Lib. j. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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firftdefcribed : the root is like that of the Nettle, and lines many yeares :itfloures*in May and 
the feeds are ripe in Iune. I haue not found nor heard of this wilde with vs, but feen it flourtlVnp- 
tn the garden ofrny kinde friend M r . lobnParkinfon. dufius calls it Lamium i. Pmnomcnm exon 
cum . and B whine hath-fet it forth by the name of Scrophularia flore luteo : whom in this I follow j 
% 3 Scrophularia flare luteo . 
Yellow floured Fig-wort. 
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^7 The Place* 
The great S' crophularia groweth plentifully 
in fliadowie Woods, and fometimes in moift 
medowes , efpecially in greateft aboundance 
in a wood as you go from London to Harfle- 
fey, and alfo in Stow wood and Shotouer neere 
Oxford. 
The ftrange Indian figure was fent me from 
Paris by John Robin the Kings Herbarift and it 
now groweth in my garden. 
The Time. 
They fioure in Iune and Iuly. 
The Names. 
Fig-wort or Kernel, wort is called in Latine 
Scr ophul.tr ia mat or, th at it mighrdiffer from the 
lefler Celandine,wbich is likewife called Scro- 
phularia, with this addition minor, the Idler : it 
is called of fome Millemorbia, and Caftrangula: 
in Englifh, great Fig-wort, or Kernel-wort, but 
moll vfually Brown-wort. 
% The Vert ties. 
Fig-wort is good againft the hardkernells A 
tv hich the Grecians call ■ the Latines, 
Strumas , and commonly Scrophulas, that is, the 
Kings Euill :and it is reported to be a remedy 
againft thofe difeafes whereof it tooke his 
name, as alfo the painefull piles and Iwefiing 
of the hatmorrhoides. 
Diners do rafhly teach, that if it be hanged j} 
about the necke, or elfe carried about one, it 
keeperh a man in health. 
Some do ftampethe root with butter, and fet it in a moift fhadowie place fifteene dayes toge- (j 
ther : then they do boyle it, ftraine it, and keepe it, wherewith they anoincthe hard kernels, and the 
hatmorrhoideveines, or the piles which are in the fundament, and that with good fuccelfe. 
C-haf. z^6. Of Veruaine . ■A 
The Dcfcription, 
1 r "l”’He ftalkeof vpright Veruaine rifeth from the root Angle, cornered, a foot high, 
X leldomeaboueacubite , and afterwards diuided into many .branches. Tbeleaues 
are lopg, greater than thole of the Oke, but with bigger cuts and deeper : the flourcs 
along the fprigs are little, blew, or white, orderly placed : the root is long, with firings orowino- 
on it. d & t> b 
a Creeping Veruaine fendeth forth ftalkes like vnto the former, now and then a cubit long, 
1 cornered, more llender, for the rnoft part lying vpon the ground. The leaues are like the former, 
' but with deeper cuts, and more in number. The flouresatthe tops of the fprigs are blew, and 
j purple withal!, very ffnall as thofe of the laft deferibed, and placed after the fame manner and 
\ order. The root groweth ftraight downe, being llender and long, as is alfo the root of the 
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