L 
IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
7 9 l 
and 'ending in a fharpe turned vp end as you fee in the figure, and they are ofaruftje colon r m.v A 
ofa yellow and red. uiuur,mixea 
5' Tbelefierduskie Fox-gloue hath much IcfTc Icaues and thofe narrow, fmooth and exu- 
ding greene : amongft which comes vpa ftalke fome foot high, .fcauine fmall floures of the rni™- 
Of tne laft defcribed.This I obferued the laft yeare 1,31, inloure will M 'John SZ 
middle of Inly. It may fitly be called T> igitahs ferruginea miner .Small daskic Fox-gloues ± 
U The Place. 
Fox-gloue groweth in barren fandie grounds, and vnder hedges almoft euery where. 
Thofe with white floures do grow naturally in Landefdale,and Crauen,in a field called Craffce 
dole, in the NorthofEnglandHikewifeby Cokhefterin Eflex ; neereExcefterin thc'Weft pans 
and in fome few other places.The other twoare ftrangers in England, neuerthelcfTe they dofrirJ 
with the others in my garden. 1 0 
^1 The Time. 
They floureand flourifh in Iune and Inly. 
^ The Thames. 
Fox-gloues fome call in Greeke v.»«,and make it to be Vctbafe, Jpeciempn kinde of Mullein * 
in Latme, Digitalis : in High Dutch, and jftngljCC fetaUtJin Low Dutch tWtnaCCbort^ 
m French, G antes iiojlrc dame : in Englifh, Fox-gloues . t Tubists Column* thinks it to be that pX’ 
mcrum of Diofcendcs deferibed in his fourth booke,andf^.7J.f ^ 
The T emf erasure . 
The Fox-gloues in that they are bitter, are hot and drie,with a certaine kinde of clenfing quali- 
tie ioined therewith ; yet are they of no vfe, neither haue they any place amongft medicines accor- 
ding to the Antients. 1 
% The Vertues. 
Fox-gloue boiled in water or wine, and drunken, doth cut and confume the thicke tougbneffeof A 
grofte and flimie flegme and naughtiehumours ; it openeth alfothe flopping of the iiuer fpleene 
and milt, and of other inward parts. ' ' 5 
The fame taken in like manner, or boiled with honied water or fugar,doth fcoure and clenfe the B 
brcft,ripeneth and bringeth forth tough and clammie flegme . 
They ferue for the fame purpofeswhereunto Gentian doth tend, and hath beene vfed in ftead C 
thereof, as Galen faith. 
t Whereor bywhat name Galen either mentions, or affirmes this which out Authour cites £> 
him for, Imuft confelfe I am ignorant. But I probably coniefture that our Authour would haue 
Un&Fuch(ius .■ for I onely finde him to haue thefe words fet downe by our Authour, in the end of 
his Chapter of Digitalis . f 
Chap. 278. Of c Baccharuoutof\ 0 \o{con&cs. 
T heDefcripion. 
1 A B °. Ut thls P Iant Baccharis there hath beene great contention amongft the old and new 
*Vj ntcrs ^atthiolus and DodW** haue miftaken this plant, for ConizamaiofoxConi- 
fnapt-w . K f H . e . CM,s Co . rdl -■ V,r ° l1 and ^fthenmu haue confounded Baccharis , and Olzarum 
11 0 ° lvul gthe antlent ' vnters , it hath many blackifh rough leaues,fomewhat bigger 
X , C Ues c m vT 0k '■ a T ngft vvhich rifeth V P a « alke *wo cubits high, bearing at the cop 
ittle chaffie or ft alie floures in fmall bunches,ofa darke yellowifli or purple colour, which turn? 
3re a Wrne 1 a ' Va y W1 , th thc winde > vnto the kindes of thirties : the root is thkk 
^ andfar ’ f P read ln § a ^ 0ut m earth, full of firings : the fragrant fmell that the root of this 
P yeeldeth,may well be compared vnto the fauour"of Cinnamon, Hcleniumpx EnulaCampana 
land^ 3 ^ ant knovvne vnt0 very many or moft forts of people, I rneane inmoftpartsofEng- 
*1 The Place. 
Bacchant dehghteth to grow in rough and craggy places, and in a leane foile where no moifture 
