Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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TheTime. 
Theleaues appeare prefently after winterjthe pedell fhevveth it fclfe out of his huskeor fheath 
in Iune,whiled theleaues are in withering : and when they are gone, the bunch 01 duller of ber- 
ries becommeth ripe, which is in Iuly and Augud. 
The Names. 
There groweth in /F.gyptakindc of Aron or Cuckow pint which is found alfo in Africa, and 
Jikewife in certaine places of Portingale ncere vnto riuers and dreames, that differeth from thofe 
of our countries growing, which the people of Caftile call Manta de mefira four a : mod would 
haue it to be called Co/ocajia-, but Diofcorides faith that Colocafut is the root of F aba i&gyptia, or the 
Beane of Egypt. 1 Fabiiv Column a (in the place formerly alledged) prooues this not to be the 
true Colocafia, and yet Proper Alfinut fince inhis fecond books dc plantis exoticis,cap. 17. and 18. la- 
bours to prone the contrary : let the curious haue recourfe to thefe, for i t is too tedious for me in 
this place toinfiftvpon it, being fo large a point of controuerlie, which hath fo much troubled 
all the late writers, 4 
The common Cuckow pint is called in Latine,^t«w .• in Greeke,«'e» > in drops, iarus, and Barba- 
Aron : of others, Fes vituli of the Syrians, Lupha : of the men of Cyprus, Colocajta, as we finde a- 
mongthe baftard names. P/wy inhis 24. booke,i8. chapter,doth witnelfe,that there is great diffe- 
rence betweene Aron and Dracontium, although there hath been fome controuerlie about the fame 
among the old writers, affirming them to beallone : in high Dutch it is called, pi'llttin 
Italian,*; igora : in Spanifli,:r.iM .• in low Dutch, CalfglUOCt {/in French, Pud d’veau : in Englifh, 
Cuckow pint, and C uckow pintle,wake-Robin, Pried s pintle, Aron ; Calfcs foot, and Rainpeymd 
of fome Stratchwoort. 
ihtTemferatnre. 
The faculties of Cuckow pint doe differ according to the varietie of countries : for the root 
hereof, as Galen inhisbookeofthe facultiesof nourifhments doth a ffirme,isdiarper and more bi- 
ting in fome countries than in others, almod as much as Dragons, contrariwife in Cyrena city in 
Africke, it is generally in all places hot and dry, at the lead in the fird degree. 
