which follow there 
that of the former. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L t b. 2. 
fucced Sue or fix fharpe pointed tough cods, conteining feed almoft like 
t 
Chap. 571. Of WoolfeS'bane. 
*[ jhekindes. 
T here be diners forts ofWolfes-bane: whereof fome bring forth flowers ofa yellow colour; 
others of a blew, or tending to purple: among the yellow ones there are fome greater, others 
lefler ; fome with broader leaues, and others with narrower. 
1 Thor a Vddenfis. 1 T horn mm is Buldi, (tv? Sdandfcai 
«(J ^ he Defer ip ion . 
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I r T* , Hc firftkinde of Aconite, oi fome called Thera, others adde therto the place where it groweth 
I in great abundance, which is the Alps, and call it T horn Valdenfium. This planttookehis 
name of the Greek word *%, fignifying corruption, poifon,ordeath,which are the certaine 
effe&s of this pernicious plant : for this they vfe very much in poifons, and when they meane to 
infeft their arrow heads, the more fpeedily and deadly to difpatch the wilde beads, which greatly 
annoy thofemountainesofthe Alpes: to which purpofe alfo it fs brought into the Mart-townes 
neere vnto tbofe places to be fold vnto the hunters, the iuice thereof beeing prepared by prelfmg 
forth, and fo kept in homes and hoofes of beads, for the mod fpeedie poifon of all the Aconites ; 
for an arrow touched therewith, leaueth the wound vncureablefif it but onely fetch bloud where it 
entereth in) except that round about the wound the flefh bee fpeedily cut away in great 
quan- 
