of France, is alfo brought into and acquainted with our Englitli grounds, bearing very lar^e 
leaues of a light yellowifh greene, and hairy like Pileflla, or Cucamu agrefiis. The ftalkcs are a cu- 
bit high, bailing at the top yellow floures like Buphthalmnm , or Cimfolida media vulnerariorum .• all 
therootis barred and welted oner with fcalcs like the taile of a Scorpion, white of colour, and in 
tafte fweet, with fome bitternejfe, yeelding forth much clamminefle, which is very aftringenr. 
4 The fourth kinde hereof is found in the wooddy mOuntaines about Turin and Sauoy , very 
likevnro the former, fauing that the leaues arc fomwhat rougher, the floures greater, and the {talks 
higher. But to be fhort,each ofthefe kindes are fo like one another, that in (hew, tafte, fmell, and 
manner of growing they feeme to be as it were all one : therefore it were fuperfluous to ftand vpon 
their varietie of names, Pardalianches, <jM'joclonitm,Thdyphonum, famoncm, and fuch like, of Tt>co- 
pbraftut, Dipfcorid.es, Pliny, or any of'the new Writers , which names they haue giuen vnto Doroni - 
cum-, for by the opinion of the moft skilfull in plants, they are but Synonimies of one kinde of 
plant. And though tbefe old writers fpeakeofthehurtfull qualities of thefe plants 5 yet experi- 
ence teacheth vs that they haue written what they haue heard and read, and not what they haue 
knowneand proued ; for it is apparent, that Doromciim (by theconfentoftheoldand new writers) 
isvfedas an antidote or certaine treacle, as well in theconfe&ionsifc Gemmis Mefus, asin E/edita- 
rio Aromatum. And though Matthiolus difclajmeth againft the vfe thcreof,and calleth it Parddian. 
{hes, that is, Wolfes bane 5 yet let the Learned know, that quantities, non qualitas, nocet for though 
Saffron be comfortable to the heart, yet i f you giue thereof, or of muske,or any fuch cordial thing, 
too great a quantitie, it killeth the party which receiueth it. 
J 5 Doronicum antrnjti folium Aufiriacttni. 
Narrow leaued Wolfes bane. 
$ 6 Doronicum Stiriacumflore amplo. 
Large floured Wolfes bane. 
$ 5 To thefe foure formerly intended by our Author, may we fitly adde fome others out of 
Clufius. The firft of thefe hath a ftalke fome foot high, foft,rough,and crefted : the leaues are few, 
thicke, narrow, long, very greene and {hinihg, yet hairy on their vpper fides,but fmooth on the 
lower fides, and ofa lighter greene ; yet thofe thatadorne the ftalke are narrower .-there groweth 
commonly at the top of the ftalke one Angle floureof the fhape and bigneffe of the common Dp 
ronicum deferibed in the fecond place, but ofa brighter yellow : the feed is little and black ifh, and 
is carried away with the winde : the root is fmall, blackifti, and ioyntedfliaumg fomewhat thicke 
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Of the Hiitorie of Plants. 
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