Lib. 3 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants, 



1187 





^f The Place. 



Their fcueral titles haue touched their natiuecountrieSjthey grow in rough dry and furniy pla- 

 ces in pla?n fields and vpon mountains. ! 



Thofc of our Englifh growing I haue found in very many places , efpecially in Kent vpon the 

 chalky banks about Grauefcndjb'opthflectjandforthemoft part all the way from tbenceto Can* 



turbtuyandDouer. 



They flourc from Inly to the end of Auguft. 



^[ The Time. 



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m The Names. 



T\ r* calls dwarfc Ciftus in the high-Dutch tongue ^C^Hen^fope : in L&tmc,GratU Derbut 

 there is another herb called alio of the later hcrbarifts Gratia Z>*/,which is 6>. oLvV alert us Cor due 

 namcth it HeUanthemum.zvid So/is flos or Sun floure : oiClufimfiham£ciftus % oi dwarfc Ciftus. 



Pliny writetb,that licit ant hemnm growes in the champian cojntry Tcmifcyra in Pontus, and in 

 the mountains of Cilicia ncerc the fea : faying further, that the wife men of thofe couutries & the 

 Kings of Pcrfia do anoint their bodies hcrewith,boiled with Lions fat,a little Saffron, and Wine 

 of Dates, that they may (eem fairc and bcautifull ; and therefore haue they called it Hdiocaliden ,or 

 the beauty of the Sun. Mat thiols faith,that Hcliantbemum is taken of fome to be Panaces Chttomum 

 or Cbirous All-heale : but it is nothing likcly,as webauc faid. 



^f The Nature and Vertues. 



The faculties and temperature arc referred to the kindes of Ciftus, for ithcaleth wounds, ftan- 

 cheth b!oud,and ftoppeth the fpittingof bIoud,thc bloudy flix,andall other i (lues of bloud. 



The fame boiled inwinehealethvlcers in the mouth and privy parts, if they be wafticd there- 

 with : tobebriefe, it joinethand ftrengthneth: which things do plainly and euidentl lhcw,That 

 it is not only like to Ciftus and Ledon in forme, but in vertues and faculties alfo. and therefore it 

 is manifeft that it is a certain wilde kinde of Ciftus and Ledbh. 



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A 



B 



h a p. 7. Of Qifiiis Ledon and Lad, mum. 



^ The Kindts, 



THcre be diucrs fores of Ciftus,whereof that gummy matter is gathered called in (hops Lada- 

 x/mjind LabdanumJ&vit vnproperly. 



«j[ TheVcfcripien. 



Iftus Ledon is a lhrub growing to the height of a man, and fomctimes higher, hauing 

 many hard wooddy branches, couered with a blackifh barke ; whereupon grow leaues 

 fet together by couples,one right againft another like vnto wings, of an inch broad,of 

 a black fwart green on thevpper fidcs,and whitifh vnderneath:whereon is gathered a certain clam- 

 mic tranfparentorthrough-fliining liquor,of a very hot fweet fmel,wbich being gathered & hard- 

 ncd is that which in fhops iscalled Labdanum: the flouresgrowat the ends of thebrancbes like lit- 

 tle rofes,confiftingoffiue white lcaues,euery one decked or beautified toward the bottomewith 

 pretty darke purplifh fpots tending to blackcnetfe, hauing in the middle very many yellow chfaes 

 fiich as arc in the middle oftheRofc; after come the knaps or feed-veflels full of moft fmall red- 

 difh feed : the whole plant being dried groweth fomewhat whiti(h,and of a pleafant fmell, which 

 it retaineth many yeares. 



2 The fecond groweth Irkeivife to the height of an hedge bufh,the branches are long.and very 

 fogil or eafie to brcake,whereon grow leaues greener than any other of his kind^yet valcrncath of 

 a hoary colour,growing toward winter to be fomewhat reddifh, of a foure and binding tafte. The 

 flours are Tike the precedence forme whereof the Grauer hath omitted,in other refpefts like the 

 former. 



3 The third fort of Ciftus Ledon groweth vp to the height of a fmall hedge bufti,hauing ma * 

 n y twiggy branches,whereon grow leaues like thofe of the Poplar tree,fharp at the point, couered 

 °«crwith that clammy dew that the others are : the floures grow at the tops of the branch^ 

 ^vhite colour like the precedent. 



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