B. Z. 
The toot of this Plant (faith Diofcorides) is a remedie for ruptures, convulfidns, and cramps 1 1 A 
ken in the weight oftwo drams, to be giuen with wine to thofe that are without a’ feuer and vnto 
thofc that haue, with water. 
Galen faith, that the iuyce of the leaues thereof performeth thofe things that the root doth • ri 
vvhichisalfovfedinfteadofZ,yf/»i»,akindeofhardiuyceof afharperafte! 1 3 B 
Chap. 16]; Of Small (font one. 
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He IefTer Centorie is a little herbe : it groweth vp with a cornered ftalke halfe a foot 
high, .with leaues in forme and bignefleof S. Iohns wort : the floures grow at the top 
in a (poky bufh orrundle, ofared colour tending to purple; which in the day time 
and after the Sun is vp do open themfelues, but towards euening fhut vp againe : after them come 
forth fmall feed-veffels,ofthe Chape ofvvheat comes, in which are contained very little feeds. The 
root is (lender, hard, and foone fading. 
2 Theyellow Centorie hath leaues, ftalkes, and feed like the other, and is in each refpeft a- 
iike, failing that the floures hereof are of a perfedt yellow colour, which fctreth forth the diffe- 
rence. 
$ This is of two forts ; the one with broad leaues through which the ftalkes pafte ; and the 
other hath narrow leaues like thofe of the common Centorie. | 
I Ccntauritim ptrvum. 
Small Centorie. 
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