Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
407 
The Vertucs. 
The berries of Herbe Paris giuen by the fpace of twentie daies j are excellent good amiinft \ 
poilbn,or the ponder of the herbe drunke in like manner halfe a fpoonfull at a time in"the mdrnin^ ’ 
fading. 
The fame is mini fired with great liicceffe vnto fuch as are become peeuifh, or wirhoutvnder- pj 
ftanding, being miniftred as is aforefaid 5 enery morning by the (pace of twentie daies, as Bapdfta 
S urdus, and Mmtbiolus haue recorded. Since which time there hath been further experience made 
; thereofagainft poifon,and put in praftice in thecitie of Paris, in Louaine,and at the baths in Hel- 
uetia,by the right excellent Herbarifts Matt hi as tie L’obcl, and Petrus Pena, who hairing often read, 
that it was one of the Aconites, called Parddtanth.es, and fo by confequence of a poifonr'ng quality, 
they gaue it vnto dogs and lanrbes, who receiued no hurt by the lame : wherefore they further pro- 
> fecuted the experience thereof, and gaue vnto two ddgs faft bound or coupled together, a dram of 
Arfenicke, and one dram of Mercuric £rblimate mixed with flefh (t in the o dduerfaria it is but 
' of each halfe a dram, and there fag. 105. you may finde this Hiftorie more largely fie r downc. 
; which the dogs would not w illingly ear, and therefore they had it crammed downc their rhroats : 
1 vnto one of tlrefe dogs they gaue this Antidote following ina little red wine, whereby he recoue- 
red his former health againe within a few houres : but the other dog which had none of the medi- 
cine, died incontinently. 
This is the receit. 
R. vtrw[que\^ngelica(inmit)domefticam : &[ylueJtr!m,Vicctoxicij'alcriarix4omeftica,Polipo' 
dij tjttcrni, radicum Vrtica,ana i.iiij, Corticis Me\crci Germania, 34. qranorum 
herkeParidis,N.ii'.folmum ciufdcm cumtoto, Num. ^.F.x maccratis tn acelo radicihus, & 
ficcatis fit omnium pulvis , 
The people in Germany do vfe the leaues of Herbe Paris in greene wounds, for the which it is C 
; very good, as Ioachimus Camtrarius reportethpvho likewife faith, that the ponder of the roots o-inen 
todrink,doth fpeedily ceafe tbegripings and paine of the Collicke. 
Small Moonewoort is fingular to heale greene and frefli woundsiit ftaieth the bloudy flix. ft r> 
ihath beene vfed among the Alchymiftes and witches to doe wonders withall,who fay, that it ivi.U 
, loofe lockes,and make them to foil from the feet of horfes that grafe where ir doth grow and hath 
:beene called ofthem Martagon , whereas in truth they are.all but drovvfiedreames and illufions-buc 
,jt is fingular for wounds as aforefaid. 
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Chap. po. Of Winter greene. 
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T he Vcfcription, 
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I 1 Tyrol* hath many tender and veriegreene leaues, almoft like the leaues ofBecte, but ra- 
I ther in my opinion like to the leaues of a Peare-trec, whereof it tooke his name Pyrola, 
. for tliat it is Pjrtformis. Among tbele leaues commeth vp a ftalkc garnifhed with pret- 
i tie white floures , of a vene pleafant fweet fmell, like Lilhum ConuaUium , or the Lillie of the 
Valley. Tlierootis fmall and threddie, creeping forre abroad vnder the ground. 
: , * 2 Tll is differs from thclaft deferibed in the flendernefle of the ftalkes, and fmalnelTe of 
Ithe leaues and floures: for the leaues of this are not fo thickeand fubftantiall, but very thinne 
i.iharpe pointed, and very finely fnipt about the edges, blacker, and refembling a Peare-trec leafe ’ 
1 The floures are like thofe of the former, yet fmaller and more in numbento which fucceed fine cor- 
nered feed vellels with a long pointell as in the precedent : the root alfo creepes no lelfe than that 
of the former, and here and there puts vp new ftalkes vnder the mofle.lt growes vpon the Auftrian 
and Stynan Alpes,and floures in Iuneand Inly. 
3 This is an elegant plant, and fometimes becomes fhrubbie, for the new and fho'rt branches 
growing vp each yeare,doe remaine firmeand greene for fome yearcs,and grow ftraight vp vntill 
at length borne downe by their ovvne weight they fall downc and hide them/el lies in the mode. 
Ut hath commonly at each place where new branches growe forth, two, three, or foure thicke verie 
greene and fhinmgjeaucs, almoft in forme and magnitude like to the leaues of Lattreola, yet fnipt 
about the edges, ot a very drying tafte,and then bitterifh. From among thefe leaues at the Spring 
01 the yeare new branches fhoot vp, hailing final 1 leaues like feailes vpon them, and at their topped 
grow 
