Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
9°9 
The Place. 
■ They are found on the Alps of Liguria, and on 
the mountaines of Auftria. Bellontus writeth, 
that they do grow very plentifully aboil t the hil 
Athos. 
The firftofthe Horfe-tonguesgrowes in my 
garden very plentifully. 
The Time. 
That which groweth in my garden floured 
in the beginn ing of May : the fruit is ripe in the 
fall oftheleafe. 
U Th * Names. 
Horfe-tongue is called in Greek ;»»!>*« «=> s of 
the later Herbarifts, Bonifacia, VvuLma , Bijlin. 
gtia, Lingua Pagana, and Vittoriola. The fame is 
alfo named ,u^\ oflda a mountaine of Troy, 
which is called Alexanders T roy : of Ibme, Lati- 
rus Alexandria, or the Bay of Alexandria, and 
Lauras IcLta. 
This Htppogloffnm Bonifacia is called in Iiigh- 
Dutch, ^apfltnfcraut : in low-Dutch, ^ong^ 
^cnblaht '. ill S panifh, Lengths de CauaUo : in En- 
gliih, Horfe-tongue, Tongne-blade, Double- 
tongue, and Laurel of Alexandria. 
The Temperature. 
Horfe-tongue is euidently hot in the fecond 
degree, and dry in the firft . 
% The Vertues. 
The roots of Double-tongue boiled in wine, A 
and the deco&ion drunke, helpeth the ltrangurie, prouoketh vrine, eafeth women that haue hard 
trauell inchilde-bearing. It expelleth the fecondine or after-birth. The root beaten topouder, 
whereof fix drams giuen in fweetvvine, doth helpe the difeafes aforefaid :it bringetht downe the 
termes, as Diofcorid.es teacheth.The like writeth Pliny alfo : adding further. That it caufcth women 
to haue fpeedy deliuerance, efpecially if halfe an ounce of the ponder of the root be giuen to drink 
in a draught of fweet wine. 
B apt ifi a Sarcitis doth notably commend this herb for the difeafes of the mother ; by giu ing, faith B 
he,a little fpoonfull of the pouder either of the herbe, the fruit, or of the root, to her that is trou- 
bled with the mother, fhe is thereby forthwith recouered. He alfo writeth, that the fame is a An- 
gular good medicine for thofe that be burden, if a lpoonfull of the pouder of the root be drunke 
in the broth of flefh certaine dayes together. 
C h a f. 540. Of Qucumbers. 
«[J The Kinder. 
T Here be diners forts of Cucumber •, fome greater, others leffer’; fome of the Garden, fome 
wilde ; fome of one fafhion, and fome of another, as {hall be declared in the following chap- 
ters. 
«(]■ The Defcription. 
1 ''"I ^ He Cucumber crqepes alongft vpon the ground all about, with long rough branches ; 
£ whereupon do grow broad rough leaues vneuen about the edges : from the bofome 
whereofeome forth crooked clafpjng tendrels like thofe of the Vine. TheflOures 
fhoot forth betweene the flatkes and the !eaues,fet vpon tender foot-ftalks compofed of flue fmall 
yellow leaues : which being pad, the fruit fucceedeth, long, cornered, rough, and let with certaine 
bumpes orrilings, greene at the firft, and yellow when they be ripe, wherein is contained a firme 
and follid pulpeor fub’ftance tranfparent or thdrow-fhining, which together with the feed is eaten 
a little before they be fully ripe. Tire feeds be white, long, and flat, 
Gggg 3 
3 Hippogtoffum Matthwli. 
Italian Horfe-tongue. 
2 There 
