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is: it groweth very plentifully about Mont- 
pellier in France , and diners places in the 
Weft parts of England. 
The Time. 
It fpringeth vp in April, it flouretli in Iune, 
and perfe&cth his feed in Augtift. 
if The Names. 
The learned Herbarifts of Montpellier 
haue called this plant Baccbaris the Greci- 
«^e",or after others, by reafon of 
that fweetandaromaticall fauour which his 
root containeth and yeeldeth : in Englifh it 
may be called the Cinaniom root, or Plow- 
mans Spiknard: Virgtll in his fcuenth Ecloge 
ofhis Bucolicks maketh mention of Baccha- 
and doth not onely {hew that it is a Gar- 
land plant, but alfo fuch a one as pretiailcth 
againft inchantments, faying, 
Bacchare front cm 
Cingite,ne vati neceat mala lingua, future. 
With Plowmans Nard my forehead girt, 
Lefteuill tongue thy Poet hurt. 
Baccbaris is likevvifcan ointment in Atbe- 
natts, in his i 5 booke, which may take his 
name of the fweet herbe Baccbaris: for as Pliny 
writeth, Ariflopbanesof old,being anantient 
comical Poet witnefleth,that ointments were 
wont to bee made of the root thereof : to bee 
briefe, Crateuas his Afarnm is the fame that 
Viofcorieteshis Batch arts is . f This plant here deferibed is the Comzamaior of Mattbiolus, Tragus, 
and others. + 
The Temperature. 
Baccbaris cr Plowmans Spiknard is of temperature very aftringent or binding. 
The Verities. 
Baccbaris fix the decoftion of the root, as Paulus ixE<fi»rt<»briefcly fetteth dovvne, doth open the 
pipes andpaiTages that are flopped, prouoketh vrine, and bringeth downe thedefired ficknefie:the 
leaues thereof for that they are aftringent or binding, flop the courfe of fluxes and rheumes. 
Baccbaris is a Angular remedie to heale inflammations and Saint A nthonics fire, called Ignis J, i- 
cff. and the fmell thereof prouoketh fleepe. 
Thedecofhon of the roots of Baccbaris helpeth ruptures and convulfions,thofe alfo that haue 
falne from an high place, and thofe that are troubled with the fhortneffe ofbreath. 
It helpeth alfo the old cough, and difficultie to make water. 
Whenit ishftledinwine.itisgiuenwirhgrcatprofitagainft the bitings of Scorpions, orany 
venomous beaftfoeing implaiftered and applied thereto. 
A bath made thereof and put into a dole ftoole, and receiuedhot, mightily voideth the birth, 
and furthercth thofe that haue extre ame labour in their childing, caufing them to haic cafie deli- 
uerance. 
Chap. 277 . Of Elecampane. 
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The Description. 
’ Lccampane bringeth forth prefcntly from the root great white leaues, fharpe pointed, aimoft 
-'like thofe of great Comfrey, but foft,andcouered with a bairie downe, of a whitifh grecne co- 
flour. 
