^9% ' Ch a p.zo. Theatrum '’Botanicurn. Tr i b e.2. 
gcther at the joynts and partitions of the branches;but whether it were purging was not fignified: this, dedara- 
tion, being onely taken from the dryed plant was lent: but if I may be bold to give my ceniure, what Hippophaes 
is, and whether it be to be found or no,I would furely conjefture,that the plant called Cjalajlivida ^Verle^which 
1 have let forth in the 15 chapter of this part,under the title of Tithymalus maritimus Crttiais /pinofas,and as I lay 
there,is fayd by Honorius Selins to be a kinde of Tithymall,m Spurge having thornes, and giving milke, whole 
roote is thicke and flefhy, might as neere refemble Hippophaes ,both for forme,for giving milke and purging qua- ■ 
lity, as any other plant whatloever, and_even the relation of the leaves and flowers fet downe in that place, is not I 
greatly differing, let others judge hereof as they fee caule. Now concerning Hippomanet let me fhe w you alfo, , 
what diverle authors have written thereof. Firflitis imputed to Theopkrattus to fay, asfome corrupt (as I 
tliinke ) greeke copies have it as I fayd before, and Camerarius as I thinke was the firfl that did focaufe it to bee 
read, that Hippomanes is made of Tithym.il/, but is miftaken for Hippophaes as I fayd before. 7 heocrisits faith 
in Pharmaceuiria, that Hippopmanes is a plant whereby horfes are made furious madde. CollumtlLi faith that 
H ippem.ir.es is a poyfon, which kindleth lull in horfes like to that of men, but what it is, or whereof it is made or 
taken, he doth not exprelTe. Tlixye alfo in his 18 bookeand 11 chapter affirmeth, that H ippomanes was of lb 
llrong power or force in witchery or forcery, that being but layd to thebrafen figure of the mare at Olympus, it 
would drive the horfes in extreame fury to cover it; which Paufanias before Plinye his time, doth fet downe 
more ac large in his lift booke : but Anjlotle in his 6 bookeand 18 chap, of the nature of beads, faith that the 1 
mares doe let paffe from them a certaine thinne humour, like unto their fpermc, when they are inflamed with i 
lull to be covered, which is called H ippomanes by fome, and in the 22. chap, of the fame booke he faith, that there ] 
flicketh to the forehead of the foale, new fallen,acertaine round,and fomewhat broad blacke peeceof flefhor 
skinne,of the bignefl'e ofa fmall dryed Figge, which the mare licketh up with the fecondine, asfoone asfhee 
hath foaled, which if any (hall take away before (lie hath devoured,and afterwards offer it her tolmell there- I 
unto, fhe not knowing the lent thereof, will be flirred in to great fury or madnelfe,but will not fufler her foale to 
fucke her that hath it taken therefrom; which thing lunius Solinus <po/yhifler confirmeth in the 48 chapter of his 
booke, onely hevaryeth from Arijhtle, inlayingitisofabrownifliyellow colour, which hee faid was blacke. 
And Plinye wtiteth alfo the fame thing in his 8 booke and 47 chapter,althonghhefaidal(o,itwasan other thing 
as you have heard before. Vtrgill in his third booke of Georoickrs hath thefe verles,to fhew what it is,and whereto 
uled, taken as it Ihould leeme from Anjlotle, 
tiinc demum Hippomanes, vero quod nomine dicunt 
Pajlores , lentum difiil/at ab inguine virus 
Hippomanes , quod Jape male leper c uoDcrca, 
And Tibullus the Poet in his 2. booke and 4. Elegie, hath the fame alfo in effeff in thefe verfes: 
St quod, ubi indomitis gyre gibus Venus ajfl.it amorss 
Hippomanes, on pi da fii/lnt cib inguine equa, 
Anguilltira is of opinion that the Hippomanes ol Theocritus is the Idler Stramonium, or thorne apple, and that 1 
Cratevas, whom Theocritus his interpreter doth cite faith, that it is a plant whofe fruite is like the wildeCow- ' 
cumber fruits, but full of thornes : Now if the ancients have left thefe doubts, whether Hippomar.es beanherbe I 
or made of an hearbe, and fhew not certainely what thehearbeis, or doe not all agree that it is the lpermeof 
mares, how fhall we in thefe times compound the controverfie. 
The Virtues. 
Diofcorides faith that the pure juyee of Hippophaes it lelfe being dryed, and the weight of halfe a fcruple S 
thereof taken, or the weight of two fctuples, ifitbemade up with the meale of thebitrer Vetche, takenin ti 
meade or honyed water, purgeth downewards ffegme, choller, and water: the whole plant rootes and all being t; 
bruifed and put into meade, and about a quarter of a pint thereof taken, worketh in the fame manner; the juyee 1: 
taken from both the plant and the roote, as it is tiled to be done with Thapfia, a dramme thereof taken at a time, 
is a purgation of it felf'e for the lame purpofes. The juyee prefled out of the rootes, leaves, and heads, of Hippo - » 
phaihtm, is to be dryed and halfe a dramme thereof given to whom you will, in meade or honyed water, draw- - 
ec'n forth flegme and water: principally and chiefely this purgation is fit or convenient, for thofe that are trou- 
bled with the falling fickeneffe, fhortnefle of breath, and aches in the joynts and finewes. 
Chap, XX. 
Alypum Afonjpelienjium five Herb a terribilis Narbonenftum. Herbe Terrible. 
Ecaufe this herbe is ofa molt violent purging quality, (harpe and exulcerating withall, very like ; 
unto the former Tithymalls. Ithinke itfitteftto joyne itnext unto them and another withit, 
which by Pena his judgement is very like thereunto, both for face and quality, 
t. Alypum Adonjpelicnjium. Herbe Terrible. 
This terrible herbe hath many wooddy ftalks, rifing two or three foote high,dividing it felfe into ; 
fmaller branches, covered with a thinne barke,the elder branches being,of a dat ke purplilh colour, 1, 
and the younger more red, thicke fet with fmall hard.and dry leaves without order, from the bottome to the ij 
toppe, which are fomewhat long and fmall atthefettingon,broaderinthemiddle, and fharpe pointed, fome- - 
what like uuto fmall Mirtle leaves, of a greenifh colour on the upperfide, and whitilh underneath : at the top > 
of every branch ftandeth a round[flower in a fcaly head, confuting of many purplilh thrummes or threds, paler 
m the middle than round about, fomewhat like unto the head ofa Scabious or rather Knaptpeede ; the roote is of 
a fingers thicknefle, long,wooddy and ofa brownifh colour, fomewhat fait, if it grow neere the fea Ihore, where : 
it may drinke any of the Sea water, or elfe not fait at all, but bitter if it grow further off; the leaves alfo tailing ; 
after the fame manner, 
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