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Of theHiftory of Plants. 
Lib. 2* 
A 
plumbago Plinij , 
Leadwoort. 
Dentil! aria is of a caufticke quality 
thereof, became the whole plant is of a biting 
tafte, and a burning faculty, and that in fuch 
extremity , that it will raife blifters vpon a 
mans hand: for which caufe tome of the lear- 
ned fort haue accounted it Plinies Molybdana, 
or Stigineta his Leptdium .- but the new Herba- 
rifts call it Dent aria, or Dentillaria Rondeletij , 
who made the like vfe hereof, as he did of Py- 
rcthrumfic fuch burning p!ants,toappeafethe 
immoderate pain of the tooth-ache and fuch 
like. This plant hath great thicke tough 
roots, of a wooddy fubftance, from whence 
fpring vp long and tough ftalkes two cubits 
high , confufedly garnifhed and befet with 
long leaues,in colour like Woad,of a fharpe 
and biting tafte. The fioures grow at the top 
of the ftalkes of a purple colour ; which being 
paft, there (licceed clofe glittering and hairy 
huskes, wherein is contained fmall blackifh 
feed. 5) The Place. 
Pena reporteth that Dentillaria groweth a- 
bour Rome, nigh the hedges and come fields : 
it likewife groweth in my Garden in great 
plenty. 
ft The Time. 
It floureth in Inly and Auguft. 
f The Names . 
Leadwoort is called Molybdana, Plumbago 
Plinij, (jr Dentillaria Rondeletij .■ in Italian, Crc- 
faneUa , the Romanes, Htrba S. Antoni j • in Illy- 
ria, Cucttnda : in Englifh, Leadwoort. 
5 [ The Temperature. 
% The Vertues. 
It helpeth the tooth-ache, and that as tome fay if it be holden in the hand tome fmall while. 
Chap. 551. Of %ue ,or herbe Cjrace. 
51 The Description. 
* f ^ Aiden Rue or planted Rue, is a fhrub full of branches, now and then a yard hi CT h ot 
yjhigher : the ftalkes whereof are coucred with a whitifh barkc, the branches are more 
gieemthe leaues hereof confi ft ofdiuers parts,and be diuided into wings, about which 
are certaine little ones, of an odde number, fomething broad, more long than round, fmooth and 
iomewhat fat, of a gray colour, or greenito blew : the Homes in the top of the branches are ofa pale 
yellow, confiding of foure little leaues, fomething hollow : in the middle ofwhich ftandeth vp a 
little head or button foure fquare, feldome fine fquare, containing as many little coffers as it hath 
corners, being compared about with diuers little yellow thredsiout ofwhich hang pretie fine tips 
ot one colour • the feed groweth in the little coffers : the root is wooddy, and faftned with many 
Itrings : this Rue hath a very ftrongand ranke fmell, and a biting tafte. 
n 2 • Ti'm lLCOn ^ being the wilde or mountaine Rue, called Rut a fyluefiris, is very like to garden 
Hue, in ttaikes, leaues, flourcs, feed, colour, tafte, and fauour/auingthateuery little leafehath fmal- 
er cuts, an is much narrower : the whole plant dieth at the approchofw inter being an annual! 
p ant, an P1 -ift either ftand till itdofow himfelfe,or ellemuft be fowneofothers. £ Thisfecond 
is a variety of the garden Rue differing from the former onely in fmallneffe. t 
Tin pl a nns likewife a wilde kinde of Rue, and of all the reft the fmalleft, and yet more vi- 
m enr, iting, anu ibnking than any of the reft : the whole plant is of a whitifh pale greene, agree- 
ing with thelaft before mentioned in each refpeft, faue ingreatneffe,and in that the venomous 
umes or vapors that come from this fmall wilde Rue are more noifome and hurtfull than the for- 
mer, f i he leaues ae fpred vpou the ground, & are very finely cut and diuided:the whole plant is of 
fuch 
