Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
A prill and May, and groweth in fome wooddy mountainous places of the kingdom of Hungarie. 
4 This fourth hath ftraight firme cornered ftalkes fome foot or more high, whereupon grow 
leaues vfually foure on a foot-ftalke, Handing two againft two, vpright, being commonly almoft 
three inches long, at firft of a fourifh tafte, but afterwards bitter : it hath no clauicles,becaufe the 
ftalkes need no fupporters : the floures grow vpon long fdot-ftalkes, fpike-fafhion like thofe of 
Peafc, but Idle, and white of colour : after thefe follow long blackifh cods, full of a blacke or elfe 
fpotted feed : the roots are about the length of ones little finger, falhioned like thofe of the Afpho- 
dill or lelfer female Peionie, but lelfer, blacke without, and white within. Clufitts found this on 
the mountainous places nigh the baths of Baden, and in the like places in Hungarie: he calls it 
Orobus Vmnonicus 3 . 
T he Temperature and Vertues. 
Thefe are not knowne nor vied in phyficke ; yet if the third be the Galena montana of the fiiflorU 
Lugd. then it is there fa id to be eft'e Auall againft poyfon, the wormes,the falling ficknefle, and the 
Plague, T 
