r T he (garden of plea) ant blowers, 3 
good caution and aduice. ThereisaSyrupeorOxymelmadehereofin the 
Apothecaries (hops , which as it is dangerous forgeatle and tender bodies, 
fo it may be very effe&uall in ftronger conditutions. Paufanias in Phteicu, 
recordeth a notable dratagem that Solon vfed in befieging the Citic of 
Cirrheus,ws.That hauing cutoff the riuerPliftus from running into the 
Citre,he caufed a great many of thefe roores to be put into a quantity there- 
of, which after they had deeped long enough therein, and was fumciently 
infe&ed therewith , he let paffe into the Citieagaine: whereof when they 
had greedily drunke, they grew fo weakc and feeble by the fuperpurgation 
thereof, that they were forced to leaue their wals vnmand,and nor guarded, 
whereby the Amphy&ions their enemies became maders of their Citieo 
The like dratagems are fet downe by diuers other Authors , performed by 
the helpe of other herbes. 
Chap. LXXXIII. 
F.Rcb trine. Small or wilde white Ellebor. 
T He likenede of the leaues of thefe plants, rather then any other faculty with 
the former white Ellebor, hath caufed them to be called Elleborinc, as if they 
were fmaller white Ellebprs. And I for the fame'caufe haue ioyned them next 
whereof thereare found many forts : One which is the greater kinde, is of greated 
beauty ; the other which are leffer differ not much one from another, more then in the 
colour of the flowers, whereof 1 will onely take three, being of the mod beautie. 
and leaue the red to another worke. 
r . Hdleborinc vcl Elleborinc mater, fine Cahtoltu Maria, 
Our Ladies Slipper. 
This mod beautifull plant ofall thefe kindes, rifeth vp with diuers dalkes', afoote 
and a halfe high at the mod, bearing on each fide of them broadgrecne leaues’, fomc- 
what like in forme vnto the leaues of the white Ellebor, but fmaller and not fo ribbed 
comparing the dalke at the lower end ; at the tops of the dalkes come foith one, or 
two, or three flowers at the mod, one aboue another , vpon fmall ftort foote-ftalkes 
with a fmall leafe at the foote of eucry dalke : each of thefe flowers are of a lon°- ouall 
forme, that is, more long then round, and hollow with*ll,efpecially at the vppe r parr 
the lower being round and fwelling 1 ike a belly :at the hollow part there are two fmall 
peeces like eares or flippers, that at the fir A doe couer the hollow part, and after dand 
aparc one from another, all whichareofa fine pale yellow colour, in all that I haue 
feene (yet it is faid there are feme found , that arc more browne or tending to purple) 
there are likewifefoure long , narrow, darke coloured leaues at the fetting on of the 
flower vnto the dalke , wherein as it were the flower at the fird dandeth : the whole 
flower is of a pretty fmall fent : the feede is very fmall, very like vnto the feede of the 
Orchides or Satyrions, and contained in fuch like long pods, but bigger : the roots arc 
compofedof a number of firings enrerlacingthcmfeluesonewithinanother lying 
withm the vpper crufl of the earth, & not fpreading deep, of a darke brownilh colour. 
2 . Elleborinc minor flore albo. 
The fmallor wilde white Ellebor with awhite flower. 
, This fmaller wilde white Ellebor rifeth vp in the like manner vnto the former, and 
not much lower, bearing fuch like leaues, but fmaller, and of a whiter greenecolour, 
almod of the colour and faffiion of the leaues of Lilly Conually ; the top of the dalke 
hath many more flowers, but lefTer, growing together, fpikc-falhion, with fmall fhort 
leaues at thefl:alke of euery flower, which confifieth of fiuefmall white leaues , with a 
fmall clofe hood in the middle, without any fent at all : the feede and feede vcffels arc 
like 
