The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 34.7 



good caution and aduice. There is a Syrupe or Oxymcl made hereof in the 

 Apothecaries (hops, which as it is dangerous for gentle and tender bodies, 

 fo it may be very effectual! in ftronger confutations. Paufanias in P/iocicts, 

 rccordeth a notable ftratagem that Solon vfed in belieging the Citic of 

 Cirrheus, vis.. That hauing cut off the riuer Pliftus from running into the 

 Citie, he caufed a great many of thefe rootes to be put into a quantity there- 

 of, which utter they had fteeped long enough therein, and was fufficiently 

 infected therewith, he let pafte into the Citie againe : whereof when they 

 had greedily drunke, they grew fo weake and feeble by the fupcrpurgation 

 thereof, that they were forced to leaue their wals vnmand, and not guarded, 

 whereby the Amphyclions their enemies became matters of their Citie. 

 The like ftratagems are fet downe by diners other Authors, performed by 

 the hclpe of other herbes. 



CHAP. LXXXIII. 



Ellehrine. Small or wilde white Ellebor. 



THe likeneffe of the leaues of thefe plants, rather then any other faculty with 

 the former white Ellebor, hath caufed them to be called Elltborine, as if they 

 were f mailer white Ellebor?. And I for the fame caufe haue ioyned them next, 

 whereof there are found many forts : One which is the greater kinde, is of greateft 

 beauty : the other which are leffer differ not much one from another, more then in the 

 colour of the flowers, whereof I will onely take three, being of the moft beautie, 

 and leaue the reft to another worke. 



i . Helltborine iv/ Elleborine motor, Jiue Calceolus Maria. 

 Our Ladies Slipper. 



This moft beautiful! plant of all thefe kindes, rifeth vp with diuers ftalkes, a foote 

 and a halfe high at the moft, bearing on each fide of them broad greene leaues, fome- 

 what like in forme vnto the leaues of the white Ellebor, but fmaller and not fo ribbed, 

 comparing the ftalke at the lower end ; at the tops of the ftalkes come forth one, or 

 two, or three flowers at the moft, one aboue another, vpon fmall fhort foote-ftalkes, 

 with a fmall leafe at the foote of euery ftalke : each of thefe flowers are of a long ouall 

 tonne, that is, more long then round, and hollow withall, efpecially at the vpper part, 

 the lower being round and f welling like a belly : at the hollow part there are two fmall 

 peeces like eares or flippets, that at the firft doe couer the hollow part, and after ftand 

 apart one from another, all which are of a fine pale yellow colour, in all that I haue 

 feene (yet it is faid there are fome found, that are more browne or tending to purple) 

 there are likewife foure long, narrow, darke coloured leaues at the fetting on of the 

 flower vnto the ftalke, wherein as it were the flower at the firft ftandeth : the whole 

 flower is of a pretty fmall fent : the feede is very fmall, very like vnto the feede of the 

 OrchiJes or Satyrions, and contained in fuch like long pods, but bigger : the roots are 

 compofed of a number of ftrings enterlacing themfelues one within another, lying 

 within the vpper cruft of the earth, 6c not fpreading deep, of a darke brownifh colour. 





2. Ellefnrine minor ftore albo. 

 The fmall or wilde white Ellebor with a white flower. 



This fmaller wilde white Ellebor rifeth vp in the like manner vnto the former, and 

 not much lower, bearing fuch like leaues, but fmaller, and of a whiter greene colour, 

 almort of the colour and fafhion of the leaues of Lilly Conually ; the top of the ftalke 

 hath many more flowers, but lefler, growing together, fpike-fafhion, with fmall fhort 

 leaues at the ftalke of euery flower, which confifteth of fiue fmall white leaues, with a 

 fmall clofe hood in the middle, without any fent at all : the feede and feede veflels are 



like 





