«[ The Place. 
Both thefe kindes do grow in my garden,but not wilde in England ; yet haue I heard it reported 
that it groweth in the fields about Northampton, but as yet I am not certaine of it. 
•T The Time. 
They floure about Iune,in Autumnc the downe hangeth out of the cods, and the feed falleth to 
the ground. 
The Names. 
It is called of the later Herbarifts Vincetoxicm -.of Myelhiv, llederalit \ in High Dutch, j*5>fa)E~ 
UtlMC toOJtelCjthat is to fay in Latine Hiru.ndw.ma : in Englifh, Swallow -woort : of our Gentlewo- 
men it is called Silken Cifiie ; tAifculapiut (who is faid to bethefirftinuenterof Phyficke, whom 
therefore the Greekcs and Gentiles honored as a God)called it after his owne name Afclepiae , or 
vHfcitlapiws herbe,for that he was the firft that wrote thereof, and now it is called in Ihoppes Himn- 
dinaria. 
The T emperature . 
The roots of S wallovv-woort are hot and dry ^ they are thought to be good againft poifon. 
«U The vcruies. 
A Diofcorides vvriteth,that the roots of Afclepiae or Stvallow-woort boiled in wine, and the deco&i- 
ondrunke.arc a remedie againft the gripings of the belly, the ftingingsof Serpents, and againft 
deadly poifon,beingone oftheefpecialleft herbes againft the fame. 
B The leaues boiled and applied in forme of a pultis, cure the euill fores of the paps or dugs,and 
matrix, that arc hard to be cured. 
Chap. 334, Of fndkn Sivallorv-Vpoort. 
The Defer iption 
T ’ Here groweth in that part of Virginia, or Norembega, where our Englifh men dwelled (in- 
tending there to ere<ft a certaine Colonie) akindeof 'i/l [depots, or Swallow-woort which 
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