L/ib. z. Of the Hiftory of Plants. g6 9 
draw vnto ir felftbemaligne and venomous 
Author it five Aconitum falutifcrum. poifon of the Aconite, whereby it will be- 
Whojfome Wolfes- bane. come of the like quali tie, that is, to become 
poifonous likewife : but being kept faroff 3 it 
retaineth his owne natltrall qualitie ftill. " 
The Time. 
_ It floureth in Auguft, the feed is ripe in, 
the end of September. 
The N times. 
The inhabitants of the lake of Geneua,& 
the Piemontoife do call it Amhora , and the 
common people Anthoro. ^Attice/i calleth a 
certaineherbe which is like to Monks hood, 
as a remedy againft the poifon thereof, by 
the name of Napellut Moyjh,in the 500 chap, 
ofhis fecond booke,and inthe 745.chap.he 
faith, that Zedoana doth grow with Napehlus 
or Monkes hood, and that by reafon of the 
neercnelle of the fame, the force and ft rength 
thereofis dulled and made weaker, and that 
it is a treacle, that is, a countcrpoifon againft 
the Viper, Monks hood, & all otherpoifons: 
and hereupon it followeth, that it is not on- 
ly Nape/lus Moyps, but dlfoZedoaria Auicen. 
nx - notwithftanding the Apothecaries do 
fell another Zedoaria differing from Amhora, 
which is a root ofa longer forme, which not 
withoutcaufe is thought to be ^Autcens and 
Scrapio’s Zerumheth, or Zurumhtlh. 
It is called Amhora, as though they fhould 
fay Antithor, >,bccau(e itisanenemie to Tho- 
ra , and acounterpoifon to the fame . Thor a 
and Amhora , or T ura and Amura , feerne to be new words, but yet they are vfed in Marc'Uiis Fmpericus , 
an old writer, who teacheth a medicine to be made of T nr a and Ant ura againft the pin and web in 
theeies: in Englifh, yellow Monks-hood, yellow Helmet floure, and Aconites Mitlmdate. 
«[{ TheVcrtacs.. 
The root of Amhora is wonderfu 11 bitter, itisanenemie toall poifons : itisgood for purgati- A 
ons ; for it voideth by the ftoole both waterie and flimie humours, killeth and driueth forth all 
manner of wotmes of the belly.- 
Hugo Solerius faith, that the roots of Amhora do largely purge, not onelyby the floole, butalfo B 
by vomite : and that the meafure thereof is taken to the quantitic of Fafehts ( which is commonly 
called abeane)in broth or wine,and is giuen to ftrong bodies. 
Antonius Guaneritts doth fhew in his treatie of the plague , rhefecond difference, the third chap- q 
: ter, that is of great force, yea and that againft the plague : and the root is of like vertues, 
. giuenwith Dittanie, which I haue feene, faith he, by experience : and he further laith.it is an herbe 
: that groweth hard by that herbe Thor a, of which there is made a poifon, wherewith they of Sauoy 
and thole parts adiacent daenuenome their arrowes,the morefpeedily tokill thewilde Goats,and 
other wildebeafts of the Alpilh mountaines. And this toot Amhora is tbcBc^oaros counterpoi- 
Ifon to that 7 V/«r.i, which is offo great a venome,as that it killeth all lining creatures with his poi- 
I Ibnfbme qualitieiand thus much Guanerius. 
Simon Iamtenfis hath alfo made mention of Amhora , and Arnoldus Villatiovamts in his treatie of D 
[ poifons : but their writings do declare that they did not well know Anthora. 
Chap. 375. Of yellow WolfeS'bane. 
«I The Defcription . 
T He yellow kindeofWolfes-bane called Aconitum tut cunt Ponticum, or according to Vodonxm 
Aconitum Lycociononluteummaius inEnglifh,yellow Wolfes-bane, whereof this our age hath 
found out fundry forts not knoivne to Diojcor ides, although feme of the forts feeme to Band 
Mtnrrsm 3' " indifferent 
