A tharof Cilicia, growing upon the mountaine Taurus:and in a fecond degree, there is reckoning 
of Plintes Natural Hiftotie. 
made ofthat which commeth out of Pamphyliaand Smyrna, An hearb this is, nothing friend- 
lyto the ftomacke : being taken with figs, it purgeth downward ; with honey,by vomit : bowbeit, 
ftamped with honey, fale, and cumin, and fo reduced into a plaftre, it is thought to be a proper 
remedie for the fting of ferpents. . 
Lonchitisis not the fame hearbe (as moft men have thought) that Xiphion or Phafganion, 
although the feed be pointed like toa fpeare head; for it beareth leavesrefembling lecke blades, 
which toward the rootbee red, and more in number than about the ftein it felfe: it carrieth lictle 
heads inthe top, made after the fafhion of maskes or vifors, fuch as players in Comoedies are 
woont to weare, lilling out prettie little tongues, andthe roots bee exceeding long,and yet it 
groweth in drie grounds far from water. C ontrariwife, * Xiphion or Phafganion delightech in 
waterifh and moiftplaces :atthe firft comming up, it maketh a fhew of a {word-blade: the ftem 
233, 
* Our Gladet 
or Flags. 
arifeth up to the heigth of twocubits:the root hath. beards or fringes as it were hanging about | 
_ it, andis in fathionthaped to afilberd nut: which ought to be digged out of the ground before 
harveft,andto be driedin the fhade: the upper partof this root (for itgroweth double) ftam- 
ped with frankincenfe and mixed with wine of equall weight, and fo made into a falve, draweth 
out the fpills or broken skales in the braine-pan or foull :thefameis good likewile to drawany 
impoftume that is broken, and to fetch out corruption in any part of the bodie: and itis fingu- 
lar forthe bonesthat be broken andcrufhed * under cart or waggon wheels: laftly, the fame ts 
an effeQuall remedie againft poifons. 
C —_ Burttoreturne againe to the head-ach; the faid Ellebore boiled either in common oile,or els 
in oile rofat, and applied in manner ofa liniment, doth afluage the fame ; fo doth Peucedanum, 
[sd eff, Har-{irange) being incorporat in oile of rofes and vinegre. The famealfo beeing laid 
unto the head warme, doth mitigat the paine calledthe migraine, when asthe one halfe ofthe 
head doth ake sand it cureth befide,the dizzinefle of the braine. [he root of Peucedanum made 
into an ointment and ufed accordingly, provoketh fweat, by reafon of the hore nature thatic 
hath, which is burning and caufticke. The hearbe Fleawoort, which fome call Pfyllion, others 
Cynoides, Chryftallion; Sicelion, and Cynomyia, hatha {mall root, whereof there is little or 
no ufe in Phyficke. The braunches thar it bringeth foorth, be flender afd pliable in manner of 
vine fhoots, bearing in the top certain big berries or knobs like unto beans; the leaves not tn- 
liketo “dogsheads; the feed refembleth dogs fleas, whereuponit hath that name Cynomyia, 
and thefame lieth withinthe forefaid berries. The hearbe it felfeis ordinarily, growing in vine- 
ards: of great vertue itisto refrigerat and to difcufle orrefolve withall: but the feed itis which 
yceldeth moft ufe in Phyficke;and the fame is applied ina frontall to. the forehead and tem- 
ples, with vinegre and oile of rofes, or elfe with vinegre and watertogither, for to allay the pain 
of the head. For other accidents, when itis applied in formeot aliniment , the manner is to 
takethe meafure of one acetable, and to infufe itin.a fextar of water untill ic gather togither ins 
toathickeand clammie fub{tance; then it would be {tamped, andthe mucilage or flime drawn 
outthercof fervethfor any paine impoftume, and inflammation. Over and befides, Ariftolo- 
chiais afingular hearbe for the wounds of the head :it draweth foorth broken bones and {pills 
in any part of the head; and fo doth Piftolochia. Toconclude, there is an hearbecalled *Thyf 
bs Carpentiss 
* Wheropor 
itis called 
Gynvides, 
* Hydrofelynum, 
felium,notunlike to garden Perfley: the root whereof if it be but chewed in the mouth purgeth Dederet i4cts 
the head of phlegmaticke humors, 
agai SY Cuap, Xit. 
<< ) O Receits for the difeafes of the eyes, made of Centaurie,Celendine,Panzces; 
2 cgay | Henbane and Euphorbium, 
' Water perfleg, 
.. is thought that the Rha-ponticke (which is the greater Centaurie) helpeth the eye-fight ve- 
tie muchyifa fomentation be madetherewith and water togither. The juice of the lefle Cen- 
tauric tempered with honey and applyed, helpeth the imperfections of the eyes, namely, 
when therefeeme gnats to flie before them, or when they are over-caft with a clowd; for it fcat- 
tereth the dimnefle and web which darkeneth the fight and doth fubtiliatthe cataract or cica- 
trices that overgrow the ball or apple. The hearbe Sideritisis fo appropriat unto the eyes, that 
itcureth the very haw that groweth in horfes eyes, But fo excellent isthe herb Celendine,that i 
X ij pafleth 
