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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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the right Clarie : the husks or cods when they are ripe bend downwards : the feed is blackifli-the 
roots in like manner are blackeand full of firings. °iackilh;tUe 
4 The fourth kind ofHormnum, called Iovis Coins, reprefenteth in the hiaheft top of the fialke 
a diftaffe wrapped about with yellow flax, whereof it tooke his name, haumg knobbie roots with 
certaine firings annexed thereto like Galeepfis , or like vnto the roots of Clarie, which doe weld 
NetTwo^Jh (T 10 fqUar - C r0l ! Sh ft , a r S,tVV ° Cubus !lI S h 5 whereon do grow leaues like rhofe of the 
Nettle rough (harpe pointed and ofan ouerworne greene colour : the floures do grow alongft the 
If The Place. 
■ Thefedoegrow wilde in fome places, notwithftandingtheyaremanuredand planted in Gar- 
G uden m0fteUeryWherej eXCept Iu P lt:ets d'dafFe, beeing a kinde thereof, which I haue in my 
% The Time. 
They floure in Iune, Inly, and Atiguft. 
The Thames. 
C lane is called of the Apothecaries Gallinicum.it is likewife named On, ah. of foment, bona 
but not properly : of others cartels darea, Centrum GW/i,and OUatnfaluia . in Italian, Saar, a : in 
Cleere eTe ' ' S Dutch >$>d>«la$ JinLow Dutch, tin Englifh, Clarie, or 
diftaffe is called Coins Iovts : o[{ome,Galeop(ls lutea, but not properly : ofdiuers,/ 7 om/- 
vumluteum , or yellow Clarie, and HormimtmT ridenttmimpx Clarie of Trent. ' 
IT The Temperature. 
Clarie is hot and drie in the third degree. 
The Vert ties. 
The feed of Clarie pondered, finely fearced and mixed with hony,taketh away the dimnefTe of 
the eies,and cleereth the fight. 
The fame ftamped,infufed orlaied to fteepeinwarme water, the muflilag or flimie fubfiance 
aken and applied plaifterwife,draweth forth fplinters ofwood,thornes,or any other thing fixed in 
the bod.e : it alfo fcattereth and diflolueth all kindes offwelIings,ef P ecially in the ioints. 
1 he feed poudered and drunke with wine, fiirreth vp bodily luft 
The leaues of Clarie taken any manner ofway, helpeth the weakneffe of the backe proceeding 
ofthe ouermuch flowing of the vvh.tesbut moft effectually if they be fried with egges in manner 
oi a Tanfie,eitber the leaues whole or ftamped. & 
t The 
figure wbich formerly Wat vntcr the title etfcle twig, was ofthe Umnmm /jhujhcot FaAJim.which i, deferibed iromcdittly befove/r. 
Chap. 2 ( 58 . 
Ofvpilde QlariCjOr Oculus Chrifli. 
^f The Defcription. 
1 f\CdusChr,fi t is alfo a kinde of Clarie, but lefler : the ftalkes are many.acubite high 
W quared and fomewhathairie : the leaues bebroad,rough, and of a blackifh green co- 
... ... , ' our - The floures grow along ft the ftalkes, of a blewiih colour. The feed is round and 
lack ifh, the root is tlncke and tough, with fome threds annexed thereto. $ This is Hormint hluc- 
rtnis ^.qmnta Jpecies of Clujius. ^ 
2 The purple Clarie hath leaues fomewhat roundjayd ouer with a hoarie cottony fubftance 
not much vnlike Horehound : among which rife vp fmall hairie Equate ftalks,fct toward the top 
vvith little leaues of a purple colour, which appeare at the firftview to be floures and yet are no- 
thing elfe but leaues, turned into an excellent purple colour : and among thefe beautifull leaues 
come forth fmall floures of a blewiflr or watcher colour, in fafhion like vnto the floures ofRofe- 
manepvlnch being withered the husks wherein they did grow conraine certaine blacke feed , that 
fiftieth forth vpon the ground very quickely, becaufe that euery fuch htiske doth turne and hang 
downehis head toward the ground. The root dieth at the firft approch of Winter 
* 3 Broad leaned Clarie hath a fquare fialke fome cubite high, hairy, firme, and iointed -the 
leaues aie large, rough, and ifiarpe pointed, fmpt about the edges, wrinckled, and ftand ina by cou- 
ples at each loint : vpon the branches in ronndles grow purple floures,lefTe than thofeoTClarie, 
and fcarce any bigger than thofe of Lauander : the feed is final and blacke : the root is lar^e hard 
black. 
