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I B. 1. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
alfo agreeth with them ; (hewing that fome thinke.that Beehinm is called by another name Cham 
W in his twenty fifth booke-wp. 6 . and it may be that Diofcorides hath written of one and the 
(elfe fame nerbe in fundry places, and by diners names. Bcthmm and Tuplavo. which mav alfo be 
Englnhcd Coughwort,fo called of the effe<ft,and Farfara ± pfthe white Poplar tree towhofe leaues 
ins like ; which was named of the Antients Farfarin , as Platttww riteth in his Comedie calb-d 
1 Pcemliu t 11 • 
- vifeum leftoni dedi. 
fundafqtte to .r projlcrncbam vt folia Farfari. 
- To the company I gaue both lime bufli and (ling. 
That to the ground as Poplar leaues I might them (ling. 
t Dodonkm (from whom our Author tpoke this) fetsdowne this place in tlauttv as you finde it 
here, but not well • for the laft verfe fhould be Fundafque, toprafternebam folia Farfari. Thus it is in 
moft editionsof plant and that rightly, as the enfuing words in that place declare. J 
The white Poplar tree is cal led in Greeke atm. and hereupon Bechionai Colts-foot was alfo cal- 
led Chamalcuce. , , 
«J[ The Temper at ure and y-ertues. 
' T , hc: . Icai ; les of Colts-foot being frelli and greene are fomething cold, and haue withall a drying A 
quahtie; they are good for vlcefs and inflammations: but the dried leaues are hot and dm 'and " 
lomcvvh at biting. ’ ; 
A decoftion made of the greens leaues and roots, or elfe a fyrrup thereof, is good for the cough r 
that proceedethofa thin rheume. & 
The green leaues of Foie- foot pound with hony, do cure and heale the hot inflammation cafed r 
oaint Anthonies fire, and all other inflammations. 
The fume of thedried leaues taken through a funnell or tunnel!, burned vpon coles, effectually T) 
helpeth thofe that are troubled- -with the fhortnefle of breath, and fetch their windethicke and of- 
ten, and breaker hvv ; thou t perilHhe irripoftumes of the breft. 
^iBemgtakeninmannefastliey take Tobaco, it mightily preuailethagainft thedifeafes afore- E 
Chap. z?i. Of ‘Butter- < Buyre. 
^ H The Defer iptioni 
i T) Vtter-Burre doth in like manner bring forth floures before the leaues , as doth Colts- 
JD foot, but they are final!, moffie, tending toa purple colour which being made vp into 
a big earc as it were, do quickly (together with the (tern, which is thicke, full of fub- 
itance,and brittle) wither and fall away : the leaues are very great like to a round cap or hat, called 
m Latme Pctafus, of fuch a widened, as that of it felfe it is big and large enough to keepe a mans 
Jipadirom tame, and (rom the heate of the Sunne : and therefore they be greater rhan the leaues of 
the Clot-burre, of colour fomewhat white, yet whiter vnderneath :euery (fern beareth his leafe 
the (tern is oftentimes a cubit long, thicke, full of fubftanCe ; vpon Which (fandeth the leafe in the 
i centre or middlemo ft part of the circumference, or very neere, like to one of the greateft Mufh- 
roms , but that it hath a cleft that ftandeth about the ftem,e(pecially when they are ip peri (hi 
- and withering away : at the firft the vpper fuperficiall or ontfide of the Mufhroms ftandethour* 
311 rj n they are in withering ftandeth more in •, and euen (b the leafe of Butter-bur hath on the 
' outfidea certame : (hallow hollownelfe : the root is thicke, Iong,blacke without, white within of 
1 taite lomewhac bitter, and is oftentimes worme-eaten. ; 
. «ir The Place. 
This groweth in moift places neere vnto riuers fides,and vpon the brinks and banks of lakesanu 
f ponds, almoft euery where. 
The Time. 
. . care r b e floures flourifo in Aprill or fooner : then come vp the leaues, which continue 
till V\ inter, with new ones (fill growing vp. 
