- drinke the flours of Cratazzogonos,they fhall within fortie daies conceive with child, Butas well 
of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 299 
A bedrunke for the paine and other difeafes of the matrice : but of the faid root there ought to bee 
-taken three ounces ftamped, and the fame to fteepe aday and night in three fextars of wine,for 
to make the infufién above-named. This potion alfo ferveth to fend downe the after-birth, if it 
{tay behind. The feed of this hearbe drieth up milke,if ic be drunkein wine or mead, 
Cirfion commeth up witha flender ftalke two cubits high,and feemeth to be made three. cors 
nered triangle-wife: the fame is befer round about with prickie leaves : howbeit, the {aid pricks 
are but tender and foft. The leaves in forme refemblean ox tongue or the hearbe*Langue-de- * Or Borage. 
boeufe,butthat they be fmaller andfomewhat white; in the top whereof there put foorth purple @!*¢'" 
: aes 5 : : Greeke Bu- 
buttons or little heads, whith in the end turne toa plume likethiftie downesSome writers hold, sicpin, 
thatthis hearbe or the root onely,bound unto the{welling veinescalled Varices, doth allay the 
B paine thereof. 
€ratzogonos fpindleth in the head like unto the eare of wheat,and out of one fingle root yee 
fhall havemany fhoots to {pring and rife up into blade and ftraw, and thofe alfo full of joynts. 
Itgladly groweth in coole and{hadowie places: the feed refembleth the graine of the Miller, 
which is verie fharpe and biting atthe tongues end. If a man and his wife before they companie 
togither carnally, drinke before fupperfor fortie daies togither the weight of three oboli of this 
feed, cither in wine, oras many cyaths of water, they {hall havea man-child betweene them, as 
fome fay. There is another*Cratzogonos,called alfo Thelygonos3and the difierence from the *some taka 
oiher may foone be knowne by the mildneffe in taft. Some authors affirme,that ifwomen ufe to abs fee 
Arlmert. 
the oneas the other applied with honey, doc healeold ulcers :they incarnat and fill up the hol- 
Jow concavities of fiftulous fores: and fuch parts as do iniflike and want nourifhment,they caufe 
to gather flefh and fill the skin againe :foule and. filthie ulcers they mundifie, the flac bilesand 
rifings called Pani they rarifte and difcufle :gouts of the feet they mitigat; and generally all im- 
poftumations, in womens breafts efpecially they refolve and afluage.7 beophrafis would have a 
kind of tree to be called Crateegonos or Crateogon, which herein Italierhey call* Aquifolia. * i. Holly ot 
~~ Crocodilion doth in fhape refemble the thiftly hearbe or Artichoke called the blacke Cha- Gulsg: ny 
mzleon :the root is long and thicke in all parts alike, of an hard and unpleafant tmell : it grow- joliais ee 
eth ordinarily in fandie or gravelly grounds, If one drinke of it (they fay) it willfecthenofe a in Grecke: 
bleeding, and fend outa deale of thick aind groffe bloud,that the {plene will diminifh and weare 76°C 
away by che means. . | phreflus,whick 
Astouching Tefticulus Canis or Dogs-ftones which the Greeks call Cynoforchis,& others Pemeaneh 
fimply Orchis,it hath leaves like unto thofe of the Olive ; foft and tender they are,and about halfe Cee 
a foot long and therefore no marveile iithey lic {pred upon the ground: the root isbulbousand tee.now ca’= 
growing long-wife, in adouble ranke,or two togither the one above, which is the harder, the led J crimgtas 
other under it,and thatisthe fofter : when they be fodden,folke ufe to eatthem after the manner 
of other bulbs: and lightly a man fhall find them growing in vineyards. Of thefe two roots, if 
a man eat the bigger, tc isfaid, that hee {hall beget boies sand if the woman eat the {maller, fhee — 
* fhall conceivea maiden-child. In Theffalic, men ufefor to drinke in goats milke, the fofter of. 
theie roots, co make themifelves luftie for the act of generations but the harder , when they 
would coole the heat of luft; whereby wee may fee, that they be contrarie, and one hindreth the 
operation of the other. 
Chryfolachanon commeth up likea Lettuce, and commonly groweth in plots of ground 
fet with Pines :the vertue of this hearbeis to heale wounds of the finews though they were cut 
quite afunder, if itbee prefently laid too. There is another kind of * Chryfolachanon, bearing *Ithinke hee 
flours of agolden colour, and leafed like unto the Beet :when it is boiled, folke ufe to eatit in ees: 6 
ftead of meat, and itloofeneth the bellyaswellas Beets, Coleworts,and fuchlike: andif it bee 
true that is reported, whofoever beare this hearbe tied faft about any place of their bodies 
which is ever in their eye, fo asthey may fee the fame continually, it will cure them of the jaun- 
dife. Touching this hearbe Chryfolachanurm, well L wor that I have not written fusficiently that 
. men might know itby this defcription, and yetcould Inever meet with any authour who hath 
{aid more, or deferibed it better. This verely hath been the fault and overfight even of our mo- 
derne Herbarifts of late daies, To write flightly of thofe hearbs and fimples which they them- 
felves knew and were acquaintedwith, as if torfooth they had been knowne to everie man; {et- 
ting downe onely their names andnomore: whichis we as much as totellus a tale and Ys 
Bobi that 
