Tribe i. 7 he Theater ofPlantes. Chap.2<. yy 
powerfully,as alfo the hypochondriack pa(tion,and winde in the fplene : ic helpeth alio thofe that are liver-^rown, 
by opening the obftruftions thereof, by warming the coldncfl'e extenuating the groflheffe,and afterwards binding 
and (trengthening the weaknefle thereof: it helpeth dimme eyes, and to procure a cleare light, if all the while it is 
in flower, one take ofthe flowers falling with bread and fait :bottiDiofivridr.< and Galen fay, that ifa decoftion be 
made thereof with water, and they that have the yellow jaundife, doe exei cife their bodies prefently after the ta¬ 
king thereof,it will certainely cure it, the flowers and Checoilferve made ot them, i s Angular good to comfort the 
heart, and to expell the contagion of the peltilence, to burne the hearbe in Houfes and Chambers in the time ofthe 
infection to correct the aire in them : both the flowers and the leaves are very profitable for women that ate trou¬ 
bled with the whites, if they be daily taken: the dried leaves fared fmall and taken in a Pipe like as Tobacco is ta- 
ken,helpeth thofe much that have anyCough or Tilick, conlhmption, by warming and drying the thinne diftilte- 
tions, which caufe thofe difeafes: the leaves are much uled in bathings, and made into oyntments or oyles, is An¬ 
gular goodtohclpe cold benummed joynts, finewes or members. The chymicalloyledrawnc from the leaves and 
flowers,is a foveraignehclpe forall the dileafes aforefaid, to touch the temples andnoltrils with a drop, two or 
three for all thofe difeafes ofthe head and braines, fpoken ofbefore, as alfo to take a drop two or three,as the caufe 
required! for die inward griefes, yet muff it be taken with diferetion, left it doe more harme than good, for it is ve¬ 
ry guick and piercing, and therefore but a little mud be taken at once. There is another oyle made by infolationin 
this manner : rake what quantity you will of the flowers and put them into a ftrong glade clofe flopped, and digeft 
them in hot Horfe dung for 14. dayes, which then b.eing taken forth and unftopped, tye a fine linnen cloth over 
the mouth, and turne the mouth downe into another ftrong glade, which being fet in the Snnne, an oyle will diftill 
downe into the lower glade, to be preferved as precious for divers ufes, both inward and outward, as a foveraigne 
Baulmetolieale the difeafes before (pokenof, to cleare a dimme fight, and to take away fpots, markes and fcarres 
in the skin. The RofmaryofdVA/'W is by often experience found to bee good for the fhrinking of the finewes, far 
the Patient to fit often in the decoftion thereof, and to bathe the affefted parts. 
Chap. XX VI, 
I/ iurn Alfinum five R fa Alpin.t. The fweet Mountaine Rofe. 
i. Ledum a4lp\nwn jive Rof i Mp'tna. 
The fweec Mountaine Rofe. 
JEcaufe both Clupus and others,referre this plant for 
1 the lwcetnefle thereof,to the family ofthe Ciftu* Le- 
; dum, as he did the laft in the foregoing Chapter, and 
> called it Si/epacum^ neither of which 1 dare doe , not 
9 thinking them (although fweet) to belong thereunto, 
elfe I had not placed them hereout with the other forts of Ledum . 
I thinke it meet to fpeake hereof among the fweet hearbs, whofe 
defeription is thus.It hath fundry (lender hard (hikes, 2. foot long 
or thereabouts, lying for the mod part on the ground, covered 
with an afh coloured barke, at the ends whereof arc fet without 
order many hard leaves,like unto thofe of the Italian dwarfe Bay 
of a fhining greene colour on the upperfide, and paler underneath, 
fometimes pointed, and fometimes round at the ends, and fomc- 
what hairy about the edges as the young (hot ones are likewife, 
ofan aftringent tafte ; at the ends of the branches breake forth a tuft 
of hollow (lowers like Bells hanging downe their heads, and di¬ 
vided at the brimmes into five parts, of a deepe red colour on the 
cutfide, lprinckled with many (ilver-like fpots, as the ftalkesof 
chem are alfo, but of a paler red colour on the imfide with divers 
threads in the middle, and of a pretty fweet feent, after which 
come five parted heads, containing within them very (mall brow- 
nifh feed like duft, which being rubbed while they are greene, 
are of fo ftrong a feent that they offend the fences: but Lobel faith 
his bcarcth red berries like Afparagus,which plupus faith his doth^ 
not:the root is long,hard,and wooddy.thebranches doe often take 
roote as they lye on the ground, and abide greene all the Winter. 
There is another of this kind,as C/ufius faith heobfcrved,thathad 
fewer, but greater leaves, harder and longer pointed, not hairy 
on the edges, and of a yellowifh darke rufty colour underneath, 
and the like Rowers,not elfe differing:Vpon thefe branches & the 
leaves fometimes are found certaine (mail excreffences or knots, 
like Peafe, or fometimes as bigge as Hafell Nuts, rugged or un¬ 
even on the outfide , of a reddifh or fometimes paler colour and 
fpongie, white within, aftringent in taftc, which fuppliethtne 
office of galls. Tbe PI,ice and Time. 
Both thefe forts are found on the toppes and on the declining 
of fundry Hills in Germany and Aujlria, among the ftones as C lupus faith, and on the Hills neare Trent and Veroiid^ 
as Lob el faith. They flower in June and Iuly, their feed is ripe in the end of Auguft. 
The Names, 
Thefe plants being lately found and made knownc to us, have received fundry names, as every one in his opini- 
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