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Chap. LXVI. 
Scorfinert . Vipers graffe. 
A Lthough there be foure or flue forts of Set' finer a, yet I (hall here defire you to 
be content with the knowledge only of a couple. 
i . Seer finer a Hifieniu maior. T hegreater Spanifh Vipers graffe. 
This Spanifh Vipers graffe hath diuers long, and fome-vhat broad leaues, hard and 
crumpled on the edges, and fometimes vneuenly cut in or indented alfo, of a bletvifli 
greenc colour : among which rifet h vp one ftalke,and no more for the molt part, two 
foote high or thereabouts, hauing here and there fome narrower long leaues thereon 
then thofe below : thetoppe of the ftalke brancheth it felfe forth into other parts, 
euery one bearing a lo ig fcaly head, from out ofthe toppe whereof rifeth a faire large 
double flower, of a pale yellow colour, much like vnto the flower of yellow Goates 
beard, but a little lelfer, which being paft, the feede fucceederh, being long, whitifh 
andrough, inclofed with much downe, and among them many other long fraooth 
feedes, which are limber and idle, and are carryed away at the will of the winde : the 
roore is long, thicke and round, brittle and blacke, with a certaine roughneffe on rhe 
outfide : but very white within, yeclding a milkie liquor being broken, as euery other 
part of the plant doth befides, yet the roote more then any other part, and abideth 
many yeates without perilhing. 
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i.Sco'finert Ttnnenki purpuret. Purple flowred Vipers graffe. 
This purple flowred Vipers graffe hath long and narrow leaues, of the fame blcwifh 
greene colour with the former : the ftalke rifeth vp a foote and a halfe high, with a 
few fuch like leaues , but (hotter thereon, breaking at the top pc into two or three parts, 
bearing on each of them one flower, fafhioncd like the former, and (landing in the like 
fcaly knoppe or head, but of a ble wifh purple colour,nor fully fo large, of the Pvceteft 
lent ofany of this kinde, comming necreft vnto the fmell of a delicate perfume. 
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The Place. 
The firft is of Spaine. The other of Hungaric and Auftrich : which 
now furnilh our gardens. 
The Time. 
They flower in the beginning of May : the feede is foone ripe after, and 
then perilhing downe to the roote for that yeare, fpringeth afrefh before 
Winter againe. 
The Names. 
They arecalledafterthe Spanifh name Scor finer*, which is in Latine rf- 
pertria, of fome rtperini, and Serpentini : Wee call them in Englifh Vipers 
gra(Te,or Scerjonen. 
The Vertues. 
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Manafdus as I thinke firft wrote hereof, and faith that it hath been found 
to cure them that arebitten of a Viper, or other fuch like venemous Crea- 
ture. The rootes hereof being preferued with fugar, as I haue done often, 
doeeate almoft as delicateas theEringus roote, and no doubt is good to 
comforr and ftrengthen the heart, and vitall fpirits. Some that haue vfed rhe 
preferued roote haue found it effe&uall to expelling winde out ofthe fto- 
macke, and to helpe fwounings and faintneffe of the heart, 
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