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fores remaining after impoftimes fuppurat and broken :mixed with patched or fried barleys 
groats,it is a very rats-bane,and killeth both them & mice. The Gauls or Frenchmen when they 
idea hunting intothe chafe,vfe to dip their arrow heads in the juice of Ellebore,and they have 
* OF wise, 
which fignih- 
cth,war orde- 
bate. 
Empator, 
Rhzpontick. 
this opinion, That the venifon which they take will eat the tenderer; but then they cut away the 
flefh round about the wound made by the forefaid arrows. Furthermore itis faid, That if white 
Ellebore be beaten to powder and ftrewed upon milke, all the'flies that taft thereof will die) To 
conclude, the faid milke is good torid away lice, nits, and fuch like vermine out of the head and 
other parts of the bodie. ‘ | WW DI98 
Crap, Vi. 
ee Ofthe hearbe Mithridation. Of Scordotis or Scordium Of Polemonia,and Phileteriaother- 
wife called Chiliodynama, Of Expatorze or _Agrimonte, Of great Centaurie, otherwife 
named Chironea. Of the litle Centaurte,named alfo Libadion and Fel terre. 
Of Triorches : andthe medscinable ver tues upon thefe 
Simples depending, 
Ratevas hath afcribed the invention of one heatbe toking Afithridates himfelfe, called af- 
ter his name Mithridation : This plant putteth foorth no more than two leaves, and thofe 
directly and immediatly from the root, tefembling the leaves of Branc-urfine. There rifeth 
up a {tem between them both in the mids, carrying an incarnat floure in the head I:ke a rofe, 
Pompeius Lenews (who by thecommaundement of Pompey the Greattranflated into Latine 
the Phyficke notes and receits of king Mithridates) faith moreover, That the faid prince*found 
out another hearbe named Scordotis or Scorditun; and that among other his writings he met 
with the defcription of the faid hearbe, fet downe under the kings owne hand in this manner; 
namely, That it grew a cubit high, with a maine {tem foure {quare, andthe fame full of brauin- 
ches garnithed with downie or furred leaves, indented and cut like to thofé of the oke. This herb 
is found ordinarily growing within the region of Pontus,in battle and moift champian grounds, 
and in taftis very bitter. There is anotherkind of Scordium, with larger & broader leaves, and 
like itis unto wild Minth or Calamint: both the one and the other be of greatufe in Phyficke, 
either by themfelves alone, or els put into opiats and antidots among other ingredients. 
Touching * Polemonia, which others call Phileteria, itrooke the name upon occafion of 
the trife and controverfie between certain princes which debated about the firft invention ther- 
of. The Cappadocians knowit by the name Chiliodynama, #.as one would fay, endued with a 
thoufand vertwes, This plant hath a thicke and groffe roor,but fimall and {lender branches, from | 
the tops whereof there hang downe certaine berries in tufts and clufters, enclofing within them” 
blacke feed: in all other re{pects itrefembleth rue,and groweth commonly upon mountains. 
As for Agrimonie,called otherwife Eupatoria,it hath gotten credit & reputation by a* king, 
as it may appeare by the name. The ftalke or {tem of this hearbe is of a woodie fub ftance, blac- 
kifh in colour, hairie, and of a cubit in heigth or rather more. The leaves grow difpofed and di- 
{tant by certain {paces afunder, much like unto thofe of cinquefoile or hempe, {nipped and cut 
about the edges ordinarily in five parts ; the fame are of ablack:fh or darke greene, and full of a 
kind of plume dr downe. The root is fuperfluous for any operation thar it hath in Phyfick :the 
feed of this hearb drunke in wine,is a fingularremedie for the dyfenterie or bloudie flix. 
The greater * Centaurie is that famous hearb wherewith Chiron the Centaure (as the report 
goeth) was cured, at wnat time as having entertained Hercules in his cabin, hee would needs be 
haadling and tempering with the weapons of his{aid gueft,fo long untill one of his arrows light 
upon his foot and wounded him dangeroufly :wherupon fome there be who name it Chironion. 
Theleaves grow large, broad,and long, endented or cutrather,like a faw round about the edges : 
neare unto the root they come up very thicke: the {tems run up three cubits high, full of knots 
and joynts all the way :knobbed in the top like unto Poppie heads : the root is of a mightie big- 
neffe,enclining to ared colour, howbeit tender andeafie to breake orknap in funder: twocubits M 
' itbeareth in length ; full of aliquid juice: bitter in raft, and yer fweecwithall: ic loveth to grow 
upon banks and pretie hills, where the ground is fat und battle. The beft Centaurie of this grea- 
ter kind,;commeth out of Arcadie, Elis, Meflenia,Pholoe,and mount Lycaus : andyet there ts 
good found upon the Alpes,andin many other places. Some there be, who outof thisplant 
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