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rifcthvpa (talk Come foot h igh, iointed, and at the top diuided into little branches, carryino- white 
floures like the other Valerians : the root is as aromaticke as that of the laft mentioned; and °rows 
in the chinkes of the Alpine rockes, where it floures in Tune and Iuly. cluj ius hath it-by the name 
of Valeriana : fylutttris Alpin. i .Saxatiln. $ 
% The Place. ■ ' 
The firft and likevvife the Greeke Valerian are planted in gardens ; the wilde ones are found in 
moift places hard to riuers fides, ditches, and waterie pits; yet the greater of thefe is brought into 
gardens where it flourifheth, but the lelfer hardly profpereth. 
The Time. 
Thefe fioure in May, June, and Iuly, and mod; of the Sommer moneths. 
. , The Thames. 
Generally the Valerians are called by one name, in Latin zJValeriana in Greeke,?*' ; in fhoppes 
alfo Phu, which for the mod p&rt is meant by the garden Valerian, that is called of Diofc . >*&, «■„,« .. 
in Latin c^SjlueJlris, or Jiujiica N.irdm : ofplinj, Nardas Crettca whichnames are rather referred to 
rhofe of the next chapter , although the fe be reckoned as wilde kindes thereof: of certainc in our 
age,t jitarimlla,Amamilla,V alenti/wa,Gcnicularis,Herba Benedict apceA Theriacaria-. in mod (hops ,v a te. 
riana Vomejlica : oiThcopbrasius ParacclfusJ erdina: in high Dutch, (gjoff baltlitan tin low Dutch 
^»pccwmpt> Ctui’t, and liatemiie : in Englith, Valerian, .Capons taile, and Setwall. but 
vnproperly.for that name belonged: to Zedoaria, which is not Valerian : what hath been fee downe 
jn the titles fhallferue (or thediftindlions of the other kindes. 
The garden Valerian is hot, as Diofcoridcs faith, but not much, neither the green root but the dri 
ed ones . for the green is eafily perceiued to haue very little heate,and the dried to be hotter which 
is found by the tafte and fmell. ‘ ‘ 
A Thedrie root, as Dwy?wVmeacheth,prouoketh vrine,bringeth downe the defired ficknefle liel- 
peth the paine in the fides, tand is put into counterpoifons and medicines preferuatiuc againft the" 
peftilencejas are treacles, m ithridates,and fuch like : whereupon it hath been had (and is to this dav 
among the poore people of our Northerne parts) in fuch veneration amongft them that no broths 
pottage, or phy ficall meats are worth any thing, if Setwall were not at an end .-whereupon fome wo- 
man Poet or other hath made thefe verfes : * I 
They that will haue their heale, 
Mu(l put Setwall in dteir keale. 
15 It is vfed generally in Height cuts, wounds,and fmall hurts. 
mpTheT emper attire. 
The Venues. 
•J TbeDcfcription. 
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