin&ions ofthe other kindes. 



^f The Temperature. 



The garden Valerian is hot,as Diofcorides faitb.but not n 



fctdoinic 



ed oncfjfor the greene is eafily perceiued 

 is found by the taftc and fmell. 



j^ The dry root as Diofcorides teacheth,pi 



n 



yfoo 



• 



p -fti lencc.as are treacles^ithridateSjand fuch like ; whereupon it bath been had(and is to this day 

 among the poore people of our Northcrne parts) in fuch veneration araongft thera,that no brot: 

 pottage or phyficall meats are worth any thing, if Setwall were not a tan end whereupon fomew<v 

 man Poet or other hath made thefe verfes. 



They that will haue their heale^ 

 Mutt put Setwall in their keale. 



B It is vfed generally in fleightcuts 3 wounds, and fmall hurts.' 



C The extraction ofthe roots giuen, is a moft Angular medicine againft the difficulty of miiiog 



watcr,and the yellow jaundife. A ' 



D W ilde Valerian is thought ofthe later Herbarifts to be good for them that are burden, for fuch 



as be troubled with the craropc and otherconvulfions^andalfoforall thole that arc bruifed wnth 



falls. 

 E The leaucs of thefe and alfo thofe of the garden, arc good again ftvlr#,ftflfM 'f Qrcflcflc 



F 



mouth and gurm,if the deco<5Hon thereof be gargarized or held in the mouth. . - 



Some hold opinion that the roots of wilde Valerian dried and poudered, and a drammc weignt 



thereof taken with wine.do puree voward and downeward. . 





Chap. 441. Of *5Wountaine Setwall, or J\(arfa. 



^f TheDcfe 





I T He W* rd " f namcd Celtica t but now by fomc, Ligujtica <2*jrd Mi fl ourl( J e * , "S,btil» 

 * taines. The Vallefians in their mother tongue call it SeHi^wheDce & W l ? . 

 be Saltmca . neither do I doubt,but that it is the fame which Fkgil fpeaketb ot in mm* 



Punnets humilss quantum Saliunca rofetu t 



ludtcio noflro tantum tiff cedit \^dmintas. . . a ^erf 



For it is a very little herbe creeping on the ground, and afterward lifting vp it kww ^^ 

 a handfull hietuwhereunon fmm *ho Wrr narr prow fmall ihin leaues, nrttgreeirc, ^ 



yellowifh 



rou 



*-?_ »£&f 



4,or rather the wilde roountaine VaIerian,whereof it ieemes ro oc « -^ 

 The floures grow along the vpper branches,white or yellowim,ana v«j 



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