S38 Of the Hiilory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
One dram of the pouder of the roots giuen to drinke in ale or wine, groflely beaten, prouok.-th 
vomit for the purpofes aforefaid ; but being beaten into fine pouder, and fogiucn,it purgeth very 
little by vomit, but worketh moft by procuring much vrine • therefore the groffer the pouder is 
fo much the better. ^ ’ 
But if the roots be infufed or boyled, then rauft two, three, or foure drams be put to the infusi- 
on ; and of tbe leaues eight or nine be fufficient : the iuyee of which (damped with fome liquid 
thing, is to be giuen. The roots may be fteeped in wine, but more effectually in whay or honied 
water, as Me fries tcacheth. 
The fame is good for them that are tormented with the Sciatica or gout in the huckle bones 
for thofe that haue the dropfie,and for fuch alfo as are vexed with a quarraine ague, who are cured' 
and made whole by vomiting. 
Chap. 307. Of Sea 'Binde-iveed. 
1 O OlcLnelL or Sea Binde-weed hath many fmall branches, fomwhat red, trailing vpon the 
O ground, befet with fmall and round leaues, not much vnlike Afarabacca, or the leaues 
; of Ariftolochia, but fmaller- betwixt which leaues and the ftalkes come forth floures 
formed like a bell, of a bright red incarnate colour, in euery refpeft anfvvering the fmall Binde- 
weed, whcicofir isakinde, albeit I haue here placed the fame, for the rcafons rendred in my 
Proeme. The feed is blacke, and groweth in round huskes : the root is long and fmall, thrufting it 
felfe tar abroad, and into the earth like the other Binde-weeds. 
s Soldandhi ormountaine Binde-weed hath many round leaues fpred vpon the ground, not 
much vnlike the former, but rounder, and more full of veines,greener,ofa bitter tafte like fea Binde- 
weed : among which commc-th forth a fmall and tender ftalke a handfull high, bearing at the top 
:ttle floures like the fmall Bell-floure,ofa sky colour. The root is fmall and rhreddy. 
^ 3 There 
