Li b. I. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plant s . 



1083 



I great dealt leifer, fometimes purple, otherwhilcs white, and often of a mixt colour. The root is 



finall and threddy. 



Confolidi regalis fjluefi 



Wilde Larkes heclc. 



ir 







fee and 





corne 



where corn hath grown, } but not with vs,that 





found 



manic 



yet obferued ; though it be frecju 





fioure 



The 



long, from Iune to the end o[ Auguft, and oft- 

 times after. 



irkshe 



f The Names. 





Confelid a n?alU : who make it one of the Con- 

 founds or Comfreyes. It rs alfo thought to be 

 the Delphinium which Diefssr/des defer ibes in 

 his third bookc • wherewith it may agree. Ic 

 is reported by cerardm of VeItvrijcke % who re- 

 mained Liegerwith the great Turkc from the 

 Umpeto: Charles the fifth,Tbat the faid Gerard 

 &w at Conftantinoplea copy which had in 

 the chap.of Delphinium, not leaucs but floures 

 like Dolphins: for the floures, and efpccially 

 before they be pcrfe&cd, haueacerrainc fhevr 

 and likenefTe of thofe Dolphins , which of J 



Ei&urcs and armes of certain antient families 

 aueexpreffed with a crooked and bending fi. 

 gureor fhape,by which figne alfo the heauen- 

 ]y D olphine is fet forth. And it skilleth not, 

 though the chapter of Delphinium be thought 

 to be fal fificd and counterfeited $ for although it bee fome other mans, and not of Dtofcorides, it is 

 nocwith (landing fame one of the old Writcrs,out of whom it is taken, and foifted into Dwfeorides 

 tusbookes : of Come it is called Bunnui^ox Bucinum : in Englifh, Larks fpur,Larks hecIe,Larks roes, 

 aod Larks claw : in high Dutch, UtUDtt fpOO^HI* that is, E quit is Cufoir, Knights fpur : in Italian, 

 Sperm: in Vrtsxch^Piedd'alcuette. 



^ 7 he Temperature. 



Thefe herbes are temperate and warme of nature. 



*T The Vertues. 



We (fade little extant of the vertues ofLarks heele, either in the antient or later writers, worth A 

 thcnoting,ortobecredited.yet it is fet downe^that the feed of Larks fpur drunken isgoodagainft 

 the ftingings of Scorpions ^ whofc vertues are fo forceable,that the herboonely throvrne before the 

 Scorpion or any other venomous beaft.coufeth them to be without force or ftrength to hurt, info. 

 much that they cannot moue or ftirre vntill the herbe be taken away : with many other fuch trifling 

 toyes not worth the reading. 



HAP. 



445 



of g«h, 



or 



JsQgellai 



% The Kindes. 



T Here be diuers forts of Gith or Nigella, differing fomc in the colour of the floures others 



the doubleneflc thereof,and in fmell of the feed. 



in 



I 



^ The Defcription. 



^Hcfirft kind ofNisella bath weake and brittle (talks of the height ofa foot.fuflofbran- 

 * ches,befetvrith Ieaues very much cut or jagged, refembling the leaues of famiterie, but 



"Jwch greener : die floures grow at the top of the branches, of a whittirti blew colour, eacb tjou re 





