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• Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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^y The Names. 
The later age doe call them SerratuU, and SerratuU tinttoria , it differed) as we hane faid from 
Betony, which is alfo called SerratuU . other names if ithaueanywe know not : it is called in 
Englifh Savvevvoort. t CxfalpmusC alls it Ccrretta and Serretta, and Thalittf,Ccmauraides,otCen- 
tatirium maius fylvcfire Gcrmamcttm. $ 
The Temperature and Vert ues. 
A SerratuU is wonderfully commended to be moll fingular for wounds, ruptures, burftings, and 
fucli like : and is referred vnto the temperature of Sanicle. 
Chap, z/j.3. Of Betony ; 
The Description . 
j ta Etony groweth vp with long leaues and broad, of a darke greene colour, {lightly in 
I) dented about the edges like a faw.The ftalke is {lender, foure fquare,fomewhat rough, 
a foote high more or leffe. It beareth eared floures, cff a purplifh colour, and feme, 
times reddifh ; after the floures, commeth in place long cornered feed. The root confiftcth of 
many firings . 
1 Betonica. 
Betony. 
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2 Betony with white floures is like the 
precedent in each refpeft, failing that the flours 
of this plant are white, and of greater beautie, 
and the others purple or red, as aforefaid. 
The Place . 
Betony loues fhadoivie wo 'ds,hedge-rowes, 
and copfes,the borders of paftures,and fuch like 
places. 
Betony with white floures is feldome (eene. 
I found it in a wood by a village called Hamp- 
ftead, neere vnto a vvorfhipfull Gentlemans 
houfe, one of the Clerkes of the Queenes coun- 
fell called M r . Wade, from whence I brought 
plants fov my garden, where they flourifh as in 
their natural] place of growing. 
%. The.yhne. 
They floure and fl'ourifh for the moft part in 
Iune and luly. 
^y The Names. 
Betony is called in Greceke in Latine, 
Betonica : of diners Vetomca : but vnproperly. 
There is likewife another Bet onic a, which Panins 
J&gineta deferibed ; and Galen in his firft booke 
of the gouernment of health fheweth that it is 
called that is zolay, Bctonica, Betonie,and. 
aho Sarxiphagon : Diofcoridcs notwithftanding 
doth deferibe another Sarxiphagon. 
The Temperature. 
■ Betony is hot and dry in the fecond degree : ir 
hath force to cut, as Galen faith. 
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«| The Vertues. 
Betony is good for them that be fubjefttothe falling fickenefle,and for thofe alfo that haue 
ill heads vpon a cold caufe. 
It clenfeth the lungs and cheft, it taketh aivay obftruiff ions orftoppings of the liuer,milt,and 
gall • it is good againft the yellow jaundife. 
itniakcth a man to haue a good ftomack and appetite to his meateit preuaileth againft fower 
belcbinss : 
