IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
10S3 
a great deale Ielfer, fometimes purple, otherwhiles white, and often of a mixt colour. The root is 
fmallandthreddy. < 
5 Cenfolida regalis fyluejlris. 
Wilde Larkes heele. 
ef The Place. 
Thefe plants arc fet and frtvvne in gardens ■ 
the laft groweth wilde in come fields , and 
. where corn hath grown, $ but not with vs, that 
I haueyetobferued 5 though it be frequently 
found in fuch places in many parts of Ger- 
manie. f 
^y The Time. 
They floure for the moft part all Sommer 
long, from lime to the end of Auguft,and oft- 
times after. 
*f The Names. 
Larks heele is called Flos Regius of diners, 
Confolida regdis ; who make it one of the Con- 
founds or Comfreyes. It is all'o thought to be 
tht Delphinium which Diofcorides deferibes in 
his third booke ; wherewith it may agree. It 
is reported by Gerardus of Veltwijcke.who re- 
mained Lieger with the great Turkc from the 
Emperor Charles the fifth, That the laid Gerard 
faw at Conftantinople a copy which had in 
the chap, of Delphinium, not leaues but floures 
like Dolphincs : for the floures, and efpecially 
before they be perfected, haue a certaine fheiv 
and likenefle of thofe Dolphincs , which old 
pidures and armes of certain antient families 
haue expreffed with a crooked and bending fi- 
gure or fhape • by which figne alfo the heauen- 
ly Dolphine is fet forth. And it skilleth nor, 
though the chapter qt D clphiniumbz thought 
to be falfified and counterfeited ; for although it be fome other mans,afid not Of Diofcdridet , it is 
notwithftanding fome one of the old Writers, out of whom it is taken, dnd foifted into Diofcori - 
des hisbookes : of fome it is called Rucinm, or Bucinum .■ in Englifh,Larks fpur, Larks heele,Larks 
toes, and Larks claw : in high-Dutch, fvtDDCt CpOOtttt ; that is, Equitis edear, Knights fpur : in Ita- 
lian, Sperone : in French, Pied d’ alouette. 
^y The Temperature. 
Thefe herbes are temperate and warme of nature. 
TheVertues. 
We finde little extant of the vertues of Larks heele, either in the antient or later writers, worth ^ 
the noting, or to be credited; for it is fet downe, that the feed of Larks fpur drunken is good a- 
gainft the ftingings of Scorpions ; whofe vertues are fo forcible, that the herbe onely thrown be- 
fore the Scorpion or any other venomous beaft,caufeth them to be without force or ftrength to 
hurt, infomuch that they cannot moue or ftirre vntill the herbe be taken away : with many other 
fuch trifling toyes not worth the reading. 
Chap. 44.3. Of Cf ith , or Jfjgeila* 
*y The Kindes. 
T Herebediuers forts of Gith orNigella, differing fome in the colour of the floitres, others in 
the doubleneffe thereof, and in fmell of the feed. 
^y The Dcfcriptien. 
1 'T'He firftkind of Nigella hath vveake and brittle ftalks of the height ofa foot, full of bran- 
*• ches, befet with leaues very much cut or iagged,refembling the leaues of Fumiterie, but 
much greener : the floures grow at the top of the branches, of a whitifh blew colour, each floure 
, being.- 
