Lib. z. Of heHiftory of Plants. 289 
doc turne into dovvne that is carried away with the winde : the feed iikewife cieaucth vnto the Hud 
downe, and is alfo carried away with the winde. The whole plant periiheth when if bathperfe&ed 
his feed, and recouereth it felfc againe by the falling thereof. 
$ 9 1 thinke it expedient in this 
f p Cichorium vtrr&carium. 
Wart-Succorie. 
' " ^ "•‘.•-in m 
place todeliuer vnto you the liiftorie of 
the Cichorium verrucarium , otZ acini ha of 
Matthiolus ; ofwhich our Author maketh 
mention in his Names and Vertues al- 
though he neither gaue figure, nor the leaft 
defeription thereof. This Wart-Succory 
(for fo I will call it) hath leaues almoft 
like Endiue, greene, with pretty deepe ga- 
iheson their fides ; the ftalkes are much 
crefted, and at the top diuided into many 
branches ; betweene which , and at their 
iides grow many fhort ftalkes with yellow 
floures like thofe of Succorie, but thac 
thefe turne not into Downe, but into cor- 
nered and hard heads, mod commonly di- 
uided into eight cels or parts, wherein the 
feed is contained, f 
«f The Place. 
t Thefe plants are found only in oar- 
dens in this country ; the feuenth & eighth 
excepted , which peraduenture may be 
found to grow in vntilled places.vponditf 
■ches bankes and the borders of fields or 
the like. * 5 
f The Time. 
T hey do floure from May to the end of 
Auguft. 
f The Thames. 
Gum Succorie hath beene called ofthe 
Grecians, : ofthe Latines fondrilla, 
and Chondril la : Dtofcorifles and Pliny call rc 
Cichorion, and Sens , by reafon of fome like- 
nefle they haue with Succorie, efpecially 
the two firft, which haue blew floures as thofe of the Succories . Lobelius maketh 0 'chorea vernica- 
ria to be Zacimha of Matthiolus. 
$ N dmesin particular. 
t i This is called ChondrilU casrtdea Belgarum, of Lobel Apate, of Dalefchamfws. 
2 CondrUla i , of Matthiolus : ChondrilU lad folia ccertdea , of Tabernamontanus . 
3 chondnlla prior Diofcoridis, of Clufius and Lobel. 
4 Chondrillar arapiirpurea,tfrc. of Lobel i ChondrilU Hifbanica Narbonenfis, of Tabern. Seneciec.tr- 
dnus Apultis, of Columna. 
5 ChondrilU prima Diofcoridis, of Columna and Bauhinus Vimineapuifcofa, of Lobel and Clujius. 
6 ChondrilU altera Diofcoridis , of Columna ■ fomethinke itto be^imiof Theophrajlus Lobell 
calls it, ChondrilU pttfilla marina lute a bulb oft. 
7 Hypocharis,porcclHa, of Tabernamont antes . 
8 Hieracium minimum p . of clujius : Hyo[erislatifolia,ofTabern. The twblaft fhould haue bin 
put among the Hieracia. 
p Cichorium verruc ariitm, and Zacintbus of Matthiolus and Clufius. $ 
fl The Nature and Vertues. 
Thefe kinds of gum Succorie are like in temperature to the common Succory, but drier. 
The root and leaues tempered with hony,and made into Trochiskes,or little fiat cakes, with ni- A 
ter or falt-petcr added to them,cleanfe away the morphevv,fun-burnings, and all fpots of the face. 
l hegum which is gathered from the branches, whereof it tooke his name, layeth downe the B 
itairing haires of the eye-browes and fuch like places : and in fome places it is vfed for Maftick,as 
Jtellonius obferues. 
The gum pondered with myrrh, and put into alinnen cloath, and a peffarie made thereof like a G 
nnger, and put vp, bringeth dovvne the termes in yong Wenches and fuch like, 
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