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Of- the Hiltorie of Plants. 
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Dutch, ^)*3lntl)0np Kapltin. t Thefe names and faculties properly belong to the Rmnnculu s 
hulbojus, dcfcribed in the tixt place ol the laid chapter ; and alfo to the fits! double one here deferi- 
bed ; for they vary little but in colour, and the fingleneffe and doubittiefle of their fioures. h 
Tile third is called of Lobel, Ranunculus niueuspelyanthos : of Tabern. Ranunculi^ alius multiform: , 
in Englilb, Doublewhite Crow-foot, or Batchelors buttons. 
*ff T(ic Temperature. 
Thefeplants dobite as the other Crow-feet do. 
The Vertues. 
Tbechicfefi vertue is in the root, which being (lamped with fait is good for thofe that haue a 
plague forp if it be prefently in the beginning tied tothe thigh, in the middle between the groin 
or flankeand the knee : by meanes whereof the poyfon and malignitie ofthe dijjbafc is drawn from 
the inward parts, by the emuniitorieor clenfmg place of the tianke, into thofe outward parts of 
leffe account : for it exulcerateth and prefently raifeth ablifter, to what part of the body foeuer 
it is applied, And if it chance that the fore hapneth vnder the arme, then it is reqjailice to apply it 
tothearme a little aboue ti e elbow. My opinion is, that any of the Oow-icet will do the fame : 
my reafon is, becaufe they all and entry ofthemdoblifterand caufe paine, wherefoeuer they be' 
applied, and paine doth draw vnto it fclfe more paine ; for the nature of paine is to refort vnto the 
weakeft place, and where it may finde paine j and likewife the poyfon and venomous quuLaie of 
thatdifeafe is to refort vnto that painefull place. 
Jpitleius faith further,That if it be hanged in a linnen cloath about the necke of him tliat is lu- 
naticke, in thewaineof the moone, when the figne fhallbe in the firft degree of laurus or Scorpio, 
that then he fhall forthwith be cured. Moreouer, the herbe Satraclnon (lamped with vineger, root 
and all, is vfed for them that haue blacke skars or fuch like marks on their skins, it eats them out, 
and leau'es a colour like that of the body. 
f The that formerly was in tjiefirfl place of thi* chapter was tkc double one mentioned in the fecond defeription of cheforegoing chapter, where alfo 
you may finde a double flouic expicft by the fide of the figure. f 
