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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
% 6 R'utaCanina. 
Dogs Rite, 
fuch acrimonie, that Cltffim faith he hath oft 
ner than once obfemed it to pierce through 
three paite of gloues to the hand of the gathe- 
rer ; and if any one rub his face with his hand 
that hath newly gathered it , forthwith it will 
mightily inflame his facefHe tells a hiflory of 
a Dutch Student of Mompelier that went with 
him a fimpling , who putting fome of it be- 
tweenehis hat and his head tokeepehimthe 
cooler, had by that meanes all his face prefent- 
ly inflamed and bliftred whercfoeuer the fvveat 
randowne. £ 
4 There is another wilde Rue growing vp- 
on the mountaines of Sauoy and other places 
adioyning, hailing a great thicke ropt, from 
which do arife great fhoots or ftalkes ; whcron 
do grow leaues very thicke and fat, parted into 
diuets longifhfefiions, otherwife refemblinrr 
the leaues of the firft defcribed,of a ft tong an3 
flunking fmell : the floures grow on the tops of 
the ftalkes , confiding of foure fniall yellow 
leaues : the feeds are like the other. 
5 Harmel is one of the wilde Ruesutbrin- 
geth forth immediatly from the root diners lit- 
tle ftalks of a cubit high; whereupon do grow 
greene leaues diuerfly cut into long pieces,lon- 
ger and narrower than thofeof the wild ftron<* 
fmellingRue : the floures be white, compofed 
of flue white leaues : the fruit is three fquare, 
bigger than that of the planted Rue, in which 
the feed lieth : the root is thick, long,and blac- 
kifh: this Rue in hot countries hath a maruellous ftrong fmell b in cold Countries not fo. 
$ 6 This, which Matthiolua gaue for Sideritii and Lobel, Clufius, and others for Rut a canitia, 
hath many twiggy branches fome cubit and halfehigh • whereon grow leaues refembling thofeof 
the Papaiter Rhthts or rgemone , leffer, thicker, and of a blackifh greene : the floures are of a whi- 
tifh purple colour,fafhioned fomevvhat like thofe of Antirrhinum • the feed is fmall,and' contained 
in fuch veffels as thole of Rue, or rather thofeof Blattaria. The whole plant is of a ftrong andvn- 
gratefull fmell : it growes in the hot and dry places about Narbon in France, Rauenna and Rome 
in Italy. % 
^ The Place. 
Garden Rue ioyeth in funny and open places : it profpereth in rough and brickie ground, and 
among allies : it cannot in no wife away with dung. 
The wilde are found on mountaines in hot countries, as in Cappadocia, Galatia, and in diners 
prouinces of Italy and S paine, and on the hills of Lancafhireand Yorke. 
Pliny faith that there is fuch friendfhip betvveene it and the fig tree, that it profpers no where 
fo well as vnder the fig tree. The bed for phyficks vfe is that which growethvnder the fig tree, as 
thofeorides faith : the caufe isalledged by Plutarch in the firft booke of his Sympofiacks oxYeafts for 
he faith it becommeth more fvveet and milde in tafte, by reafon it taketh as it were fome part of 
the fiveetnes of the fig tree, whereby the ouer rancke quality of the Rue is allayd ; vnlefle it be that 
the fig tree vvhileft it draweth nourifhment vnto it felfe,it likewife draweth away the rancknelfe of 
the Rue. 
The Time. 
They floure in thefe cold countries in Iuly and Auguft ; in other countries fooner. 
The Names. 
The firft, which is Horlenfis Rut a, garden Rue : in high-Dutch, KaUtCtl t in Iow-Dutch,UUf jtC t 
the I talians and Apothecaries kdepe. the Latine name : in’ Sy>aniih,Aruda : in French, Rue de larclin: 
in EngIi(h,Rue,and Herbe-Grace. 
Wilde Rue is called in Greeke n Peganon ■■ in Latine, Rutafylucflris , or wilde Rue : in Gala- 
tia and Cappadocia, w<a„ ; ofdiuers, Plarmala : of the Arabians, Harmel : of the Synans,Be/ara. 
ff The Temperature. 
Rue is hot and dry in the later end of the third degree 5 and wild Rue in the fourth : it is of thin 
and 
