Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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towards the top full of little ftarre-like floures, of an hcrbie green colour tending to whiteneffe- 
which being paft there come fmall huskes containing the feed. The root is great and thicke,with 
many fmall threds hanging thereat. 
2 The fecond kinde is very like the firft, and differeth in that, that this hathblacke reddifh 
floures, and commeth to flouring before the other kinde, and feldome in my garden commeth to 
feeding. 
•[ The Place. 
The white Hellebor groweth on the Alps, and fuch like mountains where Gentian doth grow. 
It was reported vnto me by the bilhop of Norwich, that white Hellebor groweth in a wood of his 
owne neete to his lioufe at Norwich. Some fay likc-wifethatitdothgrowvpontheMountaines 
of Wales. I fpeake this vpon report, yet I thinke not, but that it may be true. Howbeitl dare 
allure you, that they grow in my garden at London, where the firft kinde floureth and feedethvery 
well. 
The Time i 
The firft floureth in Iune,and the fecond in May. 
The Names. 
NeelevvOort is called in Greeke MCipt tmir. in Latine, Veratrum Album jielleboms albus,anASan- 
guis Hcrculeus.'Tht Germans call it lUCflXUltt t the Dutchmen, Ij-tteftOOZtCl t the Italians, 
EUeboro bianco : The Spaniards, Verde gambre bianco : the French ^Ellebore blanche and we of Eng- 
land call it white Hellebor, NiefwoortjLingvvoort, and the root Neefing pouder. 
*]f The T emferature. 
The root of white HeIlebor,is hot and drie in the third degree. 
The Venues. 
The root of white Hellebor procurcthvomite mightily , wherein confifteth hischiefeveftue, A 
and by that means voideth all fuperfluous flime and naughtie humors. It is good againft the fal- 
ling ficknefle,phrenfies,fciatica,dropfies,poifon,and againft all cold difeafes that bee of hard cm 
ration, and will not yeeld to any gentle medicine. 
This ftrong medicine made ofwhite Hellebor, ought not to be gitien inwardly vnto delicate B 
bodies without great correction, but it may more fafely be giuen vnto Country people which feed 
groflely,and haue hard, tough, and ftrong bodies. 
The root of Hellebor cut in fmall pieces, fuch as may aptly and conueniently be conueied into C 
the Fiftulaes doth mundifie them, and taketh away the callous matter which hindererh curatiran, 
and afterward they may be healed vpwith fome incarnatiuevnguent,firforrhepurpofe. | This 
facultieby Diofcoridcs is attributed to theblacke Hellebor, andnottothis. f 
The pouder drawnevp into the nofe caufeth fneefing, and purgeth the braine from groffe and D 
flimie humours. 
The root giuen to drinke in the weight of two pence, taketh away the fits of agues, k illeth M ice E 
and rats being made vp with honie ana flaure of wheat : Pliny addeth that it is a medicine againft 
theLoufie etlill. 
Chap. hi. Of fVilde white Hellebor 4 
The Description. 
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1 T T E/lehbrine is like vnto white Hellebor, and for that caufe wehaue giuen it thenameof 
J He/leborine. It hath a ftraight ftalke of a foot high,fet from the bottome to the tuft of 
floures, with faire leaues, ribbed and chamfered like thofe ofwhite HelIebor,but no- 
thing neere fo large, of adarke grecne colour. The floures bee orderly placed from the middle to 
the top of the ftalke, hollow within, and white of coIour,ftraked here and therewith a dafh of pur- 
ple, in fhape like the floures of Satyrion. The feed is fmall like dull or motes in the Sun.The root 
is fmall, full ofiuice, and bitter in tafte. 
2 The fecond is like vntothe firft, butaltogether greater,and the floures white, without any 
mixture at all, wherein confifteth the difference. 
3 The third kind ofi/elleborine,bcing the 6 . after C/uJius account, hath leaues like the firft deferi- 
O 0 j bed^ 
