.L I B. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The place. 
The greater Plantaines do grow almoft euery where. 
The Idler Plantaine is found on the lea coafts and bankes of great riuers, which are fometimes 
walked with braekifh water. 
$ The Rofe Plantaines grow with vs in gardens ; and die fixth with fpokie tufts groweth in 
forne places in the Ifle of Tenet, where I firft found it, being in company with M‘. Thomas Hickes, 
hi' .Leonard Buckner, and other London Apothecaries, Anno 1631. t 
The Time. 
They are to be feene from Aprill vnto September. 
«I[ The Names. 
Plantaine is called in Latine Plant ago, and in Greeke «>■'»* Ct£.V3[, and Arndglcjfa . that is to fay, 
Lambes tongue: the Apothecaries keepethe Latine name: in Italian, Piimt/tgtnc, and Plant aginc : 
in Spanifh, Lhantem : the Germanes, dipegctCt) t in Low-Dutch, UDeCfjb^e : m Englifh, Plantain, 
and YVeybred: in French, Plantain . 
The Temperature. 
Plantaine (as Galen faith) is ofa mixt temperature ; for it hath in it a certaine Waterie cold- 
nefle, with a little harfhneffe, earthy, dry, and cold : therefore they are cold and dry in the fecond 
degree. To be briefe, they are dry without biting, and cold without benumming. The root is of 
like temperature, but drier,and not fo cold. Thefeedis of fubtill parts, and of temperature leile 
cold. 
The Virtues. 
Plantaine is good for vlcers that are of hard curation,for fluxes, i(Tues,rheumes, and rottenneffe A 
and for the bloudy flix : it ftayeth bleeding, it heales vp hollow fores and vlcers, as well old as new! 
Of all the Plantaines the greateft is the beft, and excelleth the reft in facultie and vertue. 
The iuyee or deco.ftion of Plantaine drunken ftoppeth the bloudy flix and all other fluxes of B 
the belly, ftoppeth the piflrng of blond, fpitting of bloud, and all other ilfues of blond in man or 
woman, and the defire to vomit. 
Plantaine leaues ftamped and made intb a Tanfie, with the yelkes of egges, ftayeth the fnordi- ' C 
nate flux of the termes, although it haue continued many yeares. 
The root of Plantaine with the feed boy led in white Wine and drunke, openeth the conduits D 
or palfages of the liuer and kidnies, cures the jaundice, and vicerations of the kidnies and bladder. 
The juyee dropped in the eyes doth coole the heat and inflammation thereof. I finde in anci- £ 
ent Writers many good-morrowes, which I thinke not meet to bring ihto your memorie againe - 
as that three roots will cure one griefe, foure another difeafe, fix hanged about the hecke are good 
for another maladie, &c. all which are but ridiculous toyes. 
The leaues are Angular good to make a water to vvaih a fore throat or mouth, or the priuy parts p 
ofa man or woman. 
The Italics of Plantaine ftamped and put into Oyle 01iue,and fet in the hot Sun for a morreth Q 
together, and after boyled in a kettle of leething water (which we doe call Balneum CM aria ) and 
then (trained, preuaileth againft the paines in the eares, the yard, or matrix, (being dropped into 
the cares, or caft with a fyringe into the other parts before rehearfed) or the paines of the funda- 
ment j proued by a learned GentlelMn M r . William Godowrus Sergeant Surgeon to the Queenes 
Maieftie. 
C h a p. p8. Of c Rjb-'\'vort. 
The Defeription. 
1 T1 Ib-wort or fmall Plantaine hath many leaues flat fpred vpon the ground,narrow,(harp 
pointed, and ribbed for the molt part with fiueneruesorflinewes,and therefore it was 
called cpjijnque-neruiii ; in the middle of which leaues rileth vp acrelled or. ribbed 
ftalke, bearing at the top a darkc or dusky knap, fet with a few fuch white floures as are the floures 
ofwheat. The root and other parts are like the other Plantaines. 
t There is another lefle kindc of this Rib-wprt, which differs not from the lait mentioned in 
any thing but the fmallnelfe thereof, f 
2 Rofe Rib-wort hath many broad and long leaues of a darke greene colour, fharpe pointed, 
and ribbed with fine nerues or finewes like the common Rib-wort ; among!! which rife vp naked 
ftalkes furrowed, chamfered, or crefted with certaine fharpe edges : at the top whereof groweth a 
great and large tuft of fuch leaues as thofe are that grow next the ground, making one entire tuft 
