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8. poliuvt angufhfolium Creticum. 
Vpright narrow leafed Candy Polcy. 
5 , Folium montanum pumilum tcnvifo'.ium a fricum . 
African dwarfc Poley. 
fervijions, for they anfwer one another, fo that by the name of Label (where I name him alone thorowout all 
thisbooke) I doe not drowne the name of Pena, nor the name of Lobel, when I name Pena alone : but ror brevi¬ 
ties fake name one in Head of both. It is the firft o fDodomtus in his Hiftory or Tfemptades in Latine, which I ufe 
onely here alfo. And the third of Clufius in his Hiftory of more rare plants, which I chiefly tneane, when I cite 
him\hrough all this worke,becaufe both his Spanifh and Pannonick obfervations are included therein, unielk I 
recite his particular obfervations. The fecond is the fecond kinde of Clufusfn his Spanifh oblervations, and the 
firft with c Mtthiolus,. The third is the firft with Cluftus, and the fecond with Dodanaus called minus and medi- 
terraneum of Lobel.iftArnontanum albumof Bauhinus in his Pinax. The fourth is thefift and nxt kindes with 
(lupus, the one with a purple, the other with a white flower, and called of Label alfo p r enet urn,of Bauhinus in his 
fir.ax. Maritrnutnfupinum venetum. The fiftisthe eight fort with Cluftus ,the fourth with Dodonaus called repens, 
and fo likewifeby Bauhinus ,and montanumfupinum minimum of Lobcl. The fixt is the feventh with C ujius and 
called Folium rkenhorumfamina lavenduHfolio of Label ,and is the fecond of Matthiolus , and called Folium lavcn- 
duU folio of Bauhinus. Bauhinus firft mentioned the feventh, and Bona in his Italian \ Baidus thei eighth, 
and taketh it to be the fecond Polium of Diofcorides,ihe laft is not mentioned by any Author before, t abuts Co. 
lumna as I fhewed you in the firft Chapter, would faine make folium to be the true Hifope of Diofcorides, but I 
know'not that any doth confcnt unto that opinion, for by the judgement of thebeft, thishearbe is the true Foli¬ 
um of all the ancients, as well in face as qualities, and therfore cannot be Hifope, befides, the taftc hereof is very 
loathfome to the ftomack, which r DiofcoriAes alfo remembreth, but Hifope as he faith doth helpe to expectorate 
flegme,&c. and no pe&orall hearbe that I know doth trouble the ftomack,by the loathfome bitterneue thereof, as 
this doth. 
The Vertues. 
The decoftion of this hearbe drunke while it is warme, as Diofcorides faith, helpeth thofe that s re orbit- 
ten bv venemous creatures, yea as he faith,the fumigation or fmoke thereof driveth them away, and lo doth the 
hearbe being ftrowed or layd in Chambers : and although it trouble the ftomack, and caule forne paines in the 
head, yet it helpeth the Iaundife,and thofe that are hydropick, or are troubled with the dileafes ot the Ipleene, it 
moveth the belly, andbringeth downe the feminine courfes, and doth confolidatc or loder, or doze the lips of cuts 
or wounds. Galen thus faith of Volium, in his eighth Booke of fimples. It is bitter in tafte, and foarpe or quick 
on the tongue alfo, and therefore it freeth the inward parts from all obftruftions, and provoketh both urine and 
the feminine courfes: being greene and applyed to great cuts or wounds, it clofeth them, efpeciallyttat greater 
kinde • and beins? dry.it healeth grievous fores or ulcers, and this the leffer kinde doth belt peiforme. The Idler 
Polium which we ufe in Antidotes, or Counter-poyfons (as Mithridatum, Venice Treakle, and luch like) is the 
morclharpe and bitter, and is accounted to be dry in the third degree, and hot m the fecond. 
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