The Garden of pleajatit Flowers, 



more whitiih greene vnderneath ; umonglt thcfc leaues rifeth vp one or two naked 

 round (talkes, fiue or fix inches high, bearing at the toppes diuers fmall flowers, fome- 

 what fweete, like vnto the riril purple Scares care, hanging downe their heads, confi- 

 ding of fiue finall pointed leaues a peece, of a darke reddilh purple colour, with a 

 white circle or bottome in the middle, and fome fmall threads therein : after the flow- 

 ers are pall, there come fmall round heads, fomewhat longer then any of the Beares 

 cares, (landing vpright vpon their fmall foot-llalkes, wherein is contained fmall round 

 and bhickilh leede : the roote conlllleth of a thicke tuft of fmall whitiih threads, ra- 

 ther then rootes, much enterlaced one among another : the leaues of this plant dye 

 downe euery yeare, and fpring vp a new in the beginning of the ycarc, whereas all the 

 Beares eares doe hold their leaues greene all the Winter, efpccially the middlemoll, 

 which ihind like a clofe head, the outermoll for the mod part peri(hing after feed time. 



The Place. 



This groweth in many lhadowie Woods both of Italy and Germany ; 

 for both Clufms hath defcribed it, finding it in the Woods of Auflria and 

 Stiria ; and Matthiolus fetteth it downe, hauing receiued it from Anthonius 

 Cortufus, who was Prefident of the Garden at Padua, and found it in the 

 woody mountaines of Vicenza, neare vnto Villeflagna, whereon (as Mat- 

 thiolus faith) there is found both with white flowers as well as with blew, 

 but fuch with white flowers or blew we neuer could fee or heare further of. 



The Time. 



It flowreth much about the time of the Beares eares, or rather a little la- 

 ter, and the feede is ripe with them. 



The Names. 



Clufms calleth it Sanicula monfana, and Sanicula Alpina, and referreth it 

 to the Auricula Vrji, or Beares eare, which it doth mofl nearly refemble : 

 but Matthiolus referreth it to the Cariofhyllata or Auens, making it to be of 

 that tribe or family, and calleth it Cortufa of him that firfl fent it him. Wee 

 may call it eyther Cortufa, as for the mofl part all Herbarills doe, or Beares 

 eare Sanicle as Gerrard doth. 



The Vertues. 



All the forts of Beares eares are Cephalicall, that is, conducing helpe for 

 the paines in the head, and for the giddinefle thereof, which may happen, 

 eyther by the fight of fleepe places fubieft to danger, or otherwise. They 

 are accounted alfo to be helping for the Palfey, and making of the ioynts ; 

 and alfo as a Sanicle or wound-herbe. The leaues of the Cortufa tafle a lit- 

 tle hot, and if one of them bee laide whole, without bruifing, on the 

 cheeke of any tender skind woman, it will raife an orient red colour, as if 

 fome fucus had beene laide thereon, which will pafle away without any 

 manner of harme, or marke where it lay : This is Cortufus his obferua- 

 tion. Camerarius in his Hortus Medicus faith, that an oyle is made thereof, 

 that is admirable for to cure wounds. 



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