• I B. Z. 
Of the Hiitory of Plants. 
ding it hath taken his furname, and in which it is often found growing with other herbes - but al- 
fo neere common high vvaies, the borders of fields, by old walls and ruinous places . 
t 2 This growes not with vs, but in hotter Countries Cluftus found rt growing amom* rub- 
biih at Malago in Spaine. t 
t 2 Solarium Somniferum . 
Sleepje Nightfhade. 
I Solanum Hortenfe. 
Garden Nightfhade, 
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The Tint el 
It flowreth in Sommer, and oftentimes till Autumncbewellfpent- and then the fruit com* 
meth to ripenefle. 3 
$ 3 This Clufius found in flowerandwith the feede ripe in Februarie- forit liueth manv 
yeares in hot Countries, but in cold it is but an annuall. £ 1 
The Names. 
It is called of the Grecians iv">cof the Latines,y<> W»,and Solarium Hortenfe ■ in drops Sola 
trm:offomeMorell^ruaLupma,and Vua Vulpis : in Spanidr likewife^^VndrwJ^a- 
Marcellm an old Phificke writer, and diners others of his time called it Strumum ■ plhiie in his 
27 booke chap 8.fheweth that it is called CucuUus .■ both rhefe words are likewifeextant in o* 
ftdems among the contufed names ofNightdrade - who comprehending all the kindes of Nmht- 
Tn F £ 10 ?, n i C i? a P J ter 5 bein S fo m , an y= hath drangely & abfurdly confounded their names. 
Inhn Iiihitis called Garden Nightdiade,Morel,and Petie MorcllunFrench^W/oGa//^/^;.- 
feu ardent : qtaamedetur igni facro. 5 
«[ The Temperature. 
. Nl gntihade(as Galen faith in his booke of the faculties of fimple medicines)is vfed for tho/e 
infirmities that haue need of cooling and binding . for rhefe two qualities it hath in the fecond 
degree : which thing alfo hee affirmeth in his booke of the faculties of nauri fitments, where hee 
faith tlnit there is no pot-herbe which wee vfetoeat that hath fo great attrition or binding as 
Nightfhade hatband therefore Phyfitions do worthily vfe it, and that feldomeas a nourifhment 
but alwaies as a medicine. TheVertues. > 
i D 'f C "Ci eS vvr ' terll >. t,iat Nightfhade is good again# S. Anthonies fire, the fhingles oaine 4 
^fthe head the heart burning or heat ofthe ftomacke,and other like accidents proceed^ offharp "" 
iw‘l K § hl ™°“ ts - No 5‘' ri f 5 hft andmg chat it hath thefc vertues,yet it is not alwaies good that it 
(home be applied vnto tho.e infirmities, for that many times there hapneth more dangers by ap- 
plying 
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