278 The fevenand twentieth Booke 
coétion of wormewood well, there would be taken a good handfull of wotmewood, and fodden 
in a fextar of water to the confumption of the onc halfe. é ath a 
Crap, Virgie 
ee Of flinking Horehound : of Mille-graine, or oke of, Terufalemn : of Brabyla, Bryon, 2 
Bupleuros, Catanance : of Calla, Circeay and Cirfiam : of Crateogonon and Paes 
Thelygonum : of Crocodslinm and Cynoforchis. of Chrfola- ioe 
_. chanon,Cucabalon,and Conferva. | 
Tinking Horehound,which fome Greeks call Ballote,others Melamprafion,/.Blacke Hore- 
hound, is an hearbe tufted full of braunches: the ftemsbe blacke and cornered; theleaves 
wherewith they bee cladand garnifhed, are fomewhar haitie, refembling thofe of {weet or 
¥ Porri:but ix white * Horehound, but that they bee bigger, blacker, and of a flinking favour: bur the’leaves - 
fhouldbemar- {tamped and applied with falt,be veric effectual againft the biting of amad dog: alfo,if they be 
dine roche. Wrappedina Cawake or Beet leafe,and fo rofted under the embres, they are commended for 
Greekeword the {welling piles in the fundément. This Horehound made intoa {alve with haney, cleanfeth 
septvnct.”  filthie ulcers, | hie, Suge oe 
xt Botrys is an hearbe full of braunches, and thofe of ‘a yellowifhcolour, and befetround with _ 
feed: the leaves refemble C ichorie, Found it is commonly prowing about the banks of brookes 
/ and riverets.Good it is forthem that be ftraight-winded abet cannot drawtheir breath butfitting _ 
upright. The Cappadocians call it Ambrofia,others Artemifia, ‘ai 
*Sometake  Asfor™ Brabyla, they be aftringent in manner of Quinces. Morethan fo, Ifindnot any an- 
them for Da- thor to write thereof. : 
mafcen plums, | 
Be ice Bryonno doubt is a Sea-hearbe, like in leaves to Lertuce,but that theybe riveledand wrin- 
Baeere® kled asif they were drawne togither in a purfe:no ftem it hath, and the leaves come forth at the . 
wild plambs, Otto, from the root :it groweth ordinarily uponrocks bearing out of the fea: and yee thall 
findit alfo fticking to the fhells of certaine fithes, efpecially {uch as have gathered any mud or 
earth abourthem. The hearbe isexceeding aftringent and deficcative, by vertue whereof itis a 
fingular repercoffive in all impoftumes and inflammations of the gout efpecially and fuch asre- 
quireto be repreffed or cooled. - 
Touching Bupleuros, I read thatthe feed thereof is given againft the fting of ferpents:and K 
that the wounds inflicted by them, are to be wafhed or fomented with the decoction of the herb, 
purting thereto the leaves of the Mulberrie tree,or Origan. : 
Catanance isa meere Theffalian hearbe, and growing nowhere elfe butin Theflalie; and 
for as much as itis ufed onely in amatorious matters, and for to {pice love drinks withall, Imeane 
not tobufie my felfein the defcription thereof : howbeit, thus much it would not bee amifie ro 
note, forto detect and lay open the folly and vanities of Magicians, namely, that they wentby 
this conjecture only, that it fhould be of power to win the love of women, becaufe forfoogh when 
*Aasifiewould itis withered, it draweth icfelfe inward * like a dead Kites foot. For the fame reafon alfo,] will hold 
ate hen My tongue and fay never aword of the hearbe * Cemos, . 3 
fat perforce.  * Cala isof two forts :theone like to Aron, which loverhto grow in toiled and ploughed “L’ 
ae ba grounds: the time to gather this hearbe is before it begin to wither: the fame operation it hath 
nifeth abridie Oat Aron, andis ufedto the like purpofes: the roos thereofiscommended to be given in drinke 
or bir:and it for a purgation of the belly, and to provoke the monethly terms of women: the ftalkes boiled 
Sate leafe andall togither with fome pulle or orher into a pottage, and fo taken, cure the inordinat 
- dium,Diefecr, Ptovocations to the ftoole, and ftreinings thereupon without doing any thing. The feeondkind 
ange opiets {ome call Anchufa,others * Rhinochifia : the leaves refemble Lettuce, but thattheybelonger, 
Dede, _ tullof plume ordowne: the root red, which being applied with the floure of barley groats,hea~ 
*Orrarher, _leth {hingles, or any other kind of S. Anthonies fire , but drunke in white wine, cureth the infir- 
Calix. sibs . 
iesSo i 
* RatKer On0- Init f the liver 
ciinouene Circazum is an hearb like to winter Cherrie or Alkakengi, but forthe flours which are black: 
Diofrides. — the {eed {mnall,as the graine of Millet, andthe fame groweth in huskesor bladders refembling 
little horns: the root is halfea foot long, forked for the moft part into three or foure grains or 
braunches :the fame is white, odoriferous and hotyn the mouth: itloveth to growupon rocks 
- and ftorie grounds lying pleafantly upon thé Sun. The infufion ofthisroot in wine, is good  - 
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