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Chap. 429. Englijh Herbs, 
Gravel or Sand and grofs Humors, eat thereof by 
chance, both raw and boiled, only for that the 
T^lte thereof pleafed him : after a few Days he 
told me, that he found great Good by the eating 
thereof, and he took fome of it. with him, that l'o 
he might ufe it when he came afbore. 
CHAP. CCCCXXIX. 
Of L E.O P A R. D S--B A N E ; 
0 R, 
Round-leaved WOLFS -BANE. 
1 C~tf HE Arnes. It is called in Greek , ’A*!*™, 
Hof ’ b y piofeariiet, becaufe the 
Heibufed to kill Leopards, Wolves, and other like 
Creatures very Ipeedily. It is alfo called »8°oS j e 
•^orruptio, P ettemtm, Mors ; and (a„od 
genital, bi/s fa-mine} fexus ammahum , eoiem 
1 “ m J er ‘“ wortem) as Theophrajlus, lib. 9. cap. 9. 
has named and deferibed it ; in Latine it is called 
lima and Aeon, turn Pardaliancbes, alfo Tbe/ypbo- 
non rbcepbr.fi. Gefncr and others take it to be 
\ l S™u c Tr P/ '"u T t k I7 ’ "f - ,0 - which he & y s 
is an Herb fo called by the Gauls , wherewith they 
do make a Medicine, to dip their Arrow-heads in 
when they Hunt Wild Bealls, and which they alfo 
call Cetvana. Gcfner fays, that fome called it 
becaufe the Leaves were round, like to a 
full Moon ; but he himfclf called it Thera Venena- 
ta, and. Toxtcum Valdcnfum. Label calls it Phtho- 
ra Valienfium ; and C/«/fr« makes it to be fie/i/w;- 
culus grumofa radjee tertius : in Englijh, Leopards- 
bane, or Round-leaved Wold-bane. 
v-."; V ,e f'dt- Authors make two or three 
Kinds hereof, vis. I. Aconitum Pardaliancbes, feu 
Thera minor The leffer Leopards-bane. 2. Aconi- 
tum Pardaliancbes , Jwe Thera major , The greater 
Leopards-bane. Aconitum Pardaliancbes cotn- 
mentttmm Mattbtoh, Matthiolus his fained Leo- 
pards-bane. 
fome, of five round pointed Leaves, with. a fmall 
greenilh Head in the middle, which when the Flow 
er is fallen grows to be a fmall Head, confining of 
Ppull Seeds fet together, like unto the Hiads 
of leveral forts of Ranunculi or Crowfeet, 
SttUll Leopards-bane . 
HL The Defcriptions. The firft, or Small Leo- 
pards-bane, has a Root which is compofed of Seven 
eight or ten fmall, long, round, very white, fining 
Roots fomewhat uneven, as it were branched out 
hie Knots or Jo, nts w feveral places, plainly to be 
difeerned m fome, but ,n others not, being plain and 
banned fI" S ' na j! nalll m™re, and III of them 
f til I H r ad themf ' hke unro Af Pbodil Roots, 
of tl.e moft poyfonotts Quality, which has been found 
in any other l egetable. It is a fmall low Hefb ri- 
ling up with a fmall, (lender, round Stalk, little 
more than half a Foot high, bearing about the mid- 
dle thereof but one fmall ltiff or hard Leaf for the 
P art; ^t fometimes two or three, one above 
another, and fomenmes two together, which are 
ouiid, and fomethmg like the Leaf of Afarum, but 
fun 6 oFTf°“ th ’ r nd - a blew ' 01 § reen Color ' and 
rhi I ^ elns > fometIlln S unevenly dented about 
the edges, not compaffing the Stalk, but Handing 
of fhi sfw ■ ir Y up ° n fhort Foot-ftalks. The top 
Branch! al , k ‘ S n° fte c ntl ^ S dlVlded int0 tw0 OT three 
Branches with a fmall narrow Leaf at the Joint 
n T/ m ° 0td p ? le ydlow Flower ™ the top 
thereof, fomewhat like to thofe of Cinkfoil or Five- 
leaved Grafs, confifting in many of four, and in 
IV. The Second, or Greater Leopards-bane. Its 
Root is much like the former and it is in all thine $ 
like unto the Lefler before deferibed , but that it is 
^eateifand rifes up higher , having larger Leaves, 
and finely dented about the edges , and two or three 
handing together about the middle of the Stalk, 
lome fmaller than others, and fometimes one above 
another, and fome fmall long and narrow ones at 
the Joints, branched forth into two or three parts 
or more, bearing every one of them its fmall yellow 
blower, like to the former, with like Seed contain- 
ed therein. Thefe two forts differ chiefiy in the 
Magnitude of the Plants, and that this latter bears 
more Leaves than the former ; which Parkinfoit 
thinks may rather be attributed to the Fertility ot' 
Sterility ot the Soil wherein they grow, than to a- 
anothcr"^ SpedeS ’ they bein S p ° very like one 
V. The third, or Matthiolus his fained Leopards- 
)an , c ' r a R- 00t which conftjis of many Knots 
and Joints, like unto a Scorpion’s Tail in the Came 
manner as Matthiolus has fet forth in his Figure 
It nfesup early in the Year, if the Spring be mild, 
with us Stalk, before any of the lower Leaves ap- 
pear as the Coltsfoot and Butter-bur do, having 
four fmall, round, hairy Leaves upon the Stalk fet 
by couples atddtances. The Flowers are many 
growing in 1 a Tuft or round Head together at the 
top thereof ot a pale yellow Color, with many 
yellownh Threads in the middle. When the Flow- 
ers are pair, then come up the Leaves, which are 
four for the molt part, and are almoft round, hairy 
and green on the upper fide, and of a hoary White 
full'ofTman W thr °’ ^ 3nd . 
VI. Nora, 
