L IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants; 
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7 Pern fettcth forth a kinde of Beares eare vnder the name of Smitula Alj imfa auing his vpper 
moft leaues an inch long, fomevvhat lagged and hem’d at the ends^nd broad before like a fhouel 
the lower leaues next the ground are fomevvhat (hotter, but of the fame forme j amono- which ri! 
fork a fmall fender foot-ftalke of an inch long, whereon doth ftand a fmall floure, confillina n f fi.J 
little leaues ofa bright red or ftammell colour. 
‘-8 The fnow white Beares eare differeth not froin the laft deferibed but in the colour of the 
floure, for as the others are red,contrarie thefe are very white, and the whole plant is Idler, wherein 
conlifteth the difference. The roods long,tough,with fome fibres thereto belonging. Neither of 
thefe two laft deferibed will be content to grow in gardens. 
The Place. 
They grow naturally vpon the Alpifo and Heluetian mountaines : moft of them do grow in our 
London gardens. 
«[ The Time . 
Thefe berbes do floure in Aprill and May. 
«[ The N times. 
Either the antient writers knew not thefe plants, or elfe the names of them were not by them or 
their fucceffors diligently committed vnto pofteritie. CMatthiolus and other later writer's haue d 
uen names according to the fimiIitude,or of the fhape that they beare vnto other plants, according 
to the hkenefle Of the qualities and operations : you may call it in Englifh, Beares eare : they that' 
dwdlabout the Alps doe call it £>ja(!fetatot, and ^d)fwmhltfeiahOt, by reafon of the effects 
thereof 5 for the root is amongft them in great requeft for the ftrengthning of the head that when 
tlx:y arc on the tops ofplaces that are high, giddinefle and the fwimming of the braine may not 
affha them : it is there called the Rocke-rofe, for that it groweth vpon the rockes, and refembleth 
the braue colour of the Rofe, f Fabiut Columna proues this to be the Alifma or Damaftnium of Di 
efiorides and the Antients. 
*| The Nature. 
Thefe Iierbes are dry and very aftringent. 
TheVertues. 
It healeth all outward and inward wounds of the bred, and the enteroeeleaIfo,iffor fome reafo- A 
nabJe fpaceof time it be put in drinkes,orboyledby itlelfe. . • 
Thefe plants are of the nature and temperature of Primula verS, and are reckoned amongft the B 
Sanicles by reafon of their vertue. 
'Hy'f hunt in the Alps and high mountaines after Goats and Bucks, do as highly efteetne 0 
hereof as of Doronicum, by reafon of the Angular effefls that it hath,but(as I laid before) one efpe- 
cially, euen in that it preuenteth the Ioffe of theirbeft ioynts (I meane their neckes) if they take 
the roots hereof before they alcend the rocks or other high places. 
f T*!- er00t ®' w »a/ 3 »///w(according to Diofcorides) taken in the weight of one or two drams, L> 
helpethfuch as haue deuoured the Lcfus marinus o s lea Hare, or haue been bitten by a Toad,or ta- 
xell too great a quantitie of Opium. 
It is alfo profitably drunkc, either by it felfe, or with the like quantitie of Daueut feeds, againlt E 
gripings in the belly, and the bloudy flux, 
Alfo it is good againft convulfions and the affedls of the wombe. 
The herbe ftayes the fluxes of the belly, moues the courfes, and applied in forme of a pultis at 
iwageth otdematous tumors, j: 
Chap. iy6. Of c5\£ountaine S article . 
The Kindes. 
nj"'' Here be fundry forts ofherbes contained vnder the name of Sanicle, and yet not one of them 
agreeing with our common Sanicle, called Di.ipcnfia, in any one refpeft, except in the ver- 
ities, whereofno doubt they tooke that name ; which number doth dayly increafe, by reafon that 
the later writers haue put dovvne more new plants, not written of before by the Antients , which 
lhall be diftinguifhed in this chapterby feuerall titles. 
TheDcfcription, 
S Potted Sanicle of the momatainehath fmall fat<& round leaues, bluntly indented about 
the edges, and falhioned like vnto the leaues of Saxifragia aurea, or rather Cyclamen folio 
heder a, of a darke greene colour, and fomewhat hairy vnderneach : amongft which rife 
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