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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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• i Cent aurium magnum , 
Great Centorie. 
t 2 Centauriummaius durum. 
Whole leaued great Centorie, 
The Place. 
The great Centorie ioyeth in a fat and fruitfull loile^ and in Sunny bankes full of Gaffe and 
herbes It groweth very plentifully, faith Veofcondes, in Lycia, Peloponnefus, Arcadia, and Mo- 
rea : and it is alfo tobe found vpon Baldus a mountaine in the territories ofVeronaand likeivife in 
m) garden. 
The Time. 
It floureth in Sommer,and the roots may be gathered in Autumne 
^1 TheNames . 
It is called in Greeke • of Theephraftus alfo Centaur* , in diuers drops falfly Rha Pen- 
mum': for RhaPonttcum is Rha growing in the countries ofPontus -a plant differing from great 
Centorie. Theephrafius and tUm fetdowne among the kindes of Panaces or All- heales, this great 
Centorie, and alfo the leffer, whereof we will write in the next chapter following. Plmy reciting 
he words ofThcephraftus doth m his twenty fifth booke and fourth chapter write, that they were 
ound out by C nnn the Cental, re, and fyrnamed Centauria. Alfo affirming the fame thing in his 
fixth chapter (where he m*e largely expounded! both the Centauries) hee repeateth them to be 
found out by C W - and thereupon he added,, that bothofthem are named Chiron, a. Offome it 
is reported, That the faid Chiron was cured therewith of a wound in his foot, that was made with 
an arrow that fell vpon it when he was entertaining Hercules into his houfe 5 whereupon it was cal- 
^Chronnm , or of thecuring of the wounds ofhis fouldiers/or the which purpose it is molt ex- 
TheTcmferature. 
Itis hot anddry in the third degree. Galen faith, by the. tafte of the root it fheweth comrade 
qualities, lo in the vie it performeth contrane effeas. 
The Vert ues. 
Theroottakenintheqiiantitieoftwodramsisgoodforthemthat be burden, or fpit blond- 
cSm'll and grip7d<^ ° f r ' netVeS ’ the (hortne,rc ofwind or difficulty of breathing, the 
There is not any part of the herbebut ifratherworketh miracles than ordinarie cures in c^eene 
wounas , for it loyneth together the lips of fimple wounds in the flefh,according to the firfirinten- 
tention, that is, gen ing the lips together, not drawing to the place any matter at all. 
The 
