■IB. I. 
% 3 Orchis Palmata Pannonica S.Clnf. 
The Audrian handed Satyrion. 
Of the Hi ft or y of Plants. 
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5f. The Names-. 
t Royal Satyrion,or finger OPohis is cal- 
led in Latine, Palm* chnfii ; notwithdanding 
there is another herbe or plant called by the 
fame name, which othetvvifcris called Ricinus. 
This plant is called likewife of fome^Satyrium 
Bajilicum , or Satyrium regium. Some would 
haue it to be BuRetden, Dr BuRjdan Arahtm , but 
isiuicen faith BuReidcn is a woody Indian me- 
dicine : and Scrapio faith, Bttzeiden be hard 
white roots like thofe of Behen alhm,and that- 
it is an Indian drugibtit contrariwife the roots 
of Palma chrijli are nothing lefle than woody, 
fo that it cannot be the fame. CMatthiold 
would haue Satyrion royail to be the Digits 
Citrini of z^uicen ; finding fault with the 
Monkes which fet forth Commentaries vpon 
Mefues Compofitions , for doubting and lea- 
uingittothe iudgement Of the difereet Rea- 
der. Yet do we better allow of the Monkes 
doubt, than of t Matthiolus his affertion. For 
Auicens words be thefe ; What is zApthafafidi 
or Digiti Citrini ? and anfwering the doubt 
himfelfe,hefaith,Itis in figureor (hape like 
thepalmeofa mans hand, of a mixt colour 
betweene yellow and white, and it is hard, in 
which there is a little fweetneflbj and there is 
a Citrine fort dully and without fwedtnefle. 
Rhafis alfo in the lail booke of his Continent 
calls thefe, Digiti Crocei, or Saffron fingers j 
it , r „ „ , andhefaithitisagummeorveineforDyars. 
Now thefe roots are nothing Ietfe than ofa Saffron colour, and wholly vnfit for Dying. Where- 
fore without doubt thefe words of Auicen and Rhafis, in the cafes of men of iudgment do confirms. 
That Sasyrion Royail, of Palma fihnfii, are not thofe Digit, Citrini. The Germans call it CttlKfs 
Blum: the low Dutch, IJatlDChcnS erupt *. the French, Satyrion royal. 
51 The Temper autre andVertues. 
■ The Roots of Satyrion royail arc like to Cymfonhis or Dogs Rones, both in faiiour and fade, 
and therefore are thought by fume to be of like faculties. Yet Nicolaus Nicolus , in the chapter of 
the cure of a Quartaine Ague, faith, That theroots of Palma C befit areof force to purge vpward 
and downward ■ and that a piece of the root as long as ones thumbe damped and giuen with wine 
Before thefitcommeth rs a good remedieagaiud old Quartaines after purgation : and reporteth, 
1 hat one Baltolus, after he had endured 44 fits, was cured therewith. 
onciuumoc , now the whole root ofth.s plant u not to long. And bcfttaAirnux is knownc to hue a .ortntoric or piir s fn s facultic. ” 
G h a f. nd. Of Ser-apids Stones. 
«] T he K mdes. 
'T’Herebe fundry forts ofSerapias dones, whereof fome be male, others female • Come great 
and fome ofa fmaller kinde - varying likewife in colour of the floures, vVhereof fome be 
white, others purple ; altering according to the foile or cly mate, as thegreated part of bulbous, 
roots do. Moreouer, fome grow in marfliie and fenny grounds, and fome in fertile padures lying 
open to the Sun, varying likewife in the drape of their floures • retaining the forme of flies' But" 
ter-fltes,and Gnats, like thofe of the Fox dones, 
T f The 
