Ch a p. ii. Theatrum ‘Botanicum. Tr i b e.z. 
fmooth and without thorhes or prickles, yet Gerards figures have both of them prickles on the leaves, calling 
the one Lulitanicd and the other Germanic*, whereas it is but one and the fame plant, growing in fcverall Coun¬ 
tries ■ Trains feemethtobec doubtfullof Twfcorides his Smilax afpera, thinking Lupulus the Hoppe to be it; 
Label calleth that with blacke berryes S mi/ax afpera altera facia SarfaparilU aut ei congener. And it is very likely 
, 0 be that kinde that Atpinu, faith, he found with fo large and great rootes, as is before expreffed, and others fo 
much commend to be ul'ed inilcadof SarfaparilU. The Zarfaparilla or SarfaparilU ltfclfe, isaSpanifh word, 
which the Spaniards impofed upon this, when they firft fawitinthc Well Indies, becaufe they judged them to 
be both one thin°, that is Smilax afpera: for fo they call it ir» their language Zarfa, or as fome write it ,ar f a, 
fignifyin^ Rubse) ’a Bramble, and Parilla vincula, the diminitive of Vitis, a Vine, as if one fhould fay a fmall Vine¬ 
like Bramble,and yet Cjarcias Lopes Ltsfitanus faith, the name the Indians call it by .doth (ignifie as much. Some call 
it SalftpanHamA lome Smilax Peruana. Matt bio/us giveth us a figure of SarfaparilU, neither branches nor leaves, 
having any fh’ew ofthorne or prickles at all upon them, which as he faith he received from Cyprus ; and hath no 
knot or head,from whence the long fmooth roots fhould fpring, fuch as is in the true SarfapanUa-, which as I fayd 
before I have often feene my felfe in diverfe bundles thereof: but affuredlv there are diverfe forts of SarfaparilU, 
the bed being very large &full,with a white pith in the middle,which will rend or Hive in the middle very eafily, 
and this mod commonly is brought without head or knot, but with a number of fibres on all fides thereof,which 
mud be taken away before it can be ufed, another fort is not fo full and great, yet rendeth or cleaveth reasonably 
well and is the mod (pent, becaufe the mod (lore thereof is brought: the third is a hungry fort, and is of lead 
refpe’fl and ufe, this being nfually brought with the heads or knots, to be leene from whence the rootes fprung, 
I fay ufually,for Sometimes you may finde a head or two among the middle fort. 
The Venues. 
This prickly Bind weede faith Galen if the leaves be faded they have fome (harpeneffe in them, and being ufed ! 
any way they heate. Diofcorides faith that both leaves and berryes being drunke, before or after any deadly poy- I 
fon is taken, are a remedy there againll, ferving to expell it. It is fayd alfo faith he, that ifto a new borne childe, j 
fome of the'juyce ofthe berryes hereof be given, it (hall not be hurt by poyfon ever after: It is given as an An¬ 
tidote againd all fortsof poylonousor venemous things. Ifadozenor fixteene of the berryes being beaten to J 
powder, bee given in wine, it procureth Vrinc when it is dopped. I he diddled water of the flowers being jj 
drunke, worketh the fame effedi, and clenfeth the raines, and afwageth inward inflammations. If the eyes be j 
walhed therewith, if taketh away all heate and rednefle in them, and if the fores of theleggesbe waihed there- « 
with.ithealeth them throughly. The rootes as you have heard before, are ufed by diverfe learned and judicious I 
men in dead ofS arfaparilla withasgoodfucceffe.asif they had ufed the true: for SarfaparilU doth not purge the 4 
body of humours manifeflly as other purgers doe.being generally held not to heate, but rather to dry the humors, J 
yet it is wel perceived that it fpendeth the humors,by a fecret and hidden property therein,whether by purging,or 1 
wading & confuming them, much wherof is performed by fweating which it provoketh notably: It is much ufed I 
now aclays in many kinds of difeafes,namely in all cold fluxes from the head & braine,rhumes and catarrhes.as a!- j 
fo all cold griefs of the domack.and expelleth winde very plentifully.both from the domacke and mother :It hel- 4 
peth not onelv the french difeafe.but all manner of aches in the iinewes and j'oynts.all running fores in the legs,all il 
fie^maticke levelling*, tetters, or ringwormes.and all manner of fpots and fouleneffe of the skin: it is not conveni- - 
ent to be given to tliofe whofe livers are over hot, nor to fuch as have agues.The manner of ufing it,is diverfe ac- « 
cording to mens feverallooinions, for in former times it was ufed beatento powder and fo drunke.- others againe a 
boyled it fo long untill it became tcnder,which being beaten orbroken, was afterward drayned into the deco&i- - 
on, making a kind of thicke drinke like a creame. Some againe and that mod ufually boyled it in water, to the » 
halfe, or to theconfumptionof the third part, as they would have itdronger or weaker, and that either by it i 
felfe,or with other things meete for the difeafe actempted:and others alfo put it among other things into drinke, 
cither beere or ale new tunned up, to drinke after it hath dood three or fourc dayes for Phyficke drinke, for the p 
remedy of thole griefes, it is conducible as aforefayd. 
Chap. XII. 
Lupnlus five Lupus fahclarius. Hoppes. 
He Hoppe is found to be of two forts, one manured for the ufe and profit of the toppe heads, the ! 
other wilde growing in hedges, and other fuch like places of itowne accord, and was no doubt I 
by ordering and manuring brought to be larger in every refpeft, and more fruitfull for ufe, fuch as : 
the manured is: 1 thinke it not amiffe to fpeake of them both in this place, being fo neete in forme I 
and quality the one unto the other, and not feparate them, or trouble two places with them, 
r. Lupu/us fativus. The manured Hoppe. 
The manured Hoppe rifeth up at the firlt, with diverfe great browneheades, like unto Afparagu i but larger, 5 
which afterwards fpreading into rough bi anches, clime upon great high poles, that are (ct for them to ruune on, i, 
having many hard and rough datke greene leaves on them, cut into three or five divifions, fomewhat like unto n 
Bramble leaves, and dented alfo about the edges: at the toppes of the branches, which hang doyvne againe, for r 
the moll part come forth many fcaly heads, being as it were a number of fmall yellowifh greene leaves,growing i- 
thicke together; from among which come forth the flowers, of a whitifh yellow colour, which being pall, anil ;! 
the heads changing their colour, to be fomewhat whidlh yellow, they are fit then to be gathered to keepe : and l 
then there is a fmall round feede found therein: the roote is great at the head, (hooting forth many blackiih I' 
firings, taking fad hold of the ground. 
a. Lupulus fyheflris. The wilde Hoppe. 
The wilde Hoppe groweth up in the fame manner, ramping upon trees or hedges, as (landeth next unto them, , 
with rough branches and leaves like the fotmer: this giveth both fmaller heades, and in farre leffe plenty, than 
the manured doth, yea many times, there is fcarfe a head or two feene in a years upon diverfe, and herein con- 
fifleth the cjiiefe difference, " “ " (Tie 
