Of the Kiftorie of Plants. 
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white fibres, and an aromaticke tafte. This fioures in Inly and Auguft, and grawes in rockie pla- 
ces vpon the higheft Alpes. clufius (the firft and oneiydefcriber thereof) calls it Doronicum •> 
fine t uffriacum r. 
6 This graves fomewhat higher than the laft defcribed, and hath much broader and rounder 
Ieaues, and thofe full of veines,and fnipt about the edges. The knots and off-iets of the roots def- 
cend not down, but run on the furface of the ground, and fo fend forth fibres on each fide, to fallen 
them and atcradt nourilhment. Thefloureis like that of the former, but much larger Tbisorow- 
eth in the high mountainous places of Stiria,and fioures at the fame time as the former. clufius 
calls this Doronicum 4 . Stirucum, 
7 This is the largeft of all the reft, and hath a ftalke two cubits or more high.of the thicknefle 
of ones little finger, crefted, rough, and towards the top diuided into fundry branches. The Ieaues 
next to the root are round, wrinkled, hairy, and faftned to a long ftalke : thofe towards the top of 
the ftalke are longer and narrower, and ingirt the ftalke at their letting on. The fioures are large 
and yellow, like to the other plants of this kinde : the feed alfo is carried away with the winde,nnd 
is longifh, and of a greenifh colour : the root is knotty or ioynted like to a little Shrimpe.and of a 
whitifh greene colour. This fioures in Iune orIuly,and growes vpon the like places as the for- 
mer. Clnfius calls this jforonictm 7. jiufiriacum 3. $ 
:£ 7 Doroni cum maximum. 
The greateft Wolfe-bane. 
% The Pl.tce. 
The place is fufficiently fet forth in the de- 
fcrip'tion - yet you fhall vhderftand , that I 
haue the two firft in my garden-, the fecond 
hath beene found and gathered in the cold 
mountaines of Northumberland, by D '.Penny 
lately of London deceafed,a man of much ex- 
perience and knowledge in Simples, whole 
death my felfe and many otheis do greatly be- 
vvaile. 
% The Time. 
They flonre in the months of Iune and Inly. 
*[f The N times. 
Concerning their names I haue already 
fpoken ; yet fith I would be glad that our En- 
glifh women may know how to call it, they 
mayterme Doronicum by this name, Cray-fifh 
Pifle-a-bed, becaufe the floure is like Dande- 
lion^vhich is cal ed Pifte a bed. 
-f Our Author certainly at the beginning 
of this chapter did not well vnderftand what 
he faid,when he aifirmes, That the reafon of 
tIie,not wel knowing the Doronicum of the An- 
tientswas, [through the negligence of Diofco- 
rides and T^/ira}?aa,whoindefcribing Doro- 
»icnm,8t;c.J Now it is manifeft, that neither of 
thefe Authors, nor any of the antient Greekes 
euer fo much as named Doronicum .- but that 
which he fhould haue faid, was, That the want 
of ex act defcribing the Aconittum thelyphonon in 
Theofhrnftm, and Aconitum Parddi /inches in Di- 
ofcoride:, (which are iudged to be the fame plant and all one with out Doronicum) hath beene the 
caufe, that the controuerfiewhich OHatthidus and others haueof lateraifed cannot be fully de- 
termined ■ which is. Whether that the vulgar Doronicumjifed in (hops, and defcribed in this chap- 
ter, be the Aconitum Pardalianches ? UUatthiolus aflirmes it is, and much and vehemently exclaimes 
againft the vfe thereof in cordial! Ele&uaries, as that which is of a moft pernitious and deadly 
qualitie, becaufe chat (as he alfirmes) it will kill dogs : now Dodonxns alfo feems to incline to his 
opinion: but othersfand not without good reafon)deny it;, as Gefner in his E piffles, who made of- 
ten trial! of it vpon himfelfe : part of his words are fet downe hereafter by our Author (being tran- 
flated omofDodonaus) and feme part alfo ybu fhall finde added in the end of thevertues :and 
thefe are other fome j Pluru din nunc omitto , quibut oftendere liqttido fofifem, nec Doronicum nofirum. »ec_ 
Aconitum 
