

IvIB. t. 



Of the Hiftoric of Plants. 1091 



"the ftalke, commonly Hue or feSS together, each of them made of 



floure 



diucrs places among bulhes at that timers m Kent about <-biilehurft,elpeciaIly in Ptu his wood 



7, 



«v 



proper 



* 



among 



n Radix caua minor. 



Bunnikens Holwoort. 



I o RdJix cauA minim* viridifiore 



Small Bunnikens Holwoort. 



T 



0/*v* 















% Ibttlttt 



' i %r 



Thefcplants dogrow about hedges,brambles,and in the borders of fields and vineyards, in loir 

 and fertile grounds, in Germanie and the Low-countries , neuctthelefletbc two firfi, and alfo the 

 two laft dexcribed do grow in my garden. 



^ The Time. 



Thefc do floure in March,and their feed is ripe in Aprill : the Ieaues and (talks are gone in May; 

 and nothing remaining faueonly the roots,fo little a while do they continue • 



^[ Tht Names. 



Hollow root is called in high Dutch f&oltMKtf i in low Dutch, $00letB0Jtefcthat itjudix ca- 



«* in Englifh, Hollow root,and Holewoort : it is v fed in (hops in ftead oi^Anfiolochiapx round 

 Birthwnorr 5 which errour is better knowne than needfull to be confuted : and likewife their errot 

 is apparant,who rafhly judge it to be Pijlobckia, or little Birthwort. It fhould feem the old Wri- 

 ters knew it not j wherefore fomeof our later Authors haue made it Leentopttdi (pedes fix a kind of 

 Lions Turnep : others^Erz/iviwrand otberfome,Tfo/J*w» ; moft men % Capn$s Chelidonia ; it feemeth 

 "~ agree with Leontcpetahn in bulbed roots,and fomewhat in Ieaues,but in no other refpe&s^as may 

 perceiued by Diefcoridcs and Plinie: defcriptionof Lemopetabn. And ifEriphium haue his name 

 * H that is to fay of the Spring,then this root may be not vnproperly Erifhium^nd Veris Plm^ 



that it appcareth and is green in the Spring onely : 



to 



be 



' 4 • or the plant of the Spring : for it is euident th 



f< *ne think it hath been called Enphium^ab Hardopx of the Goatrbut this Eriphien is quite another 

 P|ant,as both Apuleius wr iteth,and that book alfo mentioneth which is attributed to GaUn^nd de- 

 dicated to Pattmianm. In the booke which is dedicated to Paternianw, there be read thefc words . 



l*"pi»un is an herbe which is found vpon high mountains , it hath Ieaues like Smallagc a fine 

 *°urc hke the Violet,and a root as great as an onion:it hath likewife other roots which fend forth 



roots 



