full of thefelhree long and round Birthwoorts: they are alfo found in Italieand Narbone or Lan- 
guedock,a countrey in France. Petrus Bellow us vvriteth, thathe found branched Birthwoort vponi 
Ida, a mountaine in Candie : Carolus Clufius faith,that he found this fame about Hifpalis, and in 
many other places of Granado in Spain, among btifhes and brambles : they grow all in my’garden 
«j The Time. & 
They floure in May, lune,and Inly. 
*[ The Names. 
Birthwoort is called in Greekc in La tine likewife Ari[lolochia,hecw(e it isirmmh 
that is to fay, good for women newly brought a bed 5 ordeliuered with childe:inEnglilh,Birthvvort 3 
Hartwoort.and of fome, Ariftolochia. 
The firft is called o 4ritfolochu longa,ot long Birthwoort, of the formeofhis root, and likewife 
Ariftolochia mas, or male Birthwoort : the fecond is thought to be Famina or female Birthwoort, & 
itis called Rotunda Anjlolochia, or round Birthwoort: of diners alfo Tern m, tlttm, the Apple of the 
earth: yet CycUmtnus is alfocalled Terra mahm, or the Apple Of the earth. 
The Temperature . 
A 11 thefe Birthwoorts are of temperature hot and drie,and that in the third degree, hailing be- 
fides a power to clenfe. 
TheVertues. 
Diofcorides writeth, that a dram weight of long Birthwoort drunke with wine and alfo applied,is A 
good againft ferpents and deadly th ings : and that being drunke with myrrhe and pepper, it expel- 
leth whatfoeuer is lefc in the matrix after the childe is deliuered,the flourcs alfo 8c dead children: 
and that being put vp in a pelfarie it performeth the fame. 
Round Birthwoort ferueth for all thefe things, and alfo for the reft of the other poifons : it is B 
likewife auaileable againft the fluffing of the lungs, the hicket,the fliakings or fhiuerings of agues, 
hardneffeof the milt or fpleene.burftings, cramps, and couvulfions, paines of the fides if it be drunk 
with water. 
It plucketh out thornes,fplinters,and flriuers,an'd being mixed in plaifters, or pulteffes,it draws G 
forth fealesor bones, remoueth rottenneffeor corruption, mundifieth and fcoureth fouleand filthy 
vlcers,and filleth them vp with new fleflr,ifit be mixed with Ireos and honie. 
Galen faith, that branched Birthwoort is of a more fweet and pleafant fmell : and therefore is v- D 
fed in ointments^but it is weaker in operation than the former ones. 
Birthwoort, as Pliny writeth, being drunk with water isa moil excellent remedie for cramps and E 
convulfions,bruifes,and for fuch as haue falhe from high places. 
It is good for them that are fhort-winded,and are troubled with the falling fickneffe. 
The round Ariflotocbia doth beautifie, clenfe, and faften.the teeth, if they be often fretted or rub- 
bed with the ponder thereof. 
t The root of the Virginian Tifiolochiayihich is of a ftrongandaromaticke fent,is a (ingular & H 
much vfed Antidote againft the bite of theRattle-fnake, orrather Adder or Viper, whofe bite is 
very deadly, and therforeby the prouidenceofthe Creator he hath vponhis tailea skinny dry fub- 
Rance parted into cels which containe fome loofe.hard drie bodies that rattle in them (as if one 
fhouldput little ftones orpeafeintoa ftiffeand very dry' bladder) that fohe may by this noife giue 
warning of his approch, the better tobeauoided ; biit ifany be bitten,they know, nor (land in need 
of nobetter antidote, than this root, which they chew, and apply to the wound, & alfo fwallow fome 
of it downe,by which means they quickly ouercome the mafignitic of this poifonous bite, which 
otherwife in a very fhort time would proue deadly .Many alfo ommend the vfe of this againft the 
plague, fmall pox,meafels,and fuch like maligne and contagious dileafes. £ 
Chap. 312.. Of Violets. 
The Kinder. 
'’T 1 Here might be deferibed many kinds of flourcs vnder th is name of violets, if their differences 
® fhould be more curioufly looked into than is neceffarie:for wemighi ioine hereunto the ftock 
GilloflonreSjthe Wall floures,Dames Gillofloures^Maiians violets, and likewife fome of the bul- 
bed floureSjbecaufe fome of them by T bcophrajlus are termed Violets .But this was not our charge, 
holding it fufficient to diftinguifli and diuide them as neere as may be in kindred and neighbour- 
hood ; addreffingmy felfevnto the Violets called theblacke or purple violets, or March Violets 
of the Garden, which haue a great prerogatiue aboue otbers,not onely becaufe the minde concei- 
ueth a certaine pleafure and recreation by fmelling and handling of thofemoft odoriferous flours, 
but alfo for that very many by thefe Violets receiue ornamentand comelygtace: fortherebce 
made of them Galands for the head, Nofe-gaies, and poefies, which are delightfull to looks on, 
and pleafant tofmell to, fpeaking nothing of their appropriate vertues • yea Gardens themfelues 
receiue by thefe the greateft ornament of all, chiefeft beautie and moft gallant grace , and the re- 
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