Lib; j. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants: r _J^' 
*jf The Time. 
They floure in the Sommer moneths, 
May, Iune,a nd Iuly,and fometimes later. 
The Names . 
Adonis floure is called in Latine Tins a. 
donis,and AdomdU ■ of the Dutchmen, 
fc;tofj!tn : in Englifh wee may call it Red 
Maythes, by which name it is called of them 
that dwell where it groweth naturally,and ge- 
nerally Red Camomill : in Greeke, Sc 
Eranthemum : our London women dot call it 
Rofe-a-rubie. 
<S\TheT emperature. 
There hath not beene any that hath writ- 
ten of the Temperature hereof; notwithftan- 
ding,fo farrvas the tafte thereof fheweth, it 
is fomething hot, but not much. 
<§T he Vertues. 
Thefsedof Adonis flower is thought to A 
bee good again!!: the ftone: amongft the An- 
cients it was notknowne tohaueany other fa- 
culrie .-albeit experience hath oflate taught 
vs, that the feed ftamped , and the ponder ^li- 
nen in wine,a!e, or beere to drinke, doth won- 
derfully and with great effefi helpe the col- 
licke. 
I Flos ^Adonis fore ruhro. 
Adoni s,with red floures . 
[ 'XcLo’Cya^ 
C h a p: 8i. Of ‘’Dock^s. 
The Kindes. 
D lofcorides fetteth forth foure kindes of Dockes ; wilde or fharpe pointed Docke ; Garden 
Docke - round leafed Docke; and the Soure Docke called Sorrell :befides thefethe later 
Herbarifts haue added certaine other Dockes alfo, which I purpofe to make mention of. 
«} The Defcription. 
i "yHat which among the Latines fignifieth to foftc-n, eafe, or purge the bellie, the fame 
* fignification hath among the Grecians : whereof Lapathum and au-m*. (as fome 
doreade) tooke their names for herbes which arevfed in pottage and medicine, very well knowne 
to haue the power of cleanfing : of thefe there be many kindes and differences, great ftoreeuery 
: where growing, among whom is that which is now called fharpe pointed Docke, or fharpe leafed 
Docke. It groweth in moil medowes and by running ftreames, hauing long narrow leaues fharpe 
and hard pointed : among the which commeth vp round hollow ftaiks ofa browne colour, hauing 
ioynts like knees, garni (bed with fuch like leaues, but linaller: at the end whereof grow many 
fiouresof a pale colour,oneaboue another; and after them commeth a brownifh three fquare 
feede, lapped in browne chaffie huskes like Patience. Therooteis great, long, and yellowe 
within. 
t There is a varietieof this with crifpedor curled lea-teswhofe figure was by our Authour 
giuen in the fecond place in the following chapter, vnder the Title of Hydroltpathum mtntu. f: 
2 The fecond kind of fharpe pointed Docke is like the firft,but much fmal!er,and doth bears 
his feed in rundles about his branches in charfie huskes, like Sorrell,not fo much in vfews the for- 
mer, cal led alfo fharpe pointed Docke. 
^ 3 This in roots, (Dikes, and feeds is like to the precedent ; but the leaues are (hotter, and 
rounder than thofe of the firft defcribed,8c therin confifts the chiefc difference betwixt this Sc ic/f 
CT The Place. 
i Thefe kindes of Docks do grow, as is before fiid,in medowes ml by riuers (Ides, 
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