Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. 1 . 
4S 1 
Chap. 103. Of Qaptaine Andreas Dorm bis'fV’ound-yvoort, 
The Dcfcripticn. 
f IP crba Doria V, 
Dorias Woundwodrt. 
T His plant hath long and large 
thicke and fat Ieaues, iharp poin - 
ted, of a blewifh greene like vnfo 
Woad, which being broken with the 
hands hath a prettie fpicie fmell. A- 
mong thefe Ieaues rifethvp aftalk of 
the height of a tal raan,diuided at the 
top into many other branches, where- 
upon grow fmall yellowifh floures, 
which turneth into dovvne that flieth 
away with the wind. The root is thick 
almoft like Hellebores albies. 
Of which, kinde there is another 
like the former, but that the leases are 
rougher, fomewhat bluntly indented 
at the edges , and not 'fo fat and 
gtoffe. 
t Herb a Doria altera. 
This herbe graves vp with a green 
round brittle ftalke,very much cham- 
phered,f nevved, dr furrowed , about 
foure or fine foot high, full of white 
pith like that of Elder, and fendeth 
forth fmall branches : the Ieaues grow 
on the ftalk outof order, & are fmooth, 
fharpe pointed, in fhape like thofe of 
Herb a Doria, but much fhorter & nar- 
rower, the brdadeft and longeft fel- 
dome being aboue ten or eleuen inches tong, and fcarce two inches broad, and are more finely and 
finally nickt or indented about the edges ; their fmell being nothing pleafanr,but rather when to- 
gether with the ftalke they are broken and rubbed yeeld forth a fmefi hauing a fmall touch of the 
fmell of Hemlocke. Out of the bofomesof thefe Ieaues fpring other fmaller Ieaues or branches. 
The floures are many 5 and grow on fmall branches at the tops of the ftalkes like thole of Herba Do- 
»7<»jbut more like thofe of Iacobaafita. yellow colour, as well the middle button, as the fmall Ieaues 
that ftand roundabout, cuery floure hauing commonly eight of thofe fmall Ieaues. Which 
beeing paffc the button turneth into downe and contained! very fmall long feedes which flie 
away with the winde.The root is nothing elfe but an infinite of fmall firings which mod hurtful- 
iy fpread in the ground, and by their infinite increafing deftroyeth and ftarueth other herbes that 
grow neere it. Its natural! place of growing I know not ^ for I had it from M r . IohnCoys, and yet 
keep it growing in my garden John Goodyer. f 
«[ The Place. 
Thefe plants grow naturally about the borders or brinkes of riuers neere to Narbone ft France, 
ftom whence they were brought into England, and are contented to be made denizons in my gar- 
den, where they flourifh to the height aforefaid . 
*[ The Time. 
Th eyflotired in my garden about the twelfth of Iune. 
«[f The Nature. 
The roots are fvveet in fmell, and hot in the third degree. 
The Vertucs. 
Two drams of the roots of Hetba Doria boiled in wine andgiuen to drinke, draweth downe wa- A. 
■ terifh humors,and prouoketh vrine. 
The fame iswith good fuccelfe vfed in medicines that ex pell poifon . B 
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