55° Of tlieHiftory of Plants. Lib. 2 . 
The Place. 
The three firft grow in mod gardens • but the yellow kinde grovveth not co 1 nmon,except in the 
gardens of curious Herbarifts. r 
| The fourth and fifth grow vvilde amongft corne in diuers places. J 
The Time. 
That wh ich hath continued tire whole W inter doth floure in May, and the reft of Sommer af- 
terwards • and that which is planted later, and in the end of Sommer, floureth in the fprin^ of the 
following yeare : they do hardly endure the iniurie ofour cold Winter. * & 
The Names. 
Snapdragon is called in Greekc : in Latine alfo Antirrhinum : of Apuleius, canis cerebrum, 
HerbaSimiana, Vcmiftaminor, Opalisgrata, and Orontinm : it is thought to be Leo herba, which Colu- 
mcHa, lib. 10. reckons among the floures : yet Gcfncr hath thought that this Leo is Columbine, which 
for the (ante caufehe hath called Leontostomium : but this namefeemeth to vs to agree better with 
Calues fnout than with Columbine ; for the gaping floure of Calues fnout is more like to Lyons 
fnap than the floiue ot Columbine: it is called in Dutch tin Spamfh^Cahezade ternera : in 
Englilh, Calues fnout,Snapdragon,a'nd Lyons fnap : in French, Tcjle de chien , and Tefte de Fean. 
^ The Temperature. 
They are hot and dry, and of fubtill parts. 
«jf TheVertues. 
A The fec-d of Snapdragon(as Galen faith) is good for nothing in the vfe ofphyficke;,and the herb 
itfelfeis oflike facultie with Buboniumot Star-wort, but not foeffedtuall. 
They report (faith Diofcorides) that the herbe being hanged about one prelerueth a man from 
being bevv itched, and that it maketh a man gracious in the fight of people. 
Apuleius writeth .that the diftilled water, or the decoftion of the herbe and root made in water, is 
a fpeedy remedy for the watering ofeyes proceeding ofa hot caufe, if they be bathed therewith. 
C h a p. 165. Of TO ode 'Flax. 
1 Linar: a vulgaris lutea. 
Great Tdde-flax. 
C IwtvWLvv UAW 
2 Linar id purpurea odor at a . 
Sweet purple Tode-fiax 
cr[ The 
