IB. 2. 
Of theHifiory of Plants. 
.93 
, The Place. 
All die forts of Pcionies do grow in our London gardens.except that double Pciony with whit- 
noures, which we do exped from the Loiv-countries of Flanders. ' 
The male Peiome groweth wilde vpon a cony berry in Betfome, being in the parifh of South 
heet in Kent, two miles from Grauef-end,and in the ground fomtimcs belonging to a farmer '.L'P 
called lohn Bradley. * ^ tncre 
L l haue been told that our Author himfelfe planted that Peionie there, and afterwards fee 
tned tofinde it there by accident: and I do beleeue it was fo, becaufenonc before or lime haue 
euer feen or heard of it growing wild fince in any part of this Kino-dome, t 
5 J The Tim. 
They flourein May: the feed is ripe in Iuly. 
T he Names. 
The Peionie is called in Greeke . in Larine alfo Pmcnia, and DuhlfiJa .■ in (hons.Piema ■ m 
hioh Dutch jgzometl blumen *. m low Dutch, apart bloemen : in French Jintnne : in Spanilh Ro- 
U del monte : in Englilh, Peionie : it hath alfo many baftard names, as Reft fat, urn, Herba Cafh, • 
iome, Luntru, or Lancia Fa-nwa.-becaufe it cureth thofe that haue rhe falling lick neffe, whom fomc 
men call £«»ar/iT(ij_,orLunatickc. It is called idam Vatlylus : which aartethwith the female Peio- 
nie; the knobble roots of whicB be like to Da 6 lyli Ilaj nd DaClylt Ida, are cerraine precious Hones 
of the forme of a mans finger, growing in the Ifland of Candie : it is called of diners AHaopho , „• 
offcadet ‘ 1UninS ’ takin§ hlS name of the fhinln S and glittering graines, which areol the coioul 
There be found two ^glaophotides, deferibed by v£ lianus in his u.boohe ; one of the fea in the 
24 . Chapter : the other of the earth, in the 2 7 .chapter. That of the fea is a kindc of Fuchs or fea 
mode, which groweth vpon high rocks, of the bigneffe of Tamarisk, with the headof Poppy!whicli 
opening in the Sommer Solftice doth yeeld in the night time a certain ficrie,and as it were’ fpark- 
ling brightnelfe or light. Y 
That of the earth,faith he, which by another name is called Cyno/tajhis, Iieth hid in the day time 
among other herbes, and is not knowneat all, and in the night time it is eafily feene : for it fhineth 
like a ltar,and glitteretk with a fierie brightncflc.* - 
And this A^tadphous of the earth, or Cyno/pafi we, is Paonia ■. for dpulems faith, that thefeedes or 
graines of Peionie fhme in thenight time like a candle, and that plenty of it is in the nDht feafon 
found out and gathered by the fhepheards. Theophrastus and Pliny do (hew that Peionie is gathered 
m the night-^which Ulianas alfo affirmeth concerning i^iglaopbotx* 
This Apjaophotifoi the earth, or is called of lofephtu the writer of the Iewes warre in 
his leucntb booke^^.chapter^aai-^oftheplacewhereinitisfoundiwhicb thing is plainetoh’im 
that conferred! thofe thingswKicb •■As lianus Iiath written of ( .^/^/ 7 <,i«oftheearrh, or Cynolballus 
with thofe which Iofephus hath fet downe of Bdaras fox 1AE.I1 anus faith, that C ynolfaflus is not pluc- 
ked vp without danger, and that it is reported how he that firft touched it, not knowing the nature 
thereof, perifhed. Therefore a firing mud be faftned to it in the night, and a hunaiie dog tied ther- 
to, who being allured by the fmell of rolled flefh fet towards him^may plucke it vp by the rootes. 
Iojcphus alfo writetb ,that B'aar, a doth fhine in theeuening like tbeday liar, and that they who come 
n cere, and would plucke it vp,can hardly do it, except that either a womans vtine or her rnenfes be 
poured vpon it, and that fo it may be plucktvpat the length. 
Moreouer, it is fet downe by the (aid Author, as alfo by Pliny and T/W/^ra/Whatofneceffitie 
it mult be gathered in the might; for if any man fhall pluck otf the fruit in the day time, being (bene 
of the Wood- pecker, he is in danger to loofe his eies ; and if he cut the root, it is a chance°if his 
fundament fall not out. The like fabulous tale hath been fet forth of Mandrake, the which I haue 
paitl v touched in the fame chapter. But all thefe things be mod vjfne and friuolous : for the root 
of Peionie, as alfo fhe Mandrake, may be remoued at any time of the yeare, day or houre whatfbc- 
uer. 
But itisno maruelljthat fuch kindcs ofrrifles, and mod fuperftiti'ous and wfcked ceremonies, 
are found in the books of the mod antienr writers ; for there were many things in their time verie 
vainly feined and cogged in for odenration dike, as by the F.gyptians'anJ other counterfeit mates 
as Plmy doth truly tellifie:an imitator ofwhom in times pad, was one csindre.it a Pliy fition,vvho as 
o the art ofPhyfick,lies and fubtilldelufionk'. For which caufe Galen com. 
H , . . f.... . 1 . . ..... 1 * : _ _ n ' 1 . . 1 ? /"* I 1*1 1 . > 1 1 
GJc , 1 faith, conueied into i.„ , . .... u .„ ulu , came O 4 i«*com- 
1 *} lan ded his Schotlers to refraine from the readiiYgofhim,and of all, fuch like lyino- and deceitful I 
f fycophants.lt is reported tha.t thefe herbes toolce the ^ - ~ 
nnm 2 of Peionie, or Pa tn, of that excellent 
A ■ r . r ' ; ; ;r , ' ■ ‘ uiaLexccuenc 
i nyiitionot the lame nam^who hrdi ioiindou: and taught the knoVviei^e of thisherbe vnto no- 
fteritie • v 
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