Lib. 2 
Of the Hiilory of Plants; 
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H.aril«TOoOTt-Fcrna. 
It is greene all the yeare long, yet lefle gi 
forth new leaues. 
my very good friend M'. Nicholas Be/fin found 
inagrauelly lane in the way leadiijg to Oxey 
parke neere vrrtV Watfidnd, fifteene miles from 
London: itgrowes likewife on the Hone walls 
of Hampton Court, in the garden of M r . Hug. 
gens, keeper of the laid houfeorpallace. 
5 There isakindeofFernecalledalfotfr. 
mionitis, but with this addition Peregrina, that is 
very feldome found .and hath leaues very like to 
Harts-tongue,but that it is palmed or branched 
in the part next the ground, almoft in manner o f 
the fecond Pf/jllitis, at the top of the leaues ; o- 
therwife they referable one another in nature 
and forme. 
<[f The Place. 
The common Harts-tongue groweth by the 
waiesfides as you trauell from London to Ex- 
ec ter in great plenty, in lhadowie places, and 
moift ftonievallies and wels, and is much plan- 
ted in gardens. 
The fecond I found in the garden of Mailer 
Crantoicb a Chirurgion dwelling at MTich-dun- 
mow in Eflex, whogaue me a plant for my gar- 
den. 
$ W.Goodyer found it vvilde in the banks of 
a lane neere Swaneling, not many miles from 
Southampton. £ 
It groweth vpon Inglcborough hi Is, and di- 
ners other mountains of the North of England. 
^ The Time. 
ene in winter : in Sommer it now and then bringeth 
The Names. 
Iris called in Greeke •• in Latine alfo phyllitis : in (hops, Lingua certtiim : andfalfely Scale- 
pendriafor itdiffereth much from the right Scolopendria, or Stone heme : it is called in high Dutch, 
: in low Dutch, HfVftOlIgC • in Spanifh,£e»£»<! ceruina : in French, LanguedeCerf.- in 
Enghlh, Harts-tongue : offome, Stone Harts-tongue : dpuleius in his 83. Chapter nameth it iu- 
The Temperature. 
It is of a binding and drying facultie. . 
f The Vertnes. 
This common Harts-tongue is commended againllthe laske and bloridy flix : Diofcerides tea- •- 
che th, that being drunkc in wine it is a remedieagainll the bitings of ferpents. 
It doth open the hatdnelfe and Hopping of the fpleen and liuer,and all other griefes proceeding j* 
ofoppilationsor Hoppings whatfocucr. 
Chap. 471. Of Spleene-mort 3 or z 5 \d'ilt-vpajle. 
% The Defcriptien. 
1 P Pleene-woort being that kinde of Ferne called or Ceferach,md the true Scokpeu- 
^dna , hath leaues a fpan long,iagged or cut vpon both lides,euen hard to the middle ribbej 
euery cut or incifure being as it were cut balfe round (whereby it is knovvne from the 
rough Spleene-vvoortjnot one cut righcagainfl another, but onebelides the other, fet in feuerall 
order, being flippc-rie and greene on thevpper fide, foft and downievnderneath; which when they 
be withered are folded vp together like a fcrole,and hairie without, much like to the rough Beare- 
worme wherewith men bait their hookes to catch fifh: the root isfmaU 5 blacke 3 and rough, much 
platted or interlaced, haiung neither Halke,fiourejUqr feeds, 
'• > s Rough 
