12,82, Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 5. 
g Hypociftis is much mote binding : it is a fure remedie for all infirmities that come of fluxes , as 
voiding of bloud, the whites, the laske, and thebloudy flix : but if it be requifit to ftrengthen that 
part which is ouerweakned with a fuperfluous moifture, it doth notably comfort and ftrengthen 
the fame. 0 
It is excellent to be mixed with fomentations that feme fortheftomackeand liner. 
E It is put into the Treacle of Vipers, to the end it fhould comfort and itrengthen weake bodies 
?VSV«ivriteth. ^ 
C h a p.6. Of other ^Plants rec, 
1 . 2 .Hdimhcmum Anghcum luteum vd album. 
'ontd for dwarf e prides. of Ciftus. 
The Defcription. 
1 r 4 'He Englilh dwarfe Ciftus,callcd 
of Lobe l , P.max Chironium (but 
there is another Panax of Chirms 
defcription, which I hold to be the true and 
right Panax, notwithftanding he hath inferred 
itamongft thekindes ofCiftus, asbeingin- 
differenttoioynewithvs and others for the 
infertion) is a low and bafe plant creeping vp- 
on the ground, hauing many final tough bran- 
ches, of a browne colour ; whereupon do grow 
little Ieaues fet together by couples, thicke, 
fat,and ful offubftance,and couered oner with 
a fofc downe : from the bofome whereof come 
forth other leffer Ieaues : the floures before 
they be open are fmall knops or buttons, of a 
browne colour mixed with yellow -and being 
open and fpred abroad are like rhofe of the 
wild Tanfie,and ofa yellow colour, withfome 
yellower chines in the middle : the root is 
thicke, and ofa wooddy fubftancc. 
2 The fecond is very like vnto the prece- 
dent, failing that the Ieaues are long, and doe 
not grow fo thicke thruft together, and are 
more woolly: the floures are greater, and ofa 
white colour, wherein the efpeciall difference 
confifteth. The root is like the former. 
3 HdUnthemum luteum Ccrmanlcmn. 
The yellow dwarfe Ciftus of Germanie, 
