Lib. i. 
Of the Hsftorie of Plants, 
2 The fecond Friers hood hath many leaues, long and narrow, fmooth and glittering : The 
huske or hofe *s narrow and long; thepeftell thatcommeth forth of it is flender,in forme like a 
great earth worme,ofa blackifh purple colour, as hath alfothe inlideof the hofe,vpon which 
hard, to the ground, and fometimes a little within the ground, groweth a certaine bunch or duller 
of berries, greene at the firft, and afterwards red : the root is round and white like the others. 
Thefe plants are ftrangers in England, but common in Italy, and efpecially in Tufcane about 
Rome, and in Dalmacia, as Aloifim Anguillan ivitnefleth : notwithstanding I haue them in my 
Garden. 
The floures and fruit of thefe come to perfection with thofe of Cuckowpint and Dragons . 
Friers hood is called of Diofcoridei,'uA^e>' ■ in Latin e,Arifarum but Pliny calleth it - Ae«, or Art's- 
for in his twenty fourth booke, oi/\ 1 6. he faith, That Ark which groweth in Egypt is like Aron 
or Cuckowpint : it may be called in Englifh after the Latinename Arifarum^ but in my opinion 
it may be more fitly called Friers hood, or Friers cowle, to which the floures feemetobe like* 
whereupon the Spaniards name it Frailillos, as Dalcfchampim noteth. 
Friers-Cowle is like in power and facuitie to the Cuckow-pint, yet is it more biting, as Galen 
faith. 
There is no great vfe of thefe plants in phy ficke ; but it is reported that they flay running or ea- 
ting fores or vlcers : and likewife that there is made of the roots certaine compofitions called in 
Grceke Collyria, good againft fiftula’s : and being put into the fecret part of any liuing thing, it rot- 
teth the fame, as Diofcorides writeth. 
«(] The Place. 
•J The Time. 
The'Tempcrature. 
ng The Vert ties. 
I Afarum. 
Afarabacca. 
2 Afiinna Matthioli, 
Italian Afarabacca, 
