L I B. 1. 
50 6 Of the Biftorie of Plants. 
The Venues. 
A The iuiceofTithymale,! do notmeane fea Tithymale,isa ftrong medicine to open the belli?, 
andcaufing vomite,bringeth vp tough flegmeand cholericke humours. Likevertueis in the feed 
and root, which is good for fuch as fa 1 1 into the drop (ie, being miniftred with difcretion and good 
aduiceof fomeexcellentPhyfltion,and prepared with his Corredtories by fome honed Aporhe- 
carie. 
B The iuice mixed with honie,caufeth haire to fall from that place which is anointed therewith, 
ifitbe done in the Sun. 
C The iuice or rnilke is good to flop hollow teeth, being put into them warily,fo that you touch 
neither the gums, nor any of the other teeth in the mouth with the faid medicine. 
D The fame cureth all roughnefle of the skin, manginelTe,ld^rie,fcurfe,and running fcabs,and the 
white fcurfe of the head. It taketh away all manner ofwarts, knobs, and the hardcalloufnefleofri- 
ftulaes,hot fwellings and Carbuncles. 
£ It killeth fifh, being mixed with any thing that they will eat. 
p Thefe herbes by mine aduife would not be recciued into the bodie,confidering that there be fo 
many other good and wholcfome potions to be made with other herbes, that may bee taken with- 
out perill. 
t The feuenth figure vvat formerly of Titbjmahu myrfinitei J ■angufttfolm oiTnluramcntanui-.’Thc 8 -and ^.wcrc both of the fame plancirfce 11. was the figure of 
the £ptof.v/£iMTrd£!,whofehiftoricIhaucgiucn you in the 1 7-place. 
Chap. 14.0. 0/ Herbe Terrible. 
I AljfummontisCeti. 
Herbe Terrible. 
2 Tarton-Raire Gallo -ProuincU', 
Gutwoort. 
The Defcriftion. 
1 TTErbe Terrible is a fmall 
I 'lthrub cwoor three cubits 
high, branched with ma- 
ny fmall twigges, hauing a thin rinde 
firftbrowne, then purple, with many 
little and thinne leaues like Myrtle. 
* ' The floures are rough like the middle 
of Scabious floures, of a blew purple 
colour. The root is two fingers thicke,browne of colour, and of a wooddie fubftance : the whole 
plant very bitter, and of an vnpleafant tafte like chameUa^ta fomewhat ilronger. 
2 Tartonraire, called in Englilh Gutwoort, groweth by the fea, and is Catbarticall,anda 
ftran°er with vs . In the mother tongue of the Maffilians,it is called Tartonraire, of that abundant 
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