CI 



PIONIA 



CPionia calida 6t ficca in fecundo gradu* Cuius rax 

 dix in mcdicinis poniturcum reperitur in receptis 

 eligenda eft ilia quas nigra exfftit continua non per 

 forata«6C in hyeme colligitur dC per annum fcruat''* 

 Virtucem habet occultam contra epilentiam 6i fu/ 

 fpenfam collo pracferuat ab epilentia:teftante Galic 

 no experto de quoda5 pucro cuius collo talis radix 

 appcfa erat fiC non paticbat'':radicc,n,fubtradla fta/ 



PAGE FROM HERBAHIUS OF AHNOLDUS DE VILLANOVA, PUBLISHED IN 1484 

 This is the first known printed picture of the peony 



