Lib. 2 . Of the Hiiloryof Plants. \ g 8 i ) 
4 The yellow Fumitotie hath many crumbling threddy roots, fomewh.it thicke,arolfe,and 
fat "like afofeof Afr*r*%us : fromwhichrife diners vpright ftalkes a cubit high, din 'dug them- 
felues toward the top into other fmaller branches , vvheron ai e conf ufcdly placed leahis ;,'ke thole 
ofThdiartmi, or Englifh Rubarb,but Idler and thinner : alongll the tops o! r he branches grow 
yellow floures, rcfembling thofe of Sage : which being paft, there followerh fniall feed like vnto 
dull. 
The Place . 
The Fumitories grow in come fields among Barky and other graine ; in vineyards, gardens.and 
fitch like manured p.acts. I found the fecondand third growing in a corne field betweene a final! 
village called Charletonand Greenwich. 
% The Time. 
Fumitorieis found with his floure in the beginning of May, and fo continues to the end offom- 
mer. When it is in floure rs the bell time to gather it to keepe dry, or to diftill. 
<f rtt Names. 
Fumitorie is called in Greeke K.» t . ahd &'»»>, and often km»iw •. in Latinc, Fumaria : of Pliny, Cap- 
nos ; in Ihops, F umus terra ■ in high Dutch : in low-Dmch,(ign|fcCOm j ©UpusnfeCt= 
tici ; in Spanifh, Palomilha : in French and Engl ifh, Fumiterre. 
9\ The Temperature. 
Fumitorie is not hot, as fomehauc thought it to be, but cold and femething dry ; itopeneth 
and elenfeth by vrine. 
S the Vert ties. 
It is good for all them that haue either leads or any other filth growing on theskinne, and for A 
them alfo that haue the French difeafe. 
It remoueth (loppings from the liner and fplecne : it purifieth the blond, and isoft timesgood B 
for them that haue a quarcane ague. 
( The decodion of the hefbe is vied to be giuen, or elfe the fyrrup that is made of the iuyee : the C 
diftilled water thereof is alfo profitable againll the purpofes aforefaid. 
It is oftentimes boy led in vvhay,and in this manner it helpeth in the end of the Spring and in D 
Sommer time thofe that are troubled with fcabs. 
t Paulas JE^incta faith thatit plentifully prouoireth vrine, and taketh away the Hoppings of the E 
liner, and feeblenefle thereof ; that it ftrengthneth rhe ftomacke,and maketh the belly foluble. 
Diofcorides ailirmeth, that the iuyee of Fumitorie, of that which groweth among Barley, as JE- p 
g'tneta addeth, with gnm Arabicke, doth take awav vnprofitable haires that pricke the eyes, grow- 
ing vpon the eye lids, the haires that pricke being firft plucked away, for it will not fuffer others 
to grow in their places. 
The dccodtion of Fumitoriedrimken driueth forth by vrine and fiegeall hoc cholericke burnt G 
andhurtfull humors, and isa moll lingular digefter offaltand pituitous humors. 
•J- Tlierewere formerly fix figures and d; r cr : p’:ion'.>e this chanter ; whereof the two firT: figures were of the common Fumitorie, the one with purple, the 
ether \y C’i white figures ; andchc cw > barer we-eo? thcFutunttlhufolu clmeulatj, d-tFering or, civ n the UrgC'iefTe and fmaUnclTc of chcleafe. The dclcription in 
the Tccond place belonged ro the clauieitlttst, which !(b wu* againc described in the fifth and fixih place*, yet not to much purpofej wherefore I haue put 
the figure to the feconii, and omitted the other as fupcifluous. 
C h a p. 41 6. Of bulbous Fumitorie , or HolloW'root. 
■[ TheVefcription „ 
1 r Tp He leaues of great Hollow, root are lagged and cut in funder, as be thofe of Corian- 
J[ dcr,ofa light greenifh colour, that is to fay, like the gray colour of the leaues of Co- 
Jumbine, whereunto they be alfo in forme like,but Idler : the flalks be fmoocb, round, 
and (lender, an handfull long ; about which, on thevpper part Hand little floures orderly placed, 
long, with a little home at the end like the floures of Tode-flax, of a light red tending to a purple 
colour : the feed lic-th in flat cods, very foftand greenifh when it is ready toyeeld vphls black Ali- 
ning ripe feed : the root is bumped or bulbous, hollow within, and on thevpper part prelfed down 
fomewhat flat,couered oner with a darke yellow skin or barke,withcertaine firings faflned there- 
to, and of a bitter and an Here talle. 
2 The fecond is like vnto the.firfl in each refped, failing that it bringeth floures of a “white 
colour, and the other not fo. 
3 The fmall purple Hollow-root hatli roots, leaues, ftalkes, floures, and feeds like the prece- 
dent, tile efpeciall difference is, that this plant is fomewhat leffe. 
Yyyy 3 4 The 
