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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. 2 
Aconitum byemalc. 
Winter Woolfes-bane, . 
L ejlzk cnaAS . 
«[ The Place . 
It groweth vpon the mountaines of Germa- 
ny:we haue great quantitie of it in our Lon- 
don gardens. 
The Time. 
It floureth in Ianuarie ; the feed is ripe in 
the end of March. 
t The Names. • 
It is called Aconitum hymalc, or Hiker- 
numfrt winter Aconite : that it isa kir.de of 
Aconite or Woolfs-bane,both theformof 
the leaues and cods, and alfo the dangerous 
faculties of the herbe it felfe do declare. 
It is much liketo Acotutum Thcophrafti: 
which he deferibeth in his ninth booke, fay- 
ing, it is a fhort herbe hauing no <*■«•,, or fu- 
perfluous thing growing onir, and is vvith- 
outbranches as this plant is: rheroot, faith 
he, is liketo wft.ortoa nur, or els towf.«,~,a 
dry fig, onely the Ieafefeemeth tomakea- 
gainft it, which is nothing at all liketo that 
of Succorie, which he comparethitvnto. 
«[ The T emperature and Vertues. 
Thisherbe is counted robe very dange- 
rous and deadly, hotand driein the fourth 
degree,as 7 heeph. in plaine wo'rds doth tefti- 
fie concerning his owne Aconite; for which 
he faith that there was r.euer found his An- 
tidote or remedie : w hereof either sue arid 
Theepompus write, that this plant is tbemoft poifonous herb of all others, which moued Ouidiotay 
gua quianafamtuT dura vivaria caute : notvvith (landing it is not without his peculiar vertues. lea- 
chtntus Camer arius now liuing in Noremberg faith, the water dropped into the eies ccafeth the pain ' 
and burning: iris reported to preuaile mightily againft thebitings of fcorpions , and is of fuch 
force, that if the fcorpion paffe by where it groweth and touch the fame, prefently he becommerh 
dull, heauy, and fencelefte,and if the fame fcorpion by chance touch the white Hellebor, he is pre- 
fently deliuered from his drowfinefle. 
Chap. 574. Of Mithridate Woolfes-bane. 
The Defer iption. 
HPliis plant cal led being the antidote againft the poifon of rim, Aconite or vvolfes 
bane, hath flender hollow ftalkes, very brittle, a cubit high, garnifhed with fine cutoriaggcd 
leaues, very like to Nigella Romana, or the common Larkcs fpurre, called ConfohJa Regalis: attbc 
topofthe ftalkes doe grow faire flowers, falhioned like a little helmet , ofan ouervvorre yellow 
colour ; after which comefmall blackifh cods, wherein rs conteined blacke fhining feed like 
thofeof Onions; the root confifteth of diners knobs or tuberous lurnpes, of the bignefle of a 
mans thumbe . 
The Place. 
This plant which in Greeke we may terme groweth abundantly in the Alps, called Khe- 
tici, in Sauoy,and in Liguria. The Ligurians ofTurin, and thofe that dwell neere the lake Lcmane, 
haue found this herbe to be a prefenr remedy againft the deadly poifon of the herb Thera ar.d the 
reft of the Aconites,prouided that when it is brought into the garden there to be kept for Phy f cks 
vfe,it muft not be planted neere to any of the Aconites.-for through his attraaiue qualitie, it will 
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