Of the Fliftorie of Plants. 
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I Vaccaria. 
Cow-Bafill. 
2 Ephemcrum iJMatthioli. 
Quicke-fading floure. 
$ The Names. 
x Cow-Bafill is by Corclus called Thamecncmon : by fomc, according to Gefncr, Lychnis & Per . 
foliatarubra : lobel termc.% it ifatisfjluejlris, and Vaccaria .-the laft of which names is retained by 
mod late Writers. 
2 This by Lobel is faid to be Ephemerum of tMatthiolus 3 yet I thinke CMattlnoUis his figure, 
(which was in this place formerly) was buta counterfeit 3 and fo alfodoe Columns and Bauhwus 
iudge of it 3 and Bauhine thinkes this of Lobel to be fome kinde of Ljfimachia. t 
•[f The Nature and Vermes. 
I finde not any thing extant concerning the Nature and Vertues of Vaccaria or Covv-Bafill. 
Ephe/netum (as £)/o/ri)r/V«writeth)boy]edin wine, and the mouth wafhed with the deco&ion 
thereof, taketli away the tooth-ache. 
Chap. 1^5. 
Oj Sefamoides , or Bajlard Weld or JVoade. 
TkeDefcription. 
1 . y I '' He great Sefamoides hath very long leaues and many, (lender toward the ftalk,and broa- 
der by degrees toward the end, placed confufedly vpon a thicke ftiffe ftalke: on the 
top whereof grow little foolifh or idle white floures : which being pad, there fo'iovv 
final 1 feeds likevnto Canarie feed that birds are fed withall. The root is thicke, and of a wooddy 
fub dance. 
$ 2 This \cffcx Sefamoides of Salamanca, from a long lining, white, hard, and prettie thicke 
root fends vp many little fialks fet thicke with fmall leaues like thofc of Line; and from the mid- 
dle to the top of the ftalke grow many floures, at firft ofageeenifh purple, and then putting forth 
yellowifh threds 3 out ofthemidftofwTiich appeare as it were foure greene graines, which when 
the floure is fallen grow into little cods full ofa fmall blackifh feed.lt gTOwes in a flony foile vp- 
on the hills neere Salamanca, where it floures in May, and fhortly after perieefts his feed, t 
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