Of HEN BAN E Common or Black. 
T H E Karnes. It is called in Arabick Alter - 
cum , and Altercangenum , and by rhe Arabi- 
an Phyficians Bengi^ which differs but little from the 
Indian and Perfian Name Banguc , as Garcia) ab Or. 
to , and Chriftopher Acofta declare, in Greek 't owi. 
U-& quaji Faba Porcina , in Latine alfo Hyofeyamm , 
and corruptly Jufquiamm , alfo Apoliirfaris , 
linc Medians invent ore , utV applet Cerebrum 
vitiofo Cf j slide balitu , Me ntem pcrcellit , 
fi Apo/linis JT.fi ro. Scribonim fays that the Latincs 
‘alfo call it Alter cum , ab Alter condo , c//w Fb;- 
borum All ere at tone r'txaque Je torquent liyojcntmo de- 
ment at i. Camcrarim faith it is alfo called Priapeia , 
quia It ali Semine utuntur ad Priapifmum fedandnm. 
II. The Kinds. There are leveral forts of this 
Plant, but the principal Kinds are, i. "i 
raf, Hyofeyamm niger , called alio HyoJ'cyamus vul- 
garis, and by Fltchfius HyoJ'cyamus Flavus , Our Com- 
mon Henbahe, which is the Black Henbane , and is a 
lingular Plant, of which in this Chapter. 2. 'Te«et- 
a,[A@- A«/y.of, Hyofcyamus alb us , fo called by all Au- 
thors, Henbane , of which in C/.v//>. 361. 
VI. Ab/a. are to take notice that there is ano- 
ther variety of the fir ft of thefe Kinds , w/w/b Placer 
is for the moft part of a perfetl white color , a/’ a little 
pale vohitijh , which does manifellly exprefs the dif- 
ference, and therefore is called in Latine Cannabis 
Spuria prime Flore albo , Ballard Hemp of the hill 
fort with a white Flower. 
VII. The Places. ■ Thefe Kinds of Bafiard or Wild 
Hemp do all grow as well in moilt Grounds as dry, 
by Ditch lides, and by Pathways, and under Walls, 
and fome of them will be found in Gardens, whence 
they are continually plucked up as Weeds-, the firft 
Kind with a white Flower mentioned at Seft. VI. 
above has been found by the Pathways near C/apham , 
and in the Ditches by Rcdrijf, or Rotherhithe , as it 
was formerly written * they all grow alfo upon bar- 
ren Hills and Mountains, as Gerarft fays, and efpe 
dally on Earable Land* and they have been often- 
times found in the Corn Fields of Kent, near Gravcf- 
end and Southfleet , and in all the way from thence 
to Canterbury, and injnany places about London. 
VIII. The Times. They all Flower for the moll 
part in July, and from July to the end of Atiguff , the 
Seed ripening in the mean time. 
IX. As to their Qualities, Specification , Prepara- 
tions and Virtues, they are thought t<? be nearly the 
fame with thofe of the Common Hemp in the former 
Chapter, as fome Authors are of Opinion, but they 
are feldom uled in Phyfick, either inwardly or out- 
wardly, when and where the others are to be had. 
X. But Lobel fays they are uled as an allured Re- 
medy againlt Nodes and Wens, and other like hard 
Tumors in tire Flelb, and that after other things have 
.He-niame, ttlac/L 
III. The Defcription. It bar a Root whkh ig great H 
white, and thick, branching, w Spreading itje/fj'eve- 
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