IB. 1 . 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
9~’ i 
It is vied among the hunters which feek after woIues,the n.yce whereof they put into raw flelli - 
which the vvoluesde uo urc, and are killed. nun > 
Chap. 37 6 . 
Of other JV life s 'banes and zSAdhonkes -hoods. 
*jj The Vcfcription. 
1 T H r iS k i nde °f W fh S i baM , ; (Cal r d Acon » um ^‘»ur» and of ’Vodonw^iconitum 
l l^cbBononflenT) elphint] , by reafon of the Chapeand likenes thatthe flourehath with 
Delphtmum, or Larkes-fpur : and mEnglilh it is called blacke Wolfes-bine ) harh 
many large kaues of a very deepe greene or ouerworne colour, very deepely cut or iaerged . am™^ 
which rifct.i vp a lialke two cubits high ; whereupon do grow fioures fafhioncd likeTl-nn'd - f b 
a Hob I ! f f u0l "J d blcvvlfll colour, and the thrums or threds within the hood are blacke : the feed is 
alio blacke and three cornered, growing in finall husks : the root is thickeand knobby. 
t I AconitumlycoBononflortDelfhiny. 
Larks-heele Wolfes-bane. 
t 2 Aamitum lyeoclonon Ceerstlcuw 
Small blew Wolfes-bane. 
2 This kiude of Wolfes-bane, called Lycoclonm avmlcum parvttrx, facie Nopelli : in Englifhfinall 
’ Wolfes-bane, or round Wolfes-bane, hath many (lender brittle flalkes two cubits high,befetvvith 
1 leaues very much iagged, and likevnto Nape/his, called in Englifh,Helmet-floure._ The flouresdo 
. grow at the topofthe ftalkes,ofa blewilh colour, falhioned all'o like a hood, but wider open than 
i any of the reft : the cods and feed are like vnto the other : the root is round and finall , falhioned 
likea Peareor finallRape or Turnep : which moued the Germanes to call the fame Ift&peil blOfs 
'filStt, which is in Latine, Flos rnfncem . in Englifli, Rape-floure. 
3 This kinde of Wolfes-bane, called Nope/lns verus, in Englifh, Helmet-floure, or the great 
> Monkes-hood, beareth very faire and goodly blew fioures in Chape like an helmet ■ which are fo 
i beautifully that a man would thinke they were of fome excellent vertue, but non eft femper fidts ha. 
tendafimi. This plant is vnitierfally knoivne in our London gardens and elfevyhgre ; but natural !y 
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