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Of the Hi (lory of Plants. 
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tiie fides of the floure it puts forth littleftalkes, bearing fraalier flourer^TfTZTr^' ", 
-Web ttahbrctj 
Tb !> growes ond,.n Garden!, and Joins . i the fame lime will, cbn Idrnict f 
X 6 1 he ltalkes Oh the red Scabious grow fome cubit or more in height, and are diuided into 
many very flender branches, which at the tops carry Homes compofed after the manrer of he 
^fft^ of Scabrous, tiuu is, of many little floures diuided into ffue parts at the top a nd t i,efe 
rnThe of Clf ] a rt r°T OU ^ a q d hai ' E thrCC,s WIth P cnda nts at them camming forth of the 
nxxdie of each of there little floures which are of a whitifh colour, and make a pretty lhow The 
leaues are greene, and very much diuided or cut in. The ftarry feeds grow in Iona round hairv 
heads uandfomeiy fet together. This is an annual!, and perilhes as foone as it hath S perfedfed the 
fced..C m makes it his.lixt Scabious, and calls it Scabiofa Indtca. It floures in lulLnd growes 
m the Gardens of our prime Herbarifts. & lVLS - 
whiJld fJnY giuenvs the figure and defenption of another Scabious 
which fenctsvpa ftalke feme tnree cumts or more high, fet at certaine fpaces with leaues lame’ 
andlmpt about their edges, and a little cut in neere their llalkes. The ftalkes are diuided into 
ottiers which at there tops carry b ewilh floures in long fcaly heads, which arc fucceeded by Ion- 
IS W i ' Uni and fibrOUS,and d 7 es euer y ycare. This is the Scabiofa % f,» e 
•J The Place. 
alm T oftL k rJvSS §CablOUS d ° Sr0W medovves ’ corne fie!ds i and b «^n Tandy grounds 
The ftrange forts do grow in my garden, yet are they ftrangers in England. 
The Time. 
They floure and flourifh in the Sommer moneths. 
The Names . 
Scabious is commonly called Sw^diuers thinke it is named +*, which fignifieth a fcabbe " 
and a certaine herbe fo called by Act ms : I do not know, faith Hermolaus Barbaras, whether it be’ 
Scabious which Afttua doth call Pfora,tha firioake of which being burnt doth kill canker- or little 
W , rra , es ; The Author of the Pandedts doth interpret Scabiofa to be Diofcondes his ,tabe ■ DwCco. 
ri esc eicribeth Stabe by no markes at all, being commonly knowne m his time • and Galen in his 
nrlt booke of Antidotes faith thus : There is found amongftvs a certaine fhrubby herbe hot \erv 
fharpe and bir.ng,hauing a little kind of aromaticall or fpicy fmelt, which the inhabitants do call 
Colynbade, and Stabe lingular good to keepeand preferue wincibut it feemeth that this Stake doth 
differ from that of which he hath made mention in his booke of the faculties of medicines which 
thatit canno^bfv^ ’ for ^ WritCth thac chis is of a bindin S quality without biting; fo 
c . . If The Temperature. 
Scabious is hot and dry in the later end of the fecond degree, or neere hand in the third, and of 
fif and lubtile parts : it cutteth, attenuateth, or maketh thin, and throughly concodfeth tough 
and grofle humours. 5 
^1 The Virtues . 
Scabious firoureth the cieft and lungs; it is good againft an.old cough, (hottnefle of breath, A 
painc m the fides, and fuch like infirmities of the cheft. 
The fame prouoketh vrine,and purgeth now and then rotten matter by the bladder, which hap- R 
peneth when an impoftume bath fomewhere lien within the body. • ° 
It is reported that it cureth fcabs,if the decoftion thereof be drunke certain daies,and the juice n 
ned in ointments. V 
The later Herbarifts doe alfo aftirme that it is a remedy againft the bitings of Serpents and rV 
ingings of venomous beafts, being outwardly applied or inwardly taken. 
The juice being drunke procureth fvveat, efpeeially with Treacle ; and it fpeedily confumeth F 
ilague lores, if it be giuen in time, and forthwith at the beginning : but it muft be vfed often 
Itis thought to be forceable,and that againft all peftilent feilers/ 
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