Lib. i. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Effex. Likewifeneerevnto Muche Dunmovv in EfTex, where they were fhewed me by a learned 
Gentleman Mafter lames Ttvaights, excellently well feene in the knowledge of plants . 
$ I receiued fome roots of the fecond from my kinde friend M. T homas Wallis of Weftmin- 
fler, the which he gathered at Dartford in Kenr,vpon a piece of ground commonly called the 
Brimth : but I could not long get them to grow in a garden, neither do any of the other Satyrions 
loue to be pent vp in fuch ftraight bounds, f 
j Orchis Frifialutca. 
Ftiefeland Lady-traces, 
The Time, 
Thefe kindes of ftones do floure from Auguft to the end Of September . 
The Names. 
The firft is called in Latine Tefiiculm Odoratus : in Englifb, Sweet fmelling Tefticles or ftones, 
not of the fweetnefleof the roots, but of the floures. It is called alfo Orchis ftir alls, or Autumnalis , 
for that this (as alfo that which is fet forth in the next place) hath the top of the ftalke as it were 
twifted or twined fpire fafhion,and for that it commeth to flouring in Autumne :of our Englifh 
women they be called Lady-traces but euety countrey hath a feuerall name ; for fome call them 
Sweet Ballocks, fvveet Cods, fweet Cullions, and Stander-grafle, In Dutch, LUlflbCtllitfUIt, and 
S>tOnMctattt *. In French, Satyr on. , 
The fecond fort is called Triorchis, and alfo Tetrorchis : in EnglilTnTnple Lady-traces,or white 
Orchis- 
The third is called orchis Frifia : in Englifh Friefeland Orchis. . 
The laft of thefe kindes of Tefticles or Stones is called of fome in Latine, Orchis Leod, enfs,. and 
Orchis Lttteajxs alfo Baftlica minor Serapias ,a.aATriorchis *Al"inet£ -• In EnglifhjYellow Lady-traces. 
«|j TheTemperoture. 
Thefe kindes of fweet Cullions are of nature and temperature like the Dogs ftones , although 
not vfed in Phyficke in times paftj notwithftanding later Writers haue attributed fome vertues 
vntothemas followed!. 
The Vertues. 
The full and flippy roots of Lady-traces eaten or boyled in milke, and drunke^ prouoke venery, A 
nourifh and ftrengthen the body, and be good for fuch as be fallen into a Confumption or Feuer 
Heai< l Ue - " Chap. 
4 Orchis Leochenfis. 
Liege Lady-tracesi 
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