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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 
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and lharpe pointed : among which rifeth vp a knotty flalke three oj fourecift)itsh''gh,diiiic l ine it 
felfeintodiuers branches i on the tops whereof do grow fpokie tufts or rundlcs like the precedent 
but the floures are commonly white : the feed is flat and'plaine : the root long, thickc and white' 
which being broken or wounded, yeeldeth forth liquor like that of the former, of a hot and bitii s. 
tafle. ’ ‘ s 
The Place, 
Thefe plants grow in Syria ; the firft of them alfo in my garden : but what Panax of Syria is 
Theophrafim doth not expreffe; Pliny in his 1 2 bookc, Chap. 26. faith, that the leattes are round’ 
and of a great compaife: but iris fufpe&ed that thefe are drawne from the defeription of Hercu- 
les Panax. 
Broad leafed Panax is thought to be the great Centory : for Pliny witnefletlr, that Panax which 
Chiron found out is fyrnamed Ccntaurinm, Ccntorie. 
Matthiolus frith it grovves of it felfe in the tops of the hills Apcnnini, in the Cape Ar^entaria 
in the fea coafts of Siena, and it is cherifhed in the gardens of Italy :but he cannot affirmc That 
the liquor hereof is gathered in Italy . for the liquor Opopanax which is fold in Venice is brought 
faith he, out of A Iexandria a city in Egypt : it groweth alfo in Syria, Booetia, and in Phocide d 
ticsof Arcadia. 3 
The Time. 
They floure and flourilh from the firft of May vnto the end of September. 
The Names. 
Thatwhichis is called i*V 5 in Greeke, is likewife named Panax in Latine : and that tan ax He 
» wh ich Diofcoridcs fetteth downe is called in Latine, Panax Hcraculanttm , or Herculean or 
.cules Panax : it may be called in Englifh, Hercules his Wound-wort or All-heale or Ono'na 
. ax wort.of the Greeke name. 5 P f ‘ 
The Temperature. 
The barke of the root of Hercules Wound-wort is hot and dry, yet IefTe than the iuyee as Galen 
teacheth. ' 1 1 
% The Vertues, 
A The feed beat to ponder and drunke in Wormwood wine is good againft poyfon, the biting of 
mad dogs, and the ftinging of all manner of venomous beafts. 
B The leafe or root (lamped with honey, and brought to the forme ofanVnguent or Salue cu- 
reth wounds and vlcers of great difficultie, and couereth bones chat are bare & or naked without 
Chap. 3510. Of Qomes Woundwort or <sAU'heale. 
The Defeription. 
C Lownes All-heale, or the Husbandmans Wound-wort, hath long (lender fquare ftalksofthe 
height of two cubits, furrowed or chamfered along the fame as it were with (mail ^utters 
and fomewhat rough or hairy : whe reupon are fet by couples one oppofite to another lon^ 
rough lcaues fomewhat narrow, bluntly indented about the edges like che teeth of a faw of the 
forme oftheleaues of Speare-mint, and of an ouerwornc greene colour 1 at the topof theflalkes 
grow the floures fpike fafhion, of a purple colour mixed with fome few fpots of white in forme 
like to little hoods. The root confifteth of many finall threddy firings, vvhereunto arc annexed or 
tied diners knobby or tuberous lumpes,ofawhite colour tending to yellowneffe rail the whole 
plant is of an vnpleafint fanout like St achy s or (linking Hore-hound. $ The root in the Winter 
time and the beginning of the S pnng is fomewhat knobby tuberous, and ioynted, which after the 
nevvonf s r0lVVpbeC0nleftaCCldeand hollovv ; and fo thc old ontt decay, and then itputteth forth 
f The Place. 
medo ' ves by the fidei of ditches, and likewife in fertile fields that are fom- 
^mtS?‘ eUery ; vh f C; ^ iaI1 y r n K f tab0uc South-fleet, neere to Grauefend, and 
likewiie in the medowes by Lambeth neere London. 
T , . ^1 The Time. 
it noureth in Augufl,and bringethhis feed to perfection in theend ofSeptember. 
.... . Names. 
asEiiMbb 1Ch hath bln iU the defcri P cion rtia11 fufficc touching the names, as well m Latine 
t This 
