L 1 5. 2, Of the Hillorie of Plants. ioo i 
land, called Crag clofe, and in the foot of the mountaine called Ingleborovv Pels, j The fourth 
ntaybefoundinfomegardenswithvs. The fifth groives in the Eaft Indies, in the provinces of 
Mandou and Chito tn the kingdome of Bengala and Decan. The fa ft greaves in Prouince in. 
France, neetc a little city called Gange. t 
The Time. 
The leanes grow to withering in September, atwhich time they fmell more pleafitntly than 
when they flourifihed and were grecne. 
The Names. 
Nydiu is called in Pannonia or Hungarie,'of the countrey people, Speick : of fome, Bcchi . 
that is, the herbe of Vienna, bccaufe it doth grow there in great aboundance, from whence it is 
brought into other countries-; of Gcfner, Saltunca : in Englifh, Celtickc Spikenard : of the Valle- 
tians, Seliiga , and Nardus'Ccltica. 
ThcTemperaturcanclFertttes. 
Celticke Narde mightily prouokes vrine, as recordeth Rondelctius ; who trauelling through the A 
defart countrey, chanced to lodge ina monafterie where was aChanon thatcouldnot make his 
water, but was prefently helped by the deco&ion of this herbe, through the aduice of the laid Ron- 
delctius. 
$ The true Spikenard or Indian Nar^ hath a heating and drying facultie, being (according to B 
Galen jhot in the firft degffcte [yet the Grc-eke copy hath the third] and dry in the fecond.lt is com- 
pofed of a fufficiently aftringent fubftancc, and not much acride heate, and-a certaine light brtter- 
nefTe. Confiding of thefe (acuities, according to reafon, both inwardly and outwardly vfed it is 
conuenient for the liner and ftomacke. 
It prouoketh vrine, helps the gnawing paines of the ftomacke, dries vp the defiuxions that trou- C 
ble the belly and intrals, as alfo thofe that moleft the head and bred. 
It ftayes the fluxes of the belly, and thofe of the wombe, being vfed ina peflarie, and in a bath D 
it helpes the inflammation thereof. 
Drunkein cold water, it helpes the nanfeoufneffe, gnawings, and windineffe of the ftomacke, E. 
the liuer, and thedifeafesofthe kidneyes,and it is much vfed to be put into Antidotes. . 
It is good to caufe haire to grow on the eye lids of fuch as want it, and is good to be ftrewed vp- F 
on any parto^the body that abounds with fuperfluous moi(Iure,to dry it vp. 
The Celticke-Mard is good foralltheforementionedvfes,butofldfeefficacie, vnlelfe in the Q 
pronokingofvrine. It is alfo much vfed in Antidotes. 
The mountaine Nard hath alfo the fame faculties, but is much weaker than die former, and not 
in vfe at this day that I know of. f 
Cjiap. 441. Of Larins heele or Lar\cs claw. 
TheDefcription. 
1 r T~ 1 He garden Larks fpur hath a round ftem ful of branches, fet with tender lagged leanes 
I very like vnto the fmall Sothcrnwood : the floures grow alongft the ftalks toward the 
tops of the branches, of a blew colour, confiding of fine little leanes which grow to- 
gether and make one hollow flourc,hauingataileorfpurattheend turning in like the fpurre of 
Tode-flax. After come the feed, very blacke,like thofe of Leekes ;the root perifheth at the firft 
approch of Winter. * 
2 The fecond Larks fpur is like the precedent, but fomewhat fmaller in ftalkes and leanes: 
the floures are alfo like in forme, but of a white colour, wherein efpccially is the difference. Thefe 
floures are fometimes of a purple colour, fometimes white, murrey, carnation, and offundry other 
colours, varying infinitely, according to the foile or countrey wherein they line. 
% 3 Larks fpur with double floures hath leaues, ftalkes, roots,and feeds like the other Angle 
kinde, but theflouresof this are double ; and hereof there are as many feuerall varieties as there 
be of the Angle kinde, to wit, white, red, blew, purple, b!ufh,&c. 
4 There is alfo another varictie of this plant, which hath taller ftalkes and larger leaues than 
the common kinde ; the floures alfo are more double and larger, with a leflerheeie: this kind alfo 
yeeldethvfually Idle feed than the former. The colour ofthe floure is as various as that of the for- 
mer, being either blew, purple, white, red, or &}ufh, and fometimes mixed of fome of thefe. $ 
5 The wilde Larks fpur hath mod fine tagged leaues, cut and hackt intodiuers parts, confu- 
fedly fee vpona fmall middle tendrell ; among which grow the floures, in IhapeTikt* the others, but 
