Tbsatrwn \Botanicum . Tribe, i 
fwellings and nodes in the fiefti: the decoftion of the hearbe rather greene than dry made with wine, and taken is 
accounted a fafe and fure remedy for thofe who by falls, bruifes, or beatings, doubt fome vcine to be inwardly bro¬ 
ken, to difperfe and avoid the congealed blood, and to confolidate the veine, and is alfo good for fuch as are inward¬ 
ly or outwardly burden, the drinke ufed inwardly, and the hearbe applycd outwardly : the famealfo, and in the 
fame manner u!ed, is found to be a lure remedy for the pallie : the juyce of the hearbe or the powder thereof dry- 
ed is good for moift ulcers and fores in the legges , or other parts to dry them , and thereby to 
caule them to heale the more fpeedily : it is no lefle effe&uall alfo in greene wounds, to be nfed upon any occafion. 
] acke of the hedge is eaten of many Country people as fawce to their lalt fifh, and helpech well to digefi: the crudi¬ 
ties, and other corrupt humours are engendred by the eating thereof, it warmeth alfo the ftomacke, andcaufeth 
digedion : the juyce thereof boy led with honey, is held to be as good as Eryfimum , hedge Mudard for the cou^h to 
helpe to cut and expeftorate the flegme that is tough and hard to rile : the feed bruifed and boyledin wine is a 
good remedy for the wind collicke, or for the done, being drunke warme, the fame alfo given to women troubled 
with the mother, both to drinke, and the feed put into a cloth, and applyed while it is warme, is of lingular good 
ufe : the leaves alfo or feed bovled, is good to be ufed in gliders, to eafe the paines of the done : the greene leaves 
are held to be good to heale the ulcers in the legges, the roote tadeth lharpe fomewhat like unto Kaddilh, and 
therefore may be ufed in the fame manner, and to the fame purpofes that it is. 
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Chap. XL I. 
Baccharis • Eacchar. 
Lthough fundry Writers have fet forth divers hearbes, for the true Baccharis of r Diofcorides 3 and other 
learned men have refilled them : yet thefe hearbes come neared thereunto, the one the learned of Mom- 
Pfcis pelier account the trued, and with them many others doe agree: the other Ranwolfitts fetteth forth, 
«.**'•>**» are c h ere f 0 r e here propofed unto you. 
1. Baccharis Monjpelicnfiutn. 
French Baccnar. 
T. Baccharis Mmfpelienjlum. French Bacchar. 
This hearbe hath divers fomewhat long and large leaves lying 
upon the ground full of veines, which make it feeine as if it were 
crumpled, fofc and gentle in handling, and of an overworne 
greene colour, leeming to be woolly : from among which in the 
Summer time,rifethup afiroiig ftiife ftalke, three or foure foote 
high, fee with divers fuch like leaves, but fmaller up to the toppe: 
here it is divided into many branches, at the ends whereof 
forch divers flowers, three or foure for the mod part, at the 
end of every feverall branch, and every oneona fmall foote- 
flalke •, which flowers confift wholly of fmall threads or thrums, 
(landing clofe and round ; and never laid open like other flowers, 
that confift of leaves , of a dead or purplifh yellow colour, 
out of greenilli fcaly heads , which thrums turne into a 
whitilh downe : at the bottome whereof is the feed , 
fmall and chaffy , which together with the downe is car¬ 
ried away with the winde, and rifeth up in fundry places of a gar¬ 
den, where it is once planted, and bearethfeed : the roote con- 
fifts of many firings and fibres, bufhing fomewhat thick, not run. 
ring deepe into the ground, but fo taking hold of the upper face 
of the earth, that it may eafily be pulled up with ones hand ; the 
finell whereof is fomewhat like unto Avevs, but lefle in gardens, 
than growing wild , even as Averts doth in gardens, and divers 
other fweet hearbes that are of thin parts and fubtile. 
2. Baccharis Diofeoridis Rauwolfie, Syrian Bacchar. 
The Syrian Bacchar, brancheth forth from an hoary ftalke,about 
a foote high, into many fmaller fprigges ; bearing fomewhat 
long and narrow leaves thereon, as white, hoary, ana woolly as 
Mullein leaves, without any foot-ftalke at the bottome, but com- 
pafling the ftalke about: thefe being larger below, yet lefle than 
Mullein,and thofe above fmaller,and fmaller to thetops: where¬ 
on (land the flowers very thicke fet together, fomewhat like un¬ 
to golden Tufts, or Mountaine Cotton weed, called alfo Cars 
foote, ofa pa'e purplifh colour: the roote was not fully obferved, but feemed by fome parts thereof, to be fibrous 
like blacke Hellebor, and fweet alfo. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth plentifully nearc Mampelier, and nany other places alfo. The other in Syria. 
The Time. 
The firft flow reth with us about the end ofluly, or beginning ofAuguft. The other time is not ex- 
prefled. 
The 
