IB. 2. 
Of theHiftory of Plants. 
953 
The Place. 
It is alfo reported robe found not only in Illyria and ScIauonia,but alfo in the Ifland Sard in N 
Handing m the Midland, or Mediteranian fea. " 
The Names. 
This Illyrian Crowfoot is named in Greeke «*•" “V™, tbdt i s,/lpiumfiluejh-e orvvilde Smallasre- 
alforffi-fa yWM. it may be, faith my Author, that kinde of Crowfoot called Avium rifa and 
r-'> ■: and this is thought to be that Golotofhittis, of which Pliny maketh mention in his 24. booke 
17. chap, which being drunke, faith he, with wine and myrrh, caufeth a man to feediuers ftranue 
lights, and not to ceafe laughing till he hath drunke Pine apple kernells with Pepper in wineofrhe 
X)ate tree, (I thinke he would haue faid vntill he be dead) oecaufe the nature of lau°-bin<* Crow- 
foot is thought to kill laughing, but without doubt the thing is cleane contrary • for it caufeth 
Inch convullions, cramps and wringings of the mouth and jawes,that it hath feemed to fome that 
the pattyes haue dyed laughing, whereas in truth they haue died in great torment. 
5 Ranunculus Illyrtcus. 
Crowfoot of Illyria. 
6 Ranunculus bulhoftis. 
Roundrooted Crowfoot. 
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«(j The Deftription. 
7 The feuebth kinde of Crowfoot,called cAuricomus of the golden lockes wherewith the 
ifloure is thrummed, hath for his root a great bufh of blackifh hairy firings ■ from which fhoote 
(forth final! jagged leaues, not much vnlike to Sanicle,but diuided onely into three parts, yet fome- 
times into flue ; amongwhich rife vp branched flalkes of a foot high,whereonarep!aced the like 
deaues but fmaller, fet about the top of the ftalkes, whereon do grow yellow floures, fweet fmel- 
iling, of which it hath been called Ranunculus dnlcis,Tragi,or Tragus his fweet Crowfoot, rj: It 
igrowes in medowes and about the fides of woods, and floures in April!. ± 
f 8 Frogge Crow foot, called of Pena, Aconitum Batrachioides : of Dodon.cus , Batrachion Apulei, 
ds that formerly deferibed in the fourth place, whereto this is much alike, but that the ftalkes and 
leaues are larger, as alfo the floures, which arc white : the root is tough and threddy. 
9 The ninth Crowfoote hath many graffic leaues, of adeepe greene tending to blevvnefle 
fomewhat long, narrow and fmooth, very like vnto thofe of the fmall Biftort,or Snakeweed- 
LIU among 
